John_Mereness Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 Concours d'élagence de voiture dans le Bois de Boulogne, Paris, France en 1931. (Photo by Keystone-France\Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 Opel Open 2-seat + dickey. 1931. Reg. No. 7615. Background: Laffly Omnibus Vehicle Reg. No. 52-E14. Entry Nos: 196/7. Driver: Theodor, Rally entry 7, Concours entry No. 196. Coupe Boullot. Date:Artist Bill Brunell. (Photo by National Motor Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 1 hour ago, John_Mereness said: Still around. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 PARIS, FRANCE - 10 JUIN: Melle Andersen portait pour piloter sa voiture des gants noirs créés spécialement pour la conduite de l'auto, a Paris, France, le 10 juin 1932. (Photo by Keystone-France\Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 PARIS, FRANCE - 10 JUIN: Miss Paris 1932, Geneviève Dioulac, dans sa voiture, a Paris, France, le 10 juin 1932. (Photo by Keystone-France\Gamma-Rapho via Getty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 Une concurrente photographiée dans sa voiture avec son enfant et son chien, à Paris, France le 28 juin 1935. (Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 Les voitures passant devant le jury, à Paris, France le 28 juin 1935. (Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 Le 'Bouquet de Fiat' avec Mademoiselle Meg de Guerne, Comtesse Arnaud de Bertier de Sauvigny, la baronne Pierre d'Esneval et la comtesse de Sesmaisons, à Paris, France le 28 juin 1935. (Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 FRANCE - JUNE 25: At The Concours D'Elegance Car In The Bois De Boulogne, Miss Moussia Driving His Car On June 25Th 1936 (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 Conductrice au volant d'une 'Chenard et Walcker' lors d'un concours d'élégance automobile Boulogne-Billancourt, le 10 juin 1939, France. (Photo by API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 Femmes posant devant une voiture au Bois de Boulogne à Paris, France en juin 1936. (Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 Foule venue assister à un grand concours d'élégance automobile au casino, à Enghien-Les-Bains, France, circa 1950. (Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 From AACA Forum Member DDWALLACE 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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WDS Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 (edited) This is a beautiful photo of a 1914-1915 Pierce Arrow Model C-3 Runabout taken under a motorway bridge in Delaware Park in Buffalo,New York.It is my opinion that this photo was taken while the car was under test by one of the factory drivers before doing some of the finishing touches like installing the windshield or Klaxon horn.I believe this photo is a factory photo on a glass plate negative and would love to know the source.I own a sister C-3 but mine is a Five Passenger Touring in very lovely original condition.Do anymore of these factory photos exist at the source? The photo to which I am referring is on page 66 and 67 showing the C-3 Pierce Arrow with the 1914 license plate being photographed under a bridge. Edited May 2, 2020 by WDS insert photo (see edit history) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted May 2, 2020 Author Share Posted May 2, 2020 I will jump in here again to thank everyone who is contributing or looking at this thread! It is the road to period material of the vehicles we love, our passport and window to the pre war vehicles we cherish and have so much respect for. They are indeed a part of our life and we know for certain is the one thing that makes us happy in adverse times. It pulls us all together from near and far. AACA has given us the opportunity to connect with that common admiration of history with wheels. Thank you AACA . Walt 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 7 hours ago, John_Mereness said: The front two thirds of the rear fender appears to be part of the door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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1937hd45 Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 Looks like a Stoddard - Dayton to me. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Spong Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 Another Lincoln-Zephyr, this time a rare RHD Coupe (total manufacture 46 examples) converted to a fire tender serving the UK War Department''s Hawthorne Fire Section at Box in Wiltshire in 1940. This may seem like sacrilege but the British had lost some 25,000 vehicles in the retreat to Dunkirk in May 1940 and emergency vehicles were in short supply. Hundreds of American cars were converted into fire trucks, ambulances and food wagons as they were large and strong. The Government purchased these but many patriotic owners also gave their cars to the war effort. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted May 3, 2020 Author Share Posted May 3, 2020 Thanks Colin, that is a great lesson in history that I was not aware of - the shortage of cars and thus the necessity of conversion due to the "large and strong" factor of American cars. Many reading this have not traveled by car on the roads and lanes of England and Wales. I have , and many of the roads were built to originally accommodate horse drawn wagons. A large pre war American car can be "interesting" to ride in from the perspective of how much room there is to maneuver the car around. This I was made very much aware of over 2 decades ago when a friend Colin Buckmaster took me for a fairly fast ride down the roads near his home in East Anglia in his 1937 Packard Super 8 sedan. Quite an experience , as you mention a car like that 1937 Packard can be a very large car on some very narrow roads! I must say that Colin did stop at a countryside pub to let us have a scotch on the rocks - so I could get the blood flowing back into my knuckles that had turned white after the first few turns down the lanes we were driving on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachJC Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 This is a pretty neat conversion....can someone identify the car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Johan Boltendal Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 The car is a Morris 8 1947/48 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted May 3, 2020 Author Share Posted May 3, 2020 Love the wrecker tow truck photos that are being posted - Thanks everyone. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe in Canada Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 (edited) A different direction and over the top. A member in our region has two service cars that do get requested for use. Edited May 3, 2020 by Joe in Canada (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
