History We ALL Love a DARE! PIX of TRULY Extinct Makes?

Here are pics of it -





There are only 2, and the Ruger family owns them. I saw them new at the NY Auto show.

 

That's a Model T with a speedster body kit on it.

 

Plym46: Ha, I had a Powell in the early 80's. It was actually a great car. I about died laughing when a friend showed me the fishing pole storage.

 

It's great to get all the solid info about Iowa's role in early U.S. auto production! And THANKS, Shifty, for mentioning that Fred & Augie Deusenberg WERE actually Iowa native boys!!!

 

Plym46: So THAT's a Powell! Hmmmm!

Hey, got a 'net LINK for the Lang Museum in Nashville? Sounds like great huntin' ground for orpahns & survivors!!!

 

HotrodPrimer: Hey, the Locomobile (despite what NOW sounds like an odd name) was once a WELL-respected, upscale car, wasn't it? Billy Durant subsumed Locomobile, as I recall, and continued to make them until they fell out of favor in the market place.

I think Durant decided the market crash & economic downturn was a good time ditch certain makes from the GM stable, and Locomobile & Marquette were two that got the axe. Shame, both were very good cars.

 

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2008/09/07/sia-flashback-americas-most-needed-car/

Bobbi-Kar was easy.

Are there any Mustangs left? Not the Ford variety, but the teardrop.

 

How about the GAYLORD, built in Gaylord, Michigan?
Supposedly only one survives,and I've seen it. Its on display in their chamber of commerce:
http://www.gaylordchamber.com/navigation/86/Gaylord-30-Automobile/Gaylord-30-Automobile.aspx
While searching for that one, I also found the "Gaylord Gladiator" but cant make out much of it since the site is French. Neat car though!
http://www.gatsbyonline.com/main.aspx?page=text&id=214&cat=auto

 

Great post,thanks.Had fun reading all the different cars there have been.

 

I just found out that HAMBer Pir8Darryl posted this Wikipedia link just last Sept.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._manufacturers

Once again, THOUGH, remember "EXTINCT" MEANS NONE (ZIP) LEFT IN EXISTENCE. "Defunct" just means out of business. BIG DIFFERENCE!!!

 

I couldn't get anything to come up on that link, guys, so to get the Wikipedia list just put the following key rods into Google or whatever search engine YOU have, okay? (There are 143 defunct U.S. car makes beginning with letter "A" alone! So, this list is hundreds, maybe a couple or three THOUSAND makes long!)

List of Defunct United States
Automobile Manufacturers

 

I wonder if a DuPont "camp auto" still exists???

Dupont camp auto, taken between 1910 and 1915. Photo
is from the U.S. National Archives and has no known publi-
cation restrictions. PuPonts (yes those DuPonts) made
cars until 1931.

 

Not sure how rare it actually is, but I saw a 1924 franklin over the weekend. The same person also has a 1930 packard, 1928 buick, 193? Whippet sedan, 1937 chevy truck, 1929 buick turned into truck, can't remember everything else because he had so much cool stuff.

 

The Bour Davis was manufactured in Shreveport Louisiana briefly but there are no known survivors.
A local guy took a Studebaker body and other parts and made up a replica.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bour-Davis

 

ManyOlCars, thanks for the post on the Bour-Davis. I honestly NEVER heard of that make. Thank goodness an enterprising guy made at least a REPLICA! I GUESS THIS MAKES THE BOUR-DAVIS OFFICALLY EXTINCT, BUT AT LEAST THERE'S A RELIABLE REPLICA. Any idea when they were produced?

 

Frizi: Thanks for the extinction-related post, buddy. The Franklin was made for many years, ending in the later mid'30s. So there would be SOME extant, but sureely certain models would be hard to impossible to find at all. They were made in the vicinity of Buffalo, and a version of the Franklin "AirCooled" engine was the basis of the failed Tucker project.

The Whippet was one of the products of John North Willys and was made for some years. Gotta believe SOME Whippets are scarce as hen's teeth, some maybe EXTINCT but for old pictures.

THANKS for the input!

 

1910 Brush 2-passenger runabout. The photo is an heirloom
of John & Mary Sidebotham, It was taken of one of their grand-
mothers near her home of Clifton, AZ. She was born in 1867.

Alanson Brush was a brilliant engineer and made the early, suc-
cessful Brush Runabout, among others. Technology bypassed
him, and he quit making cars before World War I. Since many
EARLY Brushes used a mostly WOODEN chassis, I bet many of
those are very scarce to actually non-existent! THANKS for
the post!

 

A drawing of the Bobbi Kar from the first page of my Car Spotter's Guide.

 

Franklins were produced in Syracuse, NY. Franklin was a very well respected manufacturer of luxury cars powered by air-cooled engines. There are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of these cars still in existance. Perhaps you were thinking of Pierce-Arrow, which were manufactured in Buffalo, NY?

 

Marathon Mortors in Nashville Tn

 

Old&Krusty, the BUFFALO reference was MY mistake -- so thanks for correcting it quickly! I should have rechecked before starting to type!

As far as extinct, though, no, I didn't say that. I pointed out that, indeed, they were made for years. So, Franklin as a MAKE wouldn't be extinct. But, as with other independents, I can easily believe that certain yers (early or later, especially) and models may well be extremely scarce or non-existent.

Anyway, THANKS again for calling Syracuse (NOT Buffalo, folks!) to my attention. Good post, bro!

 

THE DUDE, Marathon Motors in Nashville. Any idea when they were made?

 

1904-1917, the building is still there

 

Hopefully that car went into receivership and was reborn as something cool.

How could you do that to a Deuce?

 

I believe they actaully started out making airplane motors and then moved to cars.

Not unlike BMW or Alfa-Romeo

 

Also here is my Hudson

 

Franklin made aircraft motors after they made cars - the Tucker flat six was a mildly re-engineered Franklin helicopter engine.

I think you'll find there were no mass produced aircraft when Franklin started (1910? I'd have to look it up).


Whippet? Hell I saw one of those a week ago last Sunday. Not extinct.

We even have a rough Franklin, there's tons of those out there.

 

The first Franklin was built in 1902, one year before the Wrights flew. The pre 1902 aircraft engine market was a bit slow

 

1921 Handley Knight 7 seat tourer built in Kalamazoo,MI.

 

Barley Motor Car Co. was a manufacturer of automobiles in Kalamazoo, Michigan and Streator, Illinois. It manufactured the Roamer automobile (1916-29) and, briefly, the Barley (1922-24), and the Pennant (1924-25). This is a 1920 Roamer.