Granddad's cars

[Silverghost]

I found a photo album of my Dad's dated 1949. In it is a list of my Granddad's cars. Here it is:

1. 1901 Mobile Dos-A-Dos (I have a pic of this one)
2. 1902 White Steam Carriage
3. 1902 Haynes Apperon Surry (have pic of this one too)
4. 1902 Mobile Buggy Top Runabout
5. 1904 Rex Runabout
6. 1904 Regular Oldsmobile Runabout
7. 1904 Columbia Electric Mark IX
8. 1904 Columbia Electric Runabout
9. 1906 Reo Touring
10. 190? Mitchell #30
11. 190? 4-40 Premier Touring
12. 190? 6-60 Premier Clubman
13. 190? 6-60 Premier Touring
14. 1912 Standard Electric
15. 1912 Hupmobile Coupe (on display at the Ford Deerfield Museum)
16. 191? Rauch & Lang Electric
17. 1915 Winton Six Touring
18. 191? Rauch & Lang Electric
19. 191? Overland
20. 191? Rauch & Lang Electric
21. 191? Velie

Quite the impressive list, especially given the times. Seems Granddad was ahead of the curve with electric cars! I wonder if any of these cars still exist (other than the Hupmobile) and if so, where........ Hmmmmmm Ok you treasure hunters!

 

[NutmegCT]

Peter - that is *quite* a list. Was your grandfather in the car business? Can't quite figure out why he'd have three 1902 cars, four 1904 cars, etc.

Those are from the "brass age" - when cars were mostly hand made, and finished quite well.

Here's a 1910 Velie:

PS - any chance you can make a higher-res scan of those two "mystery car" pictures we're working on in the other thread?

Thanks.
Tom

 

[DrEntropy]

Winton Six?!?

One of Winton's grandsons is a pal of ours. He and a few other Winton owners did a coast-to-coast reverse trek (NY to the Pacific) in their Wintons at the 100th anniversary of the first cross-country drive.

The pistons in that Six are the size of Maxwell House two-pound coffee tins, BTW.

 

[vagt6]

Peter, you are <span style="text-decoration: underline">very</span> lucky to have so much info and actualy photos of your Grandad. I really wish I had more on mine.

He was a car guy, literally from the beginning of the industry. He was Chief Mechanic at a Ford dealership in the 1920s, then later owned his own auto repair biz for more than 40 years.

He owned all kinds of cars but the one he liked most was the Model A Ford and I think he owned several, including a roadster. Toughest car Ford ever made, he always said.

Just to have a few photos of him in his cars would be priceless to me.

Cherish those photos, man, and pass them on. A real piece of your family history, preserved.

 

[aeronca65t]

My grandfather rode bicycle and horses.
(my Dad didn't have a driver's license until he was about 30).

Great list.....I hardly recognize any of those makes!

 

[Banjo]

My great grandfather had one of the first cars in the county. He was a doctor. I don't have a pic, or know what it was other than an open touring car, but my grandad used to tell me how his mom would yell at his dad if he tried to go faster than 25 mph. "Noone needs to go any faster than 25 miles an hour!"
He also told me it was his job as a little boy to stand next to his dad when it rained, and operate the manual wipers (a story which he always accompanied by swishing his hand back and forth while holding it above his head) and how Great grampa kept a twist of tobacco in the glove box. He would dip it in the water on the running board to wet it, then smear it on the widshield to make the water bead up like modern day rain-ex! (I've never tried it)

 

[racingenglishcars]

Very nostalgic this is.
My grandad worked at the Marmon factory, Then he was on the team when they built the Indy 500 racer that won in 1911. https://tinyurl.com/6uptmcs Later he worked for Chandler. When I was little, he worked at a garage in Farmer City Illinois until he retired. I have only a couple pictures of him, both from around that time.