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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Herb Iffrig on Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 09:05 am:


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 09:12 am:

"WHAAAT MOM? I CAN'T HEAR YOU........"


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rob Heyen - Nebraska on Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 09:15 am:

Probably work better to text :-)

Sent from my iPhone


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erik Johnson on Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 01:22 pm:

I love my car phone:

1917 roadster phone


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Chris Bamford, Edmonton AB on Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 02:07 pm:

I wonder if this might be the same car? The page below is scanned from the 1912 KisselKar catalog and shows the winner from a recent Los Angeles to Phoenix road race.

There are a few differences — the catalog does not show any numbers and the telephone photo has no headlights. Numbers could have been painted out or added later and lights could have been removed. Certainly, lights would have been required for the LA to Phoenix race, almost half of which was run in darkness.

Harder to change stuff appears to be identical: 12-spoke front wheels, front axle dip, frame tie bar, axle rebound straps, steering spider. My '12 Kisselkar 50HP has the same three-rivet pattern on the telephone car spring horns.

It is hard to tell about the radiator, other than the shape being generally the same (and much the same as many, many cars of the period). The telephone car appears to have a stone guard in front of the core and carrying the number 11.

The telephone car caption references a Phoenix race date of Nov 06/11 — this would be rather late for inclusion in the 1912 KisselKar catalog considering the 1912 model year started in August '11, although this may reflect a later revision and printing.

Comments?




Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ricks - Surf City on Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 03:11 pm:

Jim Grundy has an early National he tried to keep running in the 1998 Greatrace.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ricks - Surf City on Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 03:15 pm:

Old Bold Pilots don't use telephones - they use WalkieTalkies.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 03:34 pm:

Guy called and wanted to know if I planned to vote for Coolidge, Davis or LaFollette....


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Howard D. Dennis on Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 04:24 pm:

It's definetly not the same car as National's had a very distinct widows peak in the center radiator shell and your text calls it a Kissel.

Howard Dennis


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Chris Bamford, Edmonton AB on Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 06:29 pm:

Thanks Howard — I got so excited by that photo and mention of Phoenix, I didn't read the first part of the caption carefully. National. Duh.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Herb Iffrig on Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 08:25 pm:

I have to wonder about being able to hear the phone on the postcard. It appears that the car is running, and look at the amount if exhaust that is blowing by the passengers feet. I bet that car was loud!

Herb


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