Question about Old Picture + Lefty Grove Photo with Car....

[leftygrove10]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Looks like a 1929..and yes, you got a new plate every year.

Really? What a pain for the motor vehicles people... But that certainly helps me nail down the year.... Thanks!

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by leftygrove10

Really? What a pain for the motor vehicles people... But that certainly helps me nail down the year.... Thanks!

Not nearly as many cars on the road in 1929 as there are today...I doubt they thought of it as a pain..more like easy money.

[Jay Wolt]

Brad, great pickups, they are fantastic.

[steve B]

Some states let you use a vintage plate on an antique car if they're the same year. Pretty cool to see a 1929 car with 1929 plates.

Certainly looks like a 29 nash.
http://www.pnwnash.org/common/gallery.php?year=1929

Although the close years look similar. The people at that site will probably know for sure.

Steve B

[leftygrove10]

Thanks, Steve.... I sent an email to the guy from the Nash website.... I'll let you know what he has to say....

[leftygrove10]

Originally Posted by leftygrove10

Thanks, Steve.... I sent an email to the guy from the Nash website.... I'll let you know what he has to say....

I did get an email back from the guy at the website and he is going to shop the photo around to the other members of his club to see if they can give a positive identification of the model and year. He did have a guess, but I don't know want to post his guess here just yet, as I want others from his club to make their own indepedent identification. He did say that he was "no expert on pre-war cars", which I thought was hysterical! I sent him the link to this page and no doubt he looked around net54 a bit while he was here.

[steve B]

That's the really incredible thing about the internet. No matter how odd something is you're seldom more than a couple emails from an expert.

I'm on a list for people that collect oldracing bicycles- Far less mainstream than cards or even cars. One guy bought a bike and asked about info on when it was made. The second reply was something like "5 april 1979 probably before lunch." After a reply about not kidding around the next response was from the same guy. He had built it, and the serial number was in his notebook under 5 april. Plus it was the third one of six on the page hence the probably before lunch comment!


Steve B