Jeff originally posted this photo to Facebook. Caption was:
There's quite an antique car collection at the Boothbay Village Railway Museum in Maine. Photographed here is a 1932 Peerless Deluxe Master Eight Cabriolet on loan from Anthony Cartonio. One of nearly 4,000 straight-eight Peerlesses built in the Thirties, following the exceptional Eight-125 built in 1929. 2018 photo by Big Daddy Dave
Commentary from Jeff @Peerless28
The car is an enigma. When you go to a car show you, of course, see rows and rows of '32 Peerlesses*, so everyone's seen them, right?
5 or 6 years ago, alsancle and edinmass and I on the AACA Forums had a discussion of what the car might be. There WAS a catalogue Master 8 Cabriolet...and there was a low mileage, fire-damaged Peerless Cabriolet at the Stelford Auction years ago. With enough scoops of inductive reasoning, one could lead us to this car via that path. This is not a Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky-designed Hayes body like 95% of the 1930-1932 Peerlesses, because of no swoop to the bottom door edges. The owner 10 years ago(the late Ralph Cartonio) said he thought it was a Fleetwood or Fisher body.
Jeff, this is supposed to be a 31 Master Eight Cabriolet. Any thoughts on this one?
It is. Missing the top assembly. Part of a VLC* in Missouri. It took me awhile to find, but here's a factory photograph of the real McCoy from a 2016 AACA Peerless Forum post: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
*Very Large Collection (i.e., LeMay, Harrah, Reynolds, Coffee, Staley, Rich, Nethercutt)
Every other year when in the Boothbay area we check out the museum up at Owl's Head & there is a great, multi floor antique dealer who focuses on gas & oil minutes from Boothbay. But, in all those years we have never checked out the RR museum. Maybe this year!
@alsancle appears smitten by the unusual body style (just what it takes to grab your attention AJ) enough to ignore colors and WWW! :)
I think it is cool Steve. Would be interested in knowing more about its history. A Peerless Custom Eight has always been on my list. A Master Eight Cabriolet or Coupe might be a good fallback.
SOME would have it that this is a questionable color combination.
But members of the court, please see exhibit A, being a 1931 Peerless offered on E-Bay in the same color combo. Don't pay any attention to the fact that this is a 1:18 scale diecast model...
...as some of you know, this is my attorney, Vinny Gambini _ _ _ defending me in matters of antique car paint schemes from the Color Police. My Italian relatives are all named Martegane, so I cannot claim him as my Cousin Vinny.🙂
