Assorted images, Buick and otherwise
that I'm not sure where else to put
Yes it's post-war, but can you resist the charm of Pelle Svensson and his girlfriend Marie?
Car was sold new to the Indian embassy in Stockholm, then to a police officer in Malmo.
Svensson serviced the car for many years and ultimately bought it.
Click here to see Svensson's nephew Michael Schiebler's site.
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Which of these vehicles is more interesting? Both offer luxury in motion, and true '30s style.
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Thanks to Jeannie Neil for sharing this of great-uncle Leroy Otto Bullard and wife Aileen, in southern Alabama, probably in 1938. Looks like a 1935 or '36 Chevrolet.
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What, a Rolls-Royce half-track?? But of course Andy Chrisanfov has the goods on it:
'This is an Alpine Eagle conversion for Russian winter roads, said to have been made especially for one Mr. Lenin back in the early '20s.
The base vehicle [can you really use that term for a Rolls?] was confiscated from some member of the Russian nobility and equipped with
the so-called 'Kregresse drive' -- a hang-on device converting any car to a halftrack 'Kegresse audosledge'. (Adolphe Kegresse,
born French, lived in Russia and served as a consulting engineer to one of our former imperial departments. He was the very man
behind the later Citroen half-track lories upon returning to his native France [see next pic below].) The car still exists
and is kept in one of the still-numerous Lenin museums. RR Silver Ghost was a very popular vehicle amid the motorized
Russian nobility, being a well-built and tough chariot, quite capable of withstanding our awful running conditions -- even in winter.
The Czar himself had a limo on this chassis. By the way, the original Alpine Eagle tourer was a 1914 model.'
There was an advertising slogan for vodka, some years back: 'it leaves you breathless'. You might say the same about AC's encyclopedic knowledge of automobiles and their history.
Here's the Citroen referred to above:
That Citroen is courtesy Orlygur Svavarsson in Egilsstadir, Iceland, who has a website of trucks and other items of interest there. Click on the pic to visit.
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The remnant below isn't of a Buick, it's a McLaughlin in the Australian outback. This one was rescued, Hurrah! Otherwise I wouldn't show it.
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