34LaSalleClubSedan Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 Walt, love the picture of the Packard roadster with the rumble seat windshield. I am looking for a top boot as shown in the picture any condition for my survivor Packard roadster. I believe 3rd thru 6th series are the same 6 or 8 cylinder Packards 1926-1929. If anyone has one, please get in touch with me. Thanks, Jim Fredrick🛑 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted May 3, 2020 Author Share Posted May 3, 2020 Jim That image is from the Packard accessory catalog produced in I believe 1928. I need to check to be sure what accessory catalog , I have most all of the factory issued Packard accessory catalogs from about 1923/24 up until 1942 in my library . The rumble seat windshield and the tonneau windshield for the touring cars were offered by the Tonneau Co. of NY City , whose factory was based in Rhode Island. These were originally imported from England before becoming popular in the USA. A lot of the tonneau windshields were fitted to Packard touring cars in the 1925-35 era if the car was sold in the NY metropolitan area because the main Packard dealership was located a few blocks north of Columbus Circle at 61st and Central Park West. ( building no longer there) so a lot of companies focused on automobile accessories were very prevalent in NY City . Walt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 Walt, I hate to ask, though do you have a favorite photo or illustration from your collection ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Bruce aka First Born Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 2 hours ago, Joe in Canada said: A different direction and over the top. A member in our region has two service cars that do get requested for use. Dang. Those would wake the dead! Ben 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 (edited) Here is a photo out of the personal photo collection - first time it has ever been scanned (or seen by anyone but me in past 20 years). Edited May 3, 2020 by John_Mereness (see edit history) 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted May 3, 2020 Author Share Posted May 3, 2020 John to answer - Probably yes, BUT it would not be just one - rather one each for American cars - open, enclosed body , same for European cars, same for commercial vehicles. I don't have total recall of everything in my collection and have not looked completely and thoroughly at every image in Omnia magazine that was publish in France from about 1920 thru 1936 ( It was a monthly ! and I have a complete run except for about 6 issues) , then there are images in L'Illustration auto show numbers ( November issue) from the same period, Autobody magazine, LaCarrossiere magazine, plus the images in factory periodicals both here in the USA and in Europe - some of the photos /images in the sales literature printed in Europe but on American cars for sale there is amazing - especially Buick , Lincoln. It just goes on and on . For decades I had a fellow who was very astute about pre war motoring literature, act as my agent to buy things for me that he knew I would be interested in but didn't have already. Just within the past half year I was looking at an album of photographs of English truck bodies for model T chassis I had found and bought in London decades ago. One photo struck me and I spoke to my good friend Colin Spong in England. He owns one of the trucks pictured in the album! He and his late Father Fred, found it decades ago and restored it with a period looking body but not the exact one as they didn't know what it looked like when they restored it 30-35 years or more ago. It's all good , and that is why it is so important to share here on the forums or in print in magazines. It makes my year to be able to give someone a image or photo of the exact car they own. There are some great collections of material out there but the people that own them are hoarders, don't want to share what they have but just let people know enough to be envious of them. Why? Life is short - make people happy with history. Just the past few days I was able to scan and send someone an instruction book on an obscure American made car. Only one of the cars exists - well now the car can have a copy of the instructions that came with it to go with the car. I owe Marty Roth a big thanks for putting this together and letting me know that one of the cars exist. It was like Christmas in May for me to do that. Walt 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 (edited) Thanks for sharing that story Walt, I feel the same way when a piece of literature or a part can be connected to a car. Even it I'm not involved, it feels good knowing things are reunited. I always got a kick out of an INDY car that was reunited with its engine 50+ years after it was removed. Living a good life, being a nice guy paid off, plus outliving the guy with the engine. Bob Edited May 3, 2020 by 1937hd45 (see edit history) 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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checker Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 On 4/22/2020 at 10:54 AM, LCK81403 said: Hmmm. As far as I know, being a junior member and all, nonetheless pushing 76 years, Checker never built their own cars. This Checker Y 8 seems to be cobbled together from several manufacturers. The radiator shell suggests a Hupmobile, outside chance a Studebaker. The side of the hood kind of resembles some make that I can quite remember the name of. The top / roof of the car is unique; never have seen one like that. The wheel hubs are definitely unique and resemble wheel weighted rears on an Allis-Chalmers tractor. Someone must know which car company was responsible for this design. From my experience with Checkers in the 1950s, they were built for Checker by Chevrolet. Chevy certainly did not build Checkers. Checker manufactured more parts in house than any of the big 3. As previously mentioned the drivetrain came from GM and in the 60s they stated using GM brake systems, moving away from Studebaker. Checker made Chevrolet sheet metal, and in the end (1990s) Cadillac frames. My 1984 Monte Carlo fenders are Checker manufactured. FYI, the photo above is from Eyes on Design in Michigan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 (edited) The back of the image is dated 1959 and from Wingsbach, Germany. Edited August 26, 2020 by John_Mereness (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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