Period images to relieve some of the stress

[John_Mereness]

This was published earlier, though is probably from the Granger Historical Picture Archive and caption is: Countess Asti with her dog in a Duesenberg X 265 HP Cabriolet at Car-Beauty-Contest on Berlin Grunewald-Rennbahn

 

 

 

 

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[edinmass]

46 minutes ago, John_Mereness said:

JN Rollston 

Well, which one is it? The list is very short, and the rumble seat lid has been changed over.........

[alsancle]

1 hour ago, keiser31 said:

^DuPont?

 

Model H Speedster

[John_Mereness]

9 minutes ago, edinmass said:

Well, which one is it? The list is very short, and the rumble seat lid has been changed over.........

Packard looking taillamp too 

[auburnseeker]

These are original Press photos.  I sell most of my stuff,  but for some reason I held onto these.  Thought they might make a nice collage some day in the garage with the 2 original post cards. Well atleast the Thunderbolt ones.  Still not sure about the Newport. 

Way in the background of the Newport picture is a billboard advertising the new 1941 Plymouth. 

[John_Mereness]

Oops - Auburn Cabriolet of 1931 (via lockring type wheels) and sporting accessory horns, a Pilot Ray driving lamp - albeit damaged, bumper guards, metal spare tire covers, sidemount spare tires,  wire wheels, driver's side fender parking guide, and a 1930-1932 Cadillac Goddess Mascot.

Universal Auto Insurance, Southern California, 1934

USC Digital library

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[3macboys]

10 minutes ago, auburnseeker said:

These are original Press photos.  I sell most of my stuff,  but for some reason I held onto these.  Thought they might make a nice collage some day in the garage with the 2 original post cards. Well atleast the Thunderbolt ones.  Still not sure about the Newport. 

Way in the background of the Newport picture is a billboard advertising the new 1941 Plymouth. 

That hardtop convertible sure has the lines of your Dodge in the profile pictures

[John_Mereness]

1934 Auburn 6 cylinder  - looks like a fairly new car, but it has been already hit in the spare tire cover

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[auburnseeker]

You are right about that.  It most likely influenced it as this was 10 years earlier. 

[John_Mereness]

She is sitting in an Auburn Boattail of circa 1931 - 1932 

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[John_Mereness]

 

Technical difficulties with this one - someone want to give it a try - I think the  images would be true winners (they say 2 from 1932):

 

https://csl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma990013873190205115&context=L&vid=01CSL_INST:CSL

 

https://calisphere.org/item/61a3b96979efb27efb2a809bed9eba70/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[John_Mereness]

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[John_Mereness]

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[John_Mereness]

[John_Mereness]

Here are some hiding in plain sight via just figuring out indexing wordage:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[alsancle]

Please note every Auburn in the last few pictures has black wall tires.

[edinmass]

9 minutes ago, alsancle said:

Please note every Auburn in the last few pictures has black wall tires.

 

Fortunately in today’s modern times, that has been rectified with very nice wide white walls on most cars.

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[1937hd45]

30 minutes ago, John_Mereness said:

 

 

Jensen bodied? Never knew they modified the hood. Bob 

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[Walt G]

1 hour ago, John_Mereness said:

This is a photograph taken by photographer John Adams Davis in his favorite spot in Central Park in the middle of Manhattan. About 25 years ago or more I walked the park to find the spot and did indeed but it now looks nothing like it did 90 years ago as it is all overgrown , trees are much larger etc. View is looking North , car is a wonderful 16 cylinder Cadillac . I love the loop door handles . Car was most likely supplied by Uppercu Cadillac of Manhattan . Uppercu had a great sales showroom, but that has been replaced by some dreadful modern "improvement".

John , my friend, thank you for your effort to add to this post with some great photographs.

Sincere thanks to all of you for your efforts. Kinda proves that the interest in pre war period history is very very strong.

Walt

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typo (see edit history)

[1937hd45]

Thanks Clark, and Google. 

[A. Ballard 35R]

11 hours ago, Matt Harwood said:

 

Please tell me a racial slur isn't humor to you. It was just a typo, right?

 

Thanks, just found the typo which is totally inappropriate, especially considering the country of origin of the front car.

[auburnseeker]

Not cars but a neat old brochure I have and an equally neat little roadside cafe cottages and GAs station. 

[K8096]

 

Walt, exactly where in Central Park is this location?   As you know, quite a number of cars were photographed at this location.   The rock formation should make the location not too hard to find if not completely overgrown.   There are several roads that cross Central Park running East/West.  Which one was this photo taken on?  

[Terry Harper]

Hauling logs. Coburn Gore, Maine

 

 

 

[Walt G]

K8096 I will try to look up what road it is for you in Central Park , do not recall off hand what it is now. Have it marked down someplace . May take sometime and won't happen instantly as I am working on other projects,research etc. not just on cars.

Photos of other cars show office buildings in the background on the east side of the park that gave me the idea of what road it was when I was on location there to seek it out , but again it has been many years since I have done that.

Walt

[wayne sheldon]

11 hours ago, Gunsmoke said:

PART 4: Old Motorcars. In first 3 parts of this post on the "Old Motorcars" book, I left out perhaps the very first of the great cars, this 1907 RR Silver Ghost, and many ordinary "non-car guys" idea of what an old car is, the beloved Model T, this one from 1911. Loving this whole thread, I've never collected old car photos, but am sure glad some of you have.

