sign in middle of road during the Hupmobile United American Tour, also known as the Hupmobile Capital-to-Capital tour.

https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A194746

did you know there is a Greyhound Bus Museum? It is open from late May to mid-September, and has outside exhibits of a 1921 Flag Stop Station and 1940 Art Deco Terminal

The Greyhound Bus Museum came from one man who stumbled upon the abandoned bus station in Hibbing, the birthplace of Greyhound

It took nearly 20 years to get funding from the state, but by then Nicolelli had a wealth of Greyhound memorabilia. There are badges, uniforms, awards (like the 1961 Gold Steering Wheel for Safe Driving) and of course, buses.

Greyhound had it's start with 2 guys, and a 1914 7 passenger Hupmobile they couldn't sell on their part time car sales job, so, instead they used it to haul miners on short trips from Alice to Hibbing. 15 cents one way, 25 cents round trip

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/greyhound-bus-museum

https://www.greyhoundbusmuseum.org/

https://www.exploreminnesota.com/profile/greyhound-bus-museum/2195

https://www.facebook.com/greyhoundbusmuseumhibbingmn/

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1463&context=dl_tr#:~:text=l%20began%20in%201914%E2%80%94%20up,Fellow%20miners%20on%20short%20trips.

January 21, 1979: Chicago Bears owner, former head coach, (and former football player) George Halas is transported to Miami's midfield by a 1920 Hupmobile for the ceremonial coin toss before Super Bowl XIII, the 5th and last time the Super Bowl was played in that stadium.

The 83-year-old Halas, who was one of the founding owners of the NFL in 1920, flipped a coin. I'm still wondering what coin. Real? Ceremonial? Silver dollar? 20 dollar double eagle gold? 

Halas was driven onto the field in a 1920 Hubmobile to commemorate the 1920 founding of the NFL, and how and where it was founded (see end of this article).

The Chicago Bears 1,000-game history started in Decatur, Ill. in 1920 when the Staley Starch Company decided to sponsor a football team. Then on September 17, 1920, the Staleys, with George Halas as their representative, joined the American Professional Football Association, which was renamed the National Football League in 1922.

Chicago Bears owner and former head coach George Halas shakes hands with Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Jack Lambert before the coin toss of Super Bowl XIII. Also in the photo are Steelers players Joe Greene (#75) and Sam Davis (#57).

Skip to 4:20 for the car to drive onto the field

Both teams entered the game with the best defenses in the league (the Cowboys only allowed 107.6 rushing yards per game while the Steelers only allowed 107.8)

this was the final Super Bowl telecast, and his last major event for NBC, before moving to CBS later in 1979.

The matchup of quarterbacks Terry Bradshaw and Roger Staubach is still the only one in Super Bowl history to feature two quarterbacks with two Super Bowl victories. This was the first Super Bowl that featured a rematch of a previous one (the Steelers had previously beaten the Cowboys, 21–17, in Super Bowl X), and both teams were attempting to be the first club to win a third Super Bowl.

Due to its thrilling nature and the performances by both teams leading to a close game, it is considered one of the greatest Super Bowls.

The game featured a combined 26 Hall of Famers (15 from the Steelers and 11 from the Cowboys).

This was the first Super Bowl played on grass to match two teams which played their home games on artificial turf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XIII

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=864232412164436&set=a.674514111136268

https://www.facebook.com/ghostsoftheorangebowl/photos/a.446756302025217/5741400359227425/

Ralph Hay, an Ohio car dealer with a Hupmobile showroom at the corner of Second and Cleveland streets in Canton, became the owner of the highly successful Canton Bulldogs in 1918. Over the next few years, he and other pro football team owners began to realize that an organization to oversee many teams on a national level that could also standardize the rules was the next logical step for the sport.

The result of an August 20, 1920, meeting at the Ralph E. Hay Motor Company in Canton, Ohio, which was attended by representatives from the Akron Pros, the Canton Bulldogs, the Cleveland Indians, and the Dayton Triangles resulted in the formation of the American Professional Football Conference.

Less than a month later, a second meeting was held at the same location and drew reps from teams beyond Ohio's borders - the Hammond Pros and Muncie Flyers from Indiana and the Rock Island Independents, Decatur Staleys (the team George Halas served as a player-coach for prior to being renamed the Chicago Staleys after he became its player-coach-owner and then became the Chicago Bears), and Racine Cardinals from Illinois were among them. 

By the end of the meeting, the American Professional Football Conference became the American Professional Football Association, and 1912 Olympic Gold medal winner and star player for the Bulldogs, Jim Thorpe, became its president.

Also in attendance at that historic meeting was a 1920 Hupmobile, just like the one pictured here. Dubbed "Pro Football's Most Significant Automobile," according to the placard next to the car, George Halas recalled that there weren't enough chairs for all who attended the meeting, so some of the representatives of the teams sat on the running boards of the Hupmobile while making pro football history that night in Canton. 

Two years later, the American Professional Football Association was renamed the National Football League.

