Cars that did'nt make it minor makes

those are beautiful works of art -- makes today's cars look like feces.

 

a small sample from indiana only,

royal
shoemaker
sperling
imp
economy
sheridan
straton
erie
rider-lewis
cory
howard
huntingburg
reeves
postal
tricolet.

there where 150 different manufacturers in indiana alone in the teens and 20's

 

I always wanted a Locomobile.
Never saw one, but I thought the name was fitting for me!

 

Two cars were built under the Cunningham name.
One was a coachbuilt line from the 30's from Rochester, NY.
The other was a Hemi powered sports car from the 50's.

 

My insurence man has one that just got restored, neat car.

 

wow! Thats alot of information!

 

Rickenbaker. When Eddie got home from WWI he was a pretty popular fellow, so smellin' a buck to be made a group of businessmen produced an automobile with Eddie's name on it. If I remember correctly the article I read on it stated that it was only produced for 2 or 3 years in the 20's before the company folded.

 

Hupmobile

 

The body lines in this car are amazing, all the raised lines in the splash aprons, and fenders. The belt line around the cab and even the radiator shell. All the detail that was put into these old cars. And probably not a bunch of corporate wazoo accountants saying they had to cut back. Those were the days. And just think if we did'nt have a war that needed the steel, how much would still be out there for the taking...ghost

 

How about this, from National Geographic, June 1926

 

Or this, a Cord from 1929.. I'll keep it at this, have many more, may just put them all online one of these days.

 

And had aluminum engines. I believe until 1934 when they ceased production, and some were even supercharged. Even named one of there cars the airman in honor of lindberghs flight. makes you wonder if tucker was influenced by this car...ghost

 

Miller- what a shame!

 

Used to see an "Oregon" at mall shows when I was a kid, a br*** era car would guess it was mid priced if memory serves me right just a handful were built.

 

Check out this post, I posted some ads from numerous minor brands from the early National Geographic ads : http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=321766

 

yep, you gotta include Hupmobile.

 

Hey how about the (doble.) Mostly a 20s car, but a few were built in 30 and 31. Made by the doble steam motors corporation. And they had a wicked 30 model f roadster with the nose of the car looking like it could handle a v 12...ghost

 

28,

I posted Doble with a few other steamers on post #9

 

If anyone is interested, I have a huge poster from an old guy near me that detaisl all the old car companies, who came from who, when they died etc..
I made some copies of it but can make more of someone wanted one.

 

This one is from my hometown of Enid OK. The Geronimo was only built for about three years before the plant burned.

This touring is the only known example to exist. The Enid Antique Auto Club searched for years before finding one in a field in Kansas.

The fact they used a lot of jobber parts made restoration easier but a lot of stuff had to be fabbed.

 

Duesenburg
Baker
Lasalle
Es***
Alburn

I was offered an opportunity to visit an older gentleman's garage. He purchased several cars from the original owners in the 50's to save them from being s****ped, all the cars are in amazing all original shape. He said the most he spent on any of the cars was the Pearce Arrow ($150.00)

1901 Locomobile
1914 Knox 7 p***enger touring
1926 Pearce Arrow 7 p***enger limo
REO

(also has a 1920 Ford T 100% OE with 5,000mi on the odometer)

 

Yep you did sorry. I slept since then and forgot. But would like to post a pic of the 30 doble roadster if I can get it copied to my pictures It's really cool...ghost

 

Velies were made in Moline, IL. Not many have survived but there are several restored ones in this area. They also made trucks and a smal high wing monoplane called the Velie Aerocoupe. The Quad City Aiport in Moline has a few P***enger cars and a restored Aerocoupe on display in the terminal lobby. They were good cars for the day and the plane was exceptionally well built. It was quite a big deal back in the 20's.

There were also a car companies called Moline and Moline-Knight here, sounds like Mr. Knight got around a bit.

 

Ghost, please do- Dobles are great looking cars!!!

 

The Kline Kar started in York, PA in 1907 and then moved to Richmond, VA in 1911. It lasted
until 1923.

There was a race car called the Jimmy Jr. with a Duesenberg engine. It is now in the UK. There is a Kline Kar in the Virginia Historical Society.

 

This thread is a couple years old and I looked through it and didn't find a 23 dort model This one was listed on the Colorado craigs list the other day, so I thought a few pictures on this thread would be cool. So if anyone has more info on the DORT post away.
Thanks John

 

Great info on the car lines and names....now we know there was no car line called the Coffin.
E.M.F., I am a distant relative of "M".
Metzger Motor Co., Detroit, MI (same "M" as above)
Metzger merged with Emerson and Fergeson that was bought by GM around 1920.
Metzger was given the biggest Cadillac dealer in Detroit
Emerson was given a high post in GM
Fergeson....died a couple years after the merger.

 

"Metzger merged with Emerson and Fergeson that was bought by GM around 1920"

Durrant's M.O. buy up and shut down the compe***ion, alot were bought for small inovations they had made so they could be used on GM cars.

 

I'm thinking my dream ride would be a '41 Graham Hollywood w/a non-HAMB friendly LS motor ... or maybe the Hupmobile Skylark of the same vintage ... yeah, I could do that.

Barry

 

A buddy has an unrestored, original Carter (1913 i think) and drives it whenever oppertunity presents itself. It has an electrical gremlin and i'm gonna have a look at it saturday to get it fixed. I'll get some pics, it is incredible - no transmission, there is a huge flywheel and a smaller wheel makes contact to the flywheel (@ 90degrees) and that smaller wheel is a jackshaft that drives the rear wheels (via a chain i think). To start off the smaller wheel engage the flywheel near the middle and to go faster it moves to the left to where the flywheel gets larger - you wanna go faster, keep going left. To reverse, move the smaller wheel contact point to teh right of the center of the flywheel. In 1913 it even had electric start.