I’m not going to say this one will be easy or, frankly, possible. For anyone, ever. But when you come across a round-up of the hood clasps of 1918, you’ve got to go for it. I will personally send you a shiny new dime if you nail all 12 – no cheating! I’ll even throw you a bone – here are the makes; all you have to do is match them up with the photos:
Auburn, Cadillac, Chalmers, Davis, Dodge, Locomobile, Mitchell, Oldsmobile, Packard, Paige, Pan-American, Premier.
Easy peasy.
If you’ve ever wondered why some of us are nuts for early cars, imagine a time when there was enough detail to identify cars by their hood latches. And when there were 121 domestic makes alone making up more than 550 models of car on sale in the United States.