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As always, very nice. The top pic almost looks like an Ohio license plate. On a bridge similar to what our club traversed across the Sandusky River the first year that we did a group tour to Fremont from Joe Bell's house. Of course 99% of old bridges look the same! And pic #4 shows some different car than a ford with the round radiator...Studebaker maybe?

Picture #4 got me to thinking.
To change the gas tank in my 1911 Touring I have to remove the body.
To do engine work on a 2015 6.7 F250, you have to remove the body .
Ford has gone back to its roots?

Dan Hatch wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 23, 2023 10:25 am

Picture #4 got me to thinking.
To change the gas tank in my 1911 Touring I have to remove the body.
To do engine work on a 2015 6.7 F250, you have to remove the body .
Ford has gone back to its roots?

Seems this type of ridiculous need to work on a LOT of vehicles is the "new normal" these days Dan. Sad isn't it? They call this progress? I think not.

As a former Army Bn. Maint. Officer, I was drawn to the 7th from the bottom picture. What a raggedy motor pool ! Model T chassis and a depot hack parked higgeldy piggeldy But I used to own a 1917 Nash Quad 3 T like the supply truck in picture center. Been all over France.The cast iron solid rubber rear wheel weighed 800 lbs. As usual Tom; your selection for our entertainment contain events and occurrences with our beloved antique autos thats so enjoyable

The 3rd photo from the bottom shows a couple behind a Touring. I was thinking the rear windows in the back of the touring tops were usually rectangular or oval. This top has round rear windows in it. Is that typical in this cars year range or an aftermarket top that was installed later. Thanks for any information about it.

The 14th picture, the car has chains so it must be cold outside. The man has on a heavy jacket, but the woman is only wearing a light weight dress with short sleeves? I wonder what happened? Maybe she ran out to greet him, or see him off and then ran right back in front of the fire!
Wouldn't it be great if we could get the story about each of the pictures and who the people were and where?
Norm

The 12th picture shows what looks like a typical farm T Touring. Three farm kids next to it with some farm animals. The interesting detail to me is the tires are looking low. They aren’t flat but being driven as is. That probably happened more than we think as we do today. We get busy and just keep driving our vehicles until something happens like a flat tire and wonder why!!

John kuehn wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 23, 2023 11:08 am

The 3rd photo from the bottom shows a couple behind a Touring. I was thinking the rear windows in the back of the touring tops were usually rectangular or oval. This top has round rear windows in it. Is that typical in this cars year range or an aftermarket top that was installed later. Thanks for any information about it.

Not 100% sure that's a model T John. Fenders look weird as do the top saddles.

Those top iron saddles were an accessory in the States but I've seen them on Canadian cars mostly.

I am fairly sure the touring car in picture 14 is not a Ford. Clarity isn't great, and not a lot of details of the car are shown. Details (body tub, top windows and saddles) had caught my eye. Closely looking at the blur of the rear spring, it appears to not be a Ford. Although, the more common trait of half or 3/4 elliptic rear springs also does not appear. Looking closer at the blur, it appears to be a slightly angled cantilever rear spring. Quite a number of cars used cantilevered springs (especially rears like some big Buicks of the 1920s). I suspect this may be a Chevrolet? They used cantilever springs front and rear on a few models in the late 1910s and early 1920s. And they angled out from the frame as these appear to.

Picture 4/16, the near Ford might be a very early car, maybe even a two lever. The radiator had had a script on the radiator core, and the front fenders are the very squared off version used only for a short time in 1909.
The next car over looks like it may be a Pope. Not sure if it would be a Pope Hartford or a Pope Toledo. Their radiator styling was somewhat different, both distinctive, but the angle doesn't really show it.

Yes.
When I looked close at the picture of the touring from the rear before the post asking about the top windows I did think it might not be a T. It’s pretty close to the same size probably not a T but a car that was trying to compete with the popular T’s The fenders are the first things I picked up on.

3rd pic, .... would sure like to walk around the boom truck for a
good looking over !

Burger, if i'm not mistaken that boom truck is an AC Mack , like the T those AC Macks could take an awfull lot of abuse !