£30,757
1912 Oakland Model 30 Touring
RM Sotheby's • US • 11 Oct 2013
Market Position:
Rare Sale
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£30,757
1912 Oakland Model 30 Touring
US • 11 Oct 2013
Vehicle Details
AI Listing Summary
This 1912 Oakland Model 30 Touring is a Brass Era vehicle with a four-cylinder engine and three-speed transmission. It has been restored for touring and is a veteran of Glidden and HCCA tours, featuring upgrades like a rebuilt transmission and magneto.
Condition
7
The car has been restored for driving enjoyment, with the transmission rebuilt, overdrive installed, and radiator rebuilt. The magneto has been upgraded, and while the lights have been converted to electric power, the original acetylene tank remains. It has been used in tours and is complete with tonneau covers, a top, and side curtains.
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Manual
LHD
United States
7500
1912
Auction
£30,757
1912 Oakland Model 30 Touring
RM Sotheby's • US • 11 Oct 2013
Market Position:
Rare Sale
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Description
30 bhp, 201.1 cu. in.
L-head inline four-cylinder engine, three-speed selective sliding-gear transmission, solid front axle with semi-elliptic leaf-spring suspension, semi-floating rear axle with rear three-quarter-elliptic leaf-spring suspension, and rear-wheel mechanical brakes.
Wheelbase: 106 in.
Oakland Motor Car Company is largely remembered today as one of the founding names of General Motors, and it is also the company that created the car from which the Pontiac was born.
It is easily forgotten that the company was around for 24 successful years, that, in its day, it was a household name, and that it made its mark on the American automobile scene with its stylish yet powerful cars.
Edward Murphy and Alanson Brush had run the Pontiac Buggy Company in the Michigan town of the same name.
They desired to enter the automotive age, and they used Brush’s small two-cylinder car, the design for which Cadillac had rejected, as a platform in which to enter this growing, fast-paced wo...
Price Analysis vs Other Model 30s
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£35,687
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