Early start on #DavesCarIDService today because the request inbox keeps piling up
I usually like to kick off by IDing a great family car pic. Here's the sensational pic, but sadly I am utterly stumped. I must've researched this for 90 minutes over the past week and have found nothing even close. Hope one of you can help out.
Aha! Crowdsourcing produces a valuable clue. After zooming it does appear to have circa 1914 Stutz grease caps. Hat tip to Timothy here. Yet massive size doesn't line up with any Stutz cars in my synapses.
Now we're getting warmer. H/T to Duke for firing additional synapses...
I had forgotten Stutz also made fire engines in addition to their sports cars, with massive frames (a friend in IL recently restored one. Doing the old 2+2, I believe this is a circa 1914 Stutz fire truck with custom coachwork, meant to serve as a fire chief's car.
Thanks for your help on this ID. I've never claimed to be unstumpable / infallible, and I appreciate your help and corrections.
speaking of which, I need to make an embarrassing correction from yesterday. The car here is a 1953 Chevy Bel Air, not a 1954 as I originally stated. I have sentenced myself to 40 lashes with a frayed fanbelt.
Challenge accepted. Answer coming in the next tweet.
There you go Andrew, and you have now exhausted all your car ID credits for 2020 
Challenge not accepted. There are in fact limits to my OCD.
Back to some less crazy ID requests: Dad is looking like one of the Five Neat Guys with his sweater and saddle shoes in front of a 1946-47 Plymouth convertible.
Happy to oblige. This big happy Italian family is swarming a 1929 Chevy roadster.
That there is a circa 1960 Metro van, made by the International Harvester Corporation. Those mobsters in front seem to be discussing what to do with the body inside of it.
1954 Chevy 210 sedan
kinda fuzzy pic, but I think a 1937 Dodge RHD and pic seems to be in Australia or the West Indies
I believe this is also Australia; little car is a 1930 or so Austin 7 Chummy, behind it is a 1938 Chevy.
1951 Pontiac Streamliner "tin woody" wagon, tugging a 1948ish Spartan Manor travel trailer
Yessir, unmistakably a 1938 Ford humpback sedan.
Not all the 1930s photos I get are of hardscrabble farm folk straight outta Dorothea Lange. These Westchester swells are with their 1937 Cadillac 75 limousine, surrounded by what appear to be the maid and chauffeur.
1953 Plymouth, still rendering daily driver service after losing its chrome and paint.
Have to agree with you. Newest car in this pic is the cab, either a 1942 or 1946-7 Plymouth, so I'd put pic no later than 1948, and it may even be during WW2. You'd expect to see at latest a few of the latest models in Motown.
1954 Ford wagon towing a matching Kom-Pak Sportsman boat roof trailer
L-R, a 1946-48 Dodge business coupe and a 1939 Ford sedan.
In the interest of time, I'll just point out the coolest car here, a 1935 Cadillac 355 Town Sedan (first fully visible car from right).
Car is a bit fuzzy here but I'll say 1953 Olds 88 coupe. Jimi is slinging a Danelectro Shorthorn, which wasn't introduced until 1959, so pic is somewhat later than you thought.
Grill and side vents say 1964ish 250 GTE 2+2, but the only way to know for sure is to steal it
1917-24 Ford Model TT. The 1927 Texas license plate and the stack of fruit baskets suggest the photo was from the Rio Grand Valley.
Car is a 1964 Pontiac LeMans. Midway through 1964 John Delorean would upgrade it with a 389 tripower and rebadge as the GTO, thereby creating the "muscle car" as we know it.
*some quibble on the first muscle car; some say 61 Impala SS 409, or 55 Chrysler 300C, or 49 Olds Rocket 88, even 32 Ford V8. I generally say 64 GTO, because of its big sales and blatant ad appeal to youth market, and the number of competitors who copied their formula.
That'd be a 1939 Chevy Master Deluxe coupe
Can do. Car to left is a 1938-40 Ford Tudor, one behind it is a 1930-31 Ford Model A. Love the expressions here.
it took quite a bit of digging of my own to figure this one out, which is a 1955 or 56 Hudson.
Here's the archeological evidence
That's it for #DavesCarIDService for today, gotta go play with my own vehicles. Remember use the hashtag in your ID request, and please be patient, I will eventually get to them.
