The Liberty Touring Car

Not long after I took my Liberty to the 2005 Orphan Car Show in Ypsilanti, MI, the Detroit Free Press ran a little blurb about the car that led two or three people around the country to track me down and send me an email. One of those emails came from a man named Howard Demick. Howard and his family live in upstate New York and his story is very interesting; his 1919 Liberty Touring Car has been in the family since it was first purchased new! Apparently the car was purchased and due to the cost of fuel and the ups and downs of farming in upstate New York, it never really got driven all that much. When 1930 hit and the great depression set in, it got driven even less. In fact, judging by the one image that shows a 1930 license plate on the car, it looks like that was the last time the car was licensed. By the time World War II was over and the nation enjoyed a more prosperous time, the old 1919 Liberty was more or less outdated and forgotten in the corner of a barn; forgotten until recently. The pictures shown above were the first ones that Howard sent me sometime in 2006. As of the the winter 2008-2009, the car is in the process of being fully restored.