1910 Peerless
1928 Seldon and I noticed that this and the 1910 Peerless are moth barked Ft Washington
Showing posts with label Peerless. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peerless. Show all posts
Thursday, December 30, 2010
1910's to 1950's fire engines
1910 Peerless 1928 Seldon and I noticed that this and the 1910 Peerless are moth barked Ft Washington
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
"The Old Man of the Mountain"
An early Peerless auto was found in 1965 about to fall off a narrow ledge in the San Mateo Canyon http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&wname=San%20Mateo%20Canyon%20Wilderness (near San Juan Capistrano Ca.).
Seen first by a helicopter pilot who was looking for a good place to prospect for gold, and related to a San Diego restorer of Peerless automobiles, who got a team together and the services of a heavy hauler helicopter to lift it out.
About a 1905-1910 car, this came from a company synonymous with quality, and held at the same level of esteem as Packard and Pierce-Arrow. http://cleveland.about.com/od/clevelandattractions/ss/crawford_6.htm
The car had been driven on a horse trail to a gold mine and then used as a source of power, but over a half a century the road had eroded and hillslides had likely taken away most of the trail, until the car rested on the remains of 3 rims, and the other was hanging in free air over a 1200 foot drop.
