Stanley Register Online | Cars of Record: Preservation |
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chassis 1305 engine model CX body runabout |
image source - Webshots, pparrish1 The history of this car is known since new.
It was purchased in 1980 by the Bourdon brothers, Don and Curt, from the family of the original owner, Albert Worthen. It has not been opoerated since 1912. The Bourdons preserved it carefully, sellnig it to another preserver, who sold it at auction to an antique car broker. It remains for sale in Rhode Island. |
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1511 engine model G body runabout | image source - www.StanleySteamers.com Little historical information is available on this car, other than it was found by Clarence Lintz some time before 1954.
One of the earliest coffin-nosed cars remaining, it resides in New Hampshire. |
chassis 4089 engine model K body semi racer | image source - Steampunk Workshop This legendary car was purchased new by W. S. Libbey of Wayne, Maine. Its outstanding performance was recalled in a 1929 newspaper article by someone who rode in it frequently. 60 mph was loafing, and 80 was in reach. Remarkably, it remained in the Libbey family until purchased by Richard Paine for his Seal Cove Auto Museum. It remains in the musem today, unrestored, an irreplaceable historic document. |
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4620 engine C02088 model E2 body runabout | image source - Concept Carz Antique car broker Charles LeMaitre discovered this gem.
He sold it to David Ault, who carefully preserved its exterior condition, and made it operational. Ault sold it to John Moir, who used it as "S" in his collection of cars with names from A to Z. With some mechanical help from the Stanley Museum, Moir displayed it at Amelia Island's 2006 steam extravaganza/ It was auctioned in 2009 and is now located in the JWR Auto Museum in Pennsylvania. |
chassis 4670 engine 2132 model E2 body runabout | image source - Greg Landry image source - personal collection In 1914, the Goewey brothers registered this car with VT number 4886, and posed for the upper
photo, miraculously discovered in an antique shop by a good friend. In 1917, Ormsby Goewey stopped driving it, and the car has been untouched since then, still wearing its 1917 VT license plate. Today it's in a private collection in Connecticut. |
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5148 engine model 60 body runabout | image source - Mike May This is one of the last unaltered remnants of the many '40s and '50s barn finds of Mervin Allatt.
It was made roadwortny with very few alterations t oits original condition, and is now toured regularly out of Tennessee. |
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5239 engine model 60 body runabout | image source - Tim Martin Edwin Battison was a Stanley enthusiast as early as the 1940s. (See also #479.)
He was a dedicated car seeker and researcher. In addition to finding the Lcomobile with serial number plate #1, and one of the few remaining chain-drive Stanleys. #134, he acquired this original Model 60, and preserved it. It remains with his effects in the collection of the Franklin Museum. |
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7164 engine 6-1095 model 64 body roadster | image source - personal collection This car was purchased from its original owner in 1939 by James Kuhn.
This may be the most active of all the cars on this page. Its Florida owner regularly drives it on steam tours, and continues to reinforce aging parts and apply TLC. (This car has since been copleteyly restored, and no longer belongs on this page.) |
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link engine model 65 body touring | image source - advertisement No history or serial number is available for this car, but it is clearly one which hasn't been touched in many decades.
It is located in California. |
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7646 engine model 606 body roadster | image source - StanleySteamers.com This
car, found and stored for many years by early Stanley hunter Mervin
Allatt, has been given just the mechanical attention needed to be
operable.
Here is is, exposing its historic original surfaces to the downpour that characterized the monumental 1999 Mt. Washington Centennial gathering. The car now resides in New Hampshire. |
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