Cootie or Cutie?

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Model T Ford Forum: Forum 2012: Cootie or Cutie?
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By KEN PARKER on Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 08:55 pm:

Speedster on Shorpy today if no one has posted it. Cutie unless it's all over you.

http://www.shorpy.com/node/13788?size=_original#caption

Ken in Texas


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bill dugger on Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 09:18 pm:

Well I started to write something and my computer shut down.

The guy in the drivers seat has a bad look.

The saying "If look's were dynamite he would blow everyone up."

Bill D


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ken Kopsky, Lytle TX on Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 10:20 pm:

Cool car. I wonder what the two straps are for behind the driver's shoulders? Racing harness for the driver? And the windshield frame looks like it was replaced to function as a roll bar too. (Note the old holes in front of the windshield frame.)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Craig Anderson, central Wisconsin on Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 10:53 pm:

I'd be interested in seeing under the hood to see how the thing is exhausting on the driver's side.......


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dan Haynes on Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 10:54 pm:

If I had to guess, I would say the "holes" ahead of the windshield are screw heads holding an instrument board in place in the cowl. The straps behind the driver are possibly hand-holds for the passenger/mechanic - who had no steering wheel to hang onto.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ken Kopsky, Lytle TX on Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 11:31 pm:

Here's the same picture being sold on ebay but with the Whitehouse digitally removed.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MAN-DISPLAYING-MIDGET-RACER-THE-COOTIE-1910s-PHOTOGRAPH- /360489711258


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By kep NZ on Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 11:57 pm:

Aftermarket cylinder head? Moved the handbrake too and a double wishbone.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Royce in Dallas TX on Friday, September 28, 2012 - 06:52 am:


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rich Stinchcomb, Trumbull, CT on Friday, September 28, 2012 - 09:16 am:

What bugs me about that eBay auction is it states: "Reproduced from the original negative".


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Willie K Cordes on Friday, September 28, 2012 - 10:35 am:

Ken Parker
You should hit the "Buy Now" button and put that lovely photo on your bedroom wall. Your wife will just love it.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tom Miller, Mostly in Dearborn on Friday, September 28, 2012 - 10:39 am:

We now have photographic proof that Model Ts existed prior to 1792.

Because of this photo off the original glass plate we can surmise many things.

Since the White House is not in the photo, it was taken prior to 1792. This means photography was invented earlier than we've been taught.

We also now know that Pennsylvania Avenue was paved in 1792 and that the fence and shrubbery existed prior to the construction of the White House. This probably explains why they chose to build the White House here due to the prime location.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Nathan Bright on Friday, September 28, 2012 - 10:49 am:

.... arent all photographs made from the original negative.... seriously sighhhh


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Scott Gilham Bellflower Ca. on Friday, September 28, 2012 - 01:25 pm:

I like the "Irons" for the windshield with the strap iron support. I think it's for repelling rolling cars that flip in from of him.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erik Johnson on Friday, September 28, 2012 - 01:35 pm:

Royce:

The original photographic print is in the Library of Congress collection.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001706143/

If you click the link above you can download a high resolution scan of the photo and print it on high quality photo-paper at home or save the file to a CD and it take it a photo shop and have it printed on a high definition printer.

eBay is full of sellers who have LoC photos for sale.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Halpin on Friday, September 28, 2012 - 08:54 pm:

From the looks of that kids face, it might be safe to conclude that James Dean wasn't the first "Rebel Without A Cause". :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Charlie B actually in Toms River N.J. on Friday, September 28, 2012 - 09:15 pm:

Classic badass James Dean stare. Is it me or is the White House an added back drop? The photo texture over the hedges is different from the front or car side.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Walker, NW AR on Friday, September 28, 2012 - 09:15 pm:

I used to have hair like that. :-)


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