Thread by @iowahawkblog

Crossing streams today on #DavesCarIDService: in tribute to the Heart Attack Hawkeyes who improbably beat Michigan State after trailing by 10 with 40 seconds left, the U of Iowa Hospital's 1919 electric ambulance. Custom built in Iowa City on a Walker electric bus chassis.

*ht for that image to the U of Iowa Special Collections library.

Unlike the many electric car makers of the time, Chicago-based Walker focused on buses and trucks; much of their business was export. You can see a couple of them at famed Iowa 80, the world's largest truck stop.

Now it's time for me to get to some car detective work (another one from the Iowa Special Collections, a circa 1946 'toon of Iowa mascot Herky by Fred Kent, who produced these for each UIowa college; this one for Journalism)

But first, please rise to recite the Pledge of ID Request Content Quality (seriously guys, you don't have to send me every car picture you see on the internet)

Irie mon! Uncle Eddie went touring Jamaica in a circa 1963 Ford Consul Cortina Super Mk I wagon. Would've been about the same time "Dr. No," the first James Bond movie, was being filmed there. Wonder if Eddie spied Ursula Andress in that bikini.

https://twitter.com/Edward_767/status/1629548243649724422

Fun fact: if you say "beer can" with a British accent, you're also saying "bacon" with a Jamaican accent

I shall resist the urge to mercilessly mock your dopey 3 ring circus knee high 70s-80s gym socks to point out that's the heart shaped grille of a 1935 Brewster Ford town car.

https://twitter.com/StaterJm/status/1629514199545282564

*Brewster was a NY based custom limo body maker, and most of their early cars were based on Rolls-Royce chassis and very expensive. During the Depression they switched to Ford chassis for moguls who didn't want to be so conspicuously ostentatious.

Via email, Car & Driver's Elana Scherr (@challengeher) shares this swell patriotic photo from her husband Tom's family archives. Car here is a 1923 Willys Overland Model 90 sedan, with 1923 Ohio plates; likely a ceremonial new car pic, and little nipper is now 100+ years old.

Hey Stretch, how's the weather up there? Looks like Great Gramps will have to remove the awesome hat to get through the cabin door, or behind the wheel of the 1950 Pontiac Silver Streak sedan.

https://twitter.com/dukemeiser/status/1628216098372964352

There's fancy and then there is Fa-a-ancy: the classy chassis next to these classy lasses and their matching Lassies is a 1934 Panhard & Levassor CS RL-N coupé. Note the swanky curved glass on the A-pillars.

https://twitter.com/HazeDoran/status/1627338125080170498

*The only reason I used the lah-ti-dah fancy accented "coo-PAY" is because it's an expensive French car. I shall never use this with a good ol' American car. Those are COOPS dagnabbit.

Watch out Mom, you're gonna burn your legs on that 1936-39 Harley-Davidson UL! At the time of the pic, this Harley flathead model was America's standard issue WW2 military bike (as the model WLA).

https://twitter.com/JosephFKoch/status/1626950512384831489

The name's Burge. Dave Burge. And I come before you good people of Twitter with an idea. Probably the greatest - aw, it's not for you. It's more of a SHELBYVILLE idea.

"Wait, we're twice as Shelbyville! What is it?"

1926 Studebaker Standard 6 coupe.

https://twitter.com/Airborne_03/status/1626375754232602625

Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you
You're so like the lady with the mystic smile
Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you
Or the 39 Chevy coupe that you drive?

https://twitter.com/POMPETUSOFLOVE/status/1625585795233898551

This terrific twofer includes a 1957 Ford Ranchero in #1 (yep the Ranchero beat the El Camino to market by 2 years), and in #2 Mom is having a Coca-Cola break with a 1937 Dodge coupe. Check that zero-visibility windshield visor!

https://twitter.com/Rumpletweezer/status/1624915905665806336

Wait, check that- not a visor, Mom has just popped open the hinged windshield for some flow-though breeze on a hot day.

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer true
I'm half crazy IDing that car with you

Obviously not a bicycle built for 2 here; I'm about 97% sure it's a 1909-10 Hudson Model 20 roadster. My only misgiving is the rear fender curvature.

https://twitter.com/RandyHildreth/status/1624462747772624898

*If I'm right, that would be one of the earliest Hudsons in existence. BTW they weren't named "Hudson" for the explorer (a la "LaSalle" or "DeSoto"), it was started by the same family that owned Detroit's Hudson's department store. Now semi-evolved into Target.

another one from @challengeher, via her husband's family albums, which I'm likewise 97% sure has a Hudson product on right - a 1925ish Hudson (or Hudson's low price brand Essex) Super 6 sedan; or just mmmaaaybe a similar year Wills-St Claire.

