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Title: Solved -PJ672- J.S. Eastham's Light Car, 1929
Post by: Paul Jaray on July 08, 2015, 05:35:28 AM
Can you identify it?
Full details please...I know it seems easy.  ;)
(no points for partial answers)
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Post by: oko94 on July 16, 2015, 12:56:55 PM
Is it supposed to be a flying car, shown here with its wings folded ?
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Post by: Paul Jaray on July 16, 2015, 01:07:03 PM
Not at all...that is a sort of 'stabilizer'!
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Post by: oko94 on July 22, 2015, 12:15:32 PM
Made in Europe ?
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Post by: Paul Jaray on July 22, 2015, 12:56:54 PM
Nope...
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Post by: oko94 on July 22, 2015, 01:02:06 PM
Made in USA ?
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Post by: Paul Jaray on July 22, 2015, 01:11:10 PM
Yes!
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Post by: oko94 on July 22, 2015, 01:31:06 PM
Built before 1920 ?
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Post by: Paul Jaray on July 22, 2015, 03:15:01 PM
Nope, but before 1930.
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Post by: Paul Jaray on August 01, 2015, 07:49:33 AM
This picture can be found in a very known (and very very interesting) website about old motor cars ;)
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Post by: 4popoid on August 01, 2015, 01:41:21 PM
Thanks to your excellent clue PJ, I was able to locate the photograph.  Unfortunately the information accompanying it is very sparse.  All it tells me is that this is a photograph taken in Portland, Oregon in the summer of 1929, of a reverse tricycle with moveable vertical stabilizer which was attached to the steering system.  It is referred to as the "freakmachine" weighing less than 200 pounds, and powered by a Harley-Davidson F head twin cylinder engine mounted amidships, providing enough power to reach a speed of 90 mph.  Apparently the builder's name is unknown, but he must have been very brave (or very foolish) if he was willing to drive this vehicle at 90 mph.
Title: Re: PJ - 672 - Who will be the best?
Post by: Paul Jaray on August 01, 2015, 01:48:31 PM
Yes, that was the website I was referring to...but as you can see the answer was not there...but now you have more clues.
Not enough for a lock or a point since this was the starting point I was waiting for you to reach ;)
Now, who built it?
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Post by: 4popoid on August 01, 2015, 02:33:08 PM
Do you know the name of the builder, or must a name be provided along with proof that the person named was the builder of this vehicle?
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Post by: Paul Jaray on August 01, 2015, 02:38:57 PM
I have another picture with an article about it and there is the identity of its builder.
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Post by: 4popoid on August 01, 2015, 10:22:50 PM
Do you know if the required builder's name is available from the internet, or only from printed media (book/magazine)?
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Post by: Paul Jaray on August 02, 2015, 02:56:42 AM
Both ;)
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Post by: pnegyesi on August 02, 2015, 03:42:26 AM
Carlton Groat?
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Post by: Paul Jaray on August 02, 2015, 03:53:47 AM
Not the builder of a dirt hopper or a canvas top  ;) but you are few months away.
(I still don't think my clues are that easy, that's a good detective's work!)

EDIT: I believe Carlton Groat was a correspondant for that magazine for the Oregon area.
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Post by: oko94 on October 16, 2015, 11:54:40 AM
Was this vehicle featured in Popular Mechanics ?
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Post by: Paul Jaray on October 17, 2015, 04:23:11 AM
Quote from: oko94 on October 16, 2015, 11:54:40 AM
Was this vehicle featured in Popular Mechanics ?
Yes ;)
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Post by: pnegyesi on October 18, 2015, 03:41:10 PM
1929 issue?
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Post by: Paul Jaray on October 18, 2015, 04:11:49 PM
Yes!
Locked for pnegyesi & oko94.
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Post by: pnegyesi on October 18, 2015, 11:58:40 PM
over to you oko94
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Post by: Paul Jaray on October 21, 2015, 06:42:58 AM
Open for all!
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Post by: Oguerrerob on October 21, 2015, 10:18:01 AM
Lightweight Racing Car by JS Eastham of Cottage Grove Oregon 1929 USA
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Post by: Paul Jaray on October 23, 2015, 08:50:17 AM
Yes!
1 point for you!