this 1914 Mercer Raceabout, unrestored, was put into proper running fettle around 1940, and is still racing on hillclimbs! Thank you David!

Hall Scott was the company that employed the designer and builder of the model T accessory Ruckstell rearend, Grover Ruckstell

Grover Ruckstell earned his master degree in automotive engineering from Princeton University. He later became well known in the racing circles as head of the famous Mercer racing team. In 1914 Ruckstell and Eddie Pullen both drove Mercers in the famous Corona Road Race at Corona, California. The race track was a perfect three mile circle which still exists today as Grand Avenue. The competition was fierce with such drivers as Bob Burman, Eddie Rickenbacker, Earl Cooper, Ralph DePalma, and Barney Oldfield.

Ruckstell’s involvement with the two speed rear axle is reported to have begun in 1913 while he was working for the Ford Garage in Maricopa, California. The first axle he built was for a truck used in the local oil fields. This interest was cut short by World War I when Ruckstell joined the new Army Air Force and was commissioned a Captain.

Following the war, Ruckstell was employed by Hall Scott Motor Works, Berkley, California and became head of the Airplane Motor Department. While employed there his interest in the two speed rear axle was renewed.

Ruckstell was not the inventor of the two speed rear axle. However, he was the most successful entrepreneur who succeeded in developing the basic concept into a popular product.

http://www.chaffinsgarage.com/l-z/ruckstell.htm

Jerome Biederman (1919-1939) did a lot of Golden Age of Aviation, and brass era car paintings. The Detroit Historical Society offered a traveling exhibition of his work, Hemmings Classic Car did an article on him back in 2005

Born in 1913, Jerome Biederman was a nationally recognized illustrator of transportation. Whether his subject was an automobile, aircraft, or locomotive, his renderings were technically accurate and highly detailed. His medium of choice was tempera paint on illustration board.

After graduating from the American Academy of Art in Chicago, he entered the advertising world where he did almost everything except illustration. By 1940, he chose to leave the corporate advertising world and return to the creative atmosphere of a studio.

He was working for the McCleery-Cumming Corporation in 1956, a calendar company, who retained the artist to create six paintings for each of their 1958 automobile calendars. 

He painted for the calendar company for 36 years, and in the first 31 of those years, 186 automobile paintings were printed without interruption. A total of 444 Biederman transportation paintings were published in McCleery-Cumming calendars by 1993. In addition to the calendars, Mr. Biederman's automotive paintings were featured prominently in Playboy magazine, Automobile Quarterly and Horseless Carriage Gazette.

1893 Mogul Freight

1856 Baltimore and Ohio "William Mason" 

1860 Hamilton-Ontario "Scotia"

1859 Philadelphia and Reading "Hiawatha" 

1860 Rogers Locomotive Works 4.4.0 freight

1908 Mack Fuel Tank Truck

 thanks Steve! 

https://www.carstyling.ru/en/entry/Antique_Automobiles_Portfolio_by_Jerome_D_Biederman/images/14832/

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/jerome-biederman

https://detroithistorical.org/detroit-historical-museum/exhibitions/traveling-exhibitions/jerome-biederman-automobile

https://www.cowanauctions.com/lot/jerome-biederman-original-illustration-art-of-locomotives-lot-of-9-185383

https://www.cowanauctions.com/lot/jerome-biederman-original-illustration-art-of-locomotives-lot-of-13-3189336

the 1902 Thomas won the Pebble Beach's pre-war preservation category

“This 1902 Thomas is believed to be the oldest complete Thomas motor car known to exist,” said co-owner Stewart Laidlaw. “It was purchased from the Wells Museum collection in Maine several years ago which owned it for more than 60 years.” While the precise history is not known, the car was believed to have resided in Maine from new with only one wealthy owner prior to being acquired by Mr. Wells.

Speaking about the 1902 Thomas, Mr. Laidlaw remarked, “When we received the car we removed varnish on the fenders to uncover the original japan (black paint) on the steel fenders. An amazing feature are the leather straps in the rear seats which are still intact and typically never survive. The wood body retains its original green/gray paint, a color known as London Smoke, with gold leaf pin-stripping. The pin striping on the springs is interesting because the repeated ‘T’ outline pattern for Thomas.”

When speaking about how a car this old could be so well-preserved, Mr. Laidlaw said, “Wealthy owners sent new cars to their summer homes in Maine. The cars would be used only a few months a year and would typically be well cared for in carriage houses in the off-season. During this early part of the century, the technology was changing fast and these owners would purchase new cars and keep the older models. This is likely what happened in the case of this Thomas.”

the 2nd place went to the 1913 Mercer

http://vintagemotoring.blogspot.com/2016/08/2016-pebble-beach-preservation.html
https://www.historicvehicle.org/time-warp-1902-thomas-lamborghini-miura-receive-fiva-preservation-awards-pebble-beach-concours-delegance/

the first of the American sports cars, the Hudson Mile a Minute, the Mercer Raceabout, and the Stutz Bearcat

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/451023215030222/?fref=nf

And the most ever paid for a car with an Earl Scheib paint job

Found in the Dec 2014 issue of Automobile magazine

1918 Mercer of Coker Tires

Most amazing collection, or museum (might not be open to the public yet) that you've never heard of. The Price museum/collection in Salt Lake City

Just a list and a link to inform you with right now..

the Peerless Green Dragon, 1904. Owned and driven by Barney Oldfield
1903 Pope Toledo race car, Vanderbilt Cup and Daytona beach
1907 Renault race car built for William Vanderbilt to compete in his own race
1911 Mercer Raceabout, barnfind
1911 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, built for a hot air balloon professor, it carries the basket in back
1912 Hudon Mile a Minute, one of 2 known to exist
1913 Pope Hartford roadster Model 29
1914 Marmon speedster
1915 Stutz Weightman Special race car, winner in 1916 race in Wash DC
1916 Stutz Bearcat barnfind... from a barn in Cuba
1924, 1925, and 1932 Miller Indy race cars
1929 Bugatti type 35b owned by Chiron and raced in Le Mans
1931 Blower Bentley
1933 Alfa Romeo 8c 2300 Monza Spyder
1938 Mormon Meteor III land speed record holder
1951 Allard J2 race car owned by Jack Armstrong

these are only some of the most interesting, because I don't want to type all of he collection, so go see their website for more: http://pricemuseumofspeed.org/

"A rare display of the greatest representations of early racing history. Many of these rare vintage race cars either won or placed well in numerous renowned events such as the Grand Prix, Le Mans, Morris Park, Briarcliff Cup, Daytona Beach, Gordon Bennett Cup, Empire Track at Yonkers, Sheepshead Bay, Indianapolis, Mille Miglia among others.

The Mission of the Price Museum of Speed Foundation is to display unique vintage race cars and memorabilia, and provide an automobile research library for future generations of car enthusiasts to enjoy."

1920 Mercer Raceabout ( Not many Mercers at car shows... glad to find one!)

 as unusual as the speedometer is, the shifter below with it's shift pattern on the bell... that is something I've never seen another like

 two spares... because when these 20's cars were on the roads, they had to share the roads with horses that were always dropping horse shoe nails