*the main tell here is the suicide doors, a Hudson feature that was otherwise a rarity in the mid 20s.

Car on left is (again, pretty sure) a 1920ish Studebaker Big 6.

Elana was also curious about jug on running board. What, have you city folk never seen a dairy farm milk can?

"Leave the gun, take the cannoli."

Fantastic gas station architecture here, and the nearest pumps have 1950-51 Cadillac (L) and 1950-51 Buick. Next row is 1952-53 Ford (cop car I think) and 1950-51 Chrysler.

https://twitter.com/smokin_steve_72/status/1624187528629592065

"Hey wait a minute... Groucho Marx isn't on the $100 bill is he?" said the confused car salesman as Scoundrel Great Grandpa drove away in the 1937 Pontiac sedan.

https://twitter.com/FederalDebt/status/1627036169006641153

Had to work my eyeballs to the bone on this one, but I'll say 1910 REO Model S Demi Tonneau. Unmistakably a left hand steering car, which aside from the Ford Model T were exceedingly rare pre-1913. Even most 1910 REOs were LHS.

https://twitter.com/ajwimsatt/status/1624745300450590720

yessir, a 1966 Pontiac Tempest on the right, and the TV repairman came in a 1964ish Ford Econoline. Not sure about big bro's training bike, but it's a bargain brand in the Huffy-Western Flyer-AMF mold.

https://twitter.com/TheTinFossil/status/1626036533365964800

*kids today will never understand the entire concept of "TV repair man"

Mike Brady commuted to his job of designing houses with 1 acre living rooms and 1 bathroom in a 1971 Plymouth Barracuda convertible. (ht several readers)

https://twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1622412550393454594

Pretty sure what we have here is a 1911ish Lozier Model 46 or 51.

https://twitter.com/HazeDoran/status/1622265739666399232

Disregard my previous ID of Daisy's runabout as a 1910ish Hudson Model 20, it appears indeed that it's a nearly identical 1910ish Hupmobile 20 - with the correct fender shape and square lamps.

https://twitter.com/BearFlagFan/status/1629912497548402692

Keep those great old family pix coming, but for now it's time to turn to a few street & wilderness finds - like this 1959 Oldsmobile giving you a sly wink.

https://twitter.com/jmartinmcc/status/1629485492931526656

That would be the unmistakably piscine 1959-64 Daimler SP250 Dart. Sorta looks like the Incredible Mister Limpet.

https://twitter.com/kennygintx/status/1627739036201676801

Nosir, that'd be a 1953 Chevy 210 Deluxe Townsman wagon, and the faux wood paint is actually a stock showroom feature; these are called "Tin Woodies"

https://twitter.com/JMWilsonEsq/status/1627346652779380736

Not really an easy ID for the neophyte; it's a late 70s Shay (or similar maker) fiberglass replica of a Ford Model A replica. Sold new as "drivable classics," they were powered by the same 4 cylinder engine in 70s Ford Pintos.

https://twitter.com/groatscotum/status/1627324370862440450

In #1, 1940 LaSalle (last year of the make btw)

In #2, a 1960 Rambler American w/ Continental spare.

https://twitter.com/Schulzke/status/1626980245604798465

The ultimate car ID layup, 1957 Chevy Bel Air; this one a 2 door hardtop.

https://twitter.com/globe55trotter/status/1626233062379114496

Oh, I wouldn't worry about it, I'm sure milk will keep 65 years in the Arizona desert. 1958ish Chevy Step Van.

https://twitter.com/yeshuatrujillo/status/1624773244116160512

1964-67 Sunbeam Tiger, a/k/a the Poor Man's Cobra. Like the mighty Shelby AC Cobra, based on the excellent idea of stuffing a Ford V8 in a little British sports car; Tigers had 260s or 289s. Maxwell Smart drove one on 'Get Smart' for a season.

https://twitter.com/JackBurtonMercr/status/1629912709624987655

Having reached my quota, I will now bid you a fond adieu. See you back next weekend for another edition, and until then, Happy Motoring!