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This is a really nice shot of a 1911 American Traveler, available from the Detroit Public Library at https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A225958 . Remarkably, they have 4 additional images of what appears to be the same car, located here - https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A169264 https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A169404 https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A225980 https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A225981 More period photos of the American Underslung are available here - American Underslung Repository

This is a great photo of a 1910 roadster from the Detroit Public Library - Edward Goodman in American Underslung automobile | DPL DAMS (detroitpubliclibrary.org) . There aren't many photos of this model, and no survivors. Thanks!

Beautiful photo of a 1911 Traveler. There was one on the site that was taken at the same time, but from a slightly different angle. I have added this one - thanks, Bob.

All these period photos and more are now available on the American Underslung Repository, at American Underslung Repository (stanleyregister.net) You can quickly review period photos for every year and model, as well as get an overview of specifications, at AU Year and Model (stanleyregister.net)

All of the pages for existing cars are finished. Period image pages for all models have been populated. Catalogs for every year are either available or linked. Enjoy!

Thanks! Check out a larger version of this photo here - AU 1913 Scout ex Powers (stanleyregister.net)

It's actually pretty simple. 1. I contributed solid research, information and photos to a forum thread. 2. I followed forum rules and protocol. 3. An administrator or moderator destroyed my contribution. The name of the person who destroyed it is immaterial, as well as which other forum members needed punishment. The rules and procedures that caused the destruction of my work are still in place. Any future contribution has the potential to be subjected to the same treatment. Why would I contribute any more?

Thanks very much, I added that link to the Catalogs page.

The AACA forum universe is not a democracy - no one has a vote. Decisions are centralized in a single individual. Destruction of forum content created by people who are NOT misbehaving is exceedingly poor stewardship of public trust.

My apologies if you've already seen this in General Discussion, but this seemed like a good place for it as well. -------------------------------------- This is controlled by me, so it's not going away. http://www.stanleyregister.net/americanunderslung/aurepository.html If you post material. or send it to me, I will add it to the repository. Please let me know the source. I'm already aware of the great collection on the Detroit Public Library website, so you don't need to send those, I'll be slowly working them in. I'm not sure the single-endless-page model will work forever, so the look may need to be adjusted, but at least it's permanent, as long as I keep paying my bills.

Just to confirm, is the rule the same here - if there's a thread that gets a banned person in it, all other contributors' posts are destroyed along with the banned member's? That's the key to the longevity of information, we just need to know where we stand and we can all manage the content correctly.

This is controlled by me, so it's not going away. http://www.stanleyregister.net/americanunderslung/aurepository.html If you post material. or send it to me, I will add it to the repository. Please let me know the source. I'm already aware of the great collection on the Detroit Public Library website, so you don't need to send those, I'll be slowly working them in. I'm not sure the single-endless-page model will work forever, so the look may need to be adjusted, but at least it's permanent, as long as I keep paying my bills.

It is unfortunate that, essentially, power is given to the uncivil member to destroy the antique car work of others. Thank goodness he didn't respond to any of the "Period photos..." threads, or they would be gone too. I hope the flamers don't realize that they have this kind of power to poison and destroy threads, or they may post a trail of destruction before they are removed.

A forum is not intended to be an archive or a reference tool. Sometimes it inadvertently serves that purpose for a while, but a forum is meant for chats and discussions. I think that this online discussion service is provided to us by the AACA with no guarantee of any permanence of any content, regardless of interest level or participation volume.

I just did an experiment and found that, although I couldn't delete a post that I started, I could hide it. There's no obvious way for me to view it again, although the error message that appears when I try is different from the one we see when attempting to view the Underslung thread.

The fastest way to discourage and end uncivil discourse, at least for those of us who aren't moderators, is to simply not engage. Don't explain why the uncivil person is wrong, don't write paragraphs in defense. Move past as though the uncivil comment was just the litter on the roadside that it actually is. Talk about cars.

What I remember as the handle of the original poster, is still listed as a member, but his list of activity is empty. Forum discussions do not make sense as permanent archives. When you have hundreds of pages under one topic, as some of the photo threads do, it is effectively impossible to ever again locate any specific item. And when the forum operator can delete content without notice, there's no guarantee that what you see will last any longer than the next 10 minutes. I'm not saying this is wrong - I'm sure the forum has never made any guarantees, and that's the universe that we're in. It's just that this is not the correct place to store information, it's the correct place to chat.

When I look at the record of all my forum postings, none of my postings to this thread appear.

Thanks very much for that lead!

Cool idea, thanks!

Thanks for the lead, they're pretty close to me. It seems like they do antique cars, boats, etc., but each time I've gone in there I've gotten the same answer.

Yes, in this case it's a '72 Fiat 850 Spider. Hard for me to consider it an antique when I drove them as used cars in the late '70s, but now... But people must be restoring a lot of cars from the '50s, '60s, and '70s that have bucket seats - they must be able to find shops that will make new foam. Places I go to seem to think it would be better for me to bring them the covers, too. I guess there are people who do custom work that i just can't find.

I'm working on a car for which I can get manufactured upholstery sets, but I can't buy manufactured seat foam. Every local automotive upholsterer that I contact says "Oh we can't make foam for car seats." I see guidance and instruction all over the web about shaping foam for car seats - I can't figure out why the professionals say they can't do it. I'm usually not satisfied with my own work when it comes to surfaces or shaping, so I'd be happy to pay someone else for a good job. But how can I get one? Am I asking the question wrong, somehow? Does anybody even have any recommendations for a shop in the central PA area that would do this right? Thanks...

I'm starting to wonder if it became this car. Harrah bought the basis of this in '62 from someone in Idaho, but it looks like the body and fenders could all be freshly fabricated.

Here's another picture of the same car, taken in Bend on May 2, 1959, in the deferred Oregon Centennial parade. The newspaper reporting says "From Eugene came an old-time car." Does anyone know who in Eugene might have owned this Underslung in 1959?