Otto Puzzle,
We do agree with the sad face and the oh dear,
This is the condition of the car until monetary means are found to start its detailed and concourse restoration,
We first wanted to gather as much history as possible, thank you guys for bringing more history to the table.
Again, thank you Paul for your continued assistance.
We found the new article posted by PJ very interesting, as the author of the article calls it a "Sporting Car", we ourselves have called it a sports car because we have never found, in our research, anything like it, sooooo, guess it is a sports car, a first
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We also found it interesting and very complimenting that he used Paul Jaray as a possible inspiration for Ben.
We think that Tremulis was inspired by Bens creation, as a youthful 20 year old, he worked at auburn cord duesenberg, no hidden fact that Mr Buehrig and Mr Cord were fully aware of this car, >>> Alex , we fully assume, knew also?
On to new things, the paint:
The Harris car is shown in three different colors, per our research,
First it was "chrome metallic"
Second it was a cream-yellowish color, seemingly like the cord color, it paced a Chicago race in this color,
Third, it was painted a deep maroonish color, this was for the Indy Rod and Custom show where it prevailed as a winner 16 years aged at the time in design,
Duco Lacquer, wow;
Through our research, DuPont discovered that its new found base of Duco Lacquer allowed for
the development of "metallic paint".
It had been attempted in enamel, but never achieved the show finish they desired and found.
Seems attempts in mixing created greenish, quite ugly tarnishing, cracking and rough surfaces, together with a mountain of other problems.
Per our archive research and the help of Dupont archives specialists, we found that Duco Chrome Metallic paint was introduced at the same time the car was being built.
To our best knowledge, the Harris fwd Streamlined Speciale was completely adourned as the first with this special new paint,
The chrome metallic paint looked like a brilliant chrome finish, guess they heavily loaded the metallic in the paint, must have been outstanding with the red leather, red engine and other red details.
It seems that it took them another 2 years to figure out how to add blue and green to make colors available.
How do you gentleman want us to send the overwhelming mass of documents and facts on the car?
Your talents far surpasses ours, and we feel Bens creation in time deserves a well written in depth story, in all probability, there is enough to literally write a book .
Please instruct us.
What a great site and great bunch of guys,
John
