Showing posts with label woodlight headlights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label woodlight headlights. Show all posts

Sunday, May 13, 2012

More cool and unusual vehicle photos found by Motor Life Blog aka reservatory6.blogspot.com

 1949 De Franceschi micro-car born in Torrington, Connecticutt
early twenties Dodge with crawler modification
 Rocket car used by Wilford E. Danelz (1909-1999) of Benson, Minnesota to help sell that city's Monitor-News.
for more, check back now and then at http://reservatory6.blogspot.com/ because he doesn't post often, but it's cool stuff when he does

The Packard Speedster Runabout in the El Segundo Automobile Driving Museum





Wood Lite headlites. Dim and useless, but looking at them in a design perspective, the best looking headlight for classic cars







from what I've learned, they were stock on Ruxtons... and an add on to everything else, but common on DuPonts
 above, the Blastolene B702 (French Curve)
 Auburn Cabin Speedster
 Above and below, DuPonts

 Packard
 Cord above, and the rest are Ruxtons



Saturday, March 10, 2012

A private museum in Canada gets a bit of publicity for it's exquisite automobiles

 The Al Johnson collection in Aldergrove, North of Washington State, in the Vancouver region
 A 1930 Cord Cabriolet with Woodlight headlights (I love those)
A rare Diana, of 1927, was the first car to start his collection

Story and photos from http://www.vancouversun.com/cars/Barn+houses+vintage+vehicles+from+unheralded+makers/6276202/story.html via the amazing and diverse Vintage Racing League newsletter http://multibriefs.com/briefs/vrl/index.php

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Dave Koontz photography of the Hillsborough Concours de Elegance, from SportsCarDigest.com

 1911 Model T

1937 Bugatti type 57SC

1932 Packard Model 900, this grill was a one year only design, and the woodlights were not from the factory. A similar Packard, but hardtop, is in the Automobile Driving Museum in El Segundo

1920 Bugatti type 13 Breschia 

http://www.sportscardigest.com/hillsborough-concours-delegance-2011-photo-gallery/?nggpage=4