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The Hudson Motor Company introduced the Commodore in 1941 and would have had some success if were not for the second world war following the attacks on Pearl Harbor. In 1942 the Hudson Motor Company assisted in the war effort. Following the end of the WW ll, Hudson resumed production of Commodores.
What a sweet looking old classic! This is a 1948 Packard Eight Station Sedan!!!
This a nice '28 Chevrolet National AB 2 Door Coach. It is equipped with a 4 cylinder engine and a 3 speed transmission. The exterior color is a 2 tone blue and the interior color is a blue/gray. Very nice older award winning restoration that still looks great. Paint and interior are in excellent condition. A great Collector Car for show or drive.
Seldom seen completely stock with all Graham Hollywood trim, bumper guards. Only 1,400 produced in 1940, 400 in 1941. Car was originally equipped with a continental flathead 6 cylinder engine, some with supercharger.
More than $75,000 has gone into the restoration of this 1941 Chevrolet Suburban. This Suburban needs nothing and has had a museum quality restoration. This Suburban features a period correct Wayne Chevrolet cylinder head and Offenhauser intake manifold. Wayne and Offenhauser were the premiere Chevrolet high performance aftermarket manufacturers of the day.
This 1936 Ford Cabriolet Convertible is finished in classic desert sand paint with a beautiful brown leather interior and beige convertible top. It is equipped with a 221 cubic inch 85 horsepower flathead V-8 and three speed transmission.
It was the top of the line model in 1936 and was listed at $760.00. Cabriolet options included a banjo steering wheel, dual spot lights, leather upholstery, protective bumper guards, radio, clock, cigar lighter, and horns. Also chrome wheel covers and white wall tires.
With 5,601 built, and only 174 known to exist makes this little beauty pretty rare. You can see more than 50 photo's of this '36 Ford HERE!
Rare 1942 Chrysler Club Coupe. This Collector Car is a hard to find model year, long term California ownership and a fabulous Highlander interior option. This car has a Spitfire Six engine and semi-automatic fluid drive transmission. See more photo's inside and out HERE!
1942 model year cars saw limited production due to the onset of WWII. Automobile production stopped in February of 1942. This Chrysler Windsor was manufactured in October of 1941. The car is finished in its original color of Dove Gray.
This 1949 Packard Super Eight Victoria Convertible is for sale in Saint Louis, Missouri and was a one owner Arizona car for 40 years. It mileage is only 90,590 and is painted green with a tan interior. The Packard is equipped with a 8 cylinder inline engine and three speed manual transmission.
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This 1918 Cadillac Type 57 Victoria was similar to the 1917 type 55. The price of the type 57 in 1918 was a little over $3,000.00. This collector car was equipped with a 90 degree V-8 L-head engine.
1902 Studebaker Electric Victoria Phaeton
Studebaker Electric automobiles were built by The Studebaker Brothers Mfg. Co. in South Bend, Indiana from 1902 to 1912.
1902 Studebaker Electric Runabout
This is a 1948 Ford Woody Wagon that in 48 was build by hand in Detroit by the Ford Motor Co. Building an automobile like this 48 Ford is a skill that has been lost forever.
In the 1930s and 1940s sophisticated and complicated designs came about. The use of aluminum and wood offered a new medium to bring shape and structure together. Nearly every piece was hand shaped, sculpted to perfection by Ford. There is no better form of the use of wood than in the Woody Wagons of the late 1940s
As you can imagine, the cost to build such a vehicle was very slow and expensive process. By the early 1950s it came to an end by most manufactures. Very few of these magnificent Woodies exist today, and to see one fully restored is always a treat
This beautifully restored 1948 Ford Woody Wagon is painted in a gorgeous dark green with tan leather interior and matching tan canvas top. This 1948 Ford Wood Wagon is a magnificently built example of days gone by.
This 1941 Chevrolet Truck was owned by the "King of Kool" Steve McQueen in the early 1980. It had a restoration with new black paint, new interior, new wood bed, and conversion to 12V electrical system.
This 1941 Chevrolet pickup truck is equipped with a 6 cylinder engine, 3 speed manual transmission. A personal touch is the Von Dutch style shift knob with Steve McQueen’s initials.
All original 1949 Chevrolet 3100 Stepside Pickup for sale in Nevada. Features include beautiful black paint, gauges that work, new bed wood, whitewall tires, factory chrome hubcaps, new grill, new 12 volt electrical system, and new upholstery
This Chevy pickup is equipped with the original 235 straight six cylinder that has been rebuilt, three speed transmission and factory floor starter. Starts right up and drives great!
At the end of World War II Willys postponed returning to passenger cars, resuming peacetime production with Jeep based vehicles instead. This included the civilian version of the Military Jeep, a Station Wagon and a Jeepster.
