Dec 04 2020

Film of the Week: 1960 Antique Automobile Rally to The Museum of The City of New York


This 8-minute film documented an antique automobile rally to The Museum of The City of New York on April 24, 1960. The rally was held on Fifth Avenue and led by Henry Austin Clark, Jr., owner of the Long Island Automotive Museum in Southampton, New York.

Can anyone identify the antique automobiles and/or their owners?

Enjoy,

Howard Kroplick

Gary Hammond: 1908 Sears Model J owned by Harold Kraft of Oyster Bay.


Comments

Dec 05 2020 Gary Hammond 8:36 AM

The auto with the plate “OLD - 1”  was Oyster Bay resident Harold Kraft’s 1908 Sears Model J.  See attached photos I took of Harold & the car back on October 22, 1978 at the “Town of Oyster Bay 325th Anniversary Grand Parade and Vanderbilt Cup Race”.

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Dec 05 2020 Michael Cain 11:54 AM

Interesting film! We have here Brass Era cars such as Fords, Buicks, Hupmobile and a few others. These were the cars collectors wanted in 1960. Sadly interest has shifted today to cars from the 1960’s and 1970’s. Cars that were built 50 years prior as is the case with the cars in the film. It would be interesting to know how many of these cars exist today.

Dec 06 2020 Gary Hammond 12:03 AM

Here’s a few more Tentative ID’s (some are very obvious) - what do you think?
#1 - HAC in a 1910 Buick Toy Tonneau (see attached LIAM14)
#2 - Cadillac
#6 - 1912 Thomas Flyer
#7 - Harold Kraft’s 1908 Sears
#9 - 1910 White Opera Coupe (Plate ANT-1?) (see attached LIAM12)
#10 - Ford (Plate OLD-46)
#11 - 1912 Packard Laudaulet (Plate ANT-18) (see attached LIAM12)
#12 - Station Wagon (Plate 7666DN)
#14 - Brush
#15 - 1908 Stevens Duryea (is this the same car that Walter McCarthy owned in 1978?)
#16 - 1909 Hupmobile Runabout
And Finally, the Ashtray being held by one of the drivers was from Clark’s LIAM - it shows the 1900 Columbia Surrey (see attached LIAM12)

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Dec 06 2020 Gary Hammond 1:37 PM

Here’s 2 color postcards from HAC/LIAM showing the 1912 Packard Laudaulet and the 1900 Columbia.

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Dec 06 2020 S. Berliner, III 4:29 PM

I’m no antique-car expert but the low white tourer at 1:08 (etc.) is underslung and so might well be an American Underslung, quite possibly a 1913 Tourist.  Sam, III

Dec 07 2020 Jim Clark 2:00 AM

00:03 – 00:24 HAC Jr in 1910 BUICK Model 10 Toy Tonneau
01:08 – 01:12 and 01:29 – 01:34 HAC Jr’s 1910 White Opera Coupe
01:41 – 01:46 HAC Jr’s 1912 Packard Landaulet
02:00 – 02:03 Warren Kraft?
03:16 – 03:24 Hewlett and Dorothy (Dot) Treadwell
05:24 – 05:36 & 05:44 – 05:52 & 06:06 – 06:16 Charles Addams
06:25 – 06:32 HAC Jr (with megaphone) and Charles Addams
06:41 – 06:47 HAC Jr
07:11 – 07:20 Mary Ullman

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