Bill Boudway Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 If that '17 Locomobile does the hill, it would be a repeat of it's performance in the 1950s on Mount Wachusett. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted May 13, 2023 Author Share Posted May 13, 2023 32 minutes ago, Bill Boudway said: If that '17 Locomobile does the hill, it would be a repeat of it's performance in the 1950s on Mount Wachusett. That is pretty cool. The restoration is over the top perfect so they were displaying the car not running it up the hill. I think we had this conversation in the Locomobile thread, as I posted this picture of what looks like the same car taken in the late 40s in New England. I don't know that everyone is convinced they are the same car. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted May 13, 2023 Author Share Posted May 13, 2023 Here is the steam car running up the hill. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 12 minutes ago, alsancle said: That is pretty cool. The restoration is over the top perfect so they were displaying the car not running it up the hill. I think we had this conversation in the Locomobile thread, as I posted this picture of what looks like the same car taken in the late 40s in New England. I don't know that everyone is convinced they are the same car. I prefer the car in black & white photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted May 13, 2023 Author Share Posted May 13, 2023 2 minutes ago, 1937hd45 said: I prefer the car in black & white photos. Bob, believe it or not those are the original colors. Honest truth. It actually looks pretty good in person. I wouldn’t be drawing it out of my garage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted May 13, 2023 Author Share Posted May 13, 2023 8 hours ago, alsancle said: Does anybody know the specifics of this car? Is it an Amilcar with a ford engine? I have a video of it taking off but want to describe it correctly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 (edited) 53 minutes ago, alsancle said: Does anybody know the specifics of this car? Is it an Amilcar with a ford engine? I have a video of it taking off but want to describe it correctly. It is the ARCA Ford Amilcar one of my favorites from the sports car racing club of the 1930's. Someone will confirm that there were two brothers that got the car for cleaning out the garage it was stored in. Is that common up in Massachusetts? Edited May 13, 2023 by 1937hd45 (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted May 14, 2023 Author Share Posted May 14, 2023 This is a decent video showing a bunch of the cars taking off. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Boudway Posted May 15, 2023 Share Posted May 15, 2023 Question here: Is the Wilbraham hillclinb and the Wachusett Mountain hillclimb of the 1950s the same event? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted May 15, 2023 Author Share Posted May 15, 2023 1 hour ago, Bill Boudway said: Question here: Is the Wilbraham hillclinb and the Wachusett Mountain hillclimb of the 1950s the same event? Waschusett Mountain has an auto road and is probably 40 miles away from Wilbraham so I'm guessing they are two different things. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris DeMarey Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 This year's Wilbraham Hill Climb is this Saturday, May 11th! Hope you guys can make it, it'll be a fun time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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