8E45E Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 1 minute ago, edinmass said: Can’t help myself breakfast this morning 83°! We only wish for that here at this time of the year!! Many in Canada are saying to hell with the Covid restrictions and vacationing at warmer resorts right now! Craig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, alsancle said: I'm cross posting this from the Stearns Knight thread. Pictured is a 1929 Stearns Knight H8-90 with what looks like a Rollston body in Central Park. Pictured is the 1929 NY Salon at the Commodore Hotel. Do you think they are the same car (see arrow)? And do you agree the body is Rollston? Yes, I would say the same car and most likely both photos taken at the same general time with the town car going into the Commodore Hotel after the Central Park photo was taken by John Adams Davis or after the salon. Most likely before. The Central Park location was only about 10 minutes north of the Hotel Commodore. I went to look to find the Central Park location on a cross street that ran through the park about 10 years ago and even then the location had over grown so much in 70+ years that it was hard to tell it was the exact spot. Need to check to see what other cars were at the Salon on that stand, most cars were displayed on the coach builders stand not by car make as they rarely if ever had their own exhibit space. Another story to record who, what and where to make sense of it all , if I were still doing my Coachworklines column . Edited January 31, 2021 by Walt G made statement a bit less wordy (see edit history) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC38dls Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 1 hour ago, edinmass said: Can’t help myself, breakfast this morning 83°! Taken from the backseat of a V-16 Sport Phaeton. The boss was the chauffeur. 😎 Who bought breakfast - usually the chauffeur does not have to do that! dave s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58L-Y8 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 2 hours ago, Walt G said: "Another story to record who, what and where to make sense of it all , if I were still doing my Coachworklines column ." Walt. Have you considered doing a Coachwork Lines column here? I believe there are many of us who would greatly appreciate such an article on a periodic basis, including me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcarnerd Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Four photos posted on a facebook page that the poster found in an album at antique shop. The Packard looks interesting - been sectioned?? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 6 minutes ago, 58L-Y8 said: Walt. Have you considered doing a Coachwork Lines column here? I believe there are many of us who would greatly appreciate such an article on a periodic basis, including me. I love the forums ( which is obvious I spend enough time here!) but don't think it is the place for an article or story, would take up to much space , I am already driving the moderators crazy probably with the thread on the period photographs. A print magazine is the place for a story so one can sit back and not have to stare at a screen. I know I feel that way , but that may be considered "old school" but that is what I am! Our Antique Automobile magazine is absolutely great but as I was told last year , trying to find even 4 pages for a story is next to impossible so nothing will be going there. It is what it is. I have great respect for Editor's of publications, and the Publications committees of various clubs, and commercial periodicals , I have been in that position, they make the call . I can respect that . Thanks for your comment, most appreciated. Walt 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twin6 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 Now we know where Ed found his White! It was hiding in a tree! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinmass Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 4 hours ago, SC38DLS said: Who bought breakfast - usually the chauffeur does not have to do that! dave s The Boss bought......tastes better that way! 😎 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 5 hours ago, Walt G said: Yes, I would say the same car and most likely both photos taken at the same general time with the town car going into the Commodore Hotel after the Central Park photo was taken by John Adams Davis or after the salon. Most likely before. The Central Park location was only about 10 minutes north of the Hotel Commodore. I went to look to find the Central Park location on a cross street that ran through the park about 10 years ago and even then the location had over grown so much in 70+ years that it was hard to tell it was the exact spot. Need to check to see what other cars were at the Salon on that stand, most cars were displayed on the coach builders stand not by car make as they rarely if ever had their own exhibit space. Another story to record who, what and where to make sense of it all , if I were still doing my Coachworklines column . Thanks Walt. Would you mind responding over in the Stearns Knight thread? That is where I will be looking when I forget what we decided. