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Merry Old Cole: 1919

San Francisco, 1919. "Cole auto." Climb in, if you can figure out how. The yard last seen here. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

San Francisco, 1919. "Cole auto." Climb in, if you can figure out how. The yard last seen here. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

 

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Two doors, one wide aisleway

with all due respect to fellow Shorpy enthusiast T. Water, this beautiful little roadster was in fact a 2-door called the Cole 861 Tuxedo Roadster, which according to a factory ad was "A perfect dream." It has the snappy double-cowl design, "with rear compartment access...provided by a wide aisleway between the front seats." Plus, it was powered by a "giant 70 horsepower" V8 displacing a seriously whopping 5.7 liters.

Three Doors

The Cole was a high-end V8-powered car. This car had three doors. One driver's side and two passenger side. It was not an entirely uncommon body style. Many municipalities had laws regarding entering or exiting a car on the street side.

Ingress

Door latch is probably on the inside. It is a roadster which has no side windows and outside one is not really needed.

[The question is how to get into the back seat. See above. - Dave]

The address

Taken in front of the still extant 1701 Franklin Street.

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