Well, there's your problem.

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 02/14/2019 at 17:23 • Filed to: None

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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 02/14/2019 at 17:33

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I wonder if there’s a reason the front wheel is a Dodge-style “artillery” steel wheel and the rear wheel is the normal wire wheel. Maybe it’s the “move the car around the yard” wheel... except that it’s being rolled down a lane by a field of crops. The whole scenario is a little weird.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/14/2019 at 17:35

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Your guess is as good as mine. 

InFierority Complex > ttyymmnn 02/14/2019 at 17:56

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Reminds me of King Alfonso XIII of Spain “getting to know his people,” photo.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 02/14/2019 at 17:56

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There’s no spare on the A (and obviously they aren’t using one), but I’d have thought even if the artillery wheel “spare” was being carried onboard, it’d be just as easy to bring the new tire out to the car and put it on as it was to take it off and take it in... rather than roll the car back to the shop.

It’s pretty clear that the artillery wheel is a reject not much good for general use anymore - since it doesn’t have even the ghost of a tire and a large section of the ring around the lugs has been beaten up badly. No way is it still straight. You could guess that it not matching and being damaged and missing a tire are unrelated and that it only just lost the tire and had a mishap... but I don’t think so.

The point of a spare is to have the car self-recover, one would have thought, but clearly the correct wheel is off to get a new tire already, another vehicle may have come and gone, and the car can’t really drive back...

Or, the other scenario is that this is a project car. The wheel is of a type typically seen some years after the car, and it’s not new. Maybe it is being pushed up the road to have an engine out, having been previously shoved down the lane to be out of the way in a shed.

I’ll put this down generally to “people who farmed in the past were often really bored”.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/14/2019 at 18:03

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My guess is that the wheel just plain busted, they had no spare, and they needed to move it somewhere. And this was the only wheel they had. What interests me is that it actually fits on the car somehow.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 02/14/2019 at 18:36

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It appears that Model As use a 5 x 5-1/2 pattern, which is mostly Ford only, but would also match Ford trucks  later in the 30s. Like this one, which has artillery wheels.