1920 Cunningham Series V-3 Touring
1920 Cunningham Series V-3 in Spite Marriage, Movie, 1929
Class: Cars, Convertible — Model origin: 
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Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase
Comments about this vehicle
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◊ 2009-01-21 22:30 |
Nash? www.ojaivintagevehicles.com/Photographs/1923_nash_touring.jpg Then again, the front fender looks like a Kissel. vehicle_75861-Kissel-Coach-1921.html -- Last edit: 2009-01-21 22:57:44 |
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◊ 2009-01-22 03:16 |
Too heavy to be a Nash, wrong radiator shape for a Kissel. I think it is a Locomobile - one of the not-so-big ones from the mid-1920s. Those big drum headlights - maybe Bausch and Lombs? - suggest an upmarket car. Note it has no running boards, only step plates - another sign of an upmarket car. I think the side lights on the front fenders might be a later addition. |
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◊ 2009-01-22 06:04 |
To me it looks like a 1920 Cunningham Series V-3 Touring. |
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◊ 2009-01-22 07:47 |
I think you are right, the radiator looked like Locomobile but the front bumper and side lights didn't fit. I think it might be 1923 or later because it is on smaller wheels. That year they changed from 25"rim size to 23". |
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◊ 2009-01-22 12:22 |
It is a ca 1925 Cunningham V8 ( 100 hp 442 cu.in.) Open Touring.A picture of the same car did appear on page 109 in John Bentley's " Antique Automobiles" Fawcett Book Publications in 1952.It has exactly the same wheels , side mounts bolds, belt line and step plates without running boards as seen on this one.The side lights on the fenders were standard equipment by the mid twenties.The 1920 V3 model had bigger wheels and older lines. These cars could be equipped with French four wheel brakes by Perrot at $250 extra above the astronomic selling price of $ 5800 and weighed a hefty 4600 pounds.Direct drive third speed plus an overdrive gave high performances |
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◊ 2009-01-22 23:31 |
Well – the car still has the old style, rounded radiator. Since the radiator shape was changed with the introduction of the V-4, by this feature we can be fairly sure that it is a V-3. Here is one from 1919 – note also the similarly ascending bonnet line and the same, single-bar bumper on both cars. http://www.trombinoscar.com/veterans/cunningham1902.html And here is a Series V-6 Tourer from 1925; the radiator is apparently higher and less round-shouldered, and the bonnet line is horizontal. The bumper had been restyled, too. http://www.trombinoscar.com/usanordest/cunningham2501.html The V-4 series was introduced in 1921, therefore our car can't be a later model than 1920. And it can't be earlier either, because 1920 was the first year when the company used drum headlights (which were indeed, as NZcarnerd suggested, Bausch & Lombs products). An overview of the history of the marque can be read here: http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/c/cunningham/cunningham.htm |
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◊ 2009-01-23 03:58 |
Going by what fortengo has written it is 1920. Perhaps in the intervening years to 1929 it gained the different wheels. The tyre size in 1920 was 35x5 (or 500x25). These look to be a fatter section, more like the 33x6.75s fitted from 1926 on. I know that when balloon tyres became available in the mid 1920s, many older models had their wheels and tyres replaced with the new sizes. |
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◊ 2009-01-24 16:46 |
I found another interesting document in :" Fit for the Chase ,cars and the movies" by Raymond Lee, Castele Book New York published in 1969 by A.S Barnes & Co.Inc. ( LCCCN 6827198)page 202 of a same model that was owned by Cecil B.De MilLe himself.Unfortunately car is not dated.Legend says " Mr. De Mille and his seven passenger custom-built Cunningham Eight".Curiously the tyres look balloon ones with the sidemounts appearing the larger and thinner 35 X 5 so later tyre size modification may be confirmed by this .Since De Mille rode a Californian bodied Locomobile( ex General Pershing Chassis) through 1919,a 1920 model year for this Cunningham is plausible.The De Mille's car shows a darker paint than the one above. |
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◊ 2009-01-29 17:32 |
I've had that book for twenty years and it's full of rare and interesting documents. It's also full of errors but none that should fool you, given your knowledge of those cars. For instance, he shows a picture of Lauren Bacall with a 1953 Ford dreamcar alternatively named Lincoln Continental X, or Ford X100 (a photo I've never seen elsewhere since) and identifies the car as a Studebaker. -- Last edit: 2009-01-29 17:35:25 |
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