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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
*Floyd of Rosedale, who has a poignant back story. In the 1934 Iowa-Minnesota game Gopher players used racial slurs against Iowa's star RB Ozzie Simmons, and were accused of deliberately trying to injure him.
This incident infuriated Hawkeye fans, to the point that Iowa Gov Clyde Herring said he couldn't insure the safety of Minnesota players from fans when they played the following year in Iowa City. In turn, this infuriated Gopher fans who saw it as provocation.
*"Zero-G Drive" by my talented hot rodding pal @KeithWeesner, background artist for Batman the animated series and charter member of the Burbank Choppers. You can find more of his Noir Sci Fi Hot Rods & Space Vixens here (not 100% safe for work).
Before diving into today's batch, and speaking of the fine arts, I am utterly tickled to learn that a previous car ID here has resulted in a published poem: "Mechanic in a Photograph Taken in 1940" by Tim DeJong.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the regular Saturday AM episode of #DavesCarIDService, which was previously scheduled to be canceled today, has now been uncanceled for a special Extra Edition
Quick note: I am slowly winnowing through my car ID files in hopes of assembling a book, and I am sensitive to potential copyright issues. I'm crossing my fingers that you are OK with my use of your family album or wilderness/junkyard pics in this manner.
That said, in addition to the regular car ID request guidelines below, I ask that you only share photos that belong to you, or at least notify me that "please do not reprint" or "this is not my picture."
Today: "wow, the polls were pretty far off, maybe we should have taken them with a grain of salt."
Next Tuesday: "Here's Nate Entrails with a deep dive analysis of the latest tracking numbers from the NBS-Squippippinac Approve-O-Meter"
I guess it's time for my quadrennial rant on sampling statistics.
Sampling statistics have a long and proud history in all kinds of applications, from medical studies to manufacturing to agriculture, and yes, for a while, in politics.