Cool old photo
Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 5:09 pm
A Crystal Gasoline tanker truck in front of a garage and gas pumps on East Market and Main St. at Baltimore, Ohio in Fairfield Co. in the early 1900s.
A very interesting earlier (not earliest!) TT with a re-purposed runabout body and fixed top added. The top is similar to a "California" top, however a bit taller than was usually used on cars. Beautifully repainted to look new on what is probably the company's new truck. It has 23 inch pneumatic rear tires and wheels as well as demountable front wheels and rims (hence not one of the earliest TTs) . Both the tank on the lead TT and the side-boards of the rear TT say "Sinclair Oils" on them. The TT at the back of the line also has a re-purposed runabout body on it, with a typical runabout top still on it.
Although rarely seen today, re-purposed runabout bodies were very common on early TTs way back in the day. When I was a kid riding my bicycle around the still orchard infested (kidding, I liked it better that way) Santa Clara county, I knew where several TT trucks were sitting on the edges of orchards still with their runabout bodies on them. If I ever got and restored another TT, that is what I would want it to have.
Thank you Allen B for posting this here!