Keeton

Keeton Motor Company was a pioneer brass era automobile maker based in Detroit, Michigan.

Keeton's 1913 "48" was a six-cylinder five-passenger tourer with left-hand steering, 12½ in (31.75 cm)-diameter^[1] electric headlights, starter, and horn.^[2] There were four forward speeds, an 80 mph (128 km/h) speedometer, and the choice of wires spoked wood wheels.^[2] It had the radiator just in front of the cowl, behind the engine, the "proper and protected position", according to its ads.^[2] The folding top was mohair and the windshield folded.^[2] Like most cars of the era, it came standard with a tool kit, which in this case included an electric trouble light, tire iron, pump, jack, and tire patch. It sold at US$2750, at a time when American's lowest-price model was $4250,^[3] the Lozier Light Six Metropolitan started at $3,250,^[4] the Enger 40^[5] and Ford Model F were $2000, the FAL $1750,^[5] the Cole 30 and Colt Runabout $1500,^[6] the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout went for $650,^[7] Western's Gale Model A was $500,^[8] a Black from $375,^[9] and the Success was $250.^[7]

Keeton also offered the five-seat Riverside Tourer and Meadowbrook Roadster at $2750, the Tuxedo Coupé at $3000, with a chassis price (suitable for custom coachwork, typical of the likes of Rolls-Royce or Duesenberg at the time) of $2250.^[7]

Notes

^ Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925 (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.131.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Clymer, p.131.
^ Clymer, p.91.
^ Clymer, p.111.
^ ^a ^b Clymer, p.104.
^ Clymer, pp.63 & 104.
^ ^a ^b ^c Clymer, p.32.
^ Clymer, p.51.
^ Clymer, p.61.

Sources

Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925. New York: Bonanza Books, 1950.

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