"charski" (charski)
04/18/2015 at 18:15 • Filed to: None
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"charski" (charski)
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Family. I love my family. I get along great with my family, in-laws included. But the personality tick that I have is to not be that fired up to go do something (grouchy that I have to spend a Saturday doing extended family stuff), but end up having the time of my life. Today was no different.
I got the chance to go visit an extended family members’ friend who collects cars and tractors, and lives on a good piece of land less than 45 minutes away. This man has collected a number of fascinating, at least to me, pieces of machinery, spanning the very early 1920’s to the youngest car from the mid eighties.
Let me clear the air here by saying I consider myself a gearhead, right up until I’m talking to people who can pull apart and rebuild a complicated Turbo 400 tranny, then I’m just embarrassed at my incomplete level of knowledge. That said, I do at least have a high level of interest in cars of all eras, if not the money and time and acreage to own and work on them, and would say my weakest era of knowledge is likely vehicles from the 30’s and 40’s. If I am inaccurate, or don’t fill in all the details, please forgive me.
So, on to the brass tacks, shall we? I’m just going to go through these in the order that I ran across them during the barn tour, I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
Willeys of unknown year
As an owner of a modern Jeep Wrangler, I could appreciate the simplicity of this, sliding door (first minivan?) and all.
1930’s Ford
This is such a beautiful car, makes me ache.
1968 Buick Electra
This Buick had a 430-4 barrel in it, the owner fired it right up, smoooooth, classy car, as long as I remember. Convertible too.
1931 Ford with rumble seats
If I could, I’d daily drive this thing in a heartbeat. I know, I know, I’d go broke in a month, but tell truthfully, wouldn’t it be worth it?
My kids fit right in that rumble seat, and loved it. All they needed were some leather goggles and bugs in their teeth.
Class. Pure class.
1929 Hupmobile
The owner very kindly drove my kids and parents in-law around in this. I’m pretty sure it has straight cut gears. I think Torchinsky had an article as to how this is the car depicted on the 10 dollar bill. I could be wrong about that, though. I’m not wrong about it’s being on the tenner, however.
The detail and beauty in this wheel helped make this my new favorite classic car. Love this.
1920 Model T2 Door Hard Top
From what I could understand, this model is the first 2 door hard top ever created, and is rare among Model T’s. As stated above, this era of cars is a weak spot in my knowledge of cars, help me out in the comments where I come up short.
In this original leather tool kit, were: spare carb, 2 spare pistons, 1 cast iron tube repair kit that you had to light on fire somehow to get it to vulcanize the patch to the tube.
1924 Model T Truck
The owner related how he came about owning this as follows: He knew it was to be at a car show, so he showed up early outside the front gate, flagged down the owner, and convinced him to sell it to him before the guy ever set foot on show grounds.
‘Merica!
Studebaker
I would tell you what year this was if I knew, I really would...
Mmmmm...this is just...right.
Mercury With Suicide Doors
The predecessor to the Continental, maybe? With no seat belts and a metal dash, it was a design, materials, and safety lesson with my son.
A ton of distinction here, I wish today’s Mercury had as much umph.
1950 Plymouth
In Robins egg blue? I can’t see that as Plymouth’s official paint color, but that’s what was running around my head when I saw it. Even with the rounded lines, it had heft with the “brow” over the windshield and tall hood
Dodge 2-Door Convertible
I really wanted to pop the hood to see what made this thing shake, but had to make sure young kids were not doing anything goofy. This thing looked great in white.
1980’s Ford Futura, Plaid Seats and all
This beast ran smooth, and was the owners daily driver for a bit. Very clean and original, minus the compass on the dash.
Studebaker Water Truck
The only thing I can say about how cool this truck was is “Patina”. No idea what year truck, I didn’t have time to ask, as I was running around snagging pictures too. (how do those Jalopnik contributors do it all?)
International Harvester
I would hate to restore this, you’d just ruin the awesomeness.
Ford Truck (I know, not very specific)
It wouldn’t hurt Ford to have a throwback design feature to this brute, would it?
Before the Blue Oval.
The best thing about this trip back in time, was that I could touch, sit in, photograph, ride in each piece of history, which I tried to do when I visited the Petersen in LA, but got “The Look”, and an alarm before I got all that close. I truly enjoyed the stories this older gentleman had to tell, and hope that he gets everything out of his collection when it comes time to sell.
Thanks for stopping by, everyone.
JR1
> charski
04/19/2015 at 15:58 |
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Red white and blue patina I love it
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charski
> JR1
04/19/2015 at 17:08 |
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I had a hard time telling what color it was originally, should have looked in the door sill...it was a service truck with the tool boxes still in the bed.
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JR1
> charski
04/19/2015 at 19:30 |
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Tools still in the box? And I'm guessing it was red
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charski
> JR1
04/19/2015 at 19:44 |
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TBH, I didn’t get a good, I only noticed the toobox existed from the front of the truck. Nasty weather and a lack of time made it hard to be thorough. I wanted to pop the hood on every vehicle, but only got to see a few.
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JR1
> charski
04/19/2015 at 22:34 |
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At least you know where this honey hole is at. Maybe next time