@Chandler-Six
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· May 23
Back in 1913 Col. Stanley was driving the 4th Chandler ever produced. This picture might be from 1921 if the car is wearing a CA license plate on the front. Notice at the time the car had traveled 269,000 miles! Not bad for a car built in the first day/week of production for the new company. Reportedly Col. Stanley made 33 round trips (coast to coast) across the United States.
· May 23
@Chandler-Six That’s impressive! It speaks volumes about the quality of engineering and manufacturing processes. After all, I’m leery about buying the very first of any new model, even from established companies.
· May 23
@Hupp31 agreed, I would never buy a first year car now, just look at all the recalls manufactures have today.
· May 24
@Hupp31 There are some gold standards for this rule. Maybe I should do a topic on it? The 68 Corvette being one of them.
· May 24
Quite a few period newspaper references to the Col and his Cleveland. I guess he crisscrossed the US many times.
· May 24
@alsancle That was certainly the era of the reliability run. Maybe that’s another topic we should start up.
· May 24
It’s funny the two opposite approaches that they used to promote the “One-Shot” system. A rough cowboy to suggest long service life and women and children to demonstrate ease of use.
· May 24
@Hupp31 Its reported that the dealers learned to dislike the one shot system as demonstrators in their showroom often left their mark on the showroom floor. You can image what a mess the system would make using a lubrication system that was meant to be used infrequently being used daily.
· May 24
@Hupp31 Also they are a major chore to try and restore today as so many tiny parts were made with pot metal!
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