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
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
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.)
I'd be interested in seeing under the hood to see how the thing is exhausting on the driver's side.......
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.
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
Aftermarket cylinder head? Moved the handbrake too and a double wishbone.
What bugs me about that eBay auction is it states: "Reproduced from the original negative".
Ken Parker
You should hit the "Buy Now" button and put that lovely photo on your bedroom wall. Your wife will just love it.
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.
.... arent all photographs made from the original negative.... seriously sighhhh
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.
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.
From the looks of that kids face, it might be safe to conclude that James Dean wasn't the first "Rebel Without A Cause".
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.
I used to have hair like that.