Are there any cars that have gone extinct?

Damn,man you stole my thunder! I knew about the Spaulding-made from 1907-1917 in Grinnell,Iowa. I went to Grinnell College and my daughter lives in Grinnell now.The factory is still there and will become the Iowa Transportation museum. I have come across one picture of their car.

Guys here is a great link. 3479 vehicle manufacturers and the years they were in business:

http://members.chello.nl/j.baartse/cars/

 

Adj.1.extinct - no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives; "an extinct species of fish"; "an extinct royal family"; "extinct laws and customs"


Mutt

 

Here are a few from the "Monstrous American Car Spotters Guide"

Ace, Allen, AMCO, American, American Steamer, Anderson, Apperson, Argonne four, Auburn, Austin Four, Balboa, Bay State, Beggs, Bell, Biddle, Birch, Birmingham, Bour-Davis, Brewster, Brewster-Ford, Briggs & Stratton, Briscoe, Brooke-Spacke, Brooks Steamer, Bush.

This is just the A's and B's, it goes all the way to Y.

Den

 

Dodge is still around...they killed plymouth. American motors was around until chrysler bought them in the early 80's and killed everything but the jeep.

Other ones....Delorean, Desoto, Valiant (go ahead and check it was its own division when it started), Crosley, Nash, Tucker, Duesenburg, Bill Mitchell SVD, SLP, Firehawk, Mecham, etc...

The list goes on and on. A lot of the recent ones were actually tuners who had to get manufacturers papers because they changed the cars so much.

 

My grandfather was a pattern maker and made the patterns for the engine molds for the Dayton Stoddard automobile. He was a real craftsman and in much demand. Drinking got to him and he died in a small hotel room in Dayton, OH. he was paying for by the week. I have a large suitcase of wooden puzzles he made all signed and dated from 1909 to 1918. Also have a seven year diary he kept in the late 20's thru early 30's. It's a shame he really went downhill.

 

Does Thomas Flyer count?


Won the first(only) race around the world right?


Maybe I'm wrong, It's happened before............

dave

 

Are there any of those Rambler Marlins from the 60's left?
Or the fastback Chevy Novas?

 

A couple of years ago I visited a private auto collection in Elkhart, IN. There was an "Elkhart" car there....never even heard of them before. Built in, believe it or not, Elkhart, IN!!

 

i have seen a few here and there, but since rambler came up what about the Rambler Rogue, not a whole lot of those are still around

 

Yeah, and they had Kinmont brakes. There was one up at the Pontiac IL. Roth tribute show, #48 or 49.

 

How about the Continental? I've never seen more than advertising art. Not to be confused with the later FoMoCo product, these were produced at the old DeVaux factory in Grand Rapids, MI under the auspices of Continental Motors in Muskegon in 1933 and 1934. They look a lot like the Fords of the same era.

 

Yep, in fact I just bought a book about the history of Canfield (Oh) Speedway Sunday and there's a pic of the only Tucker circle burner I've ever seen. It raced in 1951 in the first of two 2 NASCAR Strictly Stock (Grand National) races held at the track. The car, #12, was driven by Joe Merola and sponsored by a Pittsburgh used car dealer. I'll bet the bank that the Tucker your buddy saw at Carlisle is the same one.

If I can get my scanner to work in the next day or so I'll try to post the pic. Personally, I think this Tuck stocker is WAY cooler than a restored one...

Jan

 

Hey, did you get that scanner to work????

 

I never saw anyone list the Indiana Truck which very few people have ever seen and few servive built from 1910 to 1939 but the original company was bought out in 1927 by Brockway and later sold to White in 1932.

Also I have one built in Elkhart Indiana called the Valley Truck which was built by Huffman Truck co. from 1926 to 1929 pictured below as found this year.

Logansport Indiana also had a car called the Revere that everyone thought there were none left till a few years ago the city found and bought a restored example of to display. I think it was about a 1920.

