Author Topic: OGB-290 Perrymobile (Compressed Air Car) by Frank R Perry 1945 Los Angeles, California, USA  (Read 3185 times)

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Please find this car

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Re: OGB-290 Name this car
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2019, 01:11:48 AM »
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Re: OGB-290 Name this car
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2019, 03:43:55 AM »
Seems to be based on a Model A Ford, but that's all I think I know.
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Re: OGB-290 Name this car
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2019, 04:39:39 AM »
It's a Ford Chassis, that's all my source says

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Re: OGB-290 Name this car
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2019, 09:12:24 AM »
....converted to steam power?

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Re: OGB-290 Name this car
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2019, 11:20:20 AM »
Not steam powered

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Re: OGB-290 Name this car
« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2019, 01:52:39 PM »
Compressed air-powered Ford by Roy J. Meyers ?

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Re: OGB-290 Name this car
« Reply #7 on: November 09, 2019, 03:10:04 PM »
Compressed air-powered Ford by Roy J. Meyers ?
Compressed air-powered Ford but not by Roy J. Meyers

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Re: OGB-290 Name this car
« Reply #8 on: November 09, 2019, 03:11:59 PM »
Compressed air-powered Ford by Roy J. Meyers ?
Compressed air-powered Ford but not by Roy J. Meyers
By F. E. Kenney?

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Re: OGB-290 Name this car
« Reply #9 on: November 09, 2019, 03:33:41 PM »
No

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Re: OGB-290 Name this car
« Reply #10 on: November 27, 2019, 02:05:39 AM »
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Re: OGB-290 Name this car
« Reply #11 on: November 27, 2019, 09:11:53 AM »
Was it designed between 1927 and 1932 ?

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Re: OGB-290 Name this car
« Reply #12 on: November 27, 2019, 09:29:36 AM »
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Re: OGB-290 Name this car
« Reply #13 on: November 27, 2019, 09:39:15 AM »
1932-1937 ?

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Re: OGB-290 Name this car
« Reply #14 on: November 27, 2019, 10:27:54 AM »
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Re: OGB-290 Name this car
« Reply #15 on: November 27, 2019, 10:50:54 AM »
1937-1942 ?

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Re: OGB-290 Name this car
« Reply #16 on: November 27, 2019, 12:40:51 PM »
1945

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Re: OGB-290 Name this car
« Reply #17 on: November 27, 2019, 12:47:32 PM »
Was it published in a magazine like Popular Mechanics ?

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Re: OGB-290 Name this car
« Reply #18 on: November 27, 2019, 12:56:40 PM »
Perrymobile by Frank R. Perry
« Last Edit: November 27, 2019, 01:02:37 PM by oko94 »

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Re: OGB-290 Name this car
« Reply #19 on: November 27, 2019, 01:06:41 PM »
That's the one!

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was there another version of the perrymobile?I googled perrymobile an another different looking one came up,it looks like a bubble top four wheeled car that runs on air and liquid and says its the only car that stores power while coasting.,Just thought I,d mention it thanks

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You mean this, "The Perry-Brauer Motor Company of Los Angeles, CA produced this brochure with a mail-in coupon to promote the Perrymobile."

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YES! exactly, do you think it was by the same person or a different man? by the way thank you! :)

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I really don't know