1917 Roamer 4 Passenger Touring

Description for Other Makes Roamer 1917

1917 Roamer Model 6-54 4-Passenger Sport Touring This car has been owned by the same father & son since 1958! Click on the link below to see a video that includes more photos. http://www. dailymotion. com/video/x2jc6zv_1917-roamer-4-passanger-touring-car_auto 1917 Roamer 6-54 4-Passenger Sport Touring Car By 1917 high-end cars like Rolls-Royce. Pierce-Arrow and Roamer were making cars that were fully roadable that could literally go across country. road pavement permitting. Here at MissChiTown we feel very honored to be able to present an extremely rare and high-end touring car from 1917. The Roamer in this ad is not only intrinsically a fantastic piece of machinery and design (we just love the drum headlights) but also it has a fantastic history of ownership. We hope that you will take the time to read all of the information that is in this ad. The following is a description of the car from the son of the original owner and the current owner. The seller’s father purchased the car that you see for sale in 1958. His father James actually worked for Roamer as a young man. When James purchased the Roamer. the car had been used as a railroad crew shuttle car. James and his son had the car restored at a custom body shop with a body off restoration. The old paint was completely stripped down. The interior was redone with original factory correct leather. The son said his father drove this car to the top of Pike’s Peak. The car comes with a rare Hickory Knocker front bumper. As a young man James worked for an auto supply store and when they went out of business the bumper was part of his severance package. The current owner (son) has continued to maintain the car in exceptional condition as you can see from the photos. (Don’t forget to take a look at the underside). He put on new running boards using “Battleship Linoleum” and also upgraded the car with a new honeycomb radiator that was made special. The car also has period correct upgraded wheels. The engine is a 301 c. i. 54 hp (that was a very big engine in 1917) Continental motor built in Muskegan. MI. The car also has dual ignition with two spark plugs per cylinder. It uses a mag needle as the primary ignition. The car has a Moto Meter with wings. The seller has extensive information on Roamer’s including a “book of instructions” and Roamer’s Part List book for the Roamer for sale. In addition there are many articles and information about Roamers that include articles about how the Roamer’s set world records. There is a passenger car specifications from Motor Record. May. 1926. Lots of interesting reading and you are sure to become an expert on Roamer’s in no time. The VIN tag on the car reads “Trade Mark. Continental Motors America Standard. Registered and date 11 28 17 in Detroit. Muskegon. Mich. USA” Short history of Roamer Company. This was copied from the seller’s collection of Roamer information but I do not know what book it is from just that it is page 1216. Roamer – Streator. IL (1916-1917) / Kalamazoo. MI (1917-1929) The Roamer resulted when Cloyd Y. Kenworthy. the New York distributor for the Rauch & Lang began looking for a good gasoline car to sell because electrics were ebbing in popularity – and decided he couldn’t find one. In association with Karl H. Martin (who was later to design the Wasp) and Albert C. Barley (who was then building the Halladay). the Roamer was consequently born. Its name. suggested by Kenworthy’s chauffeur. was that of a famous racehorse of the day – and it was an apt one since the car was planned to have racy lines and sporting potential. An assembled automobile. the Roamer had a radiator that was an unabashed copy of the Rolls-Royce from birth to demise. America’s Smartest car” was a company slogan. brochures quoted Oscar Wilde and used tony phrases like “a certain insouciance” to describe the product. The Roamer was a fine car and was introduced during the fall of 1916. By spring of the following year. Albert Barley had divested himself of the Halladay in Streator. IL and moved his reorganized Barley Motor Car Company to Kalamazoo. MI (the old Michigan Buggy plant) for production of the Roamer. Wartime contingencies held production down to the 1500-unit range annually at first. but the Armistice and plant expansion meant the Roamer could roar with the Twenties. though without either Kenworthy or Martin. who had left by now to build their own cars. the Kenworthy and Wasp respectively. In 1921 a stock Roamer with four-cylinder Rochester-Duesenberg engine was driven by company chief engineer L. F. Goodspeed to an unofficial world’s stock chassis record of 105. 08 mph at Daytona Beach. Double cantilever suspension was adopted that year. In 1922 the Roamer was joined by a smaller companion car called the Barley and a taxicab called the Pennant followed in 1924. Neither survived long. And the car that had been named for a racehorse was now on its last legs too. In 1924 Albert Barley had sold his company and retired to a board directorship. In the reorganization that followed the firm’s name was changed to Roamer Motor Car Company. with George P. Wigginson as president. Now Canadian interest were largely in control though the factory remained in Kalamazoo. Most probably. the Roamer’s difficulty was that although it was a relatively expensive car (some models in the $4000 range). it was also an assembled car. True. it was to an extent “custom-built” as the ads said – in 1916 the Roamer was offered in any paint scheme desired by the owner. with the factory providing “ a lengthy list of color combinations” as a guide – but there remained an onus in a large part of the public sector regarding assembled cars. Mary Pickford and Buster Keaton bought Roamers. but there were not enough other purchasers to allow the car to survive. It faded away shortly before the Wall Street crash. Models for 1930 were introduced but built only briefly. If you love the big. old touring cars from the teens that are highly powered and fully capable of cruising at highway speeds 50-60 mph all day long. (keep in mind that there are two spark plugs per cylinder) then this could be the car for you. Besides being a fantastic looking car and a great car for club tours it is also a highly dependable car in the opinion of the owner. Top this off with the idea that if you going to display your car in a particular museum you would be able to travel to almost every other museum in the United States and you would likely not see another Roamer. Yes. that is how rare this car is. In 1917 Rolls-Royce was considered to be the most beautiful touring car that existed anywhere in the world and the Roamer. if not better looking then the Rolls-Royce. was at least a darn close second. Check out the history on this car and the specifications and the pictures and we think that you will be fully impressed. XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxX All descriptions and photos have been provided by the seller. PLEASE SEE OTHER VEHICLES THAT WE HAVE LISTED. Click on the 'See other Listings' in the upper right hand corner. Add us as a favorite seller as we will be bringing you more great vehicles in the future. P l e a s e R e a d B e f o r e B i d d i n g "TERMS OF SALE" PLEASE READ ALL TERMS OF SALE PRIOR TO BIDDING CALL US AT 847-774-4857 with questions. 10:00 a. m. to 10:00 p. m. 7 days a week We hope that you will appreciate the beauty of the vehicle and the effort that we put into displaying the attributes of this car for you to realize that it may be the perfect fit for your collection. 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