Street Racing Cars For Sale: Sound Train

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Friday, August 12, 2011

Dan at Hemmingsblog finds a lot of cool stuff, but here is an unknown car - advertising trackless train

0 comments Posted by st at 6:30 PM

found on http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/08/08/all-aboard/ where they are hoping someone knows the year make and model, even better if they know when and where this was driving around and maybe have another photo

Sunday, August 7, 2011

A couple stand outs at todays annual National City Auto Heritage day at Kimball Park

0 comments Posted by st at 3:27 PM

For a full gallery of this 1929 Graham Paige Sound Train movie promoting vehicle from last years Speedfest: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/09/san-diego-1929-graham-paige-sound-train.html

Sunday, July 31, 2011

More cool vehicles from Steampunkvehicles.tumblr

0 comments Posted by st at 9:42 AM

1910, and I know I've posted about it years ago, but can't find the info,.... it's a custom coachbuilt body over a Rolls chassis if I recall correctly, funky looking.

1918 policeman in San Diego

this 1929 BMW R11 was available with the Royal sidecar

looking like a tank, built over a Tucker sno cat ... my guess is for "burning man"

and lastly two cars built to look like trains. They were great advertising vehicles, mostly used by movie companies to get an audience for the theaters, but the above is advertising tires and the below is lettered with American Legion, Miami Beach to Boston... maybe to sell war bonds?

Lots of great cars, trucks, trains and bikes at http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Trackless train, I doubt we'll ever see one of these in person, but they were once used to draw attention to movie premieres

0 comments Posted by st at 10:11 PM

for the gallery of the others:
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/12/1929-graham-paige-sound-train-and-mgm.html

Monday, September 27, 2010

the San Diego 1929 Graham Paige Sound Train ( customized limos for the Paramount Pictures Co for transporting movie stars to theaters)

0 comments Posted by st at 9:15 PM

This gallery is so extensive because I tried looking for photos of Sound Trains in the past and there are almost 4 decent photos on the internet of them, til now. I'm improving the amount of good photos, one gallery at a time, because someone out there will want a better look, or a different view of something this rare

This 1929 Graham-Paige Sound Train began life as a limousine, and then was sent to the Indianapolis, IN Harry O. McGee Company for modifications. These modifications included a large public address system. The limousine interior was left pretty much unchanged, but the front-end sheet metal around the hood area was rounded to give the appearance of being the boiler of a locomotive. A large headlight was mounted up front along with a smoke stack, bell, steam dome, and whistle. The chrome-plated bell had a wire running inside to the instrument panel so the driver could attract even more attention to the vehicle.

These vehicles were built in the late 1920s and 1930s for the parent company of Paramount Pictures. They were used for all kinds of publicity situations: to advertise the opening of a new movie in a town or to deliver a star to an opening in grand style with dancing girls riding on the seats located on the fenders.

For my previous post, with 3 different photos of the variety of the Sound Trains: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/12/1929-graham-paige-sound-train-and-mgm.html

For the only thing I've came across about the Trackless Train: http://www.lincoln-highway-museum.org/TT/AA-TT-150.pdf