1928 Porter Touring Car

[Robin]

(Car Lust Blog) - Today, building a new car from previously introduced
components such as engines, instruments, body, and chassis pieces is
nothing unique. Lotus even does it with a Toyota engine. But back just
before The Great Depression, when there were practically more
automotive manufacturers in America than there were cars on the road,
the idea of borrowing bits and pieces from one make and/or model to
complete another one was a brilliant, pioneering breakthrough.

Witness the 1928 Porter Touring Car, valued today as a rare treasure,
lusted after by antique car collectors...

Continued: http://xrl.us/1928Porter

[cuh...@webtv.net]

Quite a few Truck companies/manufacturers got started similiar to
that.Engines, transmissions, axels, various other parts from different
manufacturers.
cuhulin

[Stude]

On Apr 2, 4:38 am, Robin <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]>
wrote:

i think that a firm with cash could go to Budd and they would beuold a
car fpr them, using many parts they used on other cars. During the
high import tax days before the war, boxes of car parrts would arrive
at assemblers, where the cars would be assembled for a much lower tax.
For exampple, d"leterran (Spelling?) now a VW deaaler in Brussels
build/assembled Packard, Studebaker, Hundon, and GM US cars. They also
assembled Porsche and many other German Marques, like the DKW group.
All of one model for Porache were bult there.
If you can wrangle a tour you will be oin heaven for a few hours.
(No, they don'thave any spare parts kicking around.)
I was there about tenyears ago, so I don't know what it's like now.