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£46,238
1929 Franklin Series 135 Faux Cabriolet
United States • 5 Oct 2015
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AI Listing Summary
This 1929 Franklin Series 135 Faux Cabriolet, offered from the Evergreen Collection, features a distinctive air-cooled engine, a well-restored coupe-style body with a non-folding cabriolet-like cloth top, and period accessories. It's equipped with six wire wheels and other features befitting a sport model, making it an attractive offering for classic car enthusiasts.
Condition
7
The listing describes the car as "well-restored" and notes it has period accessories, an attractive color combination, and a coupe-style body with a faux cabriolet top detailed to give a convertible-like appearance. This suggests it's in very good condition.
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Transmission:
Manual
Chassis No:
35-185899L14
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Reg Number:
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RHD/LHD:
LHD
274cid Air-Cooled OHV Inline 6-Cylinder Engine Single Carburetor 60bhp at 2500rpm 3-Speed Manual Transmission Full Elliptic Spring Suspension, Front and Rear 4-Wheel Hydraulic Brakes *Coupe-style body with faux cabriolet top *Famed air-cooled engine design *Highly regarded marque, then and now *Well-restored car with period accessories *Attractive color combination THE FRANKLIN SERIES 135 The Franklin's slogan was Aura Vincit ("air conquers"), and the car was indeed the most successful air-cooled American automobile of its time.
The marque was produced by the H.
H.
Franklin Mfg.
Co.
of Syracuse, New York between 1902 and 1934.
A young engineer, Cornell graduate John Wilkinson, designed the original.
An air-cooled OHV four-cylinder engine powered the first Franklins—in a time when one- and two-cylinder vehicles were the norm.
Limited in volume by their upper bracket pricing, Franklins were prized by motorists who valued the car's innovative lightweight technology, relative simpl...
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£14,041
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£14,041
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£14,041
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