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My Great-Grandparents Muir + Ethel Osborn: I think this is a 1929 Chevy. Not sure. I've never really checked it out... and I've never posted this picture before. They were married in 1918 if that helps.

My great-grandfather bought Chevys from Krum -  Hallum Chevrolet in Vicksburg, Michigan for 50 years.

 

 

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13 minutes ago, TerryKott said:

My Great-Grandparents Muir + Ethel Osborn: I think this is a 1929 Chevy. Not sure. I've never really checked it out... and I've never posted this picture before. They were married in 1918 if that helps.

My great-grandfather bought Chevys from Krum -  Hallum Chevrolet in Vicksburg, Michigan for 50 years.

 

 

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More like 1918-1920.

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On 5/13/2024 at 4:15 PM, Walt G said:

Neat big brass era 7 seat touring car A Woolf, I wonder what the panel is on the rear door at the top edge is?

 

Looks like a Walnut Burl inlay.

Nice touch, whatever it is...

 

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Napier, New Zealand, 1931. I presume the photo was taken before the devastating earthquake that hit the town on 3 February 1931. The second photo is roughly the same view taken in mid-February 2024 during the town's annual Art Deco festival. The building at the far end was the fire station, which was rebuilt after the quake but is now a restaurant - the Central Fire Station Bistro.

 

For context I have found a couple of photos of the fire station taken just after the earthquake. along with one taken in 1924 showing the brigade's two Dennis engines (from 1920 and 1924) and their 1916 Buick.

 

Also, a shot of the brigade's 1924 Dennis engine at their temporary station after the quake. That Dennis engine has survived and was on display at this year's Art Deco festival.

 

 

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On 5/1/2020 at 6:37 AM, coachJC said:

1940 Lincoln Continental of Frank Lloyd Wright 

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A couple more to add to your Frank Lloyd Wright post for those who haven't seen these yet.

 

His vision for "Broadacre City" early 1930s

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Frank Lloyd Wright, his wife Olgivanna and their daughters Svetlana and Iovanna in February of 1929 in a Packard Deluxe Eight, at Wright’s temporary desert studio near Chandler, Arizona.  The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York)

On the road with Frank Lloyd Wright - Curbed

 

Camp Ocatillo was located just south east of South Mountain 

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Ocotillo 08

 

 

 

 

 

Ray Loewys vision was similar to Wrights conversion

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1 hour ago, motoringicons said:

I believe this car is in a collection in Chicago.

Encouraging to hear.

Do you know if Joel Silver still has the Wright custom?

 

The noteworthy and similar visions that the two men had are interesting for sure. 

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Here is the FLW image flipped horizontally since it was unlikely he was driving a RHD car.   The best I can identify is it was a 1926 Packard Eight Model 236 4-passenger Sport Model, Body Style 246.   I defer to those more versed in 1920's Packards for an accurate identification.

Frank Lloyd Wright, wife Olgivanna, daughters Svetlana & Iovanna, Feb '29 in a '26 Packard Single Eight Sport Model 236.jpg

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For anyone who has ridden quads at the dunes or other dusty road racing, one can definitely appreciate the head and eye protection the family is sporting for those early non paved desert roads. Not sure how much it helped, but it shows a likeable family side to men like him that we typically associate with opulence.

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15 hours ago, A Woolf said:

1925 Model T Ford Pickup.  Usually considered the first factory built pickup truck.

 

Not actually correct. 1925 model T roadster-pickup was the first official factory offered FORD pickup on the car chassis. Ford also had a one ton C-cab open express pickup body from the factory in 1924, which was the first "Ford "truck" body supplied as factory issue. Prior to the 1924 C-cab, except for a few large special orders (military, or large corporate fleet orders), all Ford trucks (both T and TT) were sold as chassis only or chassis and fenders only. All bodywork was added after-market, or supplied to the Ford dealer by some after-market body supplier. 

Dodge was offering factory pickups, both open and screen-side, as early as 1915. They built thousands of them in the late 1910s and early 1920s. If I recall correctly, Studebaker also offered a factory built pickup in 1916. Although not very many were built. Dozens of truck manufacturing companies built smaller models in basically a pickup configuration using the accepted construction methods and materials of the day (often mostly wood), beginning in the very early 1900s.

 

Regardless, those are wonderful photos of Ford's first light duty pickup offering.

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