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33 MORE!
Nice. Again a few with same car in more than one photo.

The ninth photo (interestingly, car number nine?), is a slightly later speedster. The grill/surround might be a cutdown 1932 DeSotto car shell and grill. Or, it might be a somewhat later tractor? For a later updated speedster/racer, it looks pretty nice.

Photo number six is another interesting "later" era photo. An older brass era speedster with an apparent fresh paint job as it was probably in the late 1920s or even years later. The car has 1925 (or later) style 21 inch wheels with badly worn tires.
Not much else by which to date the photo or car.
It may actually be a more modern era photo. What I can see of the surrounding buildings, lamps, posts and wires is not conclusive. However, they could well be from the 1950s or 1960s. Or the 1930s.
Adding to the confusion, the car behind the speedster (from what little can be seen of it?) appears to be a late 1920s Packard sedan, in pretty nice condition? Maybe? Somebody driving his cherished old Packard down the road saw an interesting old speedster and stopped to look it over?
Regardless, the speedster is interesting.
It has a water pump and a 1926/'27 coil box on top of the engine. Which in turn begs questions of what it may have had in the previous decade (or several?) and why it was replaced with the late design?
Also something that seems to be common of speedsters back in the rough days? No brake rod to the rear wheel, at least not on the driver's side. There seems to be a lot of era speedsters with a lack of adequately maintained brakes.


Neat photo. Thank you Tom R!

Pictures nineteen and twenty-five appear to be the same car, driver, and dog. However, taken at different times. In picture 25, the car has lost the passenger side headlamp.

Pictures ten and eleven are clearly same car, different angles. Nice car!

Pictures two and three appear to be the same car.

The abomination !, in picture #6 it clearly shows a water pump, that surely is NOT how Henry designed it..

Thanks for the great pictures !