Thread by @iowahawkblog

Happy Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! from #DavesCarIDService

Yep, car racing goes back to around 15 minutes after the second car was built, and the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup (established by Cornelius Vanderbilt's great grandson) was the first big one- 7 years before the first Indy 500.

Before commencing to today's IDs, please pardon the tedious guidelines reminder: PLEASE use the #DavesCarIDService hashtag on your car ID request, otherwise they get lost in my mentions.

Let's kickoff with a humdinger: these gents are in a Morton & Brett bodied 1920-ish Ford Model T speedster, running Disteel or Harvey steel disk wheels and solid rubber tires. A prehistoric version of what we'd today call a hot rod.

https://twitter.com/flywhiteguy/status/1361725390826459137

Say you're an aspiring speed demon in the 1920s and only have the $ for a old tired Model T. For $100 you can send away for a body kit from Morton & Brett or PACO, and turn that old Flivver into what kinda looks like a real race car. I believe this one is a M&B Model S Speedway.

Here's African-American automotive pioneer Frederick McKinley Jones in what I think is a PACO-bodied / Disteel-wheeled T speedster he built circa 1920. He later went on to fame by inventing the refrigerated semi trailer. (cc: @weargrits)

guys, how many times do I have to repeat this? Please use - and I cannot emphasize this enough - the hashtag.

https://twitter.com/WoodrowPWilson/status/1363497240967475203

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https://twitter.com/micro_shells/status/1361696865151025156

The invaluable @TracesofTexas with a photo of a pre-outlaw Waylon Jennings leaning on another 1956 Mopar, this one a DeSoto. 55 Chevy across the street.

https://twitter.com/TracesofTexas/status/1361491737710125057

It's 1956 Chryslers galore today with this 1956 New Yorker wagon, sadly suffering enough body rot to make a restoration fiscally crazy. Those Chrysler wire wheels are worth some decent money tho.

https://twitter.com/sideoutpar/status/1358209506958860294

It's not *all* 56 Mopars today, we also have 55s and 57s. On left is a super swanky 1955 Chrysler New Yorker Deluxe St Regis, on left a 1957 (not Chrysler) Imperial. With your family name I'm surprised neither is a Chrysler Windsor!

https://twitter.com/timwindsor/status/1363140102046830594

*people often refer to "Chrysler Imperial" but Imperial was technically a separate make, and showed up that way on the car title. Sort of like 56-57 (not a Lincoln) Continental Mk II. Otherwise its basic innards were all Chrysler.

Elvis liked both kinds of cars, Cadillacs AND Lincolns! This one a 1958 Lincoln Continental convertible. BTW the album was released while Elvis was in the Army, from previous recording sessions, when Col. Parker & RCA lost their gravy train to Uncle Sam.

https://twitter.com/Marc_Leibowitz/status/1359536059177185294

RrrrRRrrowrrr. This still from the Elvis epic Viva Las Vegas depicts his lovely costar Ann-Margaret Olsson, formerly of of Winnetka IL, behind the wheel of a 1963ish Triumph TR3.

https://twitter.com/LilyVonSchtp/status/1360976207202951169

Another mid century screen icon, the lovely Marilyn Monroe (nee Norma Jean Baker), providing eye candy for a 1950 Pontiac Star Chief.

https://twitter.com/CUberlyft/status/1359322845315219457

Kinda scratching my head over how a 1961 Ford Fairlane got into a 1972 Soviet musical (ht @wilhelm2451)

https://twitter.com/sovietvisuals/status/1359214734243987457

That'd be a 1956 Packard Patrician, near the end of the run for the once-proud Packard brand. On the contrary tho, I wouldn't call it "rusted out" as it appears mainly to be surface rust. Could actually be a fairly solid car.

https://twitter.com/rubenfaer/status/1359192225423347714

I believe you need to recalibrate the decade, because the station wagon in the shade is a 1964 Chevelle Malibu. Gotta admit the pickup has me flummoxed; it's not a US make, nor any foreign make, in my knowledge base. Hints of Stude or IH, but it's not.

https://twitter.com/MichaelBarger1/status/1357110426211786777

This is a 1964-70 Dodge A100 window van done up in Army olive drab. The mid 60s were awash in neato cabover vans & pickups - the A100, Ford Econoline, Chevy Corvair Greenbrier, Jeep FC.

https://twitter.com/Pike_Mence/status/1357350508759969792

*The 2 greatest Dodge A100 pickups: The Harry Bradley/ Alexander Bros "Deora" show truck of Hot Wheels fame, and Bill "Maverick" Golden's Little Red Wagon

**The Deora was a highly modified show vehicle (the front end was the tailgate of a 1960 Ford station wagon), but started as a 1965 Dodge A100 pickup and had a Dodge slant 6 engine.

***The craziest wheelstanding cabover tho was the bass-ackwards Galpin "Backup Pickup" Ford Econoline (recently recreated for Galpin by my pal Dave Shuten).

Another thank you to Harry for providing an ID to yesterday's mystery car from old Indonesia.

https://twitter.com/Harry_Bergeron/status/1363219154866638848

Can't be 100% sure, but this rock band's tour vehicle seems to be consistent with a circa 1912 E-M-F (predecessor of Studebaker). In any case the car is definitely in the 1910-15 era.

https://twitter.com/Knapsack/status/1357455379446304770

Also, not to be confused with this band. E-M-F the car was for Everitt-Metzger-Flanders; EMF the band was for Epsom Mad Funkers.

Thanks as always for your patience on IDs. It took some digging but I can say confidently this happy brother and sister are in front of a 1927 Chrysler Model 72 sedan. Dig that kid's linesmen boots!

https://twitter.com/Iron_Mongery/status/1358065930731945984

Congrats on your nuptials, but afraid I can't narrow down the Packard from this angle more than to say it's a 1940-42.

https://twitter.com/rein91den/status/1358087179986206723

The toothy menace approaching in the distance is a 1951-52 DeSoto.

https://twitter.com/freeriderprob/status/1358097641951879168

Does appear to be a 1961-70 Amazon, but I don't have enough knowledge to narrow year down any further than that.

https://twitter.com/KevCoons/status/1358109639007698945

Believe it or not, this monstrous-looking contraption is a Checker Model A taxicab, maybe the ugliest vehicle ever made. I think on purpose, to attract the attention of fares.

https://twitter.com/PolybiusChamp/status/1358162563385720839

Truly a face only a mother could love.

With that, I have to call a lid on the IDs. Please remain patient, if you have a pending legit ID request I will get to it soon (well OK, eventually). In the meantime enjoy all the action of the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup. Happy Motoring!