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Sunday, 13 May 2012

More cool and unusual vehicle photos found by Motor Life Blog aka reservatory6.blogspot.com

1949 De Franceschi micro-car born in Torrington, Connecticutt

early twenties Dodge with crawler modification

Rocket car used by Wilford E. Danelz (1909-1999) of Benson, Minnesota to help sell that city's Monitor-News.

for more, check back now and then at http://reservatory6.blogspot.com/ because he doesn't post often, but it's cool stuff when he does

The Packard Speedster Runabout in the El Segundo Automobile Driving Museum

Wood Lite headlites. Dim and useless, but looking at them in a design perspective, the best looking headlight for classic cars

from what I've learned, they were stock on Ruxtons... and an add on to everything else, but common on DuPonts

above, the Blastolene B702 (French Curve)

Auburn Cabin Speedster

Above and below, DuPonts

Packard

Cord above, and the rest are Ruxtons

Saturday, 10 March 2012

A private museum in Canada gets a bit of publicity for it's exquisite automobiles

The Al Johnson collection in Aldergrove, North of Washington State, in the Vancouver region

A 1930 Cord Cabriolet with Woodlight headlights (I love those)

A rare Diana, of 1927, was the first car to start his collection

Story and photos from http://www.vancouversun.com/cars/Barn+houses+vintage+vehicles+from+unheralded+makers/6276202/story.html via the amazing and diverse Vintage Racing League newsletter http://multibriefs.com/briefs/vrl/index.php

Saturday, 21 January 2012

Dave Koontz photography of the Hillsborough Concours de Elegance, from SportsCarDigest.com

1911 Model T

1937 Bugatti type 57SC

1932 Packard Model 900, this grill was a one year only design, and the woodlights were not from the factory. A similar Packard, but hardtop, is in the Automobile Driving Museum in El Segundo

1920 Bugatti type 13 Breschia

http://www.sportscardigest.com/hillsborough-concours-delegance-2011-photo-gallery/?nggpage=4

Monday, 18 July 2011

Ruxtons, quite the colorful way of calling attention to a failing car company during the depression, trying to increase sales

Monday, 25 April 2011

I'm in love with the Ruxton, and those awesome headlights

Rita LaRoy from http://caughtatthecurb.blogspot.com/

Friday, 1 April 2011

Unusual, rare, and restored cars from the 1920's and 30's at the Nethercutt musuem

I hope you've been looking at my blog long enough to recognize these headlights as my favorite, they are the Woodlight type http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/woodlight%20headlights , and only came on two cars I know of, the DuPont occasionally, and this 1930 Ruxton in its factory paint, stripes of reds. Three other cars have had woodlights, a Stutz, Cord, and an Auburn but I suspect they were added by the owners. Most unusual for factory paint, but it was the midst of the great depression, and this was a luxury car that needed potential buyers attention. ( just like the glam rockers of the 70's and 80's and the big hair and makeup )

The above is movie star Fatty Arbuckle's 1923 McFarlan model 154 knickerbocker cabriolet

The above yellow is a 1934 Packard

Above and below, 1932 Mayback DS 8 / convertible cabriolet

the above is a 1925 Locomobile 48/ Victoria sedan

the above is a Toledo tiller steered, ever notice that a kids little red wagon has a handle that flips up or down, and is a very small example of a horse drawn wagon? Transpose that thought to the tiller steered early horse-less carriages and the way they had tiller steering that resembles a flipped up wagon tongue

On the left is the blue with a hood that looks like the Renault of the same era, but the Franklin was American and this example is a 1912 model G

This green with white baloon treadless tires is a 1906 Franklin, and particularly striking is the barrel shaped hood. The round hood was replaced by the slope hood like the 1912 Franklin above this