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By Herb Iffrig on Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 04:17 pm:
Well it looks that way from here. 16 spokes on the wheel too. Just like a buggy.
Herb
By Les VonNordheim on Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 06:23 pm:Possibly early 2cyl. Buick. Not a 2cyl. REO.
By Dan Haynes on Friday, January 11, 2013 - 12:00 am:it looks like it was taped together using cardboard and popsicle sticks.
By Don Lyon, PDX, OR. on Friday, January 11, 2013 - 12:52 am:That car was built on a metal break. Every piece is flat metal. It was probably a shop project, Don.
By Wayne Sheldon, Grass Valley, CA on Friday, January 11, 2013 - 03:47 am:Good one, Dan H!
My Fuller had fourteen spoke wheels, front and rear. While I had it, I looked at a lot of cars to see who else had more than twelve spokes each all the way around. There weren't many, and the only one I recall with wheels like that was a funny looking one-off that didn't have suspension like this one.
My Fuller also had Mott axles like some early Buicks had. So I especially looked at Buick photos of that era. They may have had some, but I never saw any.
The wheels could have been after-market?
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2
By Dan Haynes on Friday, January 11, 2013 - 08:17 am:Wayne - you of all people would know what I was THINKING was "... Scotch tape and clarinet reeds..."
By Frank Harris from Long Beach & Big Bear on Friday, January 11, 2013 - 12:54 pm:This is way out in left field but the only small car with 16 spoked wheels that I found in my research was a one cylinder "Fredonia" built in Youngstown, Ohio
By Wayne Sheldon, Grass Valley, CA on Friday, January 11, 2013 - 04:28 pm:Ha ha, and a few other things, eh, Dan?
Wouldn't you like to have it, though? Whatever is under those fenders and body?
By Wayne Sheldon, Grass Valley, CA on Friday, January 11, 2013 - 04:37 pm:Dan,
Did you ever see the "model T speedster" Ed had about thirty years ago? The fake one he loaned out to a theater group? The body was almost all cardboard and tape but it looked great! I hadn't thought of it in years until I first saw this photo.
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2
By Herb Iffrig on Friday, January 11, 2013 - 06:54 pm:What are the chances that I would just find this!
By Herb Iffrig on Friday, January 11, 2013 - 08:42 pm:
Same type of car?
Herb
By Roger Karlsson, southern Sweden on Friday, January 11, 2013 - 09:19 pm:Certainly looks like it 
Similar frames, same shape on the front springs, same type of chain drive on the rear axle & both has 16 spoke wheels. Minor differences in the shape of the radiator and the rear fenders may indicate different years, but I guess this unusual car wasn't made for very many years?
The camelback type Indian motorcycle standing beside the second car was produced until 1908.
By Frank Harris from Long Beach & Big Bear on Saturday, January 12, 2013 - 02:03 pm:Now that is see it it may be a STAR two cylinder car. They had a huge horizontally opposed twin engine running a multi speed transmission and I don't know about the final drive, and you cranked it in the front just like this this one. We went on a one and two cylinder Tour and it attended. It is a lot like a Maxwell but twice as big at about 300 cubic inches. I have a VHS film of it and will look at the movie to see if that is the car. It will take a while for me to find the film. Frank
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