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1930 L-29 Phaeton Convertible Sedan
Mike and Judy Gaylor
The car is housed in an air conditioned barn in Dade City Florida
Submitted fo American Antique(1900-1930)
Affectionately known as the "Black Pearl " This car has undergone an 11 year owner restoration which was completed in August 2019. The car was taken to Auburn Indiana for the annual Auburn Cord Duesenberg Club reunion where it received a first place primary and best L29 award.
Historically, the L29 was the 1st American front wheel drive car mass produced beginning in 1929. Previous owners have been traced back to the early 1970s where the car was in Argentina. It is rumored to be the car that won the concours d elegance in France in 1930. 2020 Gasparilla Concours d' Elegance Accepted Participant
1908 Cadillac
The first Cadillacs had single cylinder engines. In 1906 Cadillac introduced a four-cylinder engine in keeping with the growing demands of the public for bigger and more powerful engines. Thus the sales of the single cylinder cars declined as the four-cylinder car proved to be very successful. Because the single cylinder car had been the corner stone of Cadillac it was decided in 1908 to upgrade this model in hopes that sales would pick up and they could continue to offer it to the buying public. The new single cylinder Cadillac for 1908 had a 6” longer wheelbase. It was offered, for the first time, with sidelights, a taillight, and a horn as standard equipment. Running boards and inside door handles were added. It could also be ordered in a new color, Cadillac blue.
In 1908 the single cylinder Cadillac won the prestigious Dewar Trophy. It was the first time that an American car had ever won this award. Cadillac demonstrated the principle of interchangeability of parts for its cars. No car company had ever been able to do this. Cadillac immediately started referring to itself as “ the standard of the world”. This is the origin of the slogan of Cadillac Motor Car Company.
The year 1908 is important in Cadillac history because:
It is the year that the single cylinder Cadillac was significantly altered and its appearance changed from the earlier single cylinder cars built prior to 1908.
It is the year that Cadillac won the prestigious Dewar Trophy.
It is the year that the Cadillac slogan was created.
It is the last year of the single cylinder cars built by Cadillac.
This 1908 Tulip bodied Victoria is the only one known to exist today. It was purchased in 1984 and restoration begin almost immediately. Extensive research was done as the car was being restored to insure that it was authentic in every respect. It is believed to be one of the finest single cylinder Cadillacs in existence today.
OWNERSHIP: Paul and Kathleen Ianuario
LOCATION: Duncan, South Carolina
PROPOSED CLASS: American Antique (1900 - 1931)
Details:
This 1908 Cadillac Double Tulip Touring was found in a barn in Still Water, MN in 1984 by the owner and it was in poor condition ..... requiring a total restoration. This Cadillac is believed to be the only 1908 Double Tulip in existence today. It was finished and shown the first time in 2002 for the Centennial Celebration of Cadillac Motor Company and competed in the following shows and Concours events where:
It won "Best in Class" at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance
It won its AACA First Junior at Hiawasse, GA
It won its AACA First Senior at Richmond, VA
It won "Best in Class" at the Meadow Brook Concours d'Elegance
It also won the "John Dodge Memorial Award" at Meadow Brook
It won First place at the Cadillac LaSalle Grand National in Dearborn
It won "Best in Class" at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance
It won "Best in Show" at the Sergio Frankie Concours d'Elegance
It won "Best in Show" at the Hilton Head Concours d'Elegance
It won the AACA Cup National Award for the entire USA
It won the VMCCA Best Pre-1912 Car National Award for the entire USA
It won the "Chairman's" choice at the Hilton Head Concours d'Elegance
It has been featured in two Old Cars Weekly calendars
It is the "Centerfold" in “Cadillac ....100 Years of Innovation” by Angelo Van Bogart
It was featured in almost all the collector car magazines in the early 2000's
It was featured in Auto Week and the Hagerty Magazines.
It is referred to by Cadillac Division of GM as their Cadillac "Slogan Car".
CONCOURS: Hilton Head Concours d'Elegance
1924 Cadillac Roadster V63
Andre De Montigny and Céline Meloche
Saint-Hippolyte Quebec Canada
American Antique (1900-1931)
This Cadillac spent most of its life in Texas. We acquired it in New York in 2015. We were very impressed by its elegant 1920s body style bright contrasting colours in yellow and black, and its chic burgundy leather interior. A complete frame-off restoration to bring the car to its original condition was undertaken by Atelier de Restauration Michel Ouellette. This was the first year that Cadillac had brakes on all four wheels. There are only three examples of this particular model registered with the Cadillac & LaSalle Club. This rare '24 Roadster stands as an example of the marque's famous slogan, the "Standard of the World".
