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The car, at least, appears to have suffered from a very local and concentrated climate change.

That one looks like its playboy days are over.

Did they make more than 6 of them?

I don't believe those are stock factory colors, either.

Bought at Hershey in 2007. Picture taken firing up at the 1&2-cylinder tour in 2019.

An inline V-6 would make it unique P-A, probably worth at least a hundred grand.

Love the cowbell to warn of his approach!

Me, too, Marty! Will you be at the Hangover?

Several years ago, I took a young woman and her two boys for a ride in my Stanley, when they saw me in it and expressed an interest. Last February, I had my Model T out and encountered the same woman and one of the kids. They remembered me, and I took them for a Model T ride. I also suggested that, in warmer summer weather, we should have a play date at my house for "kids under 15 and over 80, and their parents." So, on Saturday, she and her husband and both boys came over. They all, one at a time, got a short ride in my single-cylinder Cadillac. Then we all together took a longer ride in my 1912 Buick. Then I pushed the Stanley out and lit it, giving a tutorial as the steam building progressed. When the pressure got to 500 pounds,we all went for ice cream. Fun day!

A skirt, no chain guard, no helmet, a muddy road and a cliff - what could possibly go wrong?

Mmmmm-mm-mm, not quite that slow. I had a 1906 Model F, very similar mechanically to the 1905 Model C. It would cruise forever at 32 mph, with quite a bit left for hills; a couple of times, I pulled away from a 1913 Cadillac on a hill. If I tried to use that extra power for more speed on the level, the car was happy enough, but I wasn't. It had a high center of gravity and a short wheelbase, so as the speed went up, it felt like dancing on a beach ball. I got it to 40 once, but nevermore!

Rambler, became Jeffery, became Nash, became Rambler again, became defunct.

More than 20 years ago, when I was playing with Model As, there was a fellow whose wife had a severe breathing problem. He hung an apartment window unit in the rear window of his Model A sedan and blocked off the rest of that window with plywood. Then he mounted a gasoline-engined emergency 110-volt generator on a trunk rack to power the AC. It looked ridiculous, but it worked, and his wife could ride in an air-conditioned Model A sedan in the heat of summer and breathe comfortably.

There's a whole story in that picture.

Good point. I was so focused on the lamps that I overlooked the doors.

Interesting. Those are young, well-dressed, probably prosperous men driving upscale cars in very good condition in 1914. But the cars are all gas-lit. Cadillac hadn't built a gas-lit car since 1911, and the other makes were probably electric-lit by 1913. I'd have thought that those folks would have been driving the latest and best.

Underpass clearance might be a bit tight.

Today I just hauled the trailer back from Canada, but in it were the 1914 Ford and 1907 Cadillac I drove last week on the "La Belle Province" HCCA tour in Quebec province.

The middle car in the first photo is a 1915 Briscoe. The cyclops headlight is unique to that model year. I don't know about the other cars,

That bridge is probably the only place he could have picked to stand where he wouldn't have sunk into mud up to his knees!

Stanley Mountain Wagon!

Best. Thread. Ever. Many thanks for a great read!

And may it ever remain undefended. A belated Happy Canada Day to our northern friends, the best neighbors a country could have!

Possibly an Artz body. The tonneau folds in when not in use, and the car becomes a runabout. But I don't know what would happen to that cloth top if the tonneau were folded in.

Remember the bass-ackwards shift pattern! Should be a neat tour car.