I'm in love with the Ruxton, and those awesome headlights

Rita LaRoy from http://caughtatthecurb.blogspot.com/

Unusual, rare, and restored cars from the 1920's and 30's at the Nethercutt musuem

I hope you've been looking at my blog long enough to recognize these headlights as my favorite, they are the Woodlight type http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/woodlight%20headlights , and only came on two cars I know of, the DuPont occasionally, and this 1930 Ruxton in its factory paint, stripes of reds. Three other cars have had woodlights, a Stutz, Cord, and an Auburn but I suspect they were added by the owners. Most unusual for factory paint, but it was the midst of the great depression, and this was a luxury car that needed potential buyers attention. ( just like the glam rockers of the 70's and 80's and the big hair and makeup )

The above is movie star Fatty Arbuckle's 1923 McFarlan model 154 knickerbocker cabriolet

The above yellow is a 1934 Packard

Above and below, 1932 Mayback DS 8 / convertible cabriolet

the above is a 1925 Locomobile 48/ Victoria sedan

the above is a Toledo tiller steered, ever notice that a kids little red wagon has a handle that flips up or down, and is a very small example of a horse drawn wagon? Transpose that thought to the tiller steered early horse-less carriages and the way they had tiller steering that resembles a flipped up wagon tongue

On the left is the blue with a hood that looks like the Renault of the same era, but the Franklin was American and this example is a 1912 model G

This green with white baloon treadless tires is a 1906 Franklin, and particularly striking is the barrel shaped hood. The round hood was replaced by the slope hood like the 1912 Franklin above this

Beautiful brass accentuation pieces adorning this green and black Franklin

1910 Pierce Arrow 7 passenger touring

1912 White model GF

and the Lalique crystal hood ornament collection.

1928 through 1931 DuPont car gallery from Dieselpunks, images were from Supercars.net

found at http://www.dieselpunks.org/photo/album/list?xg_pw=&page=9

Woodlight Headlights, my number one in the headlight design world.. E&J come in 2nd place

Above 3 images from http://www.dieselpunks.org/photo/albums

Above photos of the 1929 Auburn Cabin Speedster and 1929 Stutz M-8 from http://www.tuningforum.cz/

the above 2 are Du Pont cars, the bottom I don't know.. probably another model of Du Pont, but it has different louvers on the hood sides

As far as I've seen, only Ruxton and Du Pont had the Woodlight as standard lights. I read somewhere they were lousy for lighting the road ahead.

Photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=927

For a great writeup of E&J headlights, see http://hotroddisorder.blogspot.com/2011/01/1920s-edmunds-jones-weird-torpedo.html

Woodlight headlights, very cool looking, very rare. It figures they are in high demand

I am a fan of the design of these headlights, and if you want to see more, click this link and see all the rest I've posted: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/woodlight%20headlights

On the Blastolene B-702, also known as the french curve. Beautiful work of art, a full gallery here: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/11/b-702-beautiful-design-by-blastolene.html

Those woodlights were stock on the Ruxton (top) and the Cord (below)

For more about the Ruxton: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/05/ruxton-legendary-in-classic-american.html

Images from http://www.airbrushtour.com/blastolene-b-702/2008/02/06/ and http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/event_list/&mode=recent