Showing posts with label Mitchell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mitchell. Show all posts

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Celebrities and their cars

 1909 WC Fields in the back of his American Traveler
1910 Teddy Roosevelt in the back of a Mitchell

 1921 to 1924 Jack Dempsey behind the wheel of a very special McFarlan roadster


 1926 Babe Ruth being given an Auburn roadster

 Clark Gable in his famous 1936 Model J Duesenburg body by Bohman & Schwartz
The wonderful Mickey Rooney (loved his performance in Black Stallion) in a 1949 movie The Big Wheel

Saturday, July 30, 2011

the great art and variety of design in 1909 car company catalogs





 The Corbin 4 Passenger baby tonneau
 Corbin 4 passenger roadster
Corbin 5 passenger touring
Aboev is a 1909 Corbin I found on http://theoldmotor.com/?p=19172






































Notice in the above description the roadster is said to have a "mechanician's" seat. What the hell? I've learned a new word! According to Wikipedia a mechanician is an engineer or a scientist working in the field of mechanics, It is also the term by which makers of mechanical automata use in reference to their profession.