A Briggs & Stratton car! Amazing! But I'm surprised there's no pull-cord to start it.
Gonna sneak in some stray car stuff while we are briefly sidetracked and empty the file and rid my car stuff:
Indiana State Police 1936 Cord 810 Not Bad!
German Police Porsche souped up to do 300 kph or 186 mph
A Rust-Heinz designed Bowen and Schwartz Phantom Corsair
I take it kinda rare.
Now this has to be worth a buck or two. A trailer full of Maserati !
And now for some Classic accessories ...
A car phone of course ... but rotary dial so only us classic dudes will know how to operate it!
And of course a record player for music!
And the Ultimate! ... Jimi Hendrix in a Box device. Wow!!
MiningmanA Rust-Heinz designed Bowen and Schwartz Phantom Corsair I take it kinda rare.
Rarer perhaps than it should have been. Rust Heinz was the son of the pickle guy. He was studying naval architecture at Yale but quit, and went to Pasadena as an industrial designer. The Phantom Corsair was developed on a Cord chassis but with only one of the Pasadena coach builders (Maurice Schwartz) assisting.
Heinz died in a crash (at age 25) ensuring there would be no more of these -- they were to be volume-produced at between $12,500 and $14,700 (which someone noted was 3 times the price of a late Cadillac V16) but I don't think he would actually have had trouble finding enough demand to 'save' at least the mechanical part of Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg
While in the subject of phones in strange things... what's this in the upper left corner?
Overmod Why six wheels? Fuller only needed three... ...If you're going to admire Stout, you really have to admire Hans Ledwinka more. (See the settlement between those two...). I have a suspicion the real Jones1945 dream car is one like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8fNpTSLi80 (What other vehicle make can boast partisan cred for knocking off key members of the Nazi officer corps?)
Why six wheels? Fuller only needed three...
...If you're going to admire Stout, you really have to admire Hans Ledwinka more. (See the settlement between those two...). I have a suspicion the real Jones1945 dream car is one like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8fNpTSLi80
(What other vehicle make can boast partisan cred for knocking off key members of the Nazi officer corps?)
The music fits the promotional film of Tatra 603 perfectly! I watched it two times in a row... A capable car, a skillful driver and a lady who has good manners. It is a good looking car but you know I am not a big fan of postwar modern styling, including new cars that I can find in the car dealership nowadays!
Fully's Dymaxion car is cute but the riding quality is predictably rough. I love 6-wheel cars, including buses and trucks like London Transport's 6-wheel trolleybus, one of the most elegance and environment-friendly public transport every made. The suspension is soft, riding quality is bouncy but not rough.
For private cars, the list is too long. I love the 1931 Maybach DS8 Zeppelin streamlined, 1937 Duesenberg SJ-397 Town Car made for Rudolf Bauer and the 1938 Phantom Corsair!
Jones 3D Modeling Club https://www.youtube.com/Jones3DModelingClub
"The Phantom Corsair." Well, if anything qualifies as the Batmobile that's it!
Car phones! Man, the only time I ever saw any car phones they were on TV shows like "Burke's Law," "Mannix," or "Cannon." If you had a car phone back in those days you had muh-neeeee!
Overmod Miningman A Rust-Heinz designed Bowen and Schwartz Phantom Corsair I take it kinda rare. Rarer perhaps than it should have been. Rust Heinz was the son of the pickle guy. He was studying naval architecture at Yale but quit, and went to Pasadena as an industrial designer. The Phantom Corsair was developed on a Cord chassis but with only one of the Pasadena coach builders (Maurice Schwartz) assisting. Heinz died in a crash (at age 25) ensuring there would be no more of these -- they were to be volume-produced at between $12,500 and $14,700 (which someone noted was 3 times the price of a late Cadillac V16) but I don't think he would actually have had trouble finding enough demand to 'save' at least the mechanical part of Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg While in the subject of phones in strange things... what's this in the upper left corner?
Miningman A Rust-Heinz designed Bowen and Schwartz Phantom Corsair I take it kinda rare.
The upper left corner? I'm guessin' that's the PRR's inductive train telephone system in operation. I've seen it in old Pennsy promo films.
Flintlock76The upper left corner? I'm guessin' that's the PRR's inductive train telephone system in operation.
I was referring to the locomotive. Offhand, the only thing I know that has stylish canted window frames like that from an early era are Krauss-Maffei Amerika-Loks, which were rare on PRR.
Granted, I think this is entirely a result of creative (and excessive) retouching ... but it sure would be fun to see what it would be. (Personally I think this photograph's original might be familiar, an F or E unit judging by the shape of where the side window on one would be behind the engineer.
Jones1945I love 6-wheel cars ...
Let me permit me to make your day, then.
The Nautilus, from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
(It's for sale; time to buy it, put in a proper full active suspension, and enough Tesla componentry to enable Ludicrous++ mode... after all, it should always have had electric drive to be 'prototypical' ...)
Still can't beat the eight-wheel car, though: in particular, Kipling's Octopod, a car capable of running down streambeds with fairly large rocks at 60mph, among other things. Mr. Pirolo would certainly have had one with ... certain enhancements.
Overmod Let me permit me to make your day, then.
I want to try something new today:
Dial telephones? I grew up in a small town in South Carolina--and we had dial phones in the forties! The county seat, about ten miles north, still had operator assistance on all calls. Once, a cousin from the county seat was visiting, and she asked how the dial phone worked; I was so astonished at her question that I could not answer her.
In the fifties, when I went to college in Bristol (where I could watch the N&W J's), I had to learn to tell the operator what number I wanted to call; during my time there, a dial system was put into service, with the prefix SO for numbers in the Tennessee city, and NO for numbers in the Virginia city--do NOT dial N zero or S zero!