Please see on You Tube as well; 1924 Cadillac Roadster V63 (dated Oct 2020) 
Car: 1931 McLaughlin Buick Model 64 sport roadster
Owner(s): Rosemary McLeese
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Proposed Class(es): American Antique
Representing: Cobble Beach Concours d' Elegance
Details:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwQ1WnbWbl0&feature=emb_title
Car: 1911 Cadillac Model 30 Demi-Tonneau
Owners: Karen and Michael Tomko
Location: Redding, CT
Proposed Class: American Antique (1900-1931)
Representing: Lime Rock Sunday in the Park Concours
Description: Originally delivered to famed Cadillac dealer Inglis Uppercu’s Columbus Circle showroom in New York, this 1911 Cadillac was discovered in Newtown, Connecticut, after spending 40 years in a barn. Little is known about the early history of the car, other than it stayed in the New York City / Fairfield County CT area. It was purchased in 1946 by a former B17 Flight Engineer, but went into storage in 1964 and stayed there for 40 years until the Tomkos acquired it. During the winter of 2006-2007, the engine was completely rebuilt and the following summer the family went on several tours, putting on about 1,000 miles. The car is used regularly for motoring around town, including simply enjoying a beautiful ride and getting ice cream with the kids.
This car was the winner of the Pre-War class at the 2020 Lime Rock Sunday in the Park Concours.
Car: 1931 Marmon SIXTEEN
Owner: Arlene and Charles Kleptz
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Proposed Class: American Antique 1900-1931
Invited by: Dayton Concours d'Elegance
Details: There were 200 of these models built in 1931 - 50 had this particular body style. The Marmon Company built cars in Indianapolis, Indiana from 1903-1933. A Marmon Wasp won the first Indianapolis 500 Race in 1911, but the company came to be known more for their luxury cars than racing vehicles. Some special features on this 16 cylinder engine include - 200 HP, 490 c.i., overhead valves, 2 barrel downdraft carburetor, crankcase ventilators and the engine is made of aluminum alloy and weighs only 930 pounds. This Marmon has four wheel, cable operated, mechanical brakes and a three speed transmission synchronized in second and third gear. This vehicle also has very unusual fenders with skirting front and rear such as they used on the 1932 models. Only three other SIXTEEN Models with these fenders are know to still exist. It also has two cigar lighters (front and back), fold down arm rests in both front and back, a split bench front seat, a moveable driver's seat and a tilt steering wheel. This Marmon was found in Connecticut although it spent most of its life prior to our ownership in California. It came with a 1941 CA license plate (the last year it was driven) and the engine was in pieces in a basket. All mechanical and body restoration were personally done by Charles Kleptz. Paint and upholstery wwere done by D&D Restoration in Covington, Ohio. This Marmon is one of only three still in existence of this year and model, according to the records of The Marmon Club. The last three pictures show the condition the car was in when we purchased it. Invited by the Dayton Concours d'Elegance.
Car: 1917 Locomobile 48 Type M Series 7
Owner(s): John and Mary McAlpin
Location: Naples, NY, USA
Proposed Class(es): American Antique
Details:
Research points to J. Frank deCausse, a stylist known for his work with the renowned Kellner studio of Paris, being the designer of the world’s first dual-cowl, or dualwindshield, body-style cars. The first of this kind was built under his direction at Farnham-Nelson coachbuilders in Boston in 1916, and placed on a Locomobile 48 chassis. That car no longer exists. However, factory records also show this chassis was delivered to a Boston Locomobile dealer May 12, 1917, for transfer to Farnham-Nelson under commission by Louis K. Liggett, founder of the Rexall pharmacy empire. This 1917 dual-cowl was designed with a cape top and a removable tarp which attaches from the front windshield to the rear of the cape top. There were 97,000 miles on this car before the owner started his 18-year nut-and-bolt restoration. Three examples of this style of car are known to exist, a 1919 in California; and a 1920 in Batavia, Illinois. This car thus may be the oldest existing car in this style.
