Such Brass! I never really connected to cars from the teens and twenties. However, I am happy that there's still people out there that keep these old beauties not forgotten, and in the...

autofocus Loc: North Central Connecticut

I never really connected to cars from the teens and twenties. However, I am happy that there's still people out there that keep these old beauties not forgotten, and in the forefront. After all, they represent the early days of the automobile industry, and truly, many were not more than bare bones transportation.
Now, I grew up in the forties and fifties, and it's very easy for me to relate to the cars from those periods. As a kid even the thirties cars were common to see, and it's these cars that today I find most interesting, and most fun to see. And my feelings for certain periods of cars is certainly not unique to me. I think it's these feelings that control and move the popular trends in classic cars. Bottom line, it's being able to relate to the cars you grew up with, and the often fond memories you connect to those cars.
For the first 12 years of my young life I grew up living in an apartment, and now many many years later I can still vividly remember a car related incident that happened to me. Being an apartment, and not a big one, many of the tenants parked their cars out on the street in front of the building. And I can recall one early summer evening sitting on the front fender of a tenant's car parked out front. It happened to be a fat fendered Packard, probably a '36 or '37, and it was green. (amazing what you remember) The lady that owned the car came down and yelled at me for sitting on her car, and at the time this 10 year old probably couldn't understand why. But, today, I get it. A Packard was an expensive car, and probably cost twice as much as what a Ford, Plymouth, or Chevrolet would have cost back then. But, I didn't think twice about sitting on that fat old fender where anything on my pants, or a buckle, or shoe could have scratched her pride and joy.
Now that I told you my story about why I have a hard time connecting to cars from the teens or earlier it seems like all those feelings changed when I saw this cute, and it really is, brassy Model T Ford. I don't know what it really was, but I really liked this car. Maybe it was that beautiful deep red paint job with the plush black leather seating...or maybe it was all that beautifully polished brass? It did, however, bring back some other nice memory, one of how much I enjoyed watching the old Laurel and Hardy silent movies that always had Model T's running around...who knows?

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UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

A beautiful shot and fun story, Vince!

autofocus Loc: North Central Connecticut

UTMike wrote:

A beautiful shot and fun story, Vince!

always appreciated Mike, thanks and enjoy the weekend!

Paul B. Loc: North Carolina

Nice looking car and good story👍

autofocus Loc: North Central Connecticut

Paul B. wrote:

Nice looking car and good story👍

thank Paul, glad you enjoyed it!

mvetrano2 Loc: Commack, NY

Beautiful!

autofocus Loc: North Central Connecticut

mvetrano2 wrote:

Beautiful!

thanks so much, enjoy the weekend down on LI, my old stomping grounds!

anotherview Loc: California

Always a pleasure to see photos of those early cars. They have their own charm from their design to the taste of the era.

autofocus wrote:

I never really connected to cars from the teens and twenties. However, I am happy that there's still people out there that keep these old beauties not forgotten, and in the forefront. After all, they represent the early days of the automobile industry, and truly, many were not more than bare bones transportation.
Now, I grew up in the forties and fifties, and it's very easy for me to relate to the cars from those periods. As a kid even the thirties cars were common to see, and it's these cars that today I find most interesting, and most fun to see. And my feelings for certain periods of cars is certainly not unique to me. I think it's these feelings that control and move the popular trends in classic cars. Bottom line, it's being able to relate to the cars you grew up with, and the often fond memories you connect to those cars.
For the first 12 years of my young life I grew up living in an apartment, and now many many years later I can still vividly remember a car related incident that happened to me. Being an apartment, and not a big one, many of the tenants parked their cars out on the street in front of the building. And I can recall one early summer evening sitting on the front fender of a tenant's car parked out front. It happened to be a fat fendered Packard, probably a '36 or '37, and it was green. (amazing what you remember) The lady that owned the car came down and yelled at me for sitting on her car, and at the time this 10 year old probably couldn't understand why. But, today, I get it. A Packard was an expensive car, and probably cost twice as much as what a Ford, Plymouth, or Chevrolet would have cost back then. But, I didn't think twice about sitting on that fat old fender where anything on my pants, or a buckle, or shoe could have scratched her pride and joy.
Now that I told you my story about why I have a hard time connecting to cars from the teens or earlier it seems like all those feelings changed when I saw this cute, and it really is, brassy Model T Ford. I don't know what it really was, but I really liked this car. Maybe it was that beautiful deep red paint job with the plush black leather seating...or maybe it was all that beautifully polished brass? It did, however, bring back some other nice memory, one of how much I enjoyed watching the old Laurel and Hardy silent movies that always had Model T's running around...who knows?

