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Neat first photo along with the others! I think That’s the first one I’ve seen of a boil over of a T way back when! Thanks for a first for me anyway. Appreciate and enjoy days gone by?

I think that the first photo of a 1912 (with Jno. Brown lamps) was taken when the car was pretty new. It's hard to tell, but it looks like the car still has the white rubber tips on the ends of the windshield support brackets.

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You should not remove the cap while it is boiling! When I was in my teens a good friend of mine used to like to do that and he did it the day before his wedding. The groom had a burnt face for the wedding!
Norm

Photo #3: The Everly Brothers!

Do you notice how nice all the tops that are up look?
None of my T's ever had tops that nice except for the one I didn't do!

And more than half the upper windshields (windscreens) are folded back - even the touring in snow with top down. Proof they weren’t concerned with Frontenacs, Stromberg OFs and the like…

With a little squint, the chap in the first picture looks like he is holding a gun, maybe just put the old T out of its misery

A Whiteman wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 20, 2024 11:59 pm

With a little squint, the chap in the first picture looks like he is holding a gun, maybe just put the old T out of its misery

Yeah Adrian, I wondered about that also when I first looked at the picture. The mountains and the trees look a lot like the high Sierra mountains around me. There are still bears and mountain lions here, and in those days wolves were still common. Local people and travelers often carried firearms.

While I like the modern access? The digitization of era photos has lost a lot of clarity and detail in the original photos. I often zoom way in and see the pixelization effects. There just isn't enough detail left to know what he his holding. I certainly looks like a pistol. But it could also be a hat. Both he and the lady appear to be looking up into the hills in opposite directions. Could be looking for dangerous wildlife.

Pic #11, of the dealer for Seiberling Tires...Seiberling was one of, if not THE best, tire on the market back in it's heyday. My Grandmother's tire store in Marion OH sold them, not being biased (no pun intended...they were bias ply tires!), but once she sold dad a set..yeh, sold..ha ha...it was totally amazing how smooth they rolled. They were purported to be the most totally round tire on the market, indeed they were so well balanced they didn't need the typical lead weights on the rims! They also had a distinct appearance about them around their edge. Too hard to explain. Thanks for these great pictures Tom!