Hupmobile 1909-1940 - Nothing with horns

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Hupmobile 1909-1940 - Nothing with horns

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Created in 2013

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Roger Gloor

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- Courtesy RM Auctions

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RM Auctions Inc. - Courtesy RM Auctions

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Hupmobile Eight Touring (1925) - as lot 174 at the RM Auction Hershey on October 9/10, 2014

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Hupmobile I 226 Eight Coupe (1932) - as lot 155 at the RM auction in Arizona on January 15/16, 2015

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Hupp Comet (1932) - Indiapolis race car by Russel Snowberger - 5th place in the 500 miles in 1932

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Hupmobile (1933) - with bodywork from Langenthal - unbelievable that you can buy a rare car from Detroit with elegant Swiss bodywork for 45,000 francs - Oldtimer and parts market Fribourg 2014

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There were around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of them have disappeared. Hupmobile is one of them. Shortly after its foundation, however, Hupp left his company and founded RCH. Hupmobile continued to build successful car models, but ran into financial problems even before the major crisis.

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Just as R. E. Olds had already upgraded his family name to a car brand with the suffix -mobile before him, Robert Craig Hupp, supported by his brother Louis Gorham Hupp, came up with his own brand in 1909. He had started his career at Oldsmobile. The Hupp Motor Car Company in Detroit initially produced runabouts, doorless open two-seaters for entry-level motorization. Thanks to an experienced team, 5,300 cars were sold by 1910, including a new four-seater tourer, also with a four-cylinder engine. But as early as 1911, Hupp left his company to found the new brand RCH under his initials - just as Olds had done with his Reo brand in 1905.

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