Took the "Bumble T" to the local county store. Got a few flower for my wife!
Is that the same "Garrett's Grocery" that operated the truck below?
Doesn't a T make chores more fun?
Rich
I went to the Nursery the other day, saw a guy struggling to put a huge plant in a pot in the back of his truck. I commented, "Boy, that's a real double-hernia there!"
He said, " I don't know what kind of !@!$#@!! plant it is, my wife picked it out!"
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David D.
You are so right...The T make chores so much more fun.
When you're motoring along in your T, you tend to notice a lot more, your world slows down..That's what I like!!
I spell Powerade a little different than they do.
"BEER"
When ever possible I use my T for my trips to get gas for my lawn mower or to the dump (ops recycle center). It fact on good days I find myself thinking of things that I need to use the T for.
Happy Motoring, Warren
1917 Model T Ford Canopy Express Delivery during the July 4, 2011 parade in New Boston, New Hampshire
The best part of the parade was the preschoolers leading it.
Mike, you got her flowers when you could have gotten her an ice cold Powerade????
Garrett - where in the world did you come up with that picture? I wonder if the two grocery's are the same. Where are they located? It would be neat if they were.
The truck never existed he photo shopped it. Kids can't trust them.
LOL couldn't resist.
Nice pic Garrett!
Any more, you have to wonder. It's getting to where you can't use pictures as evidence.
Garrett’s Grocery was a real grocery store in a real town called Raymond, Washington.
In 1930 a Clarence Garrett took over the Riverview Grocery, and I would suppose
he would be the ‘Garrett’ of the Garrett’s Grocery shown on the truck.
This interesting and booming town was built with elevated plank roads and sidewalks
to allow the tide waters to flow under them (and sometimes over them) at high tide.
Good thing it was a lumber town.
More info and photos here . . .
http://www.pacificcohistory.org/sw2006_4.htm
Regards
Art
Here is another photo of Raymond, Washington from the link above,
showing the results of a higher than usual tide. Lots of other photos
if you scroll to the bottom of all pages.
Regards
Art
The horses don't seem to mind too much. The two guys in the roadster pickup on the other hand are trying to stay dry.
Garnet
What always strikes me when looking at photos like this, is how "real" the cars in the period photos look (weathered, signage almost gone, flat paint), and how prettyfied and fake today's T's look in comparison. Yesterday's T's only looked like today's T's for the first few months. Hence, today's T's look like an army of T's that were just sold new recently (ignoring the garish colors).
That, my friends, is something the whole world has been claiming when it comes to American restorations in general. They make everything so pretty, shinier than it ever was, put bling where bling doesn't belong, and the result is a vehicle that just doesn't look right. There seems to be some movement in the right direction lately on this side of the pond, but we still have a long ways to go before our T's don't look like modern replicas anymore but instead present a truthful vehicle that was built about a century ago in the blacksmith age when the streets were muddy and carwashes and Zymoil cream car polish didn't exist.
I'll betcha Model T owners in Raymond didn't have any problems with loose wheel spokes.