Today's episode of #DavesCarIDService is brought to you by the all-new 1912 Reeves Sexto-Auto. Give your drive a happy ending with the smooth sexto-action ride of a Reeves!
Yes, it's real and spectacular, and as the ad says there was also an 8-wheeled Reeves Octo-Auto. Founded by the delightfully named Milton Othello Reeves, these were based on Overland and later Stutz cars with extra axles. At $3200-$4800 not many takers.
Without further ado, let us get to the identifying: contain yourselves ladies, for this barnyard lothario is headed to town in his chic 1934 Chevy 5 window coupe. Judging by the attire I suspect this photo is closer to 1934 than 1940.
Wednesday (Veteran's Day) I covered GI-related pics and got a slew of great new requests. This young officer and the femme fatale songbird with the nice pair of pins are pitching woo in front a 1937 Buick.
It kinda boggles my mind how at one time everybody in this country apparently looked like movie stars.
It's Anchors Aweigh for this swabby and his 1937 Nash Lafayette coupe. I think this is the first ID request I've gotten for a 37 Nash, a highly underrated car design.
Let's continue with the GIs and their swanky rides: yes ma'am, Pepaw came home to a 1939 Plymouth convertible.
God bless these Florence Nightingales and their 1915-16 Ford T touring.
Smoke 'em if you got 'em! This juvenile delinquent is stunting his growth on the bumper of a 1936 Chevy standard sedan.
hats off to this decorated GI who came home to a well deserved rest driving his 1942 Buick Super Sedanette.
Dig the swagger of this Navy fleet repairman and his Jeep MB or GPW.
btw, I love the Quonset huts in background. My boyhood farm had a WW2 surplus Quonset hut as a machine shed, erected by my grandpa in 1947.
Yessir, your dad's vehicle here is a 1940 Buick 2 door sedan.
The Policia here are in a 1934 Ford Fordor with the optional shoot-thru windshield. Note it is right-hand steering; prior to WW2 many South American countries drove on the left UK style, only later to switch to the US style right side of the road.
Now here's another dandy photo: Elmer here is with a circa 1918 Cadillac 57 phaeton, and it looks like he has one of those relatively newfangled electric starters in the bench vise.
Time to get to some overdue ID assignments: I was today years old when I learned what "kaolin" is, and that people mine for it. This is a tough ID, but the kaolin baron's car here seems to be a circa 1927 Dodge Brothers sedan.
1961-63 Rambler American station wagon.
1938 Ford panel truck (or a 1939 Ford panel truck with 1938 hubcaps).
Great photo and story, but I really can only guess at the make, possibly Daimler. I will say the jitney here suggests earlier than 1920s, maybe pre WW1. Wondering if "11.5.22" means May 22, 1911?
That'd be a 1990-92 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham, bro-ham
Whole lotta shakin' goin' on with this barn fresh 1938-39 Ford pickup.
1949-50 Nash Ambassador. Up the thread I praised the looks of a 1937 Nash, but postwar they went to bizarro land with their "bathtub" designs, so-called because they resemble upside down bathtubs. Still can't decide if I love em or hate em.
*also referred to as a "Kenosha Canoe," as they were made in Kenosha WI.
Yipes, ID this is a tall order but fenders, crossmember, wheels and firewall seem to line up with a circa 1923 Buick.
A pair of Depression Era Chevy sedans, left a 1932 and right a 1934.
Aha! Armed with this additional clue, I can now state that the junkpile a few posts back is the remains of a circa 1923 International Harvester truck
IDing cars of this era is always a challenge, and the closest match I can conjure right now is a circa 1906 Pope Waverly runabout, which was electric powered (yes, they had them then). Not 100% sure though. Quite likely it couldn't match the horse's speed.
A very fine picture indeed, but my car ID is stymied by the lack of hood ornament. I sense a base model 1950-51 Pontiac.
Uncle Bud must have cut quite the figure back then, cruising the North Dakota Badlands in his very gangstery 1942 (or 46-48) V12 Lincoln Continental coupe.
You stumbled upon a mighty fine 1932 Chrysler coupe.
Yessir, it's a 1930-31 Ford Model A coupe, but can't help you with the weird pole in the trunk.
That's it for the car IDs today, back soon to solve more of your nagging car mysteries. Happy motoring!

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