The Family Car: "We always liked the way it looked"
"We always like the way it looked," is all this photo's back said. A cousin sent me a picture and asked if I had any idea what kind of car this is? I do, and I will tell you what I told her. From the shape of the car, with its steel wheels, its pontoon front and rear fenders, we have the shape of a car that could have been built from 1934 through 1940. What helps us narrow down the year of the car are its single panel, flat windshield - pre-two piece windshields that reigned from the mid thirties through the early 1950s, its "low pressure" style tires - earlier tires were run at high pressure and had tubes inside the tires, and its raked but "V'd" front grille in front of the radiator. This helps us narrow down the vehicle to pre-1936. So we have gone from a decade, to six years, to two years. It's headlights, however are the dead give away. The are bullet shaped, but they are chrome bullet shaped. And the only company tha...