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Solved: PN #236 -- Gus Wilkie's Jeffery based coupe, cca 1905
« on: September 26, 2011, 12:58:43 AM »
Please identify this car for a point. Donor and builder of the body will worth a point
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Re: PN #236
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2011, 11:07:39 PM »
Experts?
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Re: PN #236
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2011, 01:26:10 AM »
Professionals?
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Re: PN #236
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2011, 08:29:43 AM »
Oldsmobile Curved Dash based?

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Re: PN #236
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2011, 10:55:36 AM »
No, but it is based on an American car
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Re: PN #236
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2011, 11:16:21 AM »
1903 Rambler based?

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Re: PN #236
« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2011, 11:30:27 AM »
Yes, it is based on a Rambler (not 1903, a tiny bit later) - though my source says it is based on a Jeffey, but that brand name was not in use 'til the mid-1910s
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Re: PN #236
« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2011, 09:33:39 AM »
Black Hole?
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Re: PN #236
« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2011, 09:10:06 AM »
To the abyss
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Re: PN #236
« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2012, 03:21:29 PM »
Waverly Electric Car 1909?

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Re: PN #236
« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2012, 03:50:00 PM »
No
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Re: PN #236
« Reply #11 on: March 20, 2012, 03:59:03 PM »
Rauch & Lang?

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Re: PN #236
« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2012, 12:15:32 AM »
Sorry, I did not see this. It is not a Rauch&Lang
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Re: PN #236
« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2012, 03:22:49 AM »
Ohio Electric?

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Re: PN #236
« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2012, 03:46:35 AM »
Nope
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Re: PN #236
« Reply #15 on: March 29, 2012, 08:49:09 PM »
Borland?

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Re: PN #236
« Reply #16 on: March 30, 2012, 12:20:43 AM »
No
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Re: PN #236
« Reply #17 on: May 15, 2012, 08:08:10 PM »
Baker?

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Re: PN #236
« Reply #18 on: May 15, 2012, 11:41:29 PM »
No
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Re: PN #236
« Reply #19 on: May 15, 2012, 11:47:12 PM »
Woods?

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Re: PN #236
« Reply #20 on: May 28, 2012, 08:42:33 AM »
I've found the picture, this is Wisconsin's First Coupe 1915.

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Re: PN #236
« Reply #21 on: May 28, 2012, 09:27:40 AM »
Locked for you to tell me the name of its builder and donor
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Re: PN #236
« Reply #22 on: May 28, 2012, 10:53:35 AM »
Acccording to Wisconsin Historical Society: Automobile alleged to be the first coupe built in Wisconsin. The vehicle was built by Gus Wilkie of Sheboygan from the body of a carriage and the chassis from a one-cylinder Thomas B. Jeffery Co., Rambler.
But they alledged is circa 1905.

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Re: PN #236
« Reply #23 on: May 28, 2012, 12:00:35 PM »
And you just got two very well deserved points
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