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I think it’s flooded.

Post by Dollisdad » Mon Sep 11, 2023 7:48 pm

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Re: I think it’s flooded.

Post by Dollisdad » Mon Sep 11, 2023 7:49 pm

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Re: I think it’s flooded.

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Re: I think it’s flooded.

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Re: I think it’s flooded.

Post by Wayne Sheldon » Tue Sep 12, 2023 5:45 am

Photo number two is of particular interest to me. Notice the metal insert above the rear/side window with horizontal louvers in it. It was an after-market accessory. The louvers were supposed to pull smoke (cigar, pipe, cigarette) out of the car as it drove along and keep rain out.
I don't think the accessory was ever very popular, as I rarely ever see those in advertisements or era photos. However, a bit over fifty years ago, A New-Old-Stock stash of those were found in their original boxes! they showed up at Western swap meets, sometimes by the dozen! One of my best friends put a NOS pair of them in the windows of his model A town sedan.

I wish I could get photos from my camera onto my computer to share them on here. :x I still have one of those on a shelf in my garage still in its original box! They may have been marketed by a few names? Mine is a "Ventilex", "the closed car ventilator".
They came in different lengths that were made to be cut-to-fit the length of the roll up window. Then attached at the top into the window channel. That way the window could still be rolled up and down for fresh air, but with the window up, only a gentle draft would pull out the offending smoke.

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Re: I think it’s flooded.

Post by Kaiser » Tue Sep 12, 2023 6:31 am

The picture of the TT and trailer full of Jackrabbits reminds me of a rather grim story from my youth,
I was a member of a glider club from when i was about 13 years old, it must have been around 1974 when there was a terrible infestation of rabbits, the grass airfield was one big pothole, which made landing the gliders a real hazardous operation.
Sure enough within a couple of weeks that summer Mixomatosis broke out and the whole airfield was full of sick, partly blind and immobile rabbits.
One of the club members had a plan how to deal with the problem of the literally hundreds and hundreds of rabbits, it was rather cruel but very effective.
Here's what he came up with ;
We had an old Studebaker hearse that was used to haul stuff to and from the airstrip in use, two scaffolding pipes of about 9ft were attached each side of the Studebaker, 2 inches above the ground, every old foglight that could be found was mounted on the roof and bumper of the hearse.
When the sun went down that evening, all members collected on the field and the driver of the hearse proceeded to blast around the field full throttle with all lights blazing .
Afterwards the assembled members collected the knocked out and mostly killed on impact rabbits in carts, trailers and even wheelbarrows.
The end result in the morning looked a lot like the picture with the TT.
The rabbits were incinerated in a huge bonfire made from old tyres and diesel, (no one cared about the evironment then)
When in trouble, do not fear, blame the second engineer ! 8-)
Leo van Stirum, Netherlands
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