History We ALL Love a DARE! PIX of TRULY Extinct Makes?

Tiny image is the only one I could find:

 

Sold locally as a HQ Holden 1 tonner. However that tray was NOT offered down under

 

Same pressed grille:

 

Yep, poverty pack commercial grill Same chassis as panel van and ute (Your El Camino)! Sad to see the demise of local GM. Below are OT and may be deleted

 

Isn't it Mad Max family wagon?

 

The Cornelian



Birmingham auto, Falconer (Jamestown) NY


































https://sites.google.com/site/birminghammotorcar/home

 

I could see the photos in my email notification of this post but oddly they don't show up in the thread and I tried two different browsers.

 

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same here

 

There it is- your modern car, right there.

 

Yes, the HQ one tonner. $2200.00 new in '72. Extremely popular, and still a big fave of the street machine/ burnout / show crowd.

 

Mad Max was a Ford Falcon. As of 2017, the Falcon is extinct. 57 years, not a bad run.

 

I'm trying to imagine Mad Max in a '60 XK Falcon.

 

Have any of these survived? 1933-35 Coleman.

 

Answering post from 2010.
This is the show chassis displayed at various venues in '58-59. This (terrible quality) pic is from the late '70s auction catalog mentioned above.

This is the car the Blackhawk Museum had in its collection from the late '80s onward. It is not known if it truly is built on the Argonaut chassis or not, nor who built the car. Obviously from the timeline, it wasn't the Argonaut Motor Machine Company.

I found 2 short videos from a person living in Osaka Japan, driving the above roadster, undoubtedly the same car. It's starting to look a bit rough- corrosion on the headlights, body damage to the rear and what looks like duct tape residue on the doors as if the pass compartment was tarped over at one point.

 

when I was I young lad early sixties my dad worked in a local garage.i loved being there.a local man had a GILBERN GENIE car.(http://gilbern.co.uk/a-brief-history-of-gilbern-cars-ltd/).it spent a lot of time being repaired at the garage.i found it an interestingchange from the norm.

 

Does it have to be motorized?????
I get to restore this one in the Spring....

 

That Birmingham rear suspension reminds me of the 1914 Cornelian, with the four struts replacing the third leaf spring. I think the Cornelian is more elegant of the two.

 

The Hatfield Auto Buggy

 

Frayer-Miller Automobile

 

The Firestone Columbus

 

4.
The Monitor Automobile

 

5.
Okey 2 cycle automobile

 

Santos-Dumont Automobile

 

Do you have any additional information on it? It is most definitely the same car that the Blackhawk collection had until 1997. Being in Japan certainly took it off the radar, at least in North America. Is there a link to the video?

 

Here is a picture of the 1932 Hupmobile Model F 222, I restored in the 90's. Straight eight, and free wheeling.

 

A Beanie Boy hat is necessary for driving this car.

 

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1730231400337488

https://www.facebook.com/musad.hass...368447091/?type=2&video_source=user_video_tab

Car in the videos is not long enough (or I believe wide enough) to have been built on the original Argonaut chassis IMO... so where is the original chassis? How did this neo-classic roadster come to be called 'Argonaut'?

 

Thank you so much for posting that video- it is much appreciated. I actually think that the chassis proportions are correct, it was actually quite narrow in the main rail area under the passenger compartment- the mufflers made it look much wider than it actually was. The rear rails may have been shortened for the installation of the Glenn Pray Auburn body and the channeled appearance of the body relative to the frame may make the car look smaller than it is. The Argonaut's 126-inch wheelbase was very close to the Auburn's 127.

I spoke to two former owners of the Argonaut and both said that the car was built on the prototype "show" chassis and was powered with a 392 Marine Hemi and 3-speed with overdrive. One told me that the "car took two men and boy to drive." Apparently the clutch was extremely heavy and the overdrive was difficult to operate. Thanks again, it is good to know that it still exists.