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Going camping

Post by Dollisdad » Mon Nov 03, 2025 3:30 pm

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Re: Going camping

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Re: Going camping

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Re: Going camping

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Re: Going camping

Post by John kuehn » Mon Nov 03, 2025 8:10 pm

The 4th T from the bottom of the post looks to be a Sinclair Oil delivery or advertising vehicle. The lighter color body of the car is probably a light shade of green since Sinclair was green but could it be anything else?
What is the round object just under the drivers side fender. It doesn’t seem to be the engine pan or crankcase.

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Re: Going camping

Post by RajoRacer » Mon Nov 03, 2025 9:08 pm

Appears to be the crankcase to me ?

What the heck on the front of # 7 ?

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Re: Going camping

Post by Michael Peternell » Mon Nov 03, 2025 9:14 pm

Picture 7. No radiator, tank cooled, guessing from the Picture on a frozen lake I'm sure it worked just fine.

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Re: Going camping

Post by Mark Nunn » Tue Nov 04, 2025 9:34 am

The T in the last photo is missing a spring perch.

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Re: Going camping

Post by TRDxB2 » Tue Nov 04, 2025 11:41 am

Mark Nunn wrote:
Tue Nov 04, 2025 9:34 am
The T in the last photo is missing a spring perch.
Not only that but a chunk of the leaf spring, drag link, right end of the axle, upper part of spindle and like someone made a wish with the radius rod too :lol:
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Re: Going camping

Post by Todd Touchberry » Wed Nov 05, 2025 9:33 am

I wonder id the original picture was restored??
TRDxB2 wrote:
Tue Nov 04, 2025 11:41 am
Mark Nunn wrote:
Tue Nov 04, 2025 9:34 am
The T in the last photo is missing a spring perch.
Not only that but a chunk of the leaf spring, drag link, right end of the axle, upper part of spindle and like someone made a wish with the radius rod too :lol:
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Re: Going camping

Post by Jones in Aiken SC » Wed Nov 05, 2025 12:06 pm

I would agree looks like the picture has been edited with something like the "Heal" tool in Photoshop. Maybe there was some kind of blob there that someone wanted to get rid of. The strange black lines under that side of the car indicate doctoring. Not to mention that the T, loaded down with people, is magically supported by only the right side perch.


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Re: Going camping

Post by Wayne Sheldon » Wed Nov 05, 2025 6:14 pm

"Cut and paste" on your computer is called "cut and paste" because in past decades, cutting from a donor picture and then pasting that piece in to repair damage or a light leak was how photos were often cleaned up and restored where details and/or natural appearance was desired. Some damage also might be drawn in by hand by an artist. That artistic repair could be done on a damaged photo using black ink or a white paint. I have seen very old negatives touched up with black ink for various reasons, that black ink on the negative shows up as white on the print made from it.
Once the repair was done in a patch-up manner, the photographer would carefully take a photo of the repaired picture and make new prints from that.

I looked this one over closely a couple nights ago. Zooming in closely, I can see some of the breaks between the original picture and the donor pieces. What surprised me was the poor workmanship in piecing things together. I cannot help but wonder why that area of the photo needed to be "fixed"? I don't see much sign of other damage anywhere. And what might have been there that anyone would want to hide it? In that image there are large black lines that do not belong there. Maybe those are poorly matched pastes? I can't see any reason that someone would draw those in there? And where did the donor grass come from? (Probably some other photo?)
The other thing that bothers me, is if someone wanted to repair that area of the photo? Why didn't they draw in the axle and other parts? That would have been so easy to do, and should have been obvious enough to see.


My wife has for a long time been interested in her family's history, and the small lumber camp town that played a big part of that history. Thirty-some years ago, photos of that lumber town were difficult to find. But find one we did, and wow was it in bad condition. Torn in at least three places, with a chunk missing in one corner, plus additional scratches and a small size (smaller than 3" by 5"), it was going to be tough to make it look good. However, the photo quality and detail were quite good.
So, with the best camera I had available, I carefully took a good photo of the photo. The negative size was about 3x4 inches, so I began by inking in some parts on the negative with a black permanent marker (being careful of the negative effects involved). Then I had a blowup made, about 10 by 14 inches. Followed that with drawing in details again with a black permanent marker. Once that was done to my satisfaction, I again carefully took photos of the large photo. The negative from that photo became nicely framed Christmas presents for several members of the family that year.

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