Much later, I had to learn how to use pushbuttons.
After I retired, I wish I had taken my desk telephone home with me--it really rang!
Johnny
Flintlock76Car phones! Man, the only time I ever saw any car phones they were on TV shows like "Burke's Law," "Mannix," or "Cannon." If you had a car phone back in those days you had muh-neeeee!
OvermodI was referring to the locomotive. Offhand, the only thing I know that has stylish canted window frames like that from an early era are Krauss-Maffei Amerika-Loks, which were rare on PRR. Granted, I think this is entirely a result of creative (and excessive) retouching ... but it sure would be fun to see what it would be. (Personally I think this photograph's original might be familiar, an F or E unit judging by the shape of where the side window on one would be behind the engineer.
One left. Who knew?
YEAH! Zippo! The lighter that won World War Two!
Still in business and as good as ever!
I have a wall mount rotary in the basement in avacado.
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Penny Trains I have a wall mount rotary in the basement in avacado.
I have to ask, does it still work? Avocado? A souvenir from the 70's!
I go back to small town Vermont, late 50's- early 60' s. We didn't even have s dial on the phone because we only had a three digit number. You would pick up the phone and ask the operator to connect you to whatever number you were calling. Later, we moved to Bennington near where Vermont, New York, and Massachusetts meet. Then we had the first dial phone with a seven digit number.
As for Briggs & Stratton, we had a Toro Reel Type mower with a Briggs & Stratton engine. It had a rope start and I recall my Dad swearing in his heavily accented English when he couldn't get it started. Had he been back in Russia and he were trying to start a motorboat, they would have called him the Vulgar Boatman
Flintlock76 Penny Trains I have a wall mount rotary in the basement in avacado. I have to ask, does it still work? Avocado? A souvenir from the 70's!
Of course!
You can dial out using the rotary dial?
I'm pretty sure one can still use a rotary dial phone, but don't quote me on it. Back in the 90's, my church in the Detroit area still had a rotary dial phone, in the church; not in the rectory. Since everybody has a cellphone now, it was taken out sometime after I left in 2006.
I suppose it converts the rotary function to the same as a push button.
I believe rotary dial phones are still usable. There's some for sale at a local antiques mall, updated with modern phone jacks by the seller. Just plug 'em in and you're ready to roll.
Needless to say you can't do the things you can do with a push-button phone, but if all you want to do is talk and you want some retro-cool, AND you want to drive one of todays kids crazy trying to figure out how to use one, a rotary phone's the way to go!
rcdrye Overmod I was referring to the locomotive. Offhand, the only thing I know that has stylish canted window frames like that from an early era are Krauss-Maffei Amerika-Loks, which were rare on PRR. Granted, I think this is entirely a result of creative (and excessive) retouching ... but it sure would be fun to see what it would be. (Personally I think this photograph's original might be familiar, an F or E unit judging by the shape of where the side window on one would be behind the engineer. Probably a Zephyr power car from Budd/EMC.
Overmod I was referring to the locomotive. Offhand, the only thing I know that has stylish canted window frames like that from an early era are Krauss-Maffei Amerika-Loks, which were rare on PRR. Granted, I think this is entirely a result of creative (and excessive) retouching ... but it sure would be fun to see what it would be. (Personally I think this photograph's original might be familiar, an F or E unit judging by the shape of where the side window on one would be behind the engineer.
Probably a Zephyr power car from Budd/EMC.
Not just a Zephyr power car...
It is most likely 9908, which had such a shaped side window in addition to the similar front windows. As the last of the shovel nose units, it would have had a control layout similar to the E units being built concurrently. As a 567 engine unit, it might have lasted long enough in main line service for train radio. 9904 to 9907 were similar but had the cab door closer to the angled window in question.
The side walls are vertical. All the Krauss Maffei units had inward canted cab sides to allow delivery by rail to the docks (and for the original units to be tested in the Austrian alps.)
Peter
Flintlock76 I believe rotary dial phones are still usable. There's some for sale at a local antiques mall, updated with modern phone jacks by the seller. Just plug 'em in and you're ready to roll. Needless to say you can't do the things you can do with a push-button phone, but if all you want to do is talk and you want some retro-cool, AND you want to drive one of todays kids crazy trying to figure out how to use one, a rotary phone's the way to go!
Yes, at least one of my rotary phone is still functioning in today's system. But the last time I used it for international phone calls was around 1999 - 2000. It was some phone calls from Hong Kong to Chicago...
Jones1945Yes, at least one of my rotary phone is still functioning in today's system. But the last time I used it for international phone calls was around 1999 - 2000. It was some phone calls from Hong Kong to Chicago...
When the telephones in my home town were converted from the operator on call system to dial, we had three digit numbers. Some time after I left home, a fourth digit was added.
Great story on George Blaisdell and the Zippo company! And you're right Vince, men like Blaisdell were builders, hedge fund goons are nothing but vampires.
I guess I'm really lucky. I've got Zippos of various decorations, and Ernie Pyle's books too!
I didn't call the Zippo the lighter that won WW2 for nothin'!
WOW! Zippo heaven! I detect the fine hand of "Wanswheel" at work!
So THAT'S how they made the flints! I always wondered, since they're not the flint I'm used to.
I wondered if they were the iron pyrite that was used in the old wheel-locks. Close, but no cigar.
And I had a bit of nostalgia looking at the TV antenna ad, now that's something you don't see anymore! Remember when the chimneys on every house in the neighborhood had one? And there's that Alco FA in the Prince Albert ad. A real time capsule, that article!
Thanks Mike, and Vince for passing it on!
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