Bundled Up For The Ride

[Jay In Northern Ca.]

[Rich Eagle]

It must be chilly but it is sunny. We bundled our kids up like Ralphie’s little brother from A Christmas Story for cold rides in the speedster. It looks like a non-starter car with 5-lug wheels.
Rich

[Wayne Sheldon]

Five panel tub, and the appropriate upholstery tack rails, late '10s (until '20) hand crank, and late '17 or later offset windshield hinges. I zoomed in (300 percent again) hoping to see which wishbone it had. Couldn't tell. Wheel spokes and other objects and shadows blocked all my usual identifying points. A nice clear picture though. I "think" I may see the bolted end of the under axle wishbone under the far side of the front axle. That could make it a 1919 or '20 non starter car. Although, buying a non starter car was common those years, the optional demountable wheels were often bought on non starter cars. Buying the after-market demountable wheels instead of the factory demountable wheels didn't really make sense once the factory began offering demountables. It could be in that narrow window early 1919 model before the factory offered demountable wheels on the open cars. For about four months, demountables were on closed cars and not available from the factory on open cars. The horn button would fit into that. It is not the earlier "on top" of the steering column horn button used through '17 and some '18. I can't tell if it is, but looks like maybe the combination horn/light switch used on non starter cars into 1920.