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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2012 => Topic started by: pnegyesi on October 09, 2012, 03:52:23 AM

Title: Solved: PN #379 -- Eureka Model D buggy, 1907
Post by: pnegyesi on October 09, 2012, 03:52:23 AM

Please identify this car for a point

Title: Re: PN #379
Post by: pnegyesi on October 16, 2012, 08:16:43 AM

Experts?

Title: Re: PN #379
Post by: Craig Gillingham on October 17, 2012, 05:57:45 AM

It's very similar to a Chase.

Title: Re: PN #379
Post by: pnegyesi on October 17, 2012, 08:07:11 AM

You have to chase it further, it is not a Chase :)

Title: Re: PN #379
Post by: pnegyesi on October 23, 2012, 10:28:52 AM

Professionals?

Title: Re: PN #379
Post by: Wendax on October 23, 2012, 12:05:31 PM

1909 Eureka Model L motor buggy

Title: Re: PN #379
Post by: pnegyesi on October 23, 2012, 12:09:31 PM

Locked for you - it is a bit earlier

Title: Re: PN #379
Post by: Wendax on October 23, 2012, 12:25:07 PM

Well, the Standard Catalog has this photo as a 1909 one, but in general it was built from 1907 to 1909 by the Eureka Motor Buggy Company of Beavertown, Pennsylvania. Apart from this three-cylinder model there was a two-cylinder Model D of similar lines.

Title: Re: PN #379
Post by: pnegyesi on October 23, 2012, 12:29:56 PM

According to two on-line sources, this is the original 1907 Eureka Model D buggy, built at the former Kearns Buggy Factory

Another point for you

Title: Re: Solved: PN #379 -- Eureka Model D buggy, 1907
Post by: Wendax on October 23, 2012, 03:50:32 PM

Interesting. According to the Standard Catalog, Eureka started building the motor buggy in 1907, but the car did not sell. So they looked for an investor. In 1908 Maxwell Kearns joined in and renamed car and company after himself, but in 1909 some cars would be sold as Eurekas again.