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 Here are a few more I found while looking for something else. the street scene is in Nantucket, Rhode Island on Main Street, penciled on the back it says it shows a bank that did not close during the Depression, my guess it was taken in 1938. I was given the photo in 1972. Bugatti is coming out of storage in the late 1940s still covered in dust. Because it is Winter I thought the factory photo of the Studebaker in the snow would be appropriate it dates from February 14, 1938and notes the car is a State Commander.the sleigh is a Studebaker as well! and seated next to the driver of the sleigh was Horace V. Kimble , oldest active Studebaker employee at that time who had 56 years of continuous employment at Studebaker. He was Supervisor of By Products division . 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff_a Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 (edited) 23 hours ago, edinmass said: If only Humphrey Bogart was still around. He might say: "Gee Ed, you hung around with some swell dames in your youth!" I have no clue what the date, occasion, or what great vehicle that is. I'll take a guess it is a film still from 1938, about 37 minutes before you couldn't import the finer motorcars from France and Germany here anymore. Is it a Mercedes 540K Sindelfingen? Edited February 1, 2021 by jeff_a (see edit history) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58L-Y8 Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Interesting customized Packard 120 convertible coupe. By the rear-hinged doors, hubcaps and bumper center piece and windshield frame, it was based on a 1935 120. Inspired perhaps by the Packard Darrin ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinmass Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 1 hour ago, jeff_a said: If only Humphrey Bogart was still around. He might say: "Gee Ed, you hung around with some swell dames in your youth!" I have no clue what the date, occasion, or what great vehicle that is. I'll take a guess it is a film still from 1938, about 37 minutes before you couldn't import the finer motorcars from France and Germany here anymore. Is it a Mercedes 540K Sindelfingen? Cant remember if it’s a Delage or a Delahaye.........but it’s one of the two.....at a concours in France before the war. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinmass Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 (edited) Walt.....the Nantucket photo is on Main Street.......in front of a home that’s part of “the three bricks”. I believe it’s “East Brick”. I broke down in front of it in 1991 (hard to believe it’s thirty years ago!) with my 1931 Cadillac 355 Sport Coupe. The cause? The cobble stones rattled the car so hard, the needle and seat fell out of the carb body and ended up in the float bowl. I was so concerned about damaging the carburetor I didn’t tighten it enough. Burned the hell out of my fingers pulling it apart while hot. I only took my cars over few more times to the island before I determined that the Vineyard had better roads and more to see. The daffodil festival every year is something to see.....all the old cars on the island attend. Everything from a VW bug to a Duesenberg and some very strange vehicles. I enjoyed the photo! Thanks, Ed. Edited February 1, 2021 by edinmass (see edit history) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary_Ash Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Walt: Nantucket is part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, not of those non-conformists in Rhode Island. I can say that since my non-conformist 10th great grandmother was a founder of Portsmouth, RI in 1638 - and she was chased out of there, too, after getting kicked out of Boston. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted February 1, 2021 Author Share Posted February 1, 2021 Thanks Gary for the correction, should have known that 🙄, but have a bit of brain fade after looking through to many period photographs today ( and of course not finding the one I want and need) Walt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinmass Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 (edited) Gary......Massachusetts got rid of all the “riffraff” back in 1820..................when we cut lose the Northern Territory and someone renamed it Maine. Getting tossed out of the “Massachusetts Bay Colony” was rather easy back then(1636).......my family had already been in Quebec for thirty years when you 10th great grandmother left for the “plantation “...........we ended up over here by avoiding a jail sentence for refusing to fight in the French Army. For the next two hundred and fifty years we accomplished nothing but chopping down trees and fishing the outer banks. Edited February 1, 2021 by edinmass (see edit history) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twin6 Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twin6 Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 "Doing pennants." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twin6 Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Another view up Main Street, Nantucket. I like the cars in Walt's photo better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcarnerd Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 According to the caption with this one this is Mitzi Hajos in a 1918 Packard 3-35 Twin Six Brougham. Location Denver, Colorado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcarnerd Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 I was intrigued by this one which showed up in a random selection of photos on a facebook page. I am fairly sure the location is New Zealand, in the 1930s. The road roller does not appear to have an engine. Maybe it is driven by compressed air? