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Car · 1920s tourer, hood and wooden wheels
Dodge Brothers torpedo
A 1920s Dodge Brothers tourer, blue with black wings: wooden-spoke wheels, a black fabric hood with its pointed little windows and the spare wheel at the back, just as it was then.
- Model
- Dodge Brothers, four-door tourer
- Era
- 1920s
- Colour
- Blue, black wings
- Wheels
- Wooden spokes
- Hood
- Black fabric, with pointed rear windows
The story
Brothers John and Horace Dodge built engines and parts for other makers before putting their own name on cars, from 1914. Their cars had a reputation for toughness, and the open four-door tourer with a folding hood was one of the most common body styles of the period.
This one is blue, with black wings and running boards, light wooden-spoke wheels and a black fabric hood with a row of small pointed windows at the back. The photos in the book show it finished, outdoors, from every side.
The restoration step by step
A tourer from every side
- Step 1 of 2
Sides and wooden wheels
The long, low line of the tourer, with four doors, coachlines on the doors and running boards along the sides. The wooden-spoke wheels are left natural, with black tyres.
the long side with its four doors 
the other side, with the wooden-spoke wheels - Step 2 of 2
Nose, hood and tail
At the front, the tall radiator with the Dodge Brothers badge and the two big headlamps; at the back, the spare wheel and the hood with its row of pointed windows.
the radiator with its badge and the two big headlamps 
the tail with the spare wheel and the pointed windows
As it is today
Do you have a pre-war American car or a vintage tourer?
Bodywork, fabric hood, wooden wheels: cars from the 1920s need patient hands. Tell us about yours.
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