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General Category => Sales & Auctions => Topic started by: Peelpower on August 29, 2010, 03:20:45 pm

Title: Pre war crosley
Post by: Peelpower on August 29, 2010, 03:20:45 pm

Spotted on ebay.

(http://i.ebayimg.com/11/!B1S0Rn!Bmk~$(KGrHqJ,!g4Ew5GZJQsfBMd65!n6SQ~~_35.JPG)


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.m748&item=330465678342&viewitem=&_trkparms=clkid%3D6060887212678498659

Title: Re: Pre war crosley
Post by: richard on August 29, 2010, 04:16:27 pm

believe even the americans had joined the war by 1942 ! Dec 1941 i believe , so not exactly pre-war

Title: Re: Pre war crosley
Post by: blob on August 29, 2010, 07:58:30 pm

I rather like these, though talking of Crosley's is the silver car captured by Jim an early attempt by them to produce a three wheeler? It seemed to be parked with the others.

http://www.microcar.org/gallery/v/worldmeet/jim/P1000806.jpg.html

Title: Re: Pre war crosley
Post by: Jim Janecek on August 29, 2010, 10:08:13 pm

The silver car is a 1937 Crosley CRAD prototype produced 2 years before the Crosley actually went into production.
(according the card on the windscreen)

a bit more info here:
http://crosleybook.blogspot.com/2007/09/who-designed-first-crosley-automobile.html

seems Crosley was simply trying to eliminate a differential by using 3 wheels rather than 4 but found the configuration to be to unstable.