Bob

 

THIS outta keep you guys busy for a while...http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynam...eautochannel.com/mania/industry.orig/history/

 

Years ago I had the front emblem from a Chevy Copper clad. Traded it aaway fro some tools, dummy me.

This was an automobile that Chevy built in the 20's...with an AIR COOLED engine. They found a way to bond copper fins to a cast iron block for cooling.
Several were sent out to salesmen to show and all were recalled.
Apparently the only one that exists is in the Ford museum. Henry went over and bought one to have a look-see.

A friend of mine has a Gardner.

 

Out of 51 Tuckers finished, 50 are accounted for either in complete cars or major parts of destroyed cars. Only 1 has disappeared without proof, last seen in Memphis after it was found in a river bed. It disappeared from they guys house while he was in the hospital, never to be seen again. A 52nd was built up 20 or so years ago from a unused body shell.

Steve

 

I understand the bits of the last remaining Spaulding,built in Grinnell,Iowa have returned to the original factory which is being turned into the Iowa Museum of Transportation and will be restored as an ongoing museum demonstration project.

 

Look up the history of the Dual Motors company, run by Eugene Casaroll. They built the Dual Ghia's back in the 50's. They were located in the Warren, Michigan, area I think. They started in business building dual engined army trucks during the WW2 period. I have an article about the Dual Ghia at home that mentions the truck connection.

Steve

 

The Tucker body is availble as a 'glass replica, so those customized Tuckers you're seeing are repros. No one customizes or races Tuckers. They're worth over $500,000
Ed

 

Found an old flatbead truck probably dating to the 10's or 20's at Pate one year. It was a Liberty. I haven't been able to find any information on them. It was an old farm truck with a piece of corrugated tin for the roof and piece of plywould for the floor. It ran too.

 

.....graham?????

 

Here's their website: http://www.iowatransportationmuseum.com/pages/projects.html

Nothing on the Spaulding project yet, though.

 

Lots of stuff was crushed for the War (ww2) effort. related o/t, try finding a WW2 airplane of ANY kind. they're dragging them out of lakes and off of the Greenland ice cap. The flyboys got us beat for building from junk.

 

I've allways been fascinated in Buckminster Fuller's flathead Ford powered Dymaxion three wheelers from the '30s. Only one survives, at the Henry Ford museum I believe. Can someone tell me the extinct brand whose advertisements began "Somewhere West of Laramie,"? I'm thinking Maxwell,i.e. Jack Benny's famous car, but not sure.

 

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This one is in a museum in Jacksonville (above), the's one in the museum at Stone Mountain, GA, One in Indiana and theres a roadster in NY. It was a cyclecar and only built for 2 years 13-15. The only touring that actually runs (at least at the time it was restored, there were only 6 known to exist), was restored by my late friend Harold Walter, he bought it in boxes and restored it with brochures and photographs. Sold a AACA senior first place '13 T to finance it.

Couldn't tell you from the above pic if that is the one he did.

Ed Roth's Mysterion WAS extinct. Thanks Dave!

 

Saw a Maytag touring with deep pleated leather upholsterywhen I was a kid at a local parade. Big car. I believe there was an International also. A local antique car nut told me that there were 10 or 12 car "assemblers" in Jacksonville, Ill. They purchased componet parts and assembled their own brand of car. At least two were the same except for the name plate.

 

Anybody ever heard of a Tad Davies Centaur? In about '61-'62 Tad Davies Chevrolet in Seattle built a Corvette-powered fiberglass gull-wing door coupe. I think there were about 3 or 4 built. I remember a display model in their Pike Street showroom (now Phil Smart Mercedes), and a race version that was destroyed in a crash at the old Kent Pacific Raceway. There was even a road test done by Sports Car Graphic magazine. Wonder if there's any left?

 

Maxwell isn't dead. They just changed names. These days they're known as "Chrysler."

 

my friend has the last rollo in the world they were an english company making cycle cars
small light weight small capacity cars

it is a 1913 aircooled 750 I think v twin

http://www.britishmm.co.uk/history.asp?id=766 for details