A little pre-weekend #DavesCarIDService, beginning with one of the best ID requests I've received in some time: this outstanding photo features a circa 1926 Kissel Gold Bug, built in beautiful downtown Hartland WI. Heather's grandpa was a baller.
I gotta get me a pair of plus fours
1949-51 Mercury coupe, appears the fender-sitter is swigging a Schlitz
L-R behind Mom & Auntie: 1946-48 Oldsmobile, 1946-48 Nash, 1939 Dodge. Often hard to distinguish model year on 46-48 cars because retooling after WW2. First modern postwar designs started debuting in 48-49.
1957 Dodge Lancer
1917-25 Ford Model T Touring; sorry I can't be more specific due to blur on hood/cowl
License plate says 1975, so a 1974-75 Checker Marathon. 1961-82 Marathons were the workhorse of the US taxi industry, but a few made it to consumer market. Mostly identical, but this one has the jumbo 74-82 fed-mandated 5mph bumpers and head resets.
A number of you forwarded this to me, and it is indeed a Ford Model T chassis; looks to have a steel (not brass) grille but no electric start, which narrows it down to a 1916-18
First electric starter Model Ts were 1919, but all model Ts had at least backup hand crank start on them. In fact, Ford cars up to 1942 had a hole in the grille for crank start, as did Ford trucks until 1950.
*to be clear, hand crank start was a mostly vestigial feature after the Model T. You could easily break a wrist or arm hand starting a 20 hp Model T, let alone a 60-90 hp Ford flathead V8.
**I would just add that the electric car starter liberated more women than just about any invention.
since a lot of you seem to be confused by this, it's just that the other back wheel is in a ditch, and it has a solid rear axle. Just normal suspension flex. Old cars didn't have independent real axles.
