For one point, specify the year, manufacturer, model, and nick-name of this old car
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RHD...is it from the UK?
Not from the UK
US Cadillacs were RHD until 1916. Could this be a Caddy chassis, circa 1910?
No Cadillac involvement. You are one year off.
(Early American car puzzles can be difficult. There were a Lot of car companies in business at that time, and Normal Standards were not widely agreed upon.)
Quote from: sixtee5cuda on January 22, 2013, 11:57:05 PM
No Cadillac involvement. You are one year off.
(Early American car puzzles can be difficult. There were a Lot of car companies in business at that time, and Normal Standards were not widely agreed upon.)
I agree about the early auto industry in general. It's a curse and a thing of wonder at the same time. No standards meant a whole lot of creativity and a whole lotta people with creative ideas could build a car and see if it was the "better mousetrap" that would bring people pounding a path to his door. A few did, most didn't.
So before I ride off in all directions looking for this critter, is the year I'm looking for 1911?
I'd say that, whatever it's based on, we have a modern special! That seat and its legs in particular have nothing pre-Great War about it, nor has the jury-rigged fuel tank.
Perhaps most of it was once a 1909 Packard?
1911 is the correct year.
This is not a modern special, and has nothing to do with Packard
Is this representative of the way a chassis was delivered to a coachbuilder for them to work their magic on?
The best way I can answer Ray's question:
This car was originally used as a factory demonstrator. From the information I have, coachbuilders were not involved.
The front axle is the key to solving this one, it's a 1911 FWD Battleship, and this particular car is known as Nancy Hank.
And the point goes to Craig G for the correct answer.
What front axle? The angle of the image almost completely hides the 4wd mechanism. ;)
I spent a lot of time looking at this puzzle, and couldn't figure out what it was. In the end I just Googled "1911 factory demonstrator", and it appeared on the first page. Now I know it's a 4wd, I can kind of see a slight bit of the front axle, but I didn't notice it before. And, surprisingly, it looks basically the same as it did in 1911. This was a very good puzzle car.