a demonstration ramp in the 1902 Indianapolis car show (thanks to Steve! )

he was driving a Waverly Electric

this reminds me of the ramp that went from a parking lot OVER a car show hall building that I posted years ago, it was important to prove how capable one car maker was compared to the competition. Jeep and Land Rover still have demonstration ramps at a few events, like SEMA, occasionally, I've posted them too

this September the Indiana Bi-Centennial Festival and the Classic Car Club of Indiana are going to celebrate the cars made in Indiana

The Kokomo Automotive Museum will spotlight the Hoosier State’s contribution to the motoring world with a weeklong event entitled “Kokomo Salutes Indiana’s Automotive Heritage 1894-1964.”

 The celebration will include a reunion of Kokomo-built Haynes and Apperson automobiles,
a Classic Car Club of America Grand Classic,
a STuTZ Club Grand STuTZ
and the “Indiana Bicentennial Concours d’Elegance”

Saturday – September 10, 2016

 the CCCA Grand Classic, the Haynes Apperson Reunion, and the Marmon Muster, will be in beautiful Highland Park.

Sunday – September 11. 2016

the Indiana Bicentennial Motor Muster in Jackson Morrow Park,
This is a judged event for all HCS, CCCA, Marmon, Haynes, STuTZ, and Apperson automobiles.

http://stutzclub.com/?page_id=62

cast members from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show posing in cars in front of Grant's Tomb

Found on http://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A196983

Hayne's just published a Top Fuel Dragster book... that's pretty cool

Found on http://www.haynes.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10001&storeId=10001&productId=60063&langID=-1

what happened to Auburn, Cord, Peerless,Franklin and dozens of other defunct car companies? Their names and trademarks were used for licensing toys

When E.L. Cord decided to get out of the car business in August 1937 and take up real estate in California, he sold his stake of the Cord Corporation – the holding company that controlled Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg and Checker automobiles, along with American Airways, Stinson Aircraft, and several other companies – to a group of investors operating as the Aviation and Transportation Corporation. ATCO, in turn, shut down car manufacture at Auburn, Cord, and Duesenberg and sold the Auburn and Cord assets, including the rights to the Auburn and Cord names, to Dallas Winslow, a businessman who had become rich and famous by buying up the assets of other, smaller defunct automobile companies including Flint, Briscoe, Stearns-Knight, Peerless, Franklin, Wills St. Clair, Haynes, and dozens more. He got all but the tooling and dies, which Norman DeVaux bought and in turn marketed to Hupp and Graham.

Winslow apparently had little interest in the Cord and Auburn names and trademarks. Instead, he spent the next 20 years marketing, selling, and in some cases reproducing parts for those cars. Pray, on the other hand, saw the potential in the defunct marques, and so approached Winslow in 1960 to inquire about what Winslow had been calling the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Company. On a shop teacher’s salary, he managed to put together the $75,000 deal and then move 350 tons of parts and the operations of the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Company to a former pickle factory in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

Interestingly enough, Pray told his biographer, Josh Malks, that he later discovered that neither the Cord nor Auburn names were registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office; Winslow had let them expire while he owned the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Company. Pray ended up spending $500 each to re-register the names – Cord in 1963 and Auburn in 1966. “If I’d known that all I had to do was spend $1,000, I’d have had me the Cord and Auburn names and wouldn’t have had to drag all that stuff down here.”

While Pray was happy enough to sell parts to Auburn and Cord collectors and restorers, he really wanted to put the Cord and Auburn automobiles back into production, something he needed both names to do. In August 1964 he succeeded with the former, basing a downsized (8/10-scale, as its name would later declare), Buehrig-designed, Royalite-bodied version of the Cord 810 on a custom chassis using a Corvair drivetrain under the hood to provide front-wheel drive. Production of what would prove to be one of the world’s first continuation cars stalled after about 100 were built and after Pray left the Cord Automobile Company, but he somehow retained the Cord name through the ordeal.

Though he never again tried to resurrect the Cord name, Pray did make sure to keep the trademarks registered afterward, both to continue selling Cord-branded reproduction parts and to license the Cord name to other companies like Mattel and Hallmark. While Pray, through the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Company, sold off the Auburn name and trademark in 2005 for $500,000, he held on to the Cord trademarks until his death in 2011, and now his family has decided to part with them.

found on http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2014/09/19/rights-to-the-cord-name-and-trademark-come-up-for-sale/

1885 to 1929 interesting cars

 1885 horseless carriages in Russia

 1893 Haynes with E. Haynes in both photos. It was the first successful automobile in America

 1901 Franklin

 1902 Cadillac

 1904 Cadillac

 1907 Isotta Fraschini (really shiny paint)

 1908 Ford, the first model T

 1916 Studebaker landaulet roadster (I've thought that a roadster can't be a landaulet, and vice versa)

 1925 Lincoln club roadster with body by LeBaron

 1925 Locomobile

1929 Studebaker with Neysa McMein (great first name) she was a designer at Studebaker

Found digging through the photos at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/

The Haynes cars of 1908 and a page of their cars that won the endurance and reliability contest

found among hundreds of great old car catalogs at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=title_id_list:454055&slabel=Automobiles%253A%2520Manufacturers%2520catalogues%252E&sScope=images&sLevel=1