01-04-2020, 08:29 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-04-2020, 08:40 AM by Bob Culver.)
An uncle bought a 1928 Dodge 4 and ran it into the 1950s. He always stopped it in the garage using the handbrake. His next car a 1937 Studebaker had an under dash handbrake...
I have recounted before but when I first used my Seven I used to stop with the rear wheels in a shallow gutter depression while I opened garage doors. The car had a copper exhaust so in the manner of youth, for the benefit of passers by, I used to gun it a car length then stamp on the brake. Shoes were then relatively very expensive and I had a home use pair with a ¾ inch hole in the sole. I kept an open 4 gal tin of old engine oil in the garage. The tin exploded up the wall and the headlamps hit the bench and tilted skyward. Getting the dents out of the lamp rims was an exercise like the Repair Shop.
ps. The lady in the cartoon appears to own a Jowett Javelin. My aunt whose husband owned the Dodge, used to tell of a trip with a wealthy friend to an adjacent town, Speed limit here was 50 mph. The friend had a new Javelin and my aunt was astonished that it was driven at 60 mph! As with our Seven, 40-45 mph was cruising speed of the Dodge. Times have changed.
I have recounted before but when I first used my Seven I used to stop with the rear wheels in a shallow gutter depression while I opened garage doors. The car had a copper exhaust so in the manner of youth, for the benefit of passers by, I used to gun it a car length then stamp on the brake. Shoes were then relatively very expensive and I had a home use pair with a ¾ inch hole in the sole. I kept an open 4 gal tin of old engine oil in the garage. The tin exploded up the wall and the headlamps hit the bench and tilted skyward. Getting the dents out of the lamp rims was an exercise like the Repair Shop.
ps. The lady in the cartoon appears to own a Jowett Javelin. My aunt whose husband owned the Dodge, used to tell of a trip with a wealthy friend to an adjacent town, Speed limit here was 50