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I don't hang around much, but a good friend pointed out your post.

I guess it was my turn again... When he decides to work on a job, he does get a lot done fast. That smoke bonnet & jacket are outstanding - maybe I'll just leave the hood off.

Dan, your condensing deficit idea is the best theory I've ever heard for the Stanley company's failure to increase the power of the later cars.

Now he's probably one of the top 5 drivers in terms of total miles in a Stanley.

Joe's car is probably one of the best late condensing Stanleys out there. It was formerly owned by a meticulous machinist, who specialized in Stanley work, named John Packard. The lower Mountain Wagon is in Washington state, still owned by the guy who restored it from this: 1916 Stanley model 825 mo...

Very cool, thanks! I'll put these photos in a folder for that tour. Leno has that Model R now. Yeah, it would have been something to see that 40hp White stretch its legs. When a steamer is working well you get a drive like no other.

Thanks for all those great steam tour photos, Rich. I'm the roster keeper for Stanleys, found online at http://www.StanleyRegister.net . Several of these cars can be identified, although it's tough - many of them look very similar. Starting at the top - 1. Red 1910 10hp - can't figure this one out. ...

Unfortunately the 197 was an exaggeration that Fred fell into in his later years. In the 1960s, F. E. Stanley's son Ray revisited his father's notes of the event, and considered the technical progress that had been made between the 1906 record of 127.66 mph, and the 1907 attempt. That scholarship su...