Thread by @iowahawkblog

The name's Burge. And I'm a car dick. #DavesCarIDService

This is of course Humphrey Bogart as gumshoe Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1946), and car is a 1938 Plymouth Deluxe coupe; "B" sticker is a WW2 gas ration stamp.

Before commencing today's IDs, another gentle reminder to please follow the car ID request guidelines:

Let's kickoff today's batch with this terrific shot; car here is a 1932 Buick. Lake Geneva was a popular hot weather getaway spot for high roller Chicago swells and mobsters, including Al Capone who owned a spot there about the time of this photo.

https://twitter.com/DaveHasbach/status/1353383159904124928

For students of car ID-ing, 1931 vs 32 was a watershed year for one element of car design: exterior windshield visors. In 1931 almost all US cars had a visor, but in 1932 they pretty much all disappeared (although they made a comeback in late 40s-early 50s).

Once again I encourage you to use the #DavesCarIDService hashtag so I don't miss cool pics like this. This lass is atop the hood of a 1928-29 Durant, Star, or Rugby, and I think this is the first time I've gotten a request for this make.

https://twitter.com/beetrix/status/1355513043984277505

*Billy Durant was the deposed prez of GM, who then bought what was left of Locomobile and started his own mini-GM Durant Motors in Flint MI, with Durant and lower price Star brands (Rugby was identical to Star but for export). Also made the Flint brand.

The 3 dames here are perched on the running board of a 1930-31 Ford Model A Deluxe roadster, and everybody involved had a strong fashion game going on.

https://twitter.com/georgia7031/status/1353054962159292417

ouchie! The fighter plane-customized vehicle here is a 1941 Buick Roadmaster convertible.

https://twitter.com/sportsnag/status/1352984128833150976

Let us now turn to the delightful saga of WD Bishop, bon vivant and auto body man extraordinaire. Here he is in a circa 1920 Roamer 6 roadster, which he has customized with exhaust-powered calliope pipes. Per license plate, 1930 North Carolina.

https://twitter.com/OCJackieG/status/1352707675251859456

**Can't quite place the custom hood ornament, but appears to be a Moto-Meter peacock with a chrome goddess or dancer welded on; not a Rolls Royce, Packard, Buick, Cadillac, or Diana goddess tho. Probably from an accessory catalog.

Here's WD some years later with what is almost certainly the same 1920ish Roamer 6 roadster, which he has now added what I assume is his own custom coachwork body.

https://twitter.com/OCJackieG/status/1352777075564843008

Even in the 1930s, WD's duster coat would be a relic of early motoring, as would the car. Sadly I have to tap out on the ID. Has lots of similarities to 1912ish Pierce Model 48, except doors. Will have to circle back on this one, as they say.

https://twitter.com/OCJackieG/status/1352708448257941504

*as always, Dave's Car ID service is not a contest to stump me and there are no prizes. I have frequently been stumped by ID requests and always welcome others to assist in any ID I can't get.

OK, back to WD: here he is with his faithful doggo on the bumper of much more pedestrian (yet very handsome) 1935-36 Ford pickup. Yonder by the Landrum Casket Co is a 1935 Ford Fordor sedan.

https://twitter.com/OCJackieG/status/1352709457541697537

The beauty getting the spa treatment here is a 1954 Buick Special 2 door hardtop.

https://twitter.com/yeshuatrujillo/status/1352635534066163712

Some fine photos here indeed. #1 is a 1934 Chevy phaeton; #2 is a 1918ish Detroit Electric; #3 a 1927-28 Chevy; and Miss Ellendale 1964 holds her roses regally next to a 1964 Dodge Polara.

https://twitter.com/RobertGeist/status/1351231361718345728

As I've noted before, electric cars were fairly popular long before Elon Musk. This Detroit Electric had lots of competitors including Baker, Woods, and Studebaker.

Boy howdy, I likes me some vintage family racing pics. The "Scat Witch" number 4d in photo #1 here is a 1937 Plymouth coupe (with 8 bolt truck wheels), but earlier 4d in #2 is a 33-34 Ford 5 window coupe. In photo #3 is a 1937 Ford Tudor.

https://twitter.com/dennis_walls/status/1350477683927334912

Almost certainly the same 37 Ford Tudor as above. Those stacks aren't fuel injection, car has a 6 carb intake. Pretty sure not the original flathead, but a big cube V8 able to chug all that gasoline.

https://twitter.com/dennis_walls/status/1350478540085420032

You're in luck, because your Canadian flyboy dad eludes my "No 57 Chevys" rule by one year with his 1958 Chevy Biscayne. Lack of "V" on hood indicates a 6 cylinder engine.

https://twitter.com/HerbertLoblaw/status/1350459164783374336

Pic is a bit fuzzy, but I sense Unk was door-bashing on the dirt track in an early (1970-72) Gen 2 Chevy Camaro or Pontiac Firebird.

https://twitter.com/JohnNrq/status/1350444812965728257

Nah, all such car conspiracy theories are just that. Electric cars were hobbled by limited 50 mile or so range, and performance. They had a niche market in cities (especially among women), and Detroit Electric lasted all the way to the late 1920s.

https://twitter.com/MarkRot46090702/status/1355559914681208833

*In truth the thing that killed electric cars was invention of the electric starter. One of the selling points of early electric cars was you didn't have to crank start them, which was appealing to women. Once Kettering invented the electric start, that advantage was gone.

Shades of Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, and Nick Carraway in this fantastic photo. Not a lot to go on here, but I have a strong suspicion the car is a circa 1926 Packard 8 phaeton.

https://twitter.com/Noah_Pology/status/1350122803450634243

1960 Austin Healey "Bug Eye" Sprite.

https://twitter.com/HerbertHill/status/1350089888197177347

Now this one is a real curiosity and a tough ID challenge. The lack of hood louvers and wire wheels tell me this could very well be a very rare 1920ish Dixie Flyer roadster, made in Louisville KY.

https://twitter.com/faxonb/status/1349943918243135489

The Dixie Flyer was made by the Kentucky Wagon Co, who like Studebaker started as a farm wagon maker, and was one of the very few car makers HQ'd in the South. Here's my evidence for the ID (top left). Their later roadsters were named the Dixie Firefly.

Sorry shweetheahts, that wrap it up for today's IDs. I'll be back tomorrow to solve more automotive mysteries. Until then, here's looking at you, kid.