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Dollisdad
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Thank you all for the well wishes
After a week of this, I think we have turned the corner. Iam so bored and wanting to get moving again. We thank you all again.
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Dollisdad
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Steve Jelf
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That destroyed improved car appears to have an odometer on the wheel.
The inevitable often happens.
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kmatt2
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Tom, it is good to hear that you are feeling better. Thanks for all the great T era pictures that you have posted over the years.
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Hi Tom, Thank you for posting these wonderful pictures.
Hope you get well and are back to normal soon.
Cheers,
Keith
Hope you get well and are back to normal soon.
Cheers,
Keith
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The 15th picture down is about right for a T ! The guy was putting in some water because the radiator had looked like a geyser. You can tell by the water stains all over the front of the T ! Must have been a real hot day or he was pulling a long hill in low.
What stories these folks could tell of events happening nearly 100 years ago! Neat photos!
What stories these folks could tell of events happening nearly 100 years ago! Neat photos!
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It looks like bullet holes in the car next to the destroyed car.
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My guess is an explosion that blew the car to pieces, and blowing the glass out of, and causing puncture damage to surrounding cars as well. No telling what blew up! Dynamite, a large boiler? Whatever it was, it had a lot of power!
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Ordinarily, I'd agree with "train wreck", but with that kind of destruction...fender bent down, steering column twisted straight up...I'd think it had to almost certainly be something like dynamite under the seat. And from the shredding of surrounding things, probably shrapnel-wrapped dynamite. That guy made an enemy somewhere along the way.
very interesting, if morbid, photo.
very interesting, if morbid, photo.
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Re: Thank you all for the well wishes
In the first picture of four guys with an elderly touring, the one in front looks like Bing. But in the second picture he doesn't. I'd like to know the story on that one. The two photos are not as early as the car.
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Intereresting observation. It could indeed have been dynamite. Another possibility is that someone was transporting nitroglycerin to "shoot" an oil well. A kid got killed near here in the 1920s driving a truck carrying nitro to a wellsite. As he drove onto a truss bridge, the nitro went off and obliterated the kid, the truck, and the bridge. The truck was an International. My dad once told me he found a 1/4" long fragment of a piston ring from the engine. The largest piece found was a brake drum.
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Scott_Conger wrote: ↑Sun Jul 31, 2022 8:45 pmOrdinarily, I'd agree with "train wreck", but with that kind of destruction...fender bent down, steering column twisted straight up...I'd think it had to almost certainly be something like dynamite under the seat. And from the shredding of surrounding things, probably shrapnel-wrapped dynamite. That guy made an enemy somewhere along the way.
very interesting, if morbid, photo.
I'd say an early Mafia hit!!
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Looks like a lot of mud splashed up to me. It's even on top of the RH headlamp. Probly overheated it mud-bogging!John kuehn wrote: ↑Sun Jul 31, 2022 3:23 pmThe 15th picture down is about right for a T ! The guy was putting in some water because the radiator had looked like a geyser. You can tell by the water stains all over the front of the T ! Must have been a real hot day or he was pulling a long hill in low.
What stories these folks could tell of events happening nearly 100 years ago! Neat photos!
At any rate, Tom, if you're reading all these replies, thanks as always for your contributions, sorry again about you catching the covid (fingers crossed here...haven't gotten it YET)...and glad you've turned the corner. I'd go fricking stir crazy if I had to quarantine like that...quarantining and ADHD do NOT mix!!