Photo: Model T in pre-Colonial Williamsburg

[Arbs]

The Colonial Williamsburg that exists today has many 18th century buildings, but most of it was constructed/reconstructed by a project led by Rockefeller starting in the mid 20s. Planning started in 1926 and the first visitors could tour the reconstructed Raleigh tavern in 32. We enjoyed our visit and it got me hunting for pre-restoration photos. I saw quite a few Model A's in the photos but I did manage to find what looks to be a T.



Now it looks like this:



The restoration has an interesting history, including Rockefeller relying on a reverend to quietly purchase properties in town which eventually raised questions among the residents. More can be found here: https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/colonial-williamsburg/

[Wayne Sheldon]

The old photo above, the touring car across the street does appear to be a model T. The two-door sedan down away is a bit too blurry to know if it is a T or not. I cannot be sure about the nearby coupe, but I think it may be a 1928 or 1927 Chevrolet sport coupe with the fixed top looking like a folding cabriolet top. They were very similar to the sport coupe with dummy landau bars common (and neat looking!) on model A Fords.
In the mid to late 1920s, Chevrolet's styling department went crazy with coupe styling. For 1927 and 1928, they offered about a half dozen different coupe styles! Typical metal above the belt coupes in both business and family trim, a solid padded fixed top some sort of sport coupe, at least two variations of soft fixed top sport coupes. Some of the coupes, especially the sport coupes, had a rumble seat as an option. A few of the more common styles rarely if ever actually got the rumble seat although the sport coupes sometimes did.

A few years ago, one of the collector car dealers (poor reputation) back East was selling off some of the estate of a collector that had a thing for 1920s four cylinder Chevrolets. They had numerous photos of each of about a half dozen unrestored Chevrolet coupes the collector had had. He had apparently at least five different Chevrolet coupes of one given year! All different.

[TXGOAT2]

I think that's an upmarket 1929 or 30 Chevrolet coupe. The hood looks too high to be a 4 cylinder model.