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I think you are right, Walt. According to our nephew's athletic son, a swimmer at the U of Arizona, and his team mates I am a "NARP" -- a "Non-Athletic Regular Person".

How come I can't find the ConlRad symbol on my radio anymore? Kids today do not know what that is. My '55 Dodge still had it.

Mine was a 1950 Plymouth four door sedan. No photo actually required. Just imagine how hot it was -- makes my blood pressure increase just thinking about it.

Fort Leonard Wood -- yeah, I did basic there in 1962. It was known as Little Korea for a reason because of the Hill of Death we had to schlepp UP.

Nevada Highway Patrol rolled in style. Anyone know the make and year of this car? It appears to be a 1933 or-so model year.

Wow ! Another set of prize winning headlights. The lights on the Fiat were terrific and this second set is equally terrific. They look like they would have been costly to manufacture.

1892? That is a pretty rarified automobile date. The mystery car appears more like a 1907 Holsman Model 3 runabout. However the mystery car's wheels, especially the fellow areas, and the tire surfaces are not correct to a Holsman. The wheels etc appear to be relatively modern "repro". In addition the headlight lamps of the mystery car are different than a Holsman.

Maybe about a 1910 Stoddard?

Very nice headlights on this car. Were the headlights manufactured by Fiat or furnished by a different manufacturer?

This Model T's radiator cap is a T hubcap. Hard times are obvious in this photo.

Interesting photo. The woman riding in the right rear seat is wearing period correct sunglasses. The lenses are dark and most likely the color blue. One does not normally see old photos of people wearing sunglasses but indeed they did wear them. Blue was probably the most popular or most often purchased color lens, but there also were other colors such as shades of brown. The driver is wearing a great looking Texas style Stetson dress hat.

Tom Dewey, Republican, campaigning for President in 1944. He is somewhere in California based on the California state flag flying from the left bumper.

What I see on the sign: XMAS AFTERNOON DECEMBER 25 '21 3 lines illegible 4th line virtually illegible but seems to have a set of three words followed by a "v" and a second set of three words (the "v" signifying "versus"?) 5th line illegible VIC HANSON YOUNG COFFY Assuming that December 25th is a day for recreation, perhaps there was a football or basketball game that day. One Victor Arthur "Vic" Hanson was born July 30, 1903, died April 10, 1982. He played football and basketball at Syracuse, and I believe he played professional baseball. In the photo with the automobile, it is possible the man standing proudly in the center could be Vic Hanson. No on-line record of Young Coffy has been found. In the background of the automobile photo there appears to be an oil derrick with a pump arm and linkage to a hidden electric motor. Could this location be somewhere in Pennsylvania?

Thank you, Walt. Do you now the story or back story on the early term "Stanhope"? A number of manufacturers sold a Stanhope model. Was the term Stanhope a person's surname who started the style, the name of a body producer, or something like the elastic term "Victoria"?

This is an interesting photo. The bulge in the right front tire appears to threaten the stability of the car and lively hoods of the passengers. The style of the shirts worn by the men suggests styling norm from about the 1880s through 1910 or 1915 time frame. Hat styles can suggest something about time periods as well as possible location by the wearer. In this photo there are three examples of what is known as a "Montana pinch". The man wearing a dark shirt in the background sports a classic Montana pinch. Hence a best guess for the location of this photo is possibly Montana, Idaho, or Wyoming.

The photo of the fire department ladder truck was posted as a 1906 Ariel Simplex in Auckland. A 1906 U.S. Ariel advertisement says "Look For The Oval Front", and indeed a '06 Ariel had an oval radiator shell. Is the Ariel Simplex a different manufacturer than the Ariel Company of Bridgeport, Connecticutt? Perhaps Ariel Simplex is a British manufacturer? There does not seem to be a cross over of multiple names with the U.S. Simplex and Crane-Simplex.

Whatever the make of this automobile, the rear half of the body suggests a "businessman's model", similar to the later business coupe models (such as the green Plymouth).

Hmmm. The background does distract from the automobile. Perhaps for publication the background "dead trees" were edited out of the final photo product. My eyes are less attracted to the car than to what appears to be the World War One battlefield at Verdun in the background.

The photo was captioned "Winther Snow Blower". It doesn't look anything like the Winther automobiles but perhaps this beast was produced by Winther. It appears the spiked tire tread could provide good grip on slippery surfaces as well as aerating a lawn in summer.

Appears to be an early car packing photo; competition for the Packard moniker? In more recent times the young and limber folks packed telephone booths and VW beetles. Now days they pack a Smart Car. Our '28 Model A roadster went to a new home because my creaky old joints couldn't deal with the cramped size of Henry's creation.

Two photos of the Farman with license plate number 2243 exist. One photo has the "Farman" word printed on it and the second appears to be cropped and without the Farman word. A third photo of a similar Farman displays plate number 475?. The photo appears to have been taken at a gathering or vehicle display (seen in the background at right). Across the grass field is a banner for De Deion Bouton, and another displaying La Franch??? Diamant.

An interesting engineering solution to achieve a soft ride? Presumably those are coil springs in the wheels. ?

The windscreen on this automobile in 1907 appears to be very similar to an after market windscreen advertised in the Automobile Journal back in the day. It is simply wood frame and ordinary plate glass. Safety glass did not come into use until 1936, except for the rear window. Seeing this photo reminds me of a scary incident I had with my 1932 Chevrolet. Back in 1960 or '61 the right side front passenger window was broken. The approximate top half was solidly stuck in the window channel and the lower half was missing. A number of times I tried to remove the stuck top half of the plate glass but it would not budge. The profile of the stuck plate glass was shaped like a guillotine blade and that made it scary looking. One fine summer day I was sitting in the passenger seat looking at the stuck glass and mulling over how to remove it and why it had resisted my past efforts. Suddenly it dropped like a guillotine blade and I sat there stunned. A number of times I had put my hand and arm through the window opening below the glass. There is only one English word for a peculiar, stunned feeling -- WHEW ! Or a low whistle sound.

More on the 1910 Marion racer, number 12. A banner on the left side of the car declares it as a Marion.

There are two photos of the same Lincoln. The car appears to be at rest in the same location, with one photo just a tad fuzzy and the second one sharp. The position of the camera changed a little; the oil spot on the street is in the same relationship to the car, the logo on the hub caps has the same orientation in both photos, and it appears that the building is the same but the scale cuts off part of the building.