I wonder if the guys were coming out of the version of the doughnut shop back then?
Herb
I can sympathize with the guy putting fuel in the tank under the front seat on his touring. Hopefully he'll have enough in there to get to the fair on September 5th thru the 8th.
Why would you think they are coming out of a donut shop? Is one of the T's a cop car?
Sure looks like the crowd around the local Quik Trip. That is where we get our donuts!
Herb
Herb, I don't take the donuts, I always buy the big old cinnamon rolls with the maple coating on them. About a half dozen of those and a cup of coffee and I've got a sugar/caffeine high going. Good stuff.
What's the big touring?
The big Touring is second in line for Gas!
I was wondering that too, Steve ... Is the big touring ... a truck? It has dual plates on the front ????
Dennis H, Steve J, et al,
The big car (?) I think is a truck on a medium car chassis. My computer skills are not adequate to zoom in and clean it up, but my first reaction was that it would be a REO. They did make medium and heavy trucks at that time.
The dual plates was a common thing in those days. Now, states are bound by federal regulations that did not exist in those days. Now if your vehicle is licensed in one state, that license is recognized in all states, at least for some number of days. Then, many states required a plate for THEIR state if you drove into their state for even an hour (of course, not everyone complied with that).
The earliest licensing wasn't even done by the states. There was a park in (I think) Boston that required a license to drive your automobile within the boundaries of that park. There was similar licensing for Central Park in New York and Golden Gate park in San Francisco. Soon thereafter, some cities and states began licensing. By 1900, a person living in Boston, and only driving up to 30 miles, might need three or four licenses to legally do so.
OT aside on dual state licensing. Califunny is a "one state only" license state. You may drive with your "out of state" license for up to ten days. If you stay longer, technically, you must surrender your out-of-state plates and register in Califunny. Some states are "dual registration" states. I know about this because my aunt (RIP) lived most of the year in Colorado. But she had a part time residence in Wyoming. Colorado was a single-state-only state, but Wyoming required her to have dual registrations. It did cause problems from time to time.
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2