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4 hours ago, 1937hd45 said:

Sad end to the 1929 Los Angeles Auto Show tent fire.

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Not so sad.........this was out on a road test when the place burned. The only 29 Auto Show car to survive that I know of. 

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4 hours ago, 1937hd45 said:

Sad end to the 1929 Los Angeles Auto Show tent fire.

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46 minutes ago, edinmass said:


Not so sad.........this was out on a road test when the place burned. The only 29 Auto Show car to survive that I know of. 

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Annnnd after.  Quite a few parts were probably reclaimed and reused.  

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(https://theoldmotor.com/?p=144786)

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Bob ,  I was looking at the photo you shared and particularly the headlamps ( wow oh wow) on the car and wondering why you were thanking me! then read the page 270.

Heck, we aren't even a year old with this thread yet! It proves to me, as I have stated before,  that viewers really like pre WW II era vehicles.

All total , perhaps I have contributed , maybe 30 photographs, it is all of you - from the USA, Canada, and Europe and Australia and everywhere else that have made this thread what it is. My thanks to all of you as well as the patient volunteers who keep this all together. It's all good.

Walt

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6 hours ago, twin6 said:

Here's the Packard model C (#72) that was burned in the LA fire.  It was restored, as was the 1908 model 30 runabout.  How many other cars from the fire were restored?

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Was this photo taken before or after the fire?

I have known for a long time that a bunch of historically significant cars were displayed at that show, and generally understood they were lost. I did not know of any being restored or salvaged except for a maybe a 1908ish Packard roadster (good to hear about that again). Barney Oldfield's Golden Submarine was eventually recreated after the original on display was destroyed.

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Rod Blood scooped up the scraps of a Packard at that fire........he had it for years and sometime after he died, someone built the car from what was left..........not sure if it was this car, or the earlier one.

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1 hour ago, 1937hd45 said:

Maybe not so exotic, but it got a lot of people behind the wheel. Bob 

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Doesn't have to be exotic! I love the fact that all the people are crammed into the car! also the signs by the rear of the car too.

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6 hours ago, alsancle said:


it was at the salon which was at the Biltmore not in the tent.


In LA I didn’t know they used the Biltmore. 👍

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13 hours ago, wayne sheldon said:

 

 

Was this photo taken before or after the fire?

I have known for a long time that a bunch of historically significant cars were displayed at that show, and generally understood they were lost. I did not know of any being restored or salvaged except for a maybe a 1908ish Packard roadster (good to hear about that again). Barney Oldfield's Golden Submarine was eventually recreated after the original on display was destroyed.

Before the fire.  DPL writeup says "The driver is Russell Huff, head of Packard experimental branch. The passenger is Milton Tibbetts, Packard's collector/protector of patents. This car, license plate 30122 NY, was repurchased from the owner for use in testimony in a 1910 lawsuit."

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13 hours ago, edinmass said:

Rod Blood scooped up the scraps of a Packard at that fire........he had it for years and sometime after he died, someone built the car from what was left..........not sure if it was this car, or the earlier one.

Different car.  But they have in common that they were both restored by the late Terry Martin.

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On 1/13/2021 at 6:31 PM, edinmass said:

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Here is the same picture today in the link below. 

 

I believe the picture is of the Moulin Rouge in Paris in the background.

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8831919,2.3329219,3a,75y,343.9h,101.57t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxzyPntS3xM1oknT1xjB2fA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

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