Can you identify these three cars?

[freak]

This is a picture of my grandfather (holding the bottle) from 1925. I would like to know what kinds of cars these are. They look like Model T's to me but I don't own one and know little about them. (I own an A) He was injured in a car/train wreck in 1931 and died a few days later. My Dad was born about 6 months after he died. I don't know if he owned one of the cars pictured or not but I would like to know what they are. I don't know what he was driving during the accident either. I really don't know the economics of the late 1920's early 1930's. If he immigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1921 and worked in a shipyard in Toledo, Oh, was married with one child... what is the likelihood that he would have purchased a Model A (or a chevy/dodge/etc)? Could such a person have afforded it? Did people hold on to their T's or did they jump at a chance to buy new models? Any help on the questions or cars is appreciated. I know the one in the rear is pretty hard to see.

(added cropped pics)

 

[15max]

The two cars behind the musicians are 1923, '24 or '25 Model T ford touring cars. I can't tell for sure what the last car is. If it were a Ford and that was a wire wheel on it, it would be a 1926 Model year which was introduced in late '25. It may well be some other kind of car. There is not enough detail to be sure.

 

[Steve Jelf]

I agree on the ID of the two cars that are clear enough to see. The economics of the period were as follows: Except for agriculture, the economy boomed in the 1920's. The stock market went higher and higher, and lots of people were riding high. But so many of them were riding on borrowed money that in October of 1929 the market crashed. (Sound familiar?) Within a year millions of people were out of work and we were in the Great Depression. In the automobile industry, companies that had long been in business but didn't have deep pockets folded within a few years. Pierce, Peerless, Durant, Marmon, and others became names of the past. Our recent experience during the Bush and Obama administrations gives you a small taste of what it was like, but the unemployment was much higher, the hard times were harder, and recovery was much slower. We finally got out of it with a giant government spending program called World War Two. As for people keeping their cars, some like my Dad kept them for many years. He drove his 1941 Plymouth until it finally died and he had to buy a new car in 1954. He drove that 1954 Plymouth until it went belly up and he got a 1973 Duster. Other people traded in their old cars and bought new ones every year or two. How long people stuck with old cars was a function of personal finances and personal inclination. I would guess that a shipyard worker would have been comparatively well paid, but that doesn't necessarily mean he changed cars often.

A good book on the Great Depression is Studs Terkel's Hard Times. People tell their stories about living through it, and you get an idea of how tough it was and how it changed them for the rest of their lives.

 

[Derek Kiefer]

The closest one to the camera is a '23 (low hood w/no apron under the radiator, sloped windshield & one-man top)

The other two both appear to be one-man-top cars as well, so 1923 or newer. Can't see enough of the cars, or enough detail to identify any better than that.

 

[freak]

Thanks guys! I appreciate your efforts. I only wish I knew which one was his if any.