I am trying to restore a 1917 Case Touring Car and I am running into a brick wall. I am in need of pictures of the interior and the top. Does anyone have any pictures????
The only Case I have ever seen was a Vintage racecar that appeared at Bonneville a couple of years ago. Probably a similar vintage to your Tub....I know its owner is on here on occasion...has a number of interesting cars, one of which held the V4 STR record when it was first made a class, if I remember right...
1917 Case 7-Passenger Touring Car Auctioneer: Kruse Location: Hershey, Pennsylvania Date: October 8, 2004 Lot Number: 723 Condition: 1- Auction Estimate: N/A Selling Price: $57,500/not sold <TABLE align=left hspace="5"><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> If you see a Case car in your lifetime, consider yourself lucky. When Associate Editor George Mattar found this one in the paddock at the big Kruse auction at Fall Hershey last month, he knew he'd found something special. Not a lot of information exists on these cars, so we called in one of the experts to give us a bit of a primer. We ended up digging through the Horseless Carriage Club of America's member roster to find someone - anyone - that could tell us more than the sketchy details we could find on this special car. Herb Wessel of Hampstead, Maryland, was our man. He came through with an article he wrote for the February 2000 Gas Buggy Gazette, the Antique Auto Club of America's Gettysburg Region newsletter. Wessel writes that the car was built by the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company of Racine, Wisconsin. The car manufacturing concern started life in 1895, when Andrew J. Pierce built his first car under the banner of the Pierce Engine Company. Later cars were known as Pierce Racines, which was completely unconnected to the Pierce Arrow car company. The J. I. Case Threshing Company got involved with the company when Pierce was looking to expand. Financing was provided by executives and stockholders of J. I. Case, and some possibly through the Case company itself. When debt and expenses spun out of control, Case found itself the owner of a car company. By 1910, some later Pierce Racine cars were emblazoned with "CASE" emblems on the radiator grilles. By 1911, all the cars featured the Case name. Case served the farming community in the Heartland manufacturing tractors, and as such, felt it had a leg up on its competition, especially among farmers who were familiar with the products. With 8,000 dealers and agents around the country, the idea was strong. The price, however, wasn't; in 1922, a Case Model W listed for $2,250. A Ford Model T could be had for the princely sum of $300. You do the math and get back to us on which car a farmer would buy. In total, Case produced 27,000 some-odd cars in its 16-year run. Not a low total, but Wessel reminds us to consider that in January of 1924 alone, Ford sold more cars in a week than Case built in its entire history. Wessel notes that there are about a hundred Case cars left in existence, and the Case collectors all know where they are. Wessel himself owns five, from 1912 to the final year of the car's production in 1927. With such a small group of cars available, assessing value is ironically both easy and hard. It's easy because you can find out what each car sold for. It's hard because each individual car has its own unique elements. Wessel notes that a 1912 sold last year at the Krause auction in Iola, Wisconsin, netted $99,000. "But that was a brass era car," he says, adding "The 1917 was a much more plain-Jane, functional car." This particular example was nearly perfect, having been the subject of a recently completed, ground-up, professional-quality restoration. Asked what he thought the value of the Case at the Kruse Hershey auction Wessel joked: "It bid up to $57,500. I think that's a pretty good indication of what the car's worth." This article originally appeared in the JANUARY 1, 2005 issue of Hemmings Classic Car
Hemmings Classic Car - MARCH 1, 2009 - BY JIM DONNELLY One 1922 Case, one family, several lifetimes of memories...and it still runs Fifty years. A half-century, if you're counting in larger increments. That's how long this 1922 Case seven-passenger touring car sat without budging in a storage building full of farm equipment, before the same family that bought it new roused it from an enforced slumber. It was in Dutchess County, New York, nearly within chip-chucking range of the Sleepy Hollow made famous by Washington Irving's manuscripts. How apt that is. Like Rip van Winkle, its eyes closed on rich farmland, and reopened to a transformed suburban bustle, a morass of minivans scurrying for the nearest Metro-North station. Compelling tale for any car, really, but this one is a Case, one of perhaps 1,800 examples that were produced in 1922. Is that block lettering on its badge, in a font that could have come off a locomotive tender, looking familiar? That's because this is the same Case that became a landmark builder of agricultural equipment,
1913 Case Model 30 J.I. Case T.M. Co. Racine, Wi. 1913-1925 1921 Case Model 5 Sedan J.I. Case T.M. Co. Racine, Wi. 1913-1925
A friend has 4 1/2 or 5 1/2 Case cars. Shoot me a PM with your email, I will get it to him. He's not HAMB friendly.
My dad and his brothers spent much of their youth slowly dissassembling the family Case touring car (after it gave up the ghost). Then one day they pushed it into the slough next to their house. Dad still emembers that late teens case fondly.
This might help J.I. CASE <DT itxtvisited="1">J.I. Case Collectors Assoc <DD itxtvisited="1">Dave Erb <DD itxtvisited="1">4004 Coal Valley Rd., Vinton, OH 45686-9741 PH: 614-388-8895 </DD>
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My father's first cousin was a Physician in Laurinburg, NC and he had many antique autos and assorted jalopies. His treasure was a fully restored 1911 Case Touring. It was magnificent. He used to drive it every year in the NC Horseless Carraige Club Tour. I may be able to find a photo of that car.
My father's first cousin was a Physician in Laurinburg, NC and he had many antique autos and assorted jalopies. His treasure was a fully restored 1911 Case Touring. It was magnificent. He used to drive it every year in the NC Horseless Carraige Club Tour. I may be able to find a photo of that car.
Greetings! I know you made this post a couple of years ago, but any chance you have any extra parts? I bought a 1916 Case Touring this past summer and have been looking around to see what is available. Thanks for the reply if you can. John
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