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No way can I top your favorite sign Dean. I can't even come close. To a Model T'er that has to be the one.

Really?

This one applies to a T !!

Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of it, but in 1970, I lived in Amsterdam and was driving to Paris. This was before the European equivalent of our Interstate highways, and the roads in Belgium were not always very well marked. At one point, I was on a two-lane highway through the countryside and came to a T intersection where I had to go either left or right. Across the intersection, there was a sign that read:

<---- LILLE
RIJSSEL ---->

The dilemma was that Lille is the French name and Rijssel the Dutch name for the same city!

I don't remember which I chose, but it turned out to be the wrong one.

It's Ok to ride 'em in the street, but KEEP 'EM OFF THE DANG SIDEWALK!

I have so many signs ...

This photo was taken of a streetlight I was trying to make whole again, but
it captures a few signs that are either special to me or humorous ....

The Western Pacific ran through Feather River Canyon. My old man hunted quail up there as a kid
in the 40's, and it was about his favorite place on earth. He'd take the train up from Oakland and
get off at some whistle stop and go hunting for a few days. I found a period photo of one of the log
shelters he described at an auction, and later turned up this sign. Not much made my old man happy,
but mention the name Feather River Canyon and the surly old bastard would get tears in his eyes.

The neon sign came off a pizza joint, next to a gas station we used to stop at while out hunting. I
was only 4-5-6 years old, tagging along with my Dad and his hunting buddies. I was fascinated by this
sign for some reason. MANY year later I was back in the area and went to see if it was still there. It
was, but no one was around. For the next 30 years I went back every time I was in the area and could
never find anyone around to ask about it. It was never lit up and just kinda hid up under the eaves,
out of sight. About 3 years ago I was passing through and saw a guy inside, mopping the floors. I tapped
on the glass and he came to the locked door. When I inquired about the sign, he seemed disbelieving
that anyone would want such a thing. He said that State law had changed, regarding his selling alcohol
to go, so he just unplugged it, and there it sat. He gave the sign to me for nothing, but I insisted he take
payment. He about shat himself when he saw how much I handed him. I cleaned up his exterior wiring
for safety and appearance. He just could not believe anyone would do all this for an abandoned sign. I
got it home, sorted out a few dirt and wiring issues, redid the blackout paint, and it looks just like you
see it here. Just like it did, glowing in the dark across a parking lot, when I was just a kid.

The last one is just ironic. At least, out of context, it is. Whitman County put these up all over, where
one left a main road, turning on to an unmarked farm road, where there would be no traffic signs from
that point forward. But out of context, a traffic sign stating "no traffic signs" ???

That "No Traffic Signs" is just too funny. A couple of my cousins loved the Feather River Canyon also. Been there a couple times.

A similar sign was hanging above the exit of the local watering hole I patroned some time back.

I have not traveled up this road to confirm the accuracy of this sign.

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This sign was on the restroom door on a gas station in Quebec Province Canada:

Here is a sign I had made. When you and your Dad both have the old car bug.

I saw this while leaving an event at a local winery. I don't think it was just my weary eyes.

Many years ago, I had a friend whose family lived in Concord MA. There was a street there whose name I thought was brilliant. I could just imagine a meeting of the town fathers to name streets and roads.
"What are we going to call that old road to nine acre corner?"
"Hey, I have an idea!"

Years ago we were in Kansas City MO. looking for a particular street address. I didn't have a camera with me, but when we started looking at the street signs, we found Sixth, Fifth, Fourth and Thirth. I kid you not. Dave

I don't have a picture, but there's a twisting, winding road in northwestern NJ called "Shades of Death Road". Glad I don't live there!

I saw this on a trailer at a Model T tour :

This may just be a Southern phrase, but I've heard it all of my life.

Mike is lost. He is standing there asking "Where in the Sam Hill am I?".

I love this thread !!

Bill R., I also have heard "Where the Sam Hill . . ." all my life too. Sam must have come out west early on.

Here's a sign I like :

Must be a Canada thing...

When we lived in Melbourne Australia we came upon this sign...

Not the greatest advertising......

Couldn't take a photo, but I liked this sign on the back of a pickup truck I followed for a bit on the way to the OCF this year:

IF IT AIN'T BROKE
IT AIN'T MINE

R.V., you reminded me of this one we saw on a trip to South Pass City Wy. a few years ago. The pictures were of local office holders up through the governor, national congressmen and the presidensity. If you can't read the photo easily, it says: "Do these asses make my truck look big ?"

Exit signs on the Autobahn

In Washington DC - where else!

Spotted these two in Cuba:

Grab the kids, let's go !


Seen in backwater Australia in 2011.

Back in the day, there must have been quite a few Model T's back in this Tennessee cove. I mean, how else could it have gotten the name "Greasy Cove"?

A sign I always wanted dropped into my lap with a pile of other Standard Oil goodies.
The box held Type F oil for Fords. The white can held a special grease for Fords.

Wife saw one today at a hair solon said...
"Nobody leaves here ugly"

Another good one...

Here's another one that I didn't have a camera to take a picture of. Back in the late '90's our youngest son went to State in MO. High School Track at the State Meet in Jefferson City MO. We were all setting in the stands at the College track field when I noticed that they had the stairs blocked off that led down the the field. Each one had a nicely lettered sign hung on a small chain that read, "Not A Exit". I guess that someone dropped the ball somewhere when explaining the difference between "A" and "An". You would think that by the time that they got to College, they would know the difference. At least, the School should know. Dave

Ain't never went to no gooder school, no how !