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1913 Buick Model 31 Touring

1913 Buick Model 31 in The Trouble with Harry, Movie, 1955

Class: Cars, Convertible — Model origin:

1913 Buick Model 31 Touring

00:16:20 Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene

Owner of this vehicle: DR

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Author	Message
sixcyl ◊ 2005-11-10 00:06
DAF555 ◊ 2005-11-10 08:26	It´s a Buick. What year I can´t tell for the moment.
sixcyl ◊ 2005-11-10 08:33	Nice, isn't it?
pilou ◊ 2005-11-10 09:52	It is a pre world war I Buick,looks like a model 31 Touring of 1913. It is painted in Buick gray with blue black fenders which were colours of that year. It rode on a 108 inches wheelbase , was powered by a four cylinder of 201 cubic inches of 25.6 horsepower and had a cone clutch.
carfan ◊ 2006-08-03 16:19	sixcyl wrote Nice, isn't it? Right on, But what's this? Right-hand steering? But Buicks were American cars.
Jun ◊ 2006-08-03 16:55	Carfan wrote Right-hand steering? But Buicks were American cars. Many American car was RHD in that day. (All the 83 US cars exhibited in the 1908 chicago auto show were RHD) ...And Ford T with LHD was put on the market. Model T was increased explosively and set the standard Most of all US cars were changed to LHD in '20s.
GodzillaFan54 ◊ 2014-06-03 19:06	Jun wrote Many American car was RHD in that day. (All the 83 US cars exhibited in the 1908 chicago auto show were RHD) ...And Ford T with LHD was put on the market. Model T was increased explosively and set the standard Most of all US cars were changed to LHD in '20s. You sure know a lot about cars! Where'd you find out about that?
andrepa ◊ 2015-01-06 02:05
14stutz ◊ 2019-06-01 06:27	Several years ago there was an advertisement in an American Car magazine, a guy was asking if anyone knew the location of the car from the film. It was apparently locally sourced in Maine during filming in 1954. I wonder if he found it? Its current owner may not know of its film history And note the close-up photo above, the spare tire is a Firestone "NON SKID". The tread consists of the raised letters. -- Last edit: 2021-01-27 05:15:00
14stutz ◊ 2019-11-03 06:11	Carfan wrote Right on, But what's this? Right-hand steering? But Buicks were American cars. Stutz was among the last...if not the last...American automaker to switch to LHD...in 1924. Also plenty of European (non-UK) cars had RHD fairly late. Bugatti was one, also some high end Italian performance cars. It has been said that RHD was preferred for cars that were expected to cross mountains so drivers could judge the distance to the (gaurdrail-less) edge.
DR ◊ 2023-10-29 19:57	This was the 1913 Buick that my Dad owned when our family resided in Colebrook, New Hampshire. To a little kid, it seemed like an awfully big car! Yes, it absolutely was a RHD and it was in pristine condition. I recall riding in it many times, including in a few parades (my most vivid memory is riding shotgun in the "Old Home Day Parade" up north in Pittsburg, New Hampshire. Eventually he directly or indirectly sold the car to the folks who were filming the movie "The Trouble With Harry" somewhere in central Vermont. After the filming was completed, the car may have been shipped to California or elsewhere - I don't know. My Dad has since passed, but I sure would be interested in knowing where the car is today? Hopefully it's still going strong!

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