The Jeepster was an open tourer designed by Brooks Stevens who also did the wagon. The Jeepster offered seating for four, 104 inch wheelbase, manual soft top and side curtains.
This Jeepster is equipped with a 72 horsepower 134 cubic inch "Go-Devil" four cylinder engine. A smaller 4 cylinder and a larger 6 cylinder engine was also available in 1949. A little over 2300 were made and original price in 1949 was $1,500.00. This Jeepster is for sale and the totally restored price is $40,000.00.
The Kissel Motor Co. of Hartford, Wisconsin built automobiles from 1906 to 1918. Production stopped due to World War l and the material shortage. However there are some reports the Kissel Kar was to German.
The Kissel Kar Speedster was equipped with a 6 cylinder engine that developed 26.33 horsepower. Other Kissel Kars built in 1920 included a 7 passenger touring car, 4 passenger Tourster, 2 passenger coupe, 6 passenger sedan and a urban sedan.
At Cadillac, 1948 was the "Year of the Tailfin". The 1948 Cadillac Series 61 four door sedan was an American Automobile with one of the first tailfins.
After World War ll Cadillac designers Earl Mitchell and others took a look at the Lockheed P-38 "Lightning" pursuit fighter. Designers and engineers played with ideas for a postwar styling inspired by the planes design features.
Features that include pontoon front fenders, pointy front, cockpit like curved windshield and tailfins. It was the fin that had the most lasting impact.
This 1 million dollar 1932 Duesenberg Model J was introduced at the New York Auto Salon in December of 1928 after 21 months of development from the Duesenburg brothers. The first Model J was delivered in May of 1929. A Duesenburg was defined as a symbol of wealth, power, and the ultimate in available performance! This open car design featured a perfectly raked windscreen and folding convertible top, rear cowl with wind up windshield, striking molding and body side trim resulting in one of the most desirable and rare Deusenburgs today!
Features include the original Duesenburg 420ci 4 valve per cylinder with twin overhead camshaft. Inline 8 cylinder that produced an incredible 265 horsepower with a 3 speed transmission.
This 1935 DeSoto has been carefully and tastefully restored. The DeSoto Airflow was the more affordable version of the Chrysler Airflow that most car buffs are familiar with. However, the DeSoto actually outsold the Chrysler. Engineering wise, the Airflow was significantly ahead of its time, incorporating an all welded steel unibody construction, improved suspension design with softer spring rates for a better ride, and aerodynamic styling that was refined by many hours in the wind tunnel.
The initial version of the Airflow body design was not well received by the public, it was just too futuristic. In order to temper things a bit, DeSoto implemented a SkyScraper grill for 1935, which added a bit of verticality to the front end, and a significant touch of Art Deco class.
This is the car that in 1954 could have "killed" the Corvette. So, Chevrolet, being GM's big sales and profit Division, campaigned to GM to"kill" this car when Chevy was coming out with its 6 cylinder sports car with its two speed Powerglide transmission and side curtains here was a sports car from Olds with a big old V-8 and power windows.
So, GM said no to Oldsmobile on building this car, the world's rarest automobile, a 1954 concept Old's Rocket F88 the only one in existence. John S. Hendricks, (Discovery Communications founder) paid in excess of 3 million to acquire. After spending decades as a collection of parts stuffed into wooden crates the F-88 was reassembled. In 1954 the F-88 was a Motorama Dream Car and was one of only two or an unconfirmed possible three ever created.
The F-88 seen here is literally the only car left of its kind and was sold to John and Maureen Hendricks at the prestigious Barrett-Jackson Auto Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona for an unbelievable $3,240,000. This acquisition made automotive history and is the cornerstone of the Gateway Colorado Automobile Museum in its own special room in a rotating display worthy of the F-88!
Through steam had really been Henry Ford's first love, he soon decided that the future lay with Gasoline engines. The Quadricycle was his first American Automobile and it can be seen one striking quality which anticipated later Ford practice - it weighed only 500 pounds and was the lightest vehicle of it's type yet produced. Bicycle wheels and steel tube chassis were used. Three years of experimentation preceded the car and it was not until June of 1896 that it was moved out of it's shop at 58 Bagley Ave. for a trial spin.
A four cycle two cylinder engine put together from discarded scrap metal bits and a plumber's pipe generated about 3 to 4 horsepower. Two belt were arranged to transmit the engine's power to the drive wheels. A clutch lever tightened or loosened the belts and gave the drive the choice of 10 or 20 MPH speeds.
The Henry Ford Quadricycle was a crude machine by modern standards, yet it ran and it was soon to be joined by millions of its descendants.