Looks like it's been in service long enough for the radiator to get boogered up.
I wonder when this photo was taken. It certainly looks like the old photos but the dogbone radiator cap, the shiny buckle on the crank strap and the tread on the new front tires kind of have a 60's or 70's look.
Great picture.
Rich
Those appear to be "Allstate" tires form Sears.
The photo is large format and appears to be on glass, which suggests it's an oldie. Glass negatives were passe by the sixties, and large format was used by just a few of us diehards.
The Photo looks to me that it has been made to look old . This truck should be a 26/27 and should have a Nickel Rad Shell and Headlight Rims. The Wheel Rims are missing the zinc plating which should still be there if it is indeed an old photo. Did you notice it is RD. Oh boy, now all bets are off as I don't know what the TT's looked like Down Under. I have those same tires on my TT.
I should have said the nickel Rad shells were late 26 and on most 1927 models. This was only an option for 1926 model TT's
The Moto Meter and the rear view mirror look modern too.
It's quite possible that somebody was shooting in large format on glass in the sixties or later. It's just very unlikely.
There are photo enthusiast out there just like us and maybe we have a cross over here: An ancient photo enthusiast with a model TT.
The old photographers made their own emulsion on the glass plate, so if you had one of those old cameras you may have tried to do you own glassplates.
And this was then the best shot.
With the relatively little depth in the sharpness it is definitely not made with a modern camera.
It seems the photographer who uses the term ‘Artist – Craftsman’ to describe himself, used an old 80 lb camera
with a plate size of 20” x 24” and made of aluminum. I gathered that it was taken about a year ago.
The photo came from the University of Minnesota collection. There's no trickery here.
Garnet
I'm new to T's and this forum but I'll take a step out. Most T images I see have the engine crank strap on the right side of the car. Could it that this image is reversed from the original?
U. of Minn? Perhaps it's Canadian? The rad. cover and lower shield look the same. More like fresh paint. The dog bones troubling. Don't know how old it could be.
http://www.codexphoto.com/?p=1348
I think you're on to something there Rich
Art, thanks for the link. So I was right about the large format, but guessed wrong on glass. That's really going back to the early days of photography, making direct positives on metal. That explains why the image would be reversed.
Art, I don't how you find so much information from just a picture........simply amazing!
John
I got thinking that it didn't make sense why that photo would have been in the U of M collection so I went thru my browser history and sure enough, it was from codexphoto.com. My apologies on that.
Garnet