1907 Stevens Duryea Dealership Brochures on My Car Story with Lou Costabile

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On "My Car Story" we're in the Suburbs of Phoenix AZ on 2-1-24.
We're looking at 1907 Stevens Duryea Dealership Brochures and Ad Materials in this “extended version” of the “trunk & treats” for the 1907 Stevens Duryea car which will be featured at the end of this video where you can click on that link. The car's info is provided by Alan Travis.
He has collected these items for years that he's sharing with us today.
ENJOY!

[@loucostabile]

Hi, If you like this video, please click on SUPER THANKS ❤ with the $ in the middle which is the SUPER THANKS button under the video. Thank you! Lou

[@JeffKing310]

What a great Car Story! Definitely a different era.

[@loucostabile]

Hi Jeff, Happy to read you enjoy this story :-) Lou

[@audieconrad8995]

Lou, such a good story! Gr8 car. Fantastic.

[@loucostabile]

Audie, Happy to read you enjoy this story and car :-) Lou

[@JaimeSalcedoA_72]

And as a completion of the previous video, this amazing collection of very well preserved pamphlets and manuals! The paper and printing is of such quality, they look like yesterday! As Mr. Travis mentioned, "These aren't cars you bought and replaced in about three years; they were meant to be kept for the rest of your life!" The "trunk & treats" were very good, Lou!

[@loucostabile]

Hi Jaime, You're right, the paper looks like it's brand new. Amazing to see this documentation with a car of this age, Lou

[@bruceh92]

All this stuff really makes ownership even more special. Nicely done guys.

[@loucostabile]

Hi Bruce H., Happy to share these documents with you, Lou

[@СергійШамін]

Дуже цікаво! Добре,що всі ці книжки збереглися! Минула епоха ...Дякую!

[@loucostabile]

Hi Сергій, "It's good that all these books have survived!" I agree. You're welcome, Lou

[@stevebyrne4235]

Fantastic documentation, thanks for the video.

[@loucostabile]

Hi Steve, Happy to read you enjoy this documentation. You're welcome, Lou

[@acatal2464]

This is very interesting they way these cars are sold through brochures.

[@loucostabile]

Happy to read you found this "very interesting" :-) I found it interesting too.

[@robertcounts5300]

way cool story! my uncle had 2 cars at Rockefeller, a 1912 locomoble and a 1907 Packard, the Locomoble went to Reno maybe the Packard did to. When Petit Jean opened in 1964 my uncle came down and I was there for the opening, I was 6 years old

[@loucostabile]

Hi Robert, You're Uncle had cool cars. Thank you for sharing. I have only seen (and a ride too) one Locomobile, and here it is. Lou kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6enmWWIr7tsmsU

[@robertcounts5300]

@@loucostabile forgive me I'm about to get long winded, You have stirred up a lot of great memories. My uncle knew some big wigs at Pontiac, his daily drivers were Bonneville convertibles, 1 was 1966 and 1 was a 1969, in 1972(or 71) he gets a call from one of the wigs and the guy said "we have 2 Le Mans sport coup convertibles coming off the line and there will not be any more convertibles made, ever, you want one? It was a nice car white top and interior paint was buckskin tan, towing package. The guy who owned the Locomoble when he sold it to Rockefeller the deal was if it ever came up for sell he would have the right of first refusal, the old man died and son sold the cars to Harrah's. So my uncle when to Harrah's with cash and the Le Mans to try to buy the car for his friend. Harrah's had a locomoble same year same model that his people had restored on display. Uncle was told {"we will put you up for a few days and give you run of the place while we pull our car off the floor and look at both cars. 3 days later they told him " We are going to keep the car you restored but we will sell our car that our people restored to you. I am not sure what happened to the car when the collection was sold, I could not find a record of it in the sale. My uncle also owned a Thomas Flyer same year as the car that did the "Great Race" had it so it looked like the car that did the race, he and my aunt Peggy would go on tours and wear "dusters" and hats from that time. I read on a web site called only Packard's they had a list of cars that included ownership and who restored it and current photos of the cars. I noticed that he would buy the car then restore it and about a year later he would sell it back to the people he had got it from, maybe for insurance reasons. The car he showed up with for the Petite Jean car collection opening was a 1907? Packard limo, they had a contest where car owners would drive across a field and a passenger would take a pitch fork and stab potatoes, his youngest girl was in charge of the pitch fork and she could not get even 1 potato and uncle was real mad because he wanted more business from Rockefeller. Other car he owned were a 1910 Hupmoble runabout, a 1939 Bantam runabout. Another friend of his was Dick Teague, yes that "Dick Teague", Mr Teague had drawn up plans for a 5 passenger Packard that was to be build on a runabout frame i think it was a 1908 frame, you know that Packard never made a 5 passenger car. Sadly my uncle passed before the car was complete. My uncle had an 8th grade education and was able to learn how they built the bodies and how the machining was done, he had a friend who owned 4 tool and die companies and this guy taught him how to cut teeth on gears and how the interior (tuck and roll) was sewed together, his sewing machine was from that time and ever the chair he sat in was from that time (1907) some how my mother talked him out of that chair and he built his own wood wheels with an 8TH GRADE EDUCATION!. He was also into Nash Metropolitan and Wizzer motors that were mounted on Schwinn bicycles. I looked up to him as you can tell and the most important thing I learned from him was if a job is worth doing then do it the right way! thanks Lou

[@tommywatterson5276]

You got a Chilton Service Manual with your $ 400,000.00 car. Nice !

[@loucostabile]

:-)