1908 Thomas Flyer Model F 4-60 hp Tourer

1908 Thomas Flyer Model F 4-60 hp Tourer

This original owner of this Touring car was Auto Club of America founder J. Herbert Carpenter of Ossining, New York. The car was delivered on October 20th of 1908. Mr. Carpenter would be the cars care-taker for over 30 years. In the 1920s, he drove it on a cross-country trek. He even used it in the earliest AACA events.

The next owner was Joe Tracy, who later sold it to the Thompson Products Company, which would be the basis of the Crawford/Western Reserve Historical Society Museum collection in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection soon grew, and by 1951, the Thomas was de-accessioned. C.F. Greiner, a former worker for E.R. Thomas, purchased the car for $300. A restoration soon followed and two or three years later, the Historical Society exercised their 'first right of refusal' and re-acquired the car. The car would remain in that collection until 1990.

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