Motor Vehicle Chronicle May 6

The Brooklin 1937 Graham above is on my "get" list.   I am hoping Brooklin or somebody will gin up a 1934-36 "ugly Hupp" model.  (I really don't think it is so ugly; like the early VW bug, it kind of grows on you) Too bad we don't today have all those American made choices.

Thanks for your awesome weekly posts, Richard. Enjoy your summer. We look forward to you resuming in the fall.

Thank you for your work on this...I know it's hard to come up with something new 52 times a year. Looking forward to the continuation.

Have a good summer, attending some car shows! Unless Brooklin and others crank some more out, it has to be hard to imagine what fodder you can keep finding for this welcomed series. That 1937 Graham, with its out of date roof insert, gone from Chevrolet in all 1936 models, and the 1935 Master, with its first "turret top",  indicates that the budget was not there to keep this independent current.

Hope you have a good summer.  I'll look forward to the Chronicle's return. 

          Logan

I was wondering what happened to Richard's posts.  I've been looking for over 1/2 hour and then see that he's on vacation/break

Richard has covered the most common makes, and the ones Brooklin and others have made of U.S. cars.  Brooklin has made classics like Pierce Arrow, Packard, and the Marmon Sixteen, and certainly just prior to the Depression there were twenty or more now mostly forgotten, except by us car nuts, makes, but no models have been made.  (except rarely in other scales...there was a larger scale Peerless sedan model offered, which surprised me, as that make is generally unknown, and model makers often offer only the sporty or open models) There are a number of other maker Packard, Auburn, and Cord models that have been made in 1/43rd.,   Brooklin has announced a third Graham model, to go with the 1939-40 and 1937 models show above, for the early 1930's.  Hupmobile had two different, attention attracting styling efforts, an early 1930's cycle fendered effort, of which I have seen very few surviving prototypes, and the "ugly Hupp" streamlined version immediately afterward.  None of those from Brooklin yet......and not much hope for cheaper versions of these relatively obscure cars from anybody else.  There are these classics cited here that can be written about, so I will be patient.

Richard,

Can you tell me what cities the Graham-Paige factories were in?

Dennis

philg posted:

Thanks for your awesome weekly posts, Richard. Enjoy your summer. We look forward to you resuming in the fall.

"DITTO"...i too look forward to to this forum topic every week...enjoy the time off...

Howard...

From what I can quickly find, Dodge in Detroit bought the Graham truck company, all of it, in 1925 and that became Dodge trucks.  The three Graham brothers  stayed on the board into 1926, when they resigned to form Graham-Paige.  This year Graham under Dodge built a new truck plant in Stockton, Calif. and trucks were sold as Grahams through 1928.  I think that Paige was originally headquartered in Kokomo, Ind., but the Graham brothers bought it and began their line of Graham-Paiges in Detroit.  With the Graham truck now the Dodge, eventually Graham-Paige dropped the Paige name as they had the Paige car.  (some of this is from memory, so...hopefully it is close)