I never really connected to cars from the teens an... (show quote)

autofocus Loc: North Central Connecticut

anotherview wrote:

Always a pleasure to see photos of those early cars. They have their own charm from their design to the taste of the era.

so very true, thanks, just think of the car we take for granted today, and then go back 100+ years to this!

luvmypets Loc: Born & raised Texan living in Fayetteville NC

Nice photo of that very cool car!!

Dodie

autofocus Loc: North Central Connecticut

luvmypets wrote:

Nice photo of that very cool car!!

Dodie

thank you Dodie, glad you like it!

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

autofocus wrote:

I never really connected to cars from the teens and twenties. However, I am happy that there's still people out there that keep these old beauties not forgotten, and in the forefront. After all, they represent the early days of the automobile industry, and truly, many were not more than bare bones transportation.
Now, I grew up in the forties and fifties, and it's very easy for me to relate to the cars from those periods. As a kid even the thirties cars were common to see, and it's these cars that today I find most interesting, and most fun to see. And my feelings for certain periods of cars is certainly not unique to me. I think it's these feelings that control and move the popular trends in classic cars. Bottom line, it's being able to relate to the cars you grew up with, and the often fond memories you connect to those cars.
For the first 12 years of my young life I grew up living in an apartment, and now many many years later I can still vividly remember a car related incident that happened to me. Being an apartment, and not a big one, many of the tenants parked their cars out on the street in front of the building. And I can recall one early summer evening sitting on the front fender of a tenant's car parked out front. It happened to be a fat fendered Packard, probably a '36 or '37, and it was green. (amazing what you remember) The lady that owned the car came down and yelled at me for sitting on her car, and at the time this 10 year old probably couldn't understand why. But, today, I get it. A Packard was an expensive car, and probably cost twice as much as what a Ford, Plymouth, or Chevrolet would have cost back then. But, I didn't think twice about sitting on that fat old fender where anything on my pants, or a buckle, or shoe could have scratched her pride and joy.
Now that I told you my story about why I have a hard time connecting to cars from the teens or earlier it seems like all those feelings changed when I saw this cute, and it really is, brassy Model T Ford. I don't know what it really was, but I really liked this car. Maybe it was that beautiful deep red paint job with the plush black leather seating...or maybe it was all that beautifully polished brass? It did, however, bring back some other nice memory, one of how much I enjoyed watching the old Laurel and Hardy silent movies that always had Model T's running around...who knows?

I never really connected to cars from the teens an... (show quote)

Nice memories, I remember my Grandparents and Great Aunts and Uncles talking about the first Model T the family owned. It seems one Great Aunt scared the hell out of everyone when she learned to drive. Pedal to the metal and great depth perception, so she drove so close to things she was passing, the passengers freaked out.

Then there was my first year of college, Fall 1964, a local Community College at an in town location (moved to a huge out-of-town campus my second year) and the shortcut to the McDonald's for food and drinks went right past the special parking space for the head librarian at the city library. Her Grandson and his buddies got her father's Model T out of the barn where it had been stored since the 1930s, took it to the High School and the entire shop class made restoring it a year's project, amazing paint job in forest green with black pinstripes, all the brass and chrome polished etc., white wall tires they applied finish to every week, beautiful leather upholstery and top. They redid the running gear and drive train, so it purred like a kitten. On good weather days she drove it to work and there was always a group of students and passers-by standing and owing and ahhing over it. On bad weather days, she drove a late 50s Chevy that was also prettied up by the Grandson and his buddies.

The Ford Model T, and the truck versions of it, was the one vehicle that gets the most credit for putting America on wheels, as it was priced and made for the average person (Ford's first purpose to make it affordable by his factory workers.) Up until then most cars were expensive, upper middle and upper class affordable only. After the Model T the big automakers all added affordable cars and trucks to their lineup.

