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A Dancing Mystery ( UPDATE: 1927/28 Studebaker President or Commander?)
We're looking forward to a sunny Easter weekend and we truly hope the same counts for you whatever your wheareabouts on the globe. The trees in the background seem to blossom, which suggest it is spring. Not exactly sure about the event which made these girls dance around today's mystery car as if it is a May 1st Pole Ribbon Dance, yet it looks they're having a grand time. However most of you have glanced around them of course to check the big saloon. Though the looks are quite Bentley-ish the hubs look more like Packard. As we can't ask the driver who is presumably operating the camera (lucky chap) we better wait and see what you have to say.
(Walter Miller collection)
Publiziert:
Donnerstag April 17th, 2014
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Unbekannt
19 April 2014, 17:45
The key to ID here is the little emblem on the headlight bar. It is a circle with an "8" in the center. According to Richard Quinn of the Antique Studebaker Club, this style was used only on FA Presidents from Dec 1927 to June 1928. After that time, it changed from a bottom mount to one centered on the bar.
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Unbekannt
18 April 2014, 20:52
My reasoning in saying it is a Commander is that it does not look big enough to be a President. The early FA President was on a 131" wheelbase. The FB came later in 1928 using the new 337 engine and had an option of a short 121" wheelbase. The only way to tell these apart is to count the hood louvres. Unfortunately this one has side mounted spares so they can't all be seen. If someone was able to guestimate the wheelbase of the car from the angle of the photo and the known wheel size then maybe I could stand corrected. To me the wheelbase looks to be around 120".
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Peter Johnston
18 April 2014, 09:09
Reminded me of my friends Daimler mascot, except his was not as big
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Peter
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Peter
Unbekannt
18 April 2014, 08:35
I am with the editor on this - those girls look alright to me- no stick insects there.
Tony.
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Tony.
Unbekannt
18 April 2014, 05:36
It is a 1928 Studebaker Commander - a GB series model I think, possibly built towards the middle of 1928. This was an era when Studebaker changed the specification of the cars quite frequently which makes them difficult to date precisely from photographs. It has the 1927-28 style visor and radiator but the late 1928 style headlights and cowl lights. It has the 20" Kelsey Hayes wire wheels which were only used for about two years.
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Unbekannt
18 April 2014, 03:58
Not Bentley, not Packard. Is a Studebaker President Model FA built between December 1927 and June 1928.
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Unbekannt
18 April 2014, 02:20
The car is a 1927/28 Studebaker.
Now, how much has our standard of beauty changed? Do you really find those girls pretty, fat legs and ugly knees?
Today we probably wouldn't even be so sure they were all girls?
editor: this is all a matter of personal taste and period fashion standards. In our view these ladies look far better than the anorexia girls in fashion photography. And for what it's worth they are very skinny compared to what one can see in daily life in for instance the US.
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Now, how much has our standard of beauty changed? Do you really find those girls pretty, fat legs and ugly knees?
Today we probably wouldn't even be so sure they were all girls?
editor: this is all a matter of personal taste and period fashion standards. In our view these ladies look far better than the anorexia girls in fashion photography. And for what it's worth they are very skinny compared to what one can see in daily life in for instance the US.
Unbekannt
18 April 2014, 00:35
The car looks like a Nash advanced six probably 1929. it is not a Bentley the wire wheels are not Rudge Whitworth.
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Unbekannt
18 April 2014, 00:09
I believe the large saloon is a 1928 Studebaker President 8 which was equipped with a 313 cu in 100 hp engine.
However, I have no idea as to the reason behind the photo although I've seen it numerous times I don't remember any background info.
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However, I have no idea as to the reason behind the photo although I've seen it numerous times I don't remember any background info.