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Showing posts with label Winton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winton. Show all posts
Monday, June 11, 2012
The oldest car collection in the US... the Larz Anderson museum in Brookline Mass
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 7:01 PM
The collection has the following
1899 Winton
1900 Rochet-Schneider
1901 Winton Bullet
1903 Gardner-Serpollet
1905 Electromobile
1906 CGV
1907 FIAT
Powerful and bold, the Andersons’ 1907 Fiat was the supercar of its time. Even the motto of the automobile, No Hill Can Stop Me, reflected its strength, for many automobiles at this time had difficulty going up hills. This 11-liter, 6-cylinder Fiat boasted a strength of 65 horsepower; only 86 were manufactured. Bought by the Andersons while they were on vacation in Europe, the car was then shipped to New York to be re-bodied by the Hol-Tan Company.
1908 Bailey Electric
1910 Panhard et Levasor
1912 Renault
1915 Packard Twin Six
1924 Renault Torpedo
1925 Luxor Taxi
1926 Lincoln
and small sidenote, the museum collection (in a 1888 carriage house) was voted as one of the Top 10 Boston Museums for a wedding
This year, the Pebble Beach Concours has invited the Larz Anderson museum to bring the 1907 Fiat, and it needs a couple of tires. http://larzanderson.org/1907fiat/
You'll understand that car museums in Massachusetts are off the beaten path of tourists, and door donations might be a bit down lately... but the car is IMPRESSIVE! It has been a feature of the collection that has been open to the public for viewing.... get this, since 1927. The Museum was founded in 1949, and might be the oldest car museum in America that is still open.
It just needs a couple of dollars to get tires.
The 1907 Fiat was last was operated in 1919, and the workshop of "The Old Motor" David is getting it ready to be shipped to Pebble Beach, read about that at http://theoldmotor.com/?p=50392 .
David is one of the few who are expert at brass era and classics, and is buying one tire, handling all the work of fixing the rims, handling the lubrication (etc etc etc) but is not set to sponsor more than the one tire as they are about $500 apiece.
Follow this link directly to the Larz Anderson website were you can donateby credit card or mail. If you donate by mail enclose a note that it is for the 1907 Fiat. The cost for the transportation out and back has already been taken care of by a donation and The Old Motor has also donated all of its time and facilities to help them out. Please remember that any amount you can help with will count and add up.
The rear tires were close to impossible to get off the without harming the rims. We could have cut them off, but chose instead to save them as they are part of the history of the car. Both rear tires being 8-ply truck tires, have a side walls that are over 1/2″ thick and being 80-90 years old are dried out and very inflexible. It was a long and very hard job to get them off intact, without bending or harming the rims, but with some patience it was eventually accomplished. Very soon it will be on all four new tires and tubes and we will show you more of this fine cars features in photos.
In the mean time, please contribute to the Larz Anderson Auto Museum if you can, as they count totally on donations to carry on their educational mission. In the future The Old Motor is going to continue to support them and we are working with them to help start a Preservation Fund, which can be used for the other needs of the core Anderson Collection of Automobiles in the future.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
I missed noting on this photo what this car is. But Greg identified it as a 'Duesenberg Model J'
Billie Burke in San Francisco's Presidio Park drving her Studebaker
Century
Dodge... with a chauffer? In a Dodge? Really?
Henry Ford in his first automobile
Franklin
1927 Holland Tunnel in New York
New York hot dog stand 1935 in Manhattan
a safety idea that didn't stick
1909 flight of the Wright brothers... but look at the elegant horse carriage
Lady Astor, a parliament member in England and her Terraplane
a Packard 12, 7 passenger limo
Panhard and Levassor
Regal
This Supercharged Graham 120 won over 4 other v8 autos in a contest to win the favor of this fire dept chief
REO Flying Cloud
The first Oldsmobile, 1896
A Winton stripped down for racing
all found while browsing through http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/
Thursday, July 28, 2011
from 1895 to 1910 was an era of the horseless carriage and innovators who were trying every innovative way of making steam (5 of these are steam) or gasoline powered vehicles of incredible variety in designs
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 6:57 PM
C. L. 1895 Simmonds' Steam Carriage
The steering handle looks like a kids wagon handle. 1895 Electrobat Runabout
\1895 Joseph Shaver's Steam Buggy, Milwaukee, WI
1895 Roger Petroleum Wagon
1895 Victoria Motorette racine Motor vehcile co
1895 Woods Electric Landau
1896 Dey-Griswold Electric Phaeton
1896 Enig Steamer, Jacksonville, FL
1896 Hiram Percy Three Wheeler
1897 Charles Burrows... wonder how long it took hime to learn that a narrow front end isn't good in corners
1897 Reeves Motor Wagon
1898 Altham Deliver Van
1898 Eastman Electro-Vehicle
1898 Piper and Tinker Steam Buggy
1898 Winton Delivery Wagon
1899 General Electric Brougham
1899 International Motor Wheel Delivery Van
1899 International Motor Wheel Delivery Van
1900 Coca Cola Wagon
1900 Orient Autogo
1901 Century Tourist Steamer
1901 Ford Runabout
1901 Franklin
1901 Trimotor Crescent
1902 Automotor with a rumble seat... really is the progenitor of the rumble seat
1902 Stearns Steam Surrey
1902 Thomas Touring
1902 Toledo
1902 W.S. Rogers Transit Steam Wagon
1902 Winton Bullet Race Car.
1903 Oldsmobile Pirate Race Car
1903 Duryea Three Wheeler
1903 Mitchell
1903 Oldsmobile enclosed body... wow, what a funky design
1903 Pullman Six Wheel Touring
1904 Oldsmobile Pie Wagon
1904 Peerless Barney Oldfields' Racer, this is the Green Dragon
1905 Scharbach (Hill Climber) Roadster
1906 Shawmut The winner of the 1909 Pan Pacific Race from New York City to Seattle
1907 Bugmobile
1907 Duer High Wheeler
1907 Lansden Electrette
all of these and many more can be found at http://www.earlyamericanautomobiles.com/1890a.htm
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