 

Books and other reports a half century ago often got the year wrong for cars and pictures. This model T is an early '15 Ford folding top Coupelette. It can't be a late '15 or '16 because it doesn't have the small oval porthole windows in the side of the folding top. It also is NOT one of the earliest Ford Coupelettes because I can see the deck lid on the top of the "turtle" back. The earliest coupelettes had a practically useless small door at the back of the turtle trunk. It did a better job keeping out the rain, but made it almost impossible to put much in the trunk. Ford did offer a fixed roof coupe for 1909/'10, but no coupe type factory bodies from '11 to '14 models.

 

And my snide comment (tongue firmly in cheek) for the night

 

8 hours ago, John_Mereness said:

Oops

Universal Auto Insurance, Southern California, 1934

USC Digital library

 

Maybe why Auburnseekers' fender was touched up? (No, it is not a convertible sedan!)

 

My thanks to all for a long and wonderful thread! (Especially Walt for starting it.)  I have enjoyed looking at all the wonderful pictures!

If I could figure out how to scan pictures myself (I used to do it, then the computer guru-geeks CHANGED the procedures!) I do actually have a couple somewhere I would like to share.

[Gunsmoke]

Wayne Sheldon said 'Books and other reports a half century ago often got the year wrong for cars and pictures. This model T is an early '15 Ford folding top Coupelette. It can't be a late '15 or '16 because it doesn't have the small oval porthole windows in the side of the folding top. It also is NOT one of the earliest Ford Coupelettes because I can see the deck lid on the top of the "turtle" back. The earliest coupelettes had a practically useless small door at the back of the turtle trunk. It did a better job keeping out the rain, but made it almost impossible to put much in the trunk. Ford did offer a fixed roof coupe for 1909/'10, but no coupe type factory bodies from '11 to '14 models." Thanks Wayne, only a very knowledgeable early Ford guy would have known. Some 56 years later I wonder how many caught that!  

 

A small  piece of paper stuck at the front of the book in the Great Britain section reads, "Erratum Slip. The publishers regret that the caption to the Bentley should read ..X... instead of ...Y..?" Can anyone guess what the correction should be, picture is on  page 15 of this wonderful thread.

[1937hd45]

10 minutes ago, Gunsmoke said:

Wayne Sheldon said 'Books and other reports a half century ago often got the year wrong for cars and pictures...……………………….

 

A small  piece of paper stuck at the front of the book in the Great Britain section reads, "Erratum Slip. The publishers regret that the caption to the Bentley should read ..X... instead of ...Y..?" Can anyone guess what the correction should be, picture is on  page 15 of this wonderful thread.

 

 

 

I confirmed my thoughts with a Google search, the 1928 8 Liter Bentley could not exist since the 8 liter was introduced on September 15, 1930. Bob 

[8E45E]

25 minutes ago, Gunsmoke said:

Wayne Sheldon said 'Books and other reports a half century ago often got the year wrong for cars and pictures. This model T is an early '15 Ford folding top Coupelette. It can't be a late '15 or '16 because it doesn't have the small oval porthole windows in the side of the folding top. It also is NOT one of the earliest Ford Coupelettes because I can see the deck lid on the top of the "turtle" back. The earliest coupelettes had a practically useless small door at the back of the turtle trunk. It did a better job keeping out the rain, but made it almost impossible to put much in the trunk. Ford did offer a fixed roof coupe for 1909/'10, but no coupe type factory bodies from '11 to '14 models." Thanks Wayne, only a very knowledgeable early Ford guy would have known. Some 56 years later I wonder how many caught that!  

 

A small  piece of paper stuck at the front of the book in the Great Britain section reads, "Erratum Slip. The publishers regret that the caption to the Bentley should read ..X... instead of ...Y..?" Can anyone guess what the correction should be, picture is on  page 15 of this wonderful thread.

Usually a book's second or third printing corrects such errors or clarifies certain areas.

 

I love older books and magazines on vintages cars, but have found some from thirty or more years ago are now 'incomplete' with wrong production figures, or survivors, etc. This is especially so now with the proliferation of the internet where so much has been discovered in the past 20 years.

 

Craig

[Gunsmoke]

"I confirmed my thoughts with a Google search, the 1928 8 Liter Bentley could not exist since the 8 liter was introduced on September 15, 1930. Bob"

1937hd45 is close enough. Caption should read "4&1/2 liters instead of 8 liters". I'm thinking it is a 4.5L "Blower" Bentley based on the protected protrusion at front. Cheers and congrats Bob.

[31plymouth]

18 hours ago, John_Mereness said:

by Smith Hempstone Oliver (Creator)

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Downloadable Archival Material

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[31plymouth]

31 Plymouth to the right.  

[keiser31]

22 minutes ago, 31plymouth said:

31 Plymouth to the right.  

The 1928 Auburn on the left has a 1933 DeSoto grille.

[1937hd45]

And people think those E&J bullet headlights are Ugly, we have now seen the bar raised. Desoto grille should have stayed on a DeSoto, must be a driver based on the front tires. Bob 

 

 

[md murray]

Think he was able to crawl his way out of that without a tug?

[StanleyRegister]

Suddenly I wish I wasn't slung so under.

[StanleyRegister]

Same license plate, happier times.

[Gunsmoke]

I enjoy the descriptions and a bit of text with each photo. John_Mereness would you consider going back and adding a line to some of yours for those of us who don't recognize the year/make/model/context. Your likely quarintined anyway, so what better to do on a Saturday!!!