Some old Photos for your enjoyment

[RicinYakima]

If you put your clothes on can you see a tail?

 

[Gary]

Nudder one:



Early Uber? Looks like a gas line even back then, AND maybe the brake doesn't work to good.

 

[JWFilips]

& an other one from shorpy.com

San Francisco circa 1925. "Cole Aero Eight Series 890 touring car on Gough Street." This was the final year for both the marque and its founder, Joseph J. Cole, who died in August 1925. 5x7 inch glass negative by that automotive amanuensis Christopher Helin.

 

[RicinYakima]

That was a touring car! Big balloon tires on wire wheels for a soft (ish) ride, lots of leg room and big electric lights!

 

[RicinYakima]

Plus got to love the school building behind it.

 

[RicinYakima]

My Hudson mentor's 1924 touring car, the Super Six.


I think he said this was taken in Provo, UT about 1928.

 

[JWFilips]

Lots of Big Cars on Shorpy.com!

 

[Rally]

Gary,
Is that a picture of early Eureka,Sd.? Car has SD on it and farthest building appears to say Eureka on it. The lady with the child and the guy to the left of the gas pump both appear to be Natives.

 

[Gary]

The pics caption says Ekalaka, Montana ~ 1910. Suppose it could have been someone from SD on vacation.

 

[Rally]

I couldn't read the name on the store front in far building but kinda looked like Eureka and the SD on the plate made me think it was there. I hunt pheasant there some years, lots of small grain crops there.

Jim,
Looking at those car pics makes me wonder when the first enclosed cars were produced? Anybody know, I've never been much into cars pre 60's.

 

[RicinYakima]

There were fully enclosed Model T Fords before 1917, but I don't know by how much. They cost more and people were used to wagons (and smoked cigars, chewed tobacco and spit a lot) and not many drove in the winter. Truck were enclosed before 1914 and the great war.

 

[RicinYakima]

My research says that the last "touring" car, no roof and seats four, was most likely the Ford Model A. Most cars after about 1928 were "convertibles" with the cloth roof attached to the rear and folded over to make a top. Pictures #623 and #626 are actually classed as convertibles.
Although there is controversy that if it didn't have side curtains, it was a touring car. But others disagree. FWIW

 

[JWFilips]

A nice one to Ponder from Shorpy.com

Shot taken using 35mm Kodachrome on the Canadian side of the Falls in 1958. Note the array of British and French cars among the American classics in the parking lot. Today, only tour buses are allowed in this area. The movie "Niagara," starring Marilyn Monroe, filmed the motel scenes (temporary props) off to the left of the picture at the gorge edge in 1954.

 

[popper]

Buick, dodge, Morris, Canadian ford, Chevy, Chevy, renault(?) , Edsel, unknown.

 

[Missionary]

Thank you I will keep looking....

 

[462]

Hmmm . . . do I spy a '58 Edsel sitting next to a Renault Dauphine?
Three-hole Buick of about '53 vintage, Chrysler, Hillman, '49 Ford, '57 Cadillac ragtop (big bucks in the day), early '50s Chevy, Renault Dauphine, '58 Edsel, unknown, '57 Chevy, another '50s Ford, another '58 Chevy, and a '57 Ford.

 

[RicinYakima]

UHH! Chrysler Hemi coupe ('52?), Morris Garage Cabaret, '57 Plymouth Fury in the background?

 

[RicinYakima]

Red car is a 1957 Chevy Bel Air I think.

 

[462]

Thanks Ric, I misidentified the MG and the Plymouth.
Ironically, my first car was a $100 '57 Plymouth.

Isn't the red car's wide "V" hood insignia Cadillac? It's missing on the for-sure '57 Chevy.

 

[462]

Okay, after talking to the memory archivist, that red car is a '57 Chevy