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doors, cowl, hood louvers, wheel hubs all confirm it as a 1917-ish Maxwell Model 25 Touring with flat tires #DavesCarIDService
Picture however looks to be taken sometime in the '40s, when the Maxwell would already have been an old timey car, and a running gag on the Jack Benny radio show
The Jack Benny Show running gag was that he was so cheap he would never trade in his old dilapidated Maxwell. At the time, probably the most famous fictional car in the world 
On the Jack Benny radio show, the voice of the Maxwell was provided by Mel Blanc of Looney Tunes fame
my most noble achievement in life is keeping a few anachronistic pop culture references on life support
Sometimes I fear our future generations will never learn about Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Fibber McGee's closet, and Fearless Fosdick's Wildroot Creme Oil
