Mystery coupe

[nzcarnerd]

This one has apparently been puzzling people for several years.

 

I think that is a 1928 NY plate but the car looks to be no later than 1924 by the skinny tyres.

 

Presumably something less common. Or maybe not a 'regular' factory body?

 

 

[nzcarnerd]

3 hours ago, nzcarnerd said:

This one has apparently been puzzling people for several years.

 

I think that is a 1928 NY plate but the car looks to be no later than 1924 by the skinny tyres.

 

Presumably something less common. Or maybe not a 'regular' factory body?

 

 

 More here - 

[West Peterson]

Pierce Arrow, I think, with a custom experimental body by one of the metal producing companies. I thought it was Alcoa, but I can't find the story.

[Peter Gariepy]

[nzcarnerd]

7 hours ago, West Peterson said:

Pierce Arrow, I think, with a custom experimental body by one of the metal producing companies. I thought it was Alcoa, but I can't find the story.

 

 More in my link above - the 'period images... thread.

 

If there is an index to SIA mag there is an article somewhere by Maurice Hendry.

 

 

[John Bloom]

11 hours ago, West Peterson said:

Pierce Arrow, I think, with a custom experimental body by one of the metal producing companies. I thought it was Alcoa, but I can't find the story.

I think you are right West. The back end looked so familiar to me and then I remember thinking it looked like the back end of a Pierce Arrow on a video Jay Leno did. I just pulled that video up again and it looks just like the backend of his 1918 model 66 pierce The previous owner tells an interesting story about how that trunk design came to be.