American Beauties from Hershey at home

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Have you got used to home working, home dining, home cinema-ing and home holidaying yet? It may be here to stay and it seems to work in favour of online auctioneer Sonicbidder.com. They have come up with their Hershey at Home sale on 5 October with a large number of pre-wars at no reserve.

There’s a good number of early 20th century vehicles, from Cadillacs to Brush Runabout and from Rambler Tourer to Marble-Swift prototype. The latter comes, remarkably, with very little information: “This Marble-Swift is a 1 of 1 prototype and it is exquisitely restored. We do not have much information on this car, but it appears to be a three-cylinder engine with No. 004 on the block, where Marble-Swift advertised a twin-cylinder 16-horsepower engine. However, it is sure to have the patented friction power transmitting mechanism which allowed variable speeds.” A beautiful task for a new owner to find out more about!

But let’s have a look at some of the slightly later cars that are also available. We like the Saxon B5R of 1917 in two-tone grey over bright green, and with mint green wooden wheels with whitewall tyres. Said to be an older restoration, it does look good and probably spent much of its time in a humidity-controlled storage. Perhaps it’s a good match with the 1919 Essex Speedster that is also for sale and in another striking colour combination: Butternut Yellow with black wings. Like the Saxon, it comes with a four-cylinder engine and three-speed gearbox and is an older restoration.

Let’s stay with the American cars for another little comparison then, since we like this Desoto SA of 1931 and think it may well match the Pierce-Arrow 125 of 1929. The first is very attractive in its all-red guise with red paint, leather, wire wheels and piping on its roof and it’s got the optional overdrive on the three-speed ’box. It comes with a straight-six engine, while the Pierce-Arrow has an inline-eight that many may prefer. Some options on that car are also pretty cool: ‘wind wings’, a golf-bag door on the passenger side, a sun visor and nickel finishing on the door handles and window winders.

Words by Jeroen Booij. Pictures courtesy of Sonicbidder.com.

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