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Howard, I'm with you but as you know we always have to sort the designs in the time of origin. I believe that perpendicularity in those days were a symbol of seriosity and gravity.

But while speaking of squared rooflines I would like to show you a Knightstown body. As Owen said, it is not really attractive (to choose the diplomatic way) but impressive.




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Perhaps not Derhams but I remember to have seen "cubes" on 22-23 series. Try to sweet-talk Owen to open his archive.


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Keith, you are the next in line. Look what I've found "in Grandpa's shoe cabinet".

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Yes, easily comprehensible. My quotation could be used as parade example, how we shouldn't use wikipedia. Spoken in quantitative perspective wikipedia is a compendium of free accessible knowledge that is able to bring down isolated kingdoms but afflicted with a kind of contour unsharpness.
Another of my mistakes was to talk about a "Sea Cloud" which has been built in Germany. The ship indeed has been built in Germany but its first given name was "Hussar I".



Walking the Plank: this was originally published in Pyle, Howard (August-September 1887). "Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main". Harper's Magazine.

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Dave, or even selected top hairs from the black tail-tips of young ermines, solemnly plucked with a golden eyelash curler at dawn.





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Mr. Valery Chkalov was the Soviet Charles Lindbergh. In Russia his fame is well preserved. Below a snapshot showing him and uncle Joe, sorry, uncle Joe and him.




The Packard of Mr. Chaklov in a museum, located in a Russian town, named after him: Chkalovsk.




--> This way you'll find two perfect pics, showing his blue car (on ZIS wheels).





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pic 1:http://todase.kz/zvs55/2011/02/01/chkalov-valerij-pavlovich/

pic 2 & 3:http://www.birzhaplus.ru/avto/?27446

To me it looks like a 1937 One Twenty Touring Sedan. The pilot received the car from Stalin himself according to this source (Russian).





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A Dual Cowl on display in Moscow.





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The label reads Super Eight 1104, built in 1934. It could be a 759 Coupe Roadster. The photograph was taken last year in Moscow, the car is registered in Russia.



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Nice-looking car. It has a Twelve front bumper, but that's a very common "upgrade" done by today's owners and restorers and probably even done by dealer's in the day. Also a bit hard to see definitively but the wheels look like Eight & Super Eight wheels (no double-rolled rim).

Thanks for posting - any change of getting the numbers from it?

Really nice.

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