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Two Guys and a Car #509 - Albert E. Smith, Antonio Moreno, Smith "Baby Racer"
« on: July 28, 2013, 08:15:26 AM »
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Re: Two Guys and a Car #509
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2013, 05:05:02 AM »
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Re: Two Guys and a Car #509
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2013, 11:19:11 AM »
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Re: Two Guys and a Car #509
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2013, 12:53:48 PM »
The car seems to be one of Art Smith's Baby Vanderbilt Racers, seen here together with the Buick Bug and Art Smith's Comet in 1920.
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Re: Two Guys and a Car #509
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2013, 01:01:54 PM »
Art Smith's baby cars were Harley-powered and built in 1915. The puzzle car probably was the one below in the middle, resembling the Fiat:
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Re: Two Guys and a Car #509
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2013, 04:30:54 PM »
You've found the car - can you finish the puzzle?

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Re: Two Guys and a Car #509
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2013, 08:25:15 AM »
You may unlock. I can't find that particular picture.
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Re: Two Guys and a Car #509
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2013, 08:37:14 AM »
Very well - as you wish
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Re: Two Guys and a Car #509
« Reply #8 on: August 11, 2013, 08:55:05 AM »
I can't find it either. Is the suited man the promoter of Baby Racing, Phil T. Hanna ? The driver looks familiar, and I can't stop thinking of Raplh de Palma. who endorsed the series, although it doesn't really seem to be him.
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Re: Two Guys and a Car #509
« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2013, 09:05:12 AM »
Not them.
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Re: Two Guys and a Car #509
« Reply #10 on: August 11, 2013, 09:18:14 AM »
Albert E. Smith, one of the founders of the Vitagraph motion picture company, stands with a cigar in his mouth looking down at the silent film star Antonio Moreno (also with cigar) sitting at the wheel of a small racing car just outside the Vitagraph studio gates in East Hollywood, California. The miniature automobile is an Art Smith Special with 1920 California license plates, no doubt the same car mentioned in the advertisement below: ACTORS' FUND FESTIVAL "Five mile auto race between Tony Moreno in Art Smith baby racer and Tod Sloan driving the Stagg-Packard Special." Los Angeles Times, 3 June 1921, p. II 10.
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Re: Two Guys and a Car #509
« Reply #11 on: August 11, 2013, 09:21:45 AM »
An original copy of this pic was for sale on EBAY a few weeks back with a caption sheet.
regards terry
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Re: Two Guys and a Car #509
« Reply #12 on: August 11, 2013, 12:43:36 PM »
Not easy to find "Al Smith" when you are looking for "Art Smith".  :sigh:
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Re: Two Guys and a Car #509
« Reply #13 on: August 12, 2013, 03:20:34 AM »
Well solved.
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Re: Two Guys and a Car #509
« Reply #14 on: August 12, 2013, 03:22:47 AM »
Quote from: 660851 on August 11, 2013, 09:21:45 AM
An original copy of this pic was for sale on EBAY a few weeks back with a caption sheet.
regards terry

I don't know about 'original'. I think there is a booming cottage industry of people who find pictures online, and then print, frame and sell them.
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Re: Two Guys and a Car #509 - Albert E. Smith, Antonio Moreno, Smith "Baby Racer"
« Reply #15 on: August 12, 2013, 04:48:01 AM »
Anycase, what exactly is an "original copy"?!
It seems a bit of a contradiction in terms.
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Re: Two Guys and a Car #509 - Albert E. Smith, Antonio Moreno, Smith "Baby Racer"
« Reply #16 on: August 12, 2013, 05:12:05 AM »
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