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2014/05/30/what-a-1920-hupmobile-has-to-do-with-the-founding-of-the-national-football-league

https://www.si.com/nfl/2014/05/27/nfl-history-in-95-objects-hupmobile

https://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/mystery_friday_foto_31_the_only_vintage_automobile_located_in_this_museum

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/sep/17/league-its-own-nfl-was-formed-car-dealership-100-y/

https://pigskindispatch.com/home/Football-Fun-Facts/Hupmobile-Showroom-Meeting

front page of the Seattle 1904 Automobile section

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22056485-snoqualmie-pass-1910-auto-crossinf

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22056485/snoqualmie-pass-1910-auto-crossinf.pdf

A Hupp car carrying who I think is Blackjack Pershing

 

State Historical Society of Colorado

https://www.loc.gov/resource/det.4a26719/

1911 Hupmobile has been parked in same garage since 1934

 https://www.donleyauctions.com

1913 Hupmobile Model 32 touring car with completely original paint, leather interior, engine, 3 speed transmission, brass lighting, acetylene headlight canister. The top was replaced in the 1950’s.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/197491484165115/permalink/322927471621515/

1936 Hupmobile Aerodynamic Coupe

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10216879420366471&set=g.712743252141034&type=1&ifg=1

1937 Hupmobile, rumble seat coupe

17,000 mile, rust-free Hupmobile Aerodynamic Rumble Seat Model G Coupe is just one of two in existence

The car’s owner was Maple McElvain of Spokane, Washington. There was a newspaper article where she was featured standing next the Hupmobile in front of her house. The article explains how this 94 year woman performed her own oil changes and never drove in the rain.

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2018/04/15/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1937-hupmobile/

1930 Hupmobile Bonneville Speedster

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=710263299320982&set=gm.1814847408597274&type=3&permPage=1

This is how crazy big the Durant Motor Car company was...

the New Process Gear Company, was the 3rd largest gear producing concern in the United States.
The axle, transmission, differential and steering gear plants owned by Durant were only surpassed by plants owned by General Motors and Ford.

The American Plate Glass Company is exceeded in size by only four plate glass companies in the entire world.

William Durant was the organizer of General Motors and is credited with having brought about the outstanding success of such automobiles as Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Oldsmobile and Oakland. He has also created or fostered a number of other important enterprises, among them Frigidaire, a General Motors product.

The Durant company was only 25 years in business when it bought up well respected competition like Star, Chandler, and Hupmobile

Durant had dealerships in Australia, Manchuria, and Chile for example. All over the world

Hemmings Dec 2010 issue
and http://dmacweb.com/documentation/articles/DMC%20Sales/SALES.htm

1932 Hupmobile. That rare car maker that no one will remember if you ask them to name a hundred American made cars before 1960

http://anyskin.tumblr.com/post/163952810267/artdecoblog-1-1932-hupmobile-sedan-2#notes

more good stuff in the AACA library tumblr

http://aacalibrary.tumblr.com/

Hupmobile Capital-to-Capital car, from August 1917 to Jan 1918 it went out to all the state capitals to promote better roads (and prove the Hupmobile was strong and reliable)

19000 + miles and this was just the lower 48. I bet Montana and Washington were difficult. Lucky for them the state capital of Michigan wasn't in the upper penninsula.

AAA was keeping tabs, verifying the hills climbed, roads traveled etc.

Here in front of the Columbia South Carolina

in Jackson Mississippi

In Oklahoma

in Texas

in Arizona

Washington DC

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=791712120473598&set=gm.1522908828886948&idorvanity=319578812553295

Found on http://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/

Hupmobile Baton Rouge to Detroit, 1914

"Join the Hupmobile family and get the utmost in motor car service and satisfaction, Capital City Auto Co." Fred Perkins drove a Hupmobile with sealed hood, crank handle and battery box 1700 miles from Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Detroit, Michigan.

found on http://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A193424

Ruxton, the car with the Woodlite headlights, the colorful stripes, and front wheel drive. Only 96 made, by Hupp and Kissel

Launched in 1929, the Ruxton automobile had a short but fascinating live. The driving force behind the car was notorious stock broker Archie Andrews, who recognised the potential of a front-wheel drive prototype being readied in the experimental department of the Edward G. Budd Company of which he was a major shareholder and board member.

The car itself had been designed by William J. Muller and featured a novel front-wheel drive system, which allowed the car to be significantly lower than its contemporaries. By manipulating stock and strong-arming Edward G. Budd, Andrews seized control of the project. In an attempt to secure additional funding from William Ruxton, Andrews dubbed the new front-wheel drive car the Ruxton. Even though the plan backfired, the name was retained.

In addition to the pioneering front-wheel drive layout, the early Ruxtons also grabbed the attention through the striking striped colour scheme designed by artist Joseph Urban. Andrews himself had no manufacturing capability and as a result the cars were built by others, including Hupp and Kissel. The stock market crash late in 1929 could not have come at a worse time, killing the demand for luxury cars. Production ceased the following year by which time only 96 were built, only 15 of which had been delivered to clients. Of the surviving cars, no fewer than 16 lined up at Pebble Beach this year as a testament to the design brilliance of William J. Muller and the blind ambition of Archie Andrews.

Found on http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/event/340/2014-Pebble-Beach-Concours-d-Elegance.html

Unexpected surprise in the Costco parking lot at lunch, a 1921 Hupmobile

What the hell do you mean "Unix philosophy molded car?" Hup.hu ?