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Number eleven, same car, different angle, a previous photo group;

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Tom,

Thank you for the great photos – lots of us really enjoy them! The 7th one is almost certainly one of the New York City, New York Red Ford Fire Chief cars. Ford produced 10 of them for NYC NY. Below the photo is shown again:
At the old thread at: Model T Ford Forum: 1911 Torpedo questions (mtfca.com) you will see that NY NY ordered 10 red Ford Fire Chief cars. The photo you posted is not one that I remember seeing before. (Let’s see roughly 15,000,000 Model Ts produced so I only need to see approximately 14,999,445 more photos of different ones to see most of them.

I got lost reading the copyright information at: https://digitalcollections.detroitpubli ... -statement but I think it means I cannot post their photo without written permission? But you can see 4 more of those NY NY Ford Fire Chief cars lined up in a single photo at the Detroit Public Library Digital Collection. Click on: https://digitalcollections.detroitpubli ... a%3A258694

Below is from Bruce McCalley’s “Model T Ford” book and shows the 10 red open runabouts that were ordered without a windshield. They were manufactured on Apr 27 & 28 and were all painted Red.
Side note you can order a digital copy of Bruce’s book from Barbara. A photo (so you need to type it into your browser) of her e-mail is shown here:
The price in 2019 was $50 with $7.25 for shipping & handling.

Again, thank you for posting so many great photos!

Respectfully submitted,

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That first guy reminds me of Will Rogers. I’ll bet he enjoyed his life, was a pleasure to be around and was always the life of the party. Judging by the background, I believe that photo was taken in a photograph studio and the little car was for taking children’s photos, until this happy, mischievous guy came along… I’m surprised the car didn’t collapse as his feet are in the car and it is supporting his full weight.

How didja get Michael Waltrip to pose for the first photo?