Car: 1927 Duesenberg Model Y
Owner(s): Bob Becker,
Location: Mount Forest, Ontario, Canada
Proposed Class(es): American Antique
Details:
This car is the most significant Duesenberg in private ownership, and is the prototype to the greatest American automobile ever made, the Duesenberg Model J. The 1927 Duesenberg Model Y shown today is the creation of E.L. Cord himself, along with the genius of Fred Duesenberg. The brilliant automotive stylist Alan Leamy penned this incredible timeless design under the guidance of E. L. Cord and Fred Duesenberg, which was carried forward to the Mighty Model J. This car was driven by Cord and both Duesenberg brothers as a prototype to refine the final design and engineering for the Model J. Owned by the ACD company until 1932, when it was sold to August Duesenberg to destroy the chassis, it’s a miracle it has survived in its complete bodied form. The Beckers are the fourth family to own this vehicle, and purchased it from an Alabama-based prior owner who’d had it for 60 years. Pictured and referenced in all the Duesenberg books, it is a time capsule into early prototype designs which still hold the fingerprints of August Duesenberg from 1932. There are many unique one-off design features to this amazing automobile, starting with the first iteration Alan Leamy design of the front bumper. Mr. Becker finds it a true pleasure to be the caretaker of this extremely historically significant Duesenberg for many years to come.
Car: 1929 Willys-Knight
Owner(s): Veron Smith
Location: Swift Current, NL, Canada
Proposed Class(es): American Antique (1900-1932)
Representing Cobble Beach Concours d’ Elegance
Details: In 1913, the Willys-Overland was the number two selling automobile in America, just behind Ford. That same year, John North Willys was told by his doctor that he had to take a break from working so hard and suggested he should either go abroad or to a sanitarium. Willys chose Europe. While there, he met Charles Yale Knight. Knight had invented an engine with sleeve valves rather than the usual poppet valves. Willy was not a mechanic or an engineer by any means, but he saw the novelty of the sleeve valve and its promotional possibilities. The sleeve valves were much quieter in operation, but they had the propensity to burn more oil. Ultimately, the poppet valves won out, and beginning in 1914, Willys-Overland produced more Knight-engine cars than virtually all other manufacturers in the world combined. It is believed that this car was introduced at the 1929 New York Automobile Show. It was styled by designer Amos Northup, who was better known for styling the handsome Reo Royale. It was Northup who gave the car its disinvited grid work on the doors, which the New York press labelled “Plaidside,” and the name stuck. Some 400 of the cars were produced, and only 250 had Plaidside. All with bodywork by Griswold of Detroit. An exhaustive restoration was completed in October 2012, prior to the car debuting at the AACA Fall Meet in Hershey, where it received its First Junior Award. It has gone on to win several prestigious awards including the AACA President’s Cup, one of the organisation’s most prestigious national honours, Best American Open Car at The Elegance at Hershey, Best in Class at the Hilton Head Concours and Best in Class and the Founder’s Trophy at the Ault Park Concours.
Car: 1930 Packard 745 Phaeton
Owner: Denis Bouboulis
Location: Greenwich, CT
The Seventh Series Packard 745, launched within weeks of the 1929 stock market crash, was the marque's largest and most expensive offering for 1930. It remains especially coveted as the following year Packard moved the cowl forward, creating more space inside the body and increasing passenger comfort, but at the expense of less daramatic proportions. This example has great provenance, having been previously owned by the famed collector George Waterman of Rhode Island and then by another great collector, Ted Jameson. The car was acquired in 2018 from Dragone Classic Motorcars.
This car was awarded Best in Show at the 2020 Lime Rock Sunday in the Park Concours.
(Photo credit Shawn Pierce)
1932 Chrysler CL Imperial Convertible Coupe, Lebaron
Donald Bernstein
Clarks Summit, PA
From the Radnor Hunt Concours.
American Antique 1932-48
Walter Chrysler entered the fine car market in 1931 with the luxurious Imperial. Unfortunately, by the time the Ralph Roberts-styled Imperial came to market, the demand for high-end automobiles had all but disappeared. As such, Chrysler built only about 220 CL Imperials for the 1932 model year of which just 28 were fitted with the convertible coupe body. This car was originally delivered new in Portland, Oregon and is fitted with a body by LeBaron – the coachbuilding firm founded in 1924 by Thomas Hibbard and Raymond Dietrich. Power is supplied by a “Red Head” 135hp 385cid in-line eight-cylinder engine. Restoration was completed in the mid-2000’s.
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