Author Topic: Solved: PN #707 -- automobile gymkhana at Brookline Country Club, October, 1937 (Read 2140 times)

ropat53 · « **Reply #26 on:** November 22, 2014, 12:56:58 PM »

Anything to do with early car collectors?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #27 on:** November 22, 2014, 01:01:30 PM »

yes, actually it has got a lot to do with early car collectors. I am locking this for ropat53 so he can fill in the details

ropat53 · « **Reply #28 on:** November 25, 2014, 01:26:28 PM »

Well I haven't been able to find anything about this picture. The car on the left is a 1911 Maxwell Model AA or 1912 Maxwell Messenger and the car on the right is a Benz Velo.
Is Bill Harrah the passenger in the Maxwell and are the people in the Benz European?

targhediferro · « **Reply #29 on:** November 25, 2014, 06:02:15 PM »

Celebrating Joseph Kennedy who became governor?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #30 on:** November 25, 2014, 11:29:47 PM »

though technically it was unlocked, no harm has been done. No connection to Bill Harrah, there are no European drivers in the picture and no Kennedy connection either

So it is unlocked now. The question is, who's going to find first the facts based on the now very obvious clues
(Massachusetts, early car collectors)

4popoid · « **Reply #31 on:** November 26, 2014, 12:02:24 AM »

Anything to do with either of the Duryea brothers?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #32 on:** November 26, 2014, 05:16:34 AM »

no.

Please ask yourself, what's in MA which is related to "car collecting" ?

Wendax · « **Reply #33 on:** November 26, 2014, 05:42:27 AM »

Opening ceremonies on October 15 & 16, 1949, of the Larz Anderson Auto Museum?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #34 on:** November 26, 2014, 05:48:11 AM »

the picture is very loosely related to the Larz Anderson collection and not from 1949 (older)

ropat53 · « **Reply #35 on:** November 26, 2014, 07:48:59 AM »

In the Benz with top hat is Albert B. Garganigo and beside him is Ray "Otto" Basset.
"Ray Bassett liked to tinker with mechanical things and he liked to sit behind the steering wheel of a car to simulate driving. When Ray was in high school in Holden, he became a helper in what was to become the first privately owned antique auto museum in the country. His curiously took him to the picturesque Red Fox Farm, in nearby Princeton, Massachusetts after school hours and he developed a friendship with a gentleman known as A. B. (actually, Albert B. Garganigo). A. B. collected old cars and stored them at the Princeton farm"

pnegyesi · « **Reply #36 on:** November 26, 2014, 12:19:46 PM »

4popoid · « **Reply #37 on:** November 26, 2014, 02:45:08 PM »

Might two people in the picture be J. K. Lilly, III and L. B. Walker?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #38 on:** November 26, 2014, 04:17:50 PM »

pnegyesi · « **Reply #39 on:** January 11, 2015, 09:53:16 AM »

it seems you hit a wall with this one. So let me offer a clue. Think about car collectors in the 1930s.

Wendax · « **Reply #40 on:** January 11, 2015, 10:17:19 AM »

Any connection to Cameron Bradley?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #41 on:** January 11, 2015, 10:19:09 AM »

nothing

4popoid · « **Reply #42 on:** January 11, 2015, 11:56:55 AM »

Might one of the people in the picture be Richard Paine?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #43 on:** January 11, 2015, 01:33:35 PM »

ropat53 · « **Reply #44 on:** January 14, 2015, 01:34:41 PM »

The first VMCCA Auto Meet was held in September 1939 at the estate of John R. Macomber, "Raceland," in Framingham, Massachusetts. More than 75 veteran cars were exhibited and early motoring celebrities present included Freeland O. Stanley, Charles B. King, Fred Marriott, Ralph DePalma, and George Whitney.

pnegyesi · « **Reply #45 on:** January 14, 2015, 01:54:08 PM »

This event is pre-1939 but it is very much related to the VMCCA. So again locked for you!

pnegyesi · « **Reply #46 on:** April 12, 2015, 06:49:26 AM »

Should this one be sent to the BH?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #47 on:** May 31, 2015, 12:31:52 PM »

To the black hole

oko94 · « **Reply #48 on:** November 16, 2016, 01:20:56 PM »

Is it related to the creation of VMCCA in December 1938 ?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #49 on:** November 16, 2016, 02:07:49 PM »

no, but if you look at the early history of the club you can find soe additional and very helpful clues

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Author Topic: Solved: PN #707 -- automobile gymkhana at Brookline Country Club, October, 1937 (Read 2140 times)