Farewell, my lovely

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 11:55 pm:

I just enjoyed rereading this wonderful piece by E.B. White. For those who haven't seen it before, or want to see it again...

http://dauntlessgeezer.com/DG74.html


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 12:13 am:

Steve, it is indeed a classic. Thanks for posting it.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Robert G. Hester Jr., Riverview, FL on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 12:21 am:

Steve, that is a great little story. I first discovered it a few years ago and have kept a copy of it on hand ever since. Thanks for posting. Bob


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Halpin on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 05:02 am:

As true today as it was then. :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Larry Smith on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 09:24 am:

The title is Farewell To Model T.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tom Miller, Mostly in Dearborn on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 09:53 am:

Yes, But it was first published in 1936 in the New Yorker as Farewell My Lovely.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Fred Dimock, Newfields NH, USA on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 01:03 pm:

Fantastic Fantastic Fantastic!!!

Only a Model T owner would really understand it.
E. B. White put the T experience into words that made me laugh and appreciate the opportunity I have in being able to have one in my garage. (I hesitate to use own when it comes to discussing my T.)

Having a T is more than the techie stuff like springs and carbs and tires.

It’s a happening

It’s an encounter with a legend.

It’s trying to understand what it wants.

It’s knowing people that share the same experience.

It's getting help from friends.

It's kids and older folks smiling.

It's people with the thumbs up.

It's folks stopping to take pictures.

It's going for ice cream with the grand children.

It's getting wet when it rains.

It's answering a zillion questions.

It’s magic - That’s it – It’s magic.

I’m going to make a poster out of that article and display it with the vehicle history at car shows so others might get a sampling of what having a Model T is really like.
But it will be like trying to describe a color to a blind man! :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rik Van on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 02:00 pm:

Couldn't have said it better!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Spaziano, Bellflower, CA. on Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 01:26 am:

I'm holding in my hand my copy of Lee Strout White's "Farewell to Model T". Drawings by Alain.
The copyright date is 1936 by Putnam's Sons, New York.

On the opposite page is an illustration of a large monument with a Model T at the top and standing in front of the monument is a man in an overcoat, holding his hat in his hand paying homage to our beloved car. Just below the illustration reads "Farewell My Lovely."

This book was given to me by my friend shortly before his passing in 1995 at the age of 77.

He got this book as a give away in 1936. He got it at....... Clymer Motors
2125 W. Pico Street
Los Angeles, CA.

This is stamped on the inside front cover.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 01:41 am:

Floyd Clymer was a prodigy. From Hemmings:

"Clymer knew his stuff when it came to old cars: In 1904, at age 10, Clymer was selling new Reos, Maxwells and Cadillacs in his hometown of Berthoud, Colorado, to which his father, a physician, had moved the family after Floyd was born in Indianapolis.

Clymer and his younger brother, Elmer, made an unsuccessful reliability run from Denver to Spokane in 1904 that ended with their Flanders 20 breaking down repeatedly on the open plains of Wyoming and being hauled to Washington aboard a railroad flatcar. By then, however, Clymer had discovered motorcycles and immediately proved to be a prodigy. By 1916, he was a member of the Harley-Davidson factory team. He set a world 100-mile record that same year, in addition to a Pikes Peak record, but was eventually forced out of competitive riding by a back injury. Undaunted, he turned to promoting AMA motorcycle races in the Midwest and elsewhere."


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Harold Schwendeman - Sumner,WA on Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 12:27 pm:

This is from "memory", however I recall reading that Henry Ford first met Floyd Clymer in Colorado when as a young boy, he was a "dealer", selling Flanders and E.M.F. automobiles, and then, some years later, met him again and referred to Clymer as "the youngest Ford dealer" or something to that effect.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By James A. Golden on Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 12:55 pm:

Note that the original book was written by Lee Strout White (pen name of E. B. White and Richard Lee Strout)

New Yorker

E. B. White was under contract to the New Yorker at that time and perhaps could not publish under his own name then.
May 16, 1936

They both received 1978 Pulitzer Prizes

SPECIAL AWARDS AND CITATIONS - JOURNALISM

Richard Lee Strout - A special award for his distinguished commentary from Washington over many years as staff correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor and contributor to The New Republic.

SPECIAL AWARDS AND CITATIONS - LETTERS

E.B. White - A special citation for his letters, essays and the full body his work.

with illustrations by Alain

Catalog

The old Sears Roebuck catalogue


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Warren Henderson on Friday, May 18, 2012 - 07:57 am:

Steve, great article Thank you for posting. I copied it to my word documents so I could reread it as often as I want.

Happy motoring, Warren


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