Quiz Archive
About # 166. No Winner: 1926 Dodge Deluxe
# 166 was a Mission Impossible for our well respected competitors. But maybe most were busy chasing pumpkins. Chrysler and Buick were mentioned both and close but not close enough! Chrysler has started a comeback years and years ago in Europe so didn't really fit the description. But there is another Chrysler label that will be actively marketed in Europe soon. It was only jury member
Kit Foster (check) who looked straight through the hints we gave. He wrote: You hint: "existing make, we don't have to explain from which
country. Recently they are working on a European comeback." I would say that the pumpkin car is a 1925-early 1927 Dodge sedan. (the hints).... (..) suggested one of the Chrysler nameplates, since Ford and GM have been firmly established in Europe for decades. There are only two existing Chry. Corp. makes, and the car's belt mouldings don't match Chryslers of the period, thus Dodge. Dodges from the Spotters Guide seem a pretty good match." ... (ill. Horwitz Collection)
Based on additional information (the advert says in smallprint: > - Sedan $895.- > - Special \sedan $945.- > - De Luxe Sedan $ 1075.-) During this period Dodge was, along with most other manufacturers,
introducing two series of models a year, one in July or August and
another in January or February. The July introduction was given the
designation of the following calendar year. Thus the "first series
1927 Dodges" were introduced in July 1926. That's what we would
see in an autumn 1926 advert. It would be a Model 126, "first sereis
1927. If the advert shows the windshield of the car we can see if it's
got the separate visor of the Model 126 in the Spotter's Guide. (The
"second series 1927" Model 124 had an "integrated" visor.)
The rounded rear edge roof came on the Model 128, introduced in
July 1927.
As to Standard, Special or Deluxe, look at the radiator shell.
Standard is painted. Special is nickel, cowl lamps, motometer,
running board step plates. Deluxe had bullet-shaped headlamps.
Add comment
Friday, 04 November 2005
# 166 was a Mission Impossible for our well respected competitors. But maybe most were busy chasing pumpkins. Chrysler and Buick were mentioned both and close but not close enough! Chrysler has started a comeback years and years ago in Europe so didn't really fit the description. But there is another Chrysler label that will be actively marketed in Europe soon. It was only jury member Kit Foster (check) who looked straight through the hints we gave. He wrote: You hint: "existing make, we don't have to explain from which
country. Recently they are working on a European comeback." I would say that the pumpkin car is a 1925-early 1927 Dodge sedan. (the hints).... (..) suggested one of the Chrysler nameplates, since Ford and GM have been firmly established in Europe for decades. There are only two existing Chry. Corp. makes, and the car's belt mouldings don't match Chryslers of the period, thus Dodge. Dodges from the Spotters Guide seem a pretty good match." ... (ill. Horwitz Collection)
Based on additional information (the advert says in smallprint: > - Sedan $895.- > - Special \sedan $945.- > - De Luxe Sedan $ 1075.-) During this period Dodge was, along with most other manufacturers,
introducing two series of models a year, one in July or August and
another in January or February. The July introduction was given the
designation of the following calendar year. Thus the "first series
1927 Dodges" were introduced in July 1926. That's what we would
see in an autumn 1926 advert. It would be a Model 126, "first sereis
1927. If the advert shows the windshield of the car we can see if it's
got the separate visor of the Model 126 in the Spotter's Guide. (The
"second series 1927" Model 124 had an "integrated" visor.)
The rounded rear edge roof came on the Model 128, introduced in
July 1927.
As to Standard, Special or Deluxe, look at the radiator shell.
Standard is painted. Special is nickel, cowl lamps, motometer,
running board step plates. Deluxe had bullet-shaped headlamps.
