Showing posts with label rare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rare. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Amazing, only 2 Dadge Daytona's are still in the possession of their original owners, here's one from Car Lust (cool website)
0 comments Posted by welot at 7:18 PM
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Heather's rare Rambler. She wanted a cool unusual car to go to car shows with !
0 comments Posted by welot at 2:54 PM
That's the happy owner. Isn't it shocking to find a college age woman so enthusiastic about cool cars that she saved one from neglect, and gave it a new life !
One of about 2000 Deluxe models made, this came with the overhead valve engine, instead of the common flathead, and Heather became interested in finding something like a red Rambler she looked at during a Clairemont car show about a year or two ago. It cost about 6 thou on EBay, the second time it was listed (the first time the reserve was not met during bidding) and since then, almost everything has been rebuilt or replaced... and all for under 20 thou. Closer to 18 for the car, total upholstery at Jim's on Armour in Kearny Mesa, engine and trans rebuilt, and lots of paint (I've got to ask again who did the paint so well and at a good price) and chrome.
Future improvements (not that you or I could tell any are needed) will be some exhaust, and trim.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
A LOT of Americans made automobiles in 1900-1930, here are a some, a couple of them I've never heard of
0 comments Posted by welot at 7:41 PM
1895 Electrobat II... and for the trivia buffs, it was the winner of the first car race in America
Geronimo's Cadillac is how it was presented, but I doubt that he owned it... it's probably a photo op planned picture
Teddy Roosevelt in a Fawick Flyer at the Sioux Falls Railroad Depot. Only 5 were ever built
A Moosejaw Standard
A Saxon
1915 Monroe
1916 Woods Mobilette
1917 Apperson Jack Rabbit
This is a 1917 Geronimo
1920 Barley Roamer roadster
1923 Arkansas Climber
1952 Maverick
A Powell, made in LAAll of these are only a fraction of the interesting defunct manufacturers on the Jalopy Journal thread that challenged car guys every where to post photos and information about car makers that went out of business long ago: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=397594
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