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Walt G

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Ed, Thanks for taking the time for posting all of these! The body on the roadster with the flapper on the running board may be by Schutte of Lancaster, Pa. I have sales literature issued by them I will have to get out and look at. Schutte did a similar body on an Oldsmobile chassis so that may be what I recall, have to check.  The flapper is a very nice accessory, does not show up in the factory accessory catalog but so very nice none the less.  🤩  Hummm I could accommodate a flapper for my Packard touring car ....I am single , and that car has a lot of sheet metal to polish.

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1 hour ago, 58L-Y8 said:

Until his entry into the complete automobile manufacturing business with his 1923 Leon Rubay, a 124.8 c.in. OHV four cylinder, 118" wheelbase, $5,100-$5,300.   Do any Leon Rubay cars still exist?


If one has survived I have never seen or heard of it. 

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1 hour ago, twin6 said:

Can you find the accessory on this car?

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Looks like it drove through the first JC Whitney warehouse at full speed without stopping and ran into everything. 

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For some period pictures, here are some pictures from our family album.  They are pictures of Jimmy Murphy and my great uncle Ernie Olson. Uncle Ernie was my Grandma Schramm's brother.  He was a riding mechanic in the day.  They won the Indianapolis 500 and the Race at LeMans back to back.  The first all American team to do that and they were driving a Dusenberg.  They used a Miller engine for the Indy race.

 

 

1921 French grand prix finish.png

1921 French Grand Prix finish

1921 07 26 Ernie Olson Jimmy Murphy winner circle  french le Mans  flowers.jpg

Flowers at the end of the French race

1922 Indy-500-Start.jpg

Start of the 1922 Indy 500.   Note the brick racing surface.  AKA the moniker, The Brickyard

1921 French grand prix finish.png

Finish line at the Indy 500

2010 8 16  Indy Museum.jpg

The car now at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum

Edited by Larry Schramm (see edit history)
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2 hours ago, twin6 said:

Can you find the accessory on this car?

bling.jpg

 

I've been accused of going overboard-

 

On the 1993 Glidden, my '27 Chevy Capitol AA Roadster was recipient of the award for best open early Chevrolet-

... and I was lated jokingly told it was for the 
"LITTELEST CAR WITH THE MOST NOISE-MAKERS",using our:

 KLAXON, 

WOLF WHISTLE,

EXHAUST WHISTLE,

AND EXPLOSION WHISTLE...

SOMETIMES ALL AT ONCE

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Edited by Marty Roth (see edit history)
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