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcarnerd Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 A Saurer bus, presumably in Switzerland. Date - ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcarnerd Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Another Saurer bus. This one looks to have a French plate. 1938(?) Packard in the background. Does anyone recognise the uniforms? I suspect the photo dates from pre WW2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcarnerd Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Wellington, New Zealand, in the late 1950s. The truck is a Bedford A5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcarnerd Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Straying from the date and subject a little but who can resist a smile? The car is a mid 1950s Austin Cambridge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcarnerd Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Anthony Fokker with the Fokker 36 aircraft. Apparently the only example built as it wasn't a commercial success after being found to be inferior to the new Douglas aircraft. It seems there was admiration for the Chrysler Airflow as well. Fokker F.XXXVI - Wikipedia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcarnerd Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 I can't read the make but I presume this is something left in Europe after WW2 and rebodied in the Netherlands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 11 minutes ago, nzcarnerd said: Straying from the date and subject a little but who can resist a smile? The car is a mid 1950s Austin Cambridge. Imagine if she was lined up with the B-pillar and the driver signaled to make a right-hand turn!! Kitchy-kitchy-koooooo! Craig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Gillingham Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 (edited) 58 minutes ago, nzcarnerd said: I was intrigued by this one which showed up in a random selection of photos on a facebook page. I am fairly sure the location is New Zealand, in the 1930s. The road roller does not appear to have an engine. Maybe it is driven by compressed air? This is a Barford & Perkins, and they usually had some sort of IC engine. https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Barford_and_Perkins Edited February 1, 2021 by Craig Gillingham (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCK81403 Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 The three uniformed men are Italian. The two men at left have an ammunition bandoleers around their chests, and it looks like it is for the 6.35mm Carcano rifle. I don't see a rifle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCK81403 Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 What's not to like about a Worthington? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericmac Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 2 hours ago, nzcarnerd said: Straying from the date and subject a little but who can resist a smile? The car is a mid 1950s Austin Cambridge. I noticed the shorts and the smile...I didn't notice the car! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted February 2, 2021 Author Share Posted February 2, 2021 Here is a early 1970s photo of some pre war car parts. Location is the loft area above the Long Island Automotive Museum in Southampton, NY. It housed thousands of parts, lamps etc . the lamps you see here weren't half of them , more were on 4 layers of shelves. Sorry for the poor quality, light was not great up there. Austin Clark would have "Iron Range Days" where he would call people and tell them they were invited out to look for parts, you could then make a pile and after lunch at John Ducks restaurant when we got back you could $ettle up and pay what you owed for what you picked out. Austin did not sell out wholesale, and if you had to much of one thing he would tell you what you could buy and the rest would be there for the next Iron Range Day. There were also large barn like buildings at the rear of the museum and in one the Truck Barn, were all the wheels, rims and a wall full of small box like shelves that had generators, carburetors, starters etc. That barn was also home to racoon families and they did not like the intrusion of car guys looking for old stuff. Those were happy days .................... 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 On 1/31/2021 at 7:52 PM, jeff_a said: If only Humphrey Bogart was still around. He might say: "Gee Ed, you hung around with some swell dames in your youth!" I have no clue what the date, occasion, or what great vehicle that is. I'll take a guess it is a film still from 1938, about 37 minutes before you couldn't import the finer motorcars from France and Germany here anymore. Is it a Mercedes 540K Sindelfingen? It is a Delahaye 135. Probably a Chapron body. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dictator27 Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 6 hours ago, nzcarnerd said: A Saurer bus, presumably in Switzerland. Date - ?? Appears to be a model L4C of early '50's vintage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcarnerd Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 A mid 1950s Humber Hawk estate in Northern Ireland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcarnerd Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 1930 Erskine - 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne sheldon Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 Has this one been posted before? It was found on the model T forum a few years ago, and not identified. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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