Stanley Register Online | Cars of Record: 1950-1955 |
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chassis 133 engine 378 model body stick seat runabout | image source - Antique Automobile, Vol 17 #3 It's
not known when George Syriac acquired this car, but he had clearly
restored it by the time of this photo at the Old Strubridge meet
in 1953. After passing through a few other hands, the current owner comissioned a spectacular Charlie Johnson restoration, which resulted in best-in-class honors at Pebble Beach in 1997. Today it resides in New Hampshire. |
chassis link engine 455 model (Type A) body stick seat runabout | image source - Berkshires Week This car has been in continuous use by the same family since 1939. In 1943, Hugh W. and Ray Kirkpatrick restored it, and in 1953 they displayed it at the Williamstown, MA bicentennial celebration, where this photo was taken. It has some 1903 mechanical features and the body and 70" wheelbase of 1902. Today the car resides in Vermont and is still driven regularly. |
chassis 716 engine 926 model B body runabout |
image source - Tim Martin Carl Ranta already had his car restored by June of 1951, when he successfully negotiated the Mount Wachusett hill climb. He passed away in 1975, and this car's present location is unknown. |
chassis 845 engine model CX body runabout | image source - 1955 Lakeville photo set This beautiful early '50s restoration by Earle Eckel made regular appearances at tours and meets for many years. It's now owned by his grandson and still gets regular exercise at Hershey and elsewhere. |
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1223 engine model CX body runabout | image source - 1954 Glidden Tour photo set Early New England collector Glen Gould started with 1909 E2 #4539 in 1949. Soon after, he acquired and restored this nice CX. The car remains in his collection, housed at the Wells Auto Museum. |
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3497 engine model H5 body gent | image source - postcard The exact date of this photograph is unknown, but the museum for which it was a souvenir closed about 1954. The original owner was reportedly a doctor, who added the creature comforts somewhat unusual for this sporting car. The car was restored as early as 1953. It's a superb example of a factory Model H5, and has served as the pattern for many fine re-creations. It remains in the same family today. |
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3595 engine model EX body runabout | image source - 1955 Lakeville photo set In 1907, Ed Hunter picked up this EX from the Grappotte dealership in Watertown, NY 1n 1925, K. B. Foster bought it from Hunter. In 1953, the car moved from New York to Bennington, VT., where Edmund J. Beagle maintained and operatored it until 1972. After Foster's passing in 1992, the car was treated to a full restoration and was shown and driven by Foster's son. Following 87 years in the same family, this superbly-provenanced car left the US for England, where it now participates in shows.. |
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3719 engine 226 model H5 body gent | image source - eBay In
1954, Paul Tusek took this Model H5, recently purchased from James
Melton, to England with a team of other early American cars. They competed in the first Anglo-American Rally (there was only one more). Here he is taking off from a starting line, probably at Prescott. The little roadster was popular with the crowds, but finished last in points, and in fact was unable to complete the rally. Later fully restored by Morris Kunkle, and then by George Hughes, it now resides in Pennsylvania. |
chassis 3768 engine model H5 body gent | image source - Antique Automobile, Sep. 1951 In
May 1908, a Mr. Hamm of Troy, NY bought a brand-new Stanley Model H5. A few years later, he sold it to a Mr. Roberts, who courted his wife in it. Roberts experienced some leakage, and was not mechanically minded, so the car was put away. Murray Brown found it some time during World War II, and had it covered with hay to protect it from scrap drives until he could pick it up. Brown mostly restored the car, using a painstaking paint and varnish approach documented in a 1945 Bulb Horn article. By 1951, T. C. Marshall had purchased it and finished the restoration. It has remained in the Marshall Collection ever since. |
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3923 engine F-891 model F body 5-pass | image source - HCC Gazette, 1954 No. 4 James Melton sold this car to the Thompson Products Museum in 1944. After resting there for nearly 40 years, Charlie Johnson traded them a rare flat-hood Stanley for it, and did one of his typical superb restorations. He has put lots of miles on it since, and continues to run it regularly. |
chassis 4213 engine model EX body 4-pass | image source - eBay Dean of Steam, T. Clarence Marshall, in his recently purchased EX, in this photo dated August 13, 1950. Remaining in the collection to this day, this fun and energetic car can often be found in this very same spot, being fired up for a drive by the Friends of Auburn Heights Preserve. |
chassis 4521 engine model E2 body runabout | image source - 1955 Lakeville photo set R. Gardner King brought this very nicely restored Model E2 to the 1955 Lakeville steam meet. After passing through other hands, including Carl Amsley's, it ended up in Colorado. Until recently, it was on display in Estes Park Museum. |
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5002 engine U200 model R body roadster | image source - Bulb Horn, 1950, Vol 12 no 5 Phil Andrews owned this car by 1950, though it suffered the indignity of small-diameter wheels, typical of the days before the widespread availability of replacement tires in early sizes His son sold it to Mike Simpson, who did more than one restoration on the car. It remains in California today, in a private collection. |
