Overland 79R
Roadster

1914 was Overland's high-water mark: only Ford sold more cars in America that year, and the Overland cost roughly double a Model T for a more spacious, more powerful automobile aimed at buyers who wanted a step up from Henry Ford's utilitarian formula.

• Power came from a 35-horsepower four-cylinder engine with individually cast cylinder jugs — a more elaborate (and expensive) construction method than the Model T's single-block casting.
• 1914 was a transition year for trim: cars built that season moved from the brightwork of the true brass era toward nickel plating, and this Overland is trimmed in nickel rather than brass.
• A Gray & Davis electric starter was available as a $125 option in 1914, a genuine luxury at a time when most cars still required hand-cranking.
• Overland fitted a removable ignition plug as an early anti-theft measure — pull the plug, and the car couldn't be started.
• Willys-Overland had moved production to Toledo, Ohio by 1909 under John North Willys, who took control of the struggling Indiana-based company in 1907 and built it into the country's second-largest automaker.

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