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Grand Rapids, Michigan, is located thirty miles inland from Lake Michigan and 160-miles west of Detroit, it is the second largest city in the state. At least eight different automobiles and one truck were manufactured there before the mid-thirties, and it continues to be a manufacturing center and supplier to automakers. Today we present images courtesy…
The coachwork designs by Alan Leamy and Gordon Buehrig for Auburn, Cord, and Duesenberg companies are considered by many to be the most attractive of all the prewar classics. The graceful, smooth and almost fluid lines denote both speed and power. The lead image contains a 1932 Auburn 8-100 Speedster parked at the Roosevelt Theater in…
The “Roaring Twenties” was a time of expansion, modernity, and novelties developed and produced in the period that are associated with it. The circular canopy over Joseph P. Murphy’s polygon-shaped filling station certainly is a good example of an attention-getting structure from the era. Located in Los Angeles with its significant and growing number of gasoline stations and automobiles, its…
This is the third in a series of short films produced by the Jam Handy organization for Chevrolet in 1935 to be shown here. In the video, the thought-provoking engineering principals that have gone into the advancement of the parallel half-elliptic spring suspension system in the automaker’s cars is shown. A number of actual demonstrations of the…
In the past, a number of images of poorly customized versions of elegant 1935-’36 Auburn 851-852 and Cord 810-812 models, both of which were originally designed by master stylist Gordon M. Buehrig have been featured on The Old Motor. Today’s post includes yet another photo of a modified super-charged Auburn 852 “Speedster”, and three examples of the companies…
Two weeks ago a 1936 film posted here showing How a Transmission Works, produced by Jam Handy for Chevrolet proved to be popular with readers. This Saturday another video in the series titled “Water Boy” is being presented that explains how a water-cooled automotive cooling system works. The story begins with a crew building an aqueduct to bring water to…
Earlier in the summer Guillaume Keller, an archivist at the Citroën Heritage Center sent in a series of photos that turned out to show the custom built Xenia car that Andre Dubonnet had constructed in the 1932 and shown in the lead image. “Xenia I” as the car is referred to was based on one of two…
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