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Kick back.

Post by Dollisdad » Sun Feb 02, 2025 12:06 pm

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Re: Kick back.

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Re: Kick back.

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Re: Kick back.

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Re: Kick back.

Post by Norman Kling » Sun Feb 02, 2025 9:04 pm

It is surprising, how many people are so proud to have a Ford and get pictures with the car. Also how many people like to sit on the hood! I wonder how many people got burned from the hot engine or how many hoods were bent, back in the day?
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Re: Kick back.

Post by OilyBill » Mon Feb 03, 2025 12:13 am

WHOO-HOO!!! Not just a CANDY store! They had a "PALACE OF SWEETS"!

You couldn't beat that, even if you DID have a big stick!!! I bet that town had a MARCHING BAND, TOO! Not just the kind that stands around on the rotunda in the park!


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Re: Kick back.

Post by Drkbp » Mon Feb 03, 2025 12:04 pm

Third photo from the top.... Another example of a 1913 Runabout
with a "1914 style" beaded turtle deck. Thank you Tom for your posting.
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Re: Kick back.

Post by Wayne Sheldon » Mon Feb 03, 2025 5:59 pm

I did notice that bead when I first looked quickly at this thread. Certainly unusual on the 1913 runabouts. I wonder how common or unusual the bead was on 1913 runabout turtle decks? Something more about which to look at dozens of photos.


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Re: Kick back.

Post by South Park Zephyr » Tue Feb 04, 2025 4:40 pm

Would ya look at the radiator in photo 15!
I worry about mine when one of the cooling fins gets bent.
But then again they were plenty of used ones to be found and new ones weren’t over a grand to buy.


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Re: Kick back.

Post by Wayne Sheldon » Wed Feb 05, 2025 7:24 am

I had a radiator that looked worse than that. A low, black era one. A bunch of bent and broken fins. Two areas where fins had been gouged out to cut off and solder shut a couple tubes inside. I straightened it up a bit, and used it as a temporary on a car I was putting together. Got the car running, and was surprised at how well that silly radiator cooled the car. I eventually did get a nicer radiator, and replaced the thing. Then used it on another car I put together.
I think I used it on three different speedsters (might have been four?). It went on probably five Endurance Runs over the years (might have been six?). It never did boil, and only once on a long winding road up a steep hillside almost boiled. The temperature out that day was a bit over a hundred! And a lot of other speedster boiled on that hill.
Eventually, it wound up on a speedster I ended up selling for cheap. I told the buyer that if he decided to replace the radiator with a nicer looking one I would be willing to buy that radiator back for fifty bucks. I never heard back from him, but did run into the car one day, with a new radiator.

It probably wound up on one of those slow boats to China. Too bad. I really liked that radiator.


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Re: Kick back.

Post by tvw » Wed Feb 05, 2025 8:33 am

That guy in #15 looks a lot like my wife's great grandfather :lol:
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Re: Kick back.

Post by Drkbp » Wed Feb 05, 2025 10:04 am

Just noticed in the second photo that the car is equipped
with an acetylene headlamp often found on bicycles of the
day. I drive with my John Brown 16's, and 110's, and that driver
would have been impressed with the improvement of just three
or four years!
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Re: Kick back.

Post by jiminbartow » Wed Feb 05, 2025 11:40 am

Interesting photos, but sort of sad to think that all the young people you see in the photos have long since lived their lives and are dead and gone. Too bad there is no way to follow up on what happened to them since then and how their lives turned out. A lot of historical events have happened since then such as wars, depressions, pandemics and tragedies, providing a multitude of ways in which they could have met their demise.

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