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Feb 5 • 39 tweets • 13 min read
A very happy 90th birthday from #DavesCarIDService to IMO the greatest automobile ever birthed: the 1932 Ford, introduced February 9, 1932. Arguably the first muscle car, offering affordable V8 Power For the People. Vive le Deuce!
*Depicted above is a cabriolet, one of 14 available body styles. The Deuce remains arguably the most beloved car of all time, and the platonic ideal of hot rod material. Thanks to steel and fiberglass replicas, there are more 1932 Fords registered today than were made in 1932.
The key component of the Deuce was its powerful flathead V8, which Ford offered up to 1953. Its development was a monumental engineering task, costing $50mm in 1932 cash. The first production flathead is at the Ford Museum. Ford also tested an X8(!) as a possible motor.
**I always enjoy blathering when it comes to the topic of 1932 Fords but it's time to get to the car IDs, because boy howdy we have some real bangers awaiting. And as always, I ask you to please obey the guidelines:
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Holy mother of mercy, this is near the top of my all time fave ID requests. First off I will tell you the race car is (likely) Percy Ford's Haynes Light 12 special, the car in the window is a circa 1919 Peerless Model 56 touring.
I can also tell you Sioux City Motor Sales was at 317-319 5th Street, selling Packard, Peerless, and Haynes, and the occasion of the photo was almost certainly a promotion tie-in with the annual Sioux City 300 race, which attracted up to 50k spectators at the time.
I can also tell you Haynes cars were made in Kokomo IN, first as Haynes-Apperson which later split into 2 companies. My grandpa would've been a young teenager at the time, and attended the Sioux City 300; I wonder if he came into town to ogle the race car here.
Finally, I can tell you Grandpa's first car was a sporty Apperson Jackrabbit, imprinting him as a gearhead, and setting in motion a series of events that (long story short) resulted in the very existence of Dave's Car ID Service. I wonder if this car had anything to do with it.
Stop throwing shade at Gene, Earl, he seems have the cool to match the 1941 Ford (L) and 1946-47 Oldsmobile (R).

I wouldn't blame Texan Earl for going cherchez la femme at the UT-OU game for these Sooner coeds in a 1946-47 Buick Super convertible.
Car does check out as a Wisconsin-made 1927 Kissel brougham, but I think the car was only new to Great-Grand Unk (the license plate is 1928 Iowa). Dig that Davenport souvenir license plate topper.
Who indeed would not want to see the family 1955 Packard Patrician? Per TX license plate, year is 1957. In photo 2, top edge of a 57 Chevy tailfin, then 54 Chevy Bel Air, and 55 Buick Super.
Speaking of tailfins, behold the mightiest of all time: 1959 Cadillac, a car that seems all but impossible to comprehend today.
Looks like their hot date might include knocking off a few banks. You'll need to recalibrate your date estimate, as the car is a 1930-31 Buick sedan.
Aw dang, RIP to this lovely lady, who is depicted with (1) 1940 Chevy Master sedan, (2) 1960 Plymouth Fury and 1960 Ford Fairlane, and (3) 1947-48 Chevy.
How cool is this scene? These fashion plates and their faithful doggos are relaxing by a 1950 Mercury 8 sedan.
Love the sinister rake on this 1965 Dodge Coronet 500 2 door hardtop. A HS acquaintance of mine bought a used 65 Coronet 2 dr sedan from a retired cop in Remsen, IA, ordered new with radio/heater delete and a 426 Hemi.
Oh HELL yeah. The motor pool fleet here are all 1928-29 Ford Model A roadsters. I have one of those myself.
These prim & proper pillars of the community got their freak on buzzing around Amarillo in a 1962-69 MG MGB sports car.
Looks like Grandma's having the time of her life making vroom vroom noises behind the wheel. I can tell you it's a circa 1918 Transport, and that this is the first time I've ever heard of that brand. Gotta be a rarity, as I can find no further info.
*I suppose I shouldn't assume Grandma isn't actually driving it, but the size of the truck and lack of power steering sorta precludes the fairer sex from driving it. Probably most men, too. You had to have a set of guns to steer a big rig like this back in the day.
**And feel free to see if you can dig up any info about the Transport truck company, because I came up empty. Closest match I can find is the similar chassis/axle on the rare Hawkeye truck, the only vehicle company ever HQed in Sioux City.
I've got a fever and the only cure is MORE VINTAGE RACE CARS. Luckily Dawn is here to save the day, with a series of Frontenac race cars, all circa 1927; this first one is Willys Whippet based. I will explain the weird Chevy-Ford Fronty story as we go.
Frontenac was founded by Louis Chevrolet as a race car venture in 1916, later renamed with his brother Arthur as the Chevrolet Bros Mfg Co to produce high performance heads for Ford, Chevy, and Willys cars. This was after they sold the "Chevrolet" name to GM.
The company not only produced Frontenac heads, they also sold Frontenac chassis and bodies, everything a thrill seeker needed to get into car racing with a used jalopy. This Fronty is Ford Model T-based.
*the "Barney" on the side is probably a humorous tribute to Barney Oldfield. Not enough info in this amazing pic to decipher the base car used, but I think foreground might be Cunningham powered.
Gotta say you guys are absolutely killing it with the family photos lately.
Saving a bunch of the album photos for tomorrow's episode, but now onto the wilderness and street mysteries part of the program. I can tell you this radiation hazard is unequivocally a 1940 Oldsmobile.
*here are the forensic receipts
1946-48 Ford Fordor. Sometime people skillfully supply faux patina paint jobs that are hard to detect without a close look, but from here this looks genuine original, oversprayed with clear coat.
Y'all are getting a double dose of 1959 Cadillac fins today.
Start up the 1960 Oldsmobile and put the heater on high, maybe it'll melt off.
1933-34 Ford fiberglass replica; Elvis-worthy 1956 Cadillac Eldorado convertible.
Sheikh Sheikh Sheikh
Shake shake shake
Shake your 1967 Dodge Monaco
1935 Ford sedan.
1961 Chrysler Windsor, another worthy member of the Tailfin Hall of Fame
Ah, summertime in the Antarctic. I've already completed the 7 continent car ID challenge, but happy to have another go at a South Pole car. Not 100% sure, but I believe this flatbed is a Mercedes Unimog.
Afraid that will have to conclude today's episode. Tune in again tomorrow for another deep dive into vintage automotive mysteries. Until then, Happy Motoring, and Happy birthday to the Deuce coupe!
Gaaah! Back to issue a correction here, ht to @LEOTHELIPPY1. I wrongly ID'd it as a 35 Ford, and he judged it a 36 Chrysler. In fact we were both wrong, it's a 1935 Dodge DU. I will continue to strive for ID quality control.

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