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  1. Interesting photo, in spite of some odd distortions. It appears to be some sort of Ford dealer's show or exhibition. Almost every vehicle in the photo is a Ford product, including the Lincoln sedan (may be a couple of them?). The delivery van front and near center, is particularly interesting. It is painted up nice with sales statements like "Ideal for Cleaners & Florists". The left side mounted spare tire is standard for pickups and delivery vans where there is no place for one at the back of the vehicle. What is unusual, is that the spare tire has what appears to be a metal tire cover on it! I know that they were an option for the model A Fords (at least for 1930/'31), and are (or used to be?) highly prized among the model A crowd, but in the reality of era photographs, they are very rarely ever seen!
  2. Also, Chevrolet's first six was in 1911, and a flathead! The Chevrolet four cylinder was first offered in 1913 if I recall correctly. The 1911/'12 Chevrolet sixes and early Royal Mail fours were more expensive cars than Chevrolet later became famous for.
  3. I knew it was way later, but I had to google it to be sure of how much later. Diamond T trucks and Reo trucks were merged together in 1967 as part of a merger into White. Tacking "Diamond" onto a 1930 Reo is really stretching it! Probably someone connected to the trucking industry fifty years ago that doesn't know much at all about antique automobiles. Even a decade or so ago, I knew some old truckers that fondly remembered their old Diamond Reo trucks. I recall seeing one less than twenty years ago still pulling freight on the highway! Because my first antique automobile was a 1929 Reo, I tend to notice the trucks also. This OP car is the smaller Flying Cloud car for 1930, In 1929, that series was called the Flying Cloud Mate, whereas my 1929 coupe was the Flying Cloud Master series.
  4. Looks like the perfect "get it running well and enjoy it" car! Is it "AR" early?
  5. Used to be mine. My ancestry is about one third Irish. I like green.
  6. Wonderful car! And great backstory! Congratulations! Hopefully you and yours can keep and enjoy it until in your 80s.
  7. If I read it correctly, when I looked at the link yesterday, the auction has over a week to go! So there is plenty of time yet for bids to go much higher. I wish I could afford to do some bidding. There will probably be some good deals, but I suspect a lot of those things will go much higher yet. That Dodge coupe would be on my radar, as well as a Ford tractor or two. When I was little, my grandfather was still raising peaches outside Modesto California, and we would spend part of each summer visiting while my dad helped with the harvest. My grandfather had three 8N/9N Ford tractors as well as a couple others and a Clark fork lift for loading the big trucks that took the peaches to the local canneries. I was driving the Ford tractors solo when I was six years old. He retired and sold them all when I was twelve, and I have always wanted to have one of those tractors. Not enough room and not enough money.
  8. Racoons can be sweet and friendly, or they can be mean and vicious! And they can be both in the course of a couple minutes. They are usually nocturnal, but can come out and forage early or stay later into the daytime if they are hungry. Generally speaking? If they are out during the daytime? Suspect rabies! Same thing with skunks.
  9. Tread carefully. Between the modern radio, questionable interior they don't show well, and the modified model T oil lamp tail lights? No telling what other silly notions got messed with? Otherwise? It looks like it might be a worthwhile project at a decent price?
  10. For whatever it is worth? Most of the "Biflex" bumpers I have looked at did not have their name on them anywhere. Maybe they were made by someone else? (I don't think so?) But the higher quality line of theirs are distinctively made, heavier material than most competing brands, the smoothness of the cuts, quality of the finish. Friends and I have discussed them often, compared ones we have seen at swap meets, looked at ones we have had. The cast clamps that hold them together were made in several variations, but all equally well made. Some of those clamps had the Biflex name diagonally across them, and with rare exceptions, that is the only place their name is usually found. You can see a Biflex advertisement on the other thread linked to above showing the clamp with their name on it. I suspect Biflex made and sold the bumpers without their name on them to automakers and dealers that preferred them that way. They may have sold after-market bumpers either way, I do not claim to know. It may be interesting to note that the factory installed bumper on my 1927 Paige 6-45 sedan is pictured and identified in Paige literature as a "Weed" bumper, and it has no name or identifying marks on it either. Many, if not most, early to mid 1920s bumpers do not have manufacturer's name on them. Maybe just the way the business was done in those days? Just some observations, and some speculations. I still suspect the OP "Biflex" style bumper is likely a competing knockoff. It looks like several bumpers I have seen over the years, and we generally believed they were other brands as well. But I could be wrong?
  11. The Brush is famous for their wooden axles, wooden frame, and silly suspension! And by "frame", we mean the chassis frame, not the framework for the body, although they do have that also! They were not the only car with a wooden chassis frame, Franklin being the other best known maker with that feature, but there were others. Other cars with wooden axles are few and far between. As for the suspension, all four corners have a steel rod extending up from the axle, through a cast iron bracket on the chassis frame, and on above to where the coil spring is attached to the rod. The lower end of the coil spring is attached to the cast iron bracket on the chassis frame, and the chassis frame supporting the body and engine and basically everything else is literally hanging down on the coil springs! The whole thing actually works quite well at the speeds the Brush was intended to be driven (top speed is generally between 20 and 25 mph). (This heavy body delivery truck is likely a bit slower?) The Brush runabouts and roadsters are fairly popular with the "one and two cylinder" crowd. In good mechanical condition and somewhat sorted, they are not the fastest one cylinder cars, but are fairly reliable as long as they don't have to do too much hill climbing. I like them, and have come close to buying one a few times.
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