Wednesday, July 13, 2005

 

Here are some more cars from Laughlin.






Any information on thise cars would be appreciated.

Comments:
Okay, I'll give it a shot. (Take all of this with a grain of salt until you verify it, as I'm going from memory.) Clockwise from the upper left. A Muntz Jet. This was originally produced by the race driver Frank Kurtis, and sold as a Kurtis sports car. The company was aquired by "Madman" Muntz, and sold as a Muntz after he put his own flash and bling on it. The black coupe is a Lincoln Zephyr, of about '39 vintage. The rear view of these cars is totally gorgeous in an art deco way. The blue roadster is a '30 - '31 Model A deluxe with dual side mounted spares. I believe this indicates that the car was also fitted with the optional fold out rear luggage rack which took the place of the standard rear spare. The tan and orange car is a Nash of late 30's vintage. The white car is a Hupmobile Skylark. This was a car on it's second reincarnation much like the Muntz. It was originally designed by Gordon Buehrig for the Cord automoble company, and debuted as the Cord 810. After Cord (and Auburn) went out of business, the body dies were sold to Hupmobile and Graham-Paige which both produced variants of the 810. Well, that's my best shot. :-)
 
Edit for last post:
The orange and white car appears to be a '37 Hudson Terraplane. Check out this link: http://oldcarandtruckpictures.com/AmericanMotors/Hudson.html
 
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