The Air Cooled 1914 Franklin Series 6 Tourer

The Franklin automobile was produced by Herbert Henry Franklin. All it took was a ride in an air cooled automobile designed by John Wilkinson, a Cornell University educated engineer and bicycle racer, and Franklin decided to have his company build the car. Franklin’s manufacturer, the H.H. Franklin Manufacturing Company, began in business in 1893. In …

A Rare One / The 1919 Locomobile Model 48 Sportif

It’s common knowledge that the first cars during the late 1890’s and the first years on the nineteenth century looked a lot like horse drawn carriages without the horse. It’s somewhat understandable since many of the very first automakers had been in the horse drawn carriage business. Then came Locomobile. The Locomobile had the distinction …