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The Peerless Society is the 5th version of a Peerless website, the others by Steve Hennings, the Peerless Motor Car Club, or Joanne Pistorius between 2000 and 2016. There is no automaker in the 5,000 listings of "The Standard Catalogue of American Cars 1805-1942" more interesting than Peerless. As a western gunslinger played by Walter Brennan on TV used to say: "No brag, just fact."

Some come close ( the Standard Catalog even includes a brand my family built), but did Auburn ever produce a good beer? Marmons are interesting, but did they ever get orders for 8,236 in one day? Peerless generally was profitable, and had sales of $300,000,000 over 33 years, but did lose $1.2 M in 1928 paying down debt and preparing new models. Duryea, Ford, LaSalle, Locomobile, Packard, Stutz: all have their merits, but none went from laundry equipment to luxury cars to lager. The Peerless Company started in 1865. Somewhere in Ohio, I think Carling Black Label lager is still being produced.

from 3d scan to3d model  is a long process, the scan only gives you a wire frame mesh but obviously only the internal details that can be seen from openings, the wire mesh is used as a skeleton to draw inside of to create the actual part model, as you can see from these pictures the model appearing inside of the mesh and the overlaying mesh can be turned on and of visually

Every time I get a letter from Jeff he includes a hand drawn image of a Peerless.  I'm gonna use this thread to post them.  I have a lot so it will take a while to scan them all.,

1927 Model 6-90 Roadster Coupe.

From Jeff.  An article from March 22 1999 Autoweek magazine Ele Chesney's Custom Eight.

Originally posted to the AACA forum in 2006 .  This photograph was found  in an old house in Memphis being torn down.  The car on the right is a 1917 or 1918 Sporting Roadster.$2,295 F.O.B Cleveland.

Jeff sent me an April 1980 article from Special Interest Autos on Peerless and the Custom and Master Eight.  They did a history of the company as well as road test using a  Master Eight.  Some interesting facts,   the Master had a wheelbase of 125" while the Custom was 138".  Prices ranged from $2320 to 2340 for the four bodies on the Master Eight chassis.  The Custom Eight was $2985 to $3335.

You can find the article in the library here:

https://app.rumbleseat.com/club/2013/peerless-society/library/folder/SIA%252520Article%252520on%252520Master%252520and%252520Custom%252520Eight

These are notes from Jeff.

https://www.autoworldmuseum.com/

Have you heard of the Auto World Museum, the one in Fulton, MO? There are museums by that name in India, and Belgium, too. This museum 100 miles W. of St. Louis was started by a guy with a regional potato chip business, William Backer, and his daughter runs it now (Collection has 80+ cars, incl. a 1932 Reo Royale, 2 Packards, and 2 Cords). My records of Peerless cars, KPAIE, suggested there might be a couple of Peerlesses there and once I visited with a friend in 2016... they had a couple of Packards and a Pierce-Arrow, and I asked if I could see their 1928 Peerless I thought they had. The docent in the office said it was in a separate building, but she didn't have a key. A friend and I were on a 1-day junket from Lawrence to check out the '28 (and a 1926 "6-80" a dealer had in another town in central Missouri) and the friend said to the 18-year-old woman that I had just driven 1,600 miles to see the car. Meanwhile, I was banging my head on a countertop.

THIS YEAR, I succeeded in seeing both Peerlesses. Kathy & I were driving back from a 1700s living history event in Indiana last October and first stopped into Nash Simmons’ upholstery shop in New London, MO. Nash has a 1926 "Six-80" Sedan—more or less identical to the one Louis Chevrolet owned 100 years ago. [A.J., add photo]. We took a couple of photos of the car... it runs & drives and is for sale for $8000 (last I heard). I bid on it once on E-Bay 20 years ago — but didn't have the money. Having called ahead to the museum curator (Tom Jones), we were given the run of the place (since he knew who we were, former museum curators ourselves) for 1⁄2 an hour & followed Tom to a decrepit barn a few miles away where he and the Museum owner thought they had found the big 1928 Peerless. Looked at it and discovered it was a Marmon (missing the engine, but probably a 1930 "Big 8" Sedan). Then we went to the other side and found the Peerless, a 1928 "8-69" 7-Passenger Sedan. It has dual sidemount fenders. The heads were off...those were in the back seat...and the rad fan was in the front seat...but an ambitious restoration could restore it. Perhaps they could farm out the restoration of this "8-69". The very last year for the 332 Cu. In. Peerless V8s and their 13-year run. Production for the 1928 "8-69s" was just 362 — so it's kind of a rare bird. There were 1,762 "8-69s" built between 1926-1928. They had 133 1/2" wheelbases, and the research I did for the Auto World Museum suggested there are only 11 still around. I told the AWM Curator about someone who is restoring two of them, a 5-Pass. And a 7-Pass. John Lehnert of Belle Plaine, Minnesota. We've corresponded & he sent me a ton of information about them. In my letter to Tom Jones, I included some artwork suggesting how they could capitalize on the fact they are one of only about a dozen collections having all 3 of the Three P's of Motordom.