I hope you don't mind me adding this long entry to your post, the inner teacher coming out even after years of retirement.
Two Model T trucks; #1 1911 Panel delivery truck and #2 1923 flat bed-probably bought as a frame etc. and the cab and bed built by a local shop. This particular truck show at the Railway Museum I belong to had so many Model Ts of different types and years they had a whole block long section just for T's.
If you want I can delete and make it a thread of its own.

1911 Model T panel truck
1911 Model T panel truck...

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1923 Model T custom flatbed
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photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

autofocus wrote:

I never really connected to cars from the teens and twenties. However, I am happy that there's still people out there that keep these old beauties not forgotten, and in the forefront. After all, they represent the early days of the automobile industry, and truly, many were not more than bare bones transportation.
Now, I grew up in the forties and fifties, and it's very easy for me to relate to the cars from those periods. As a kid even the thirties cars were common to see, and it's these cars that today I find most interesting, and most fun to see. And my feelings for certain periods of cars is certainly not unique to me. I think it's these feelings that control and move the popular trends in classic cars. Bottom line, it's being able to relate to the cars you grew up with, and the often fond memories you connect to those cars.
For the first 12 years of my young life I grew up living in an apartment, and now many many years later I can still vividly remember a car related incident that happened to me. Being an apartment, and not a big one, many of the tenants parked their cars out on the street in front of the building. And I can recall one early summer evening sitting on the front fender of a tenant's car parked out front. It happened to be a fat fendered Packard, probably a '36 or '37, and it was green. (amazing what you remember) The lady that owned the car came down and yelled at me for sitting on her car, and at the time this 10 year old probably couldn't understand why. But, today, I get it. A Packard was an expensive car, and probably cost twice as much as what a Ford, Plymouth, or Chevrolet would have cost back then. But, I didn't think twice about sitting on that fat old fender where anything on my pants, or a buckle, or shoe could have scratched her pride and joy.
Now that I told you my story about why I have a hard time connecting to cars from the teens or earlier it seems like all those feelings changed when I saw this cute, and it really is, brassy Model T Ford. I don't know what it really was, but I really liked this car. Maybe it was that beautiful deep red paint job with the plush black leather seating...or maybe it was all that beautifully polished brass? It did, however, bring back some other nice memory, one of how much I enjoyed watching the old Laurel and Hardy silent movies that always had Model T's running around...who knows?

I never really connected to cars from the teens an... (show quote)

autofocus Loc: North Central Connecticut

robertjerl wrote:

Nice memories, I remember my Grandparents and Great Aunts and Uncles talking about the first Model T the family owned. It seems one Great Aunt scared the hell out of everyone when she learned to drive. Pedal to the metal and great depth perception, so she drove so close to things she was passing, the passengers freaked out.

Then there was my first year of college, Fall 1964, a local Community College at an in town location (moved to a huge out-of-town campus my second year) and the shortcut to the McDonald's for food and drinks went right past the special parking space for the head librarian at the city library. Her Grandson and his buddies got her father's Model T out of the barn where it had been stored since the 1930s, took it to the High School and the entire shop class made restoring it a year's project, amazing paint job in forest green with black pinstripes, all the brass and chrome polished etc., white wall tires they applied finish to every week, beautiful leather upholstery and top. They redid the running gear and drive train, so it purred like a kitten. On good weather days she drove it to work and there was always a group of students and passers-by standing and owing and ahhing over it. On bad weather days, she drove a late 50s Chevy that was also prettied up by the Grandson and his buddies.

The Ford Model T, and the truck versions of it, was the one vehicle that gets the most credit for putting America on wheels, as it was priced and made for the average person (Ford's first purpose to make it affordable by his factory workers.) Up until then most cars were expensive, upper middle and upper class affordable only. After the Model T the big automakers all added affordable cars and trucks to their lineup.

I hope you don't mind me adding this long entry to your post, the inner teacher coming out even after years of retirement.
Two Model T trucks; #1 1911 Panel delivery truck and #2 1923 flat bed-probably bought as a frame etc. and the cab and bed built by a local shop. This particular truck show at the Railway Museum I belong to had so many Model Ts of different types and years they had a whole block long section just for T's.
If you want I can delete and make it a thread of its own.

Nice memories, I remember my Grandparents and Grea... (show quote)

No problem! What I'm happy about is that my story and photo brought back some good memories of your own!

autofocus Loc: North Central Connecticut

photophile wrote:

thank you Photophile!