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5012 engine 6-13 model body | image source - Mervin Allatt papers, courtesy of Jay Williams This photo, showing a Maine license plate of 1951-1955, is labeled "Page C. Anderson, 11 Kendall St., Portland, Maine". Although it was found in the effects of early Stanley hunter Mervin Allatt, the car was acquired by rival early Stanley hunter Donald Randall. It passed back and forth between the Anderson and Randall families, but it has never left the state of Maine. |
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5195 engine 6-172 model 60 body 4-pass | image source - HCCA Gazette, 1952 #2 Lloyd C. Partridge of Chicago owned this beautiful toy tonneau in 1952. It was later purchased by Kenneth Butler, who installed a most ungainly wooden windshield frame, and sidemounted spare, and exhibited it in his "Time Was Museum" in Mendota, IL. It remains in Illinois today, having been freshly restored in 1993 by Howard Johnson, who reinstalled the graceful brass-framed windshield. |
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5250 engine model 60 body toy tonn | image source - HCCA Gazette, 1952 #2 The Packard Brothers, early Stanley aficionados, assembled a collection in the '30s and '40s. A 1950s visit to their location was described, and perhaps embellished, in Stanley Ellis's Smogless Days. This car remains in the family, and was undergoing restoration in 2010. |
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5967 engine model 62 body Runabout | image source - HCCA Gazette, Spring 1953 Ray Nelson found this car in about 1949, and spent 2 1/2 years restoring it to this fine condition. An early example of a car with significant new wood, the entire body and cowl were fabricated during the restoration. Since Nelson lived in N. Hollywood, he was able to make this one of the few Stanleys that appeared in multiple movies. One was "Rascal", in which the car appeared in a vigorous race scene and ended up being driven into a pond. Couldn't have been very good for the burner... The movie that many more will remember is "The Great Race," in which Natalie Wood actually drove this car under steam. It passed through newspaperman Scott Hall's hands, when it was the subject of a great article in Road and Track, May 1982. Today it still lives in California. |
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6029 engine model 70 body Touring | image source - Dayton, OH Daily News, Jan. 6, 1952 In 1952, Jack Price bought this car from the widow of its original owner, in Findlay, OH, for $70. It had been stored since 1922. This is what it looked like when he got it. He painted it and did some incomprehensible mechanical work, and it hasn't been altered since. Today it lives in Illinois. |
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6520 engine model 74 body 4-pass | image source - 1954 Glidden Tour photo set image source: flickr, clgoss77 Frank Gardner bought this, his second Stanley, in 1946.
He restored it, having it fitted with manual controls after a bout with polio during the restoration. He drove it frequently throughout his life, one of his passengers a fascinated young Brent Campbell. Today Campbell treasures his time as the car's custodian, and drives it regularly in the northeast. Couldn't resist including a recently discovered photo, from nearly the same angle, taken at an antique car show 54 years later, in 2008. The condition of that front tire attests to this car's regular enjoyment. |
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6819 engine model body roadster | image source - Bulb Horn, Jan.1955 As Paul Tusek drove #3719 through the British Isles on the first Anglo-American Rally, this English-bodied car came out to visit the entourage. By that time it had already been owned by Mr. Hunter for almost 20 years, and it sported a water-tube boiler of his own construction. Beautifully restored today, it remains, remarkably, in the same family, now a tenure of over 75 years. |
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7204 engine model 65 body 4-pass | image source - eBay Many photos still exist of the September 1951 race between these two fine cars, from Chicago to New York, to "determine which was superior, gas or steam." One is on the page of my favorite Stanley photos. But this photo was taken in July, before the race started, and is the earliest one known of this car. Today it is based in Colorado and still driven on steam tours. |
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7274 engine model 78 body roadster | image source - Bulb Horn, Jan 1951 This is the only known survivor of this model, and in fact is one of only two 20hp roadsters to survive from the aluminum-bodied late non-condensing period. Here it is taking part in the 1950 Glidden Tour. The car is still in the Marshall Collection today, and due to its significance, the Friends of Auburn Heights Preserve decided to have it restored. Through the generosity of Friends board members and committed donors, it was treated to a no-holds-barred restoration in 2011 and 2012, and is now the jewel of the Marshall Collection. |
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7644 engine 6-1307 model 607 body 4-pass | image source - restoration website This car's was exported new to England, and has a long history there. Here it is in storage in the early 1950s. The current owner has nearly completed its restoration and the car was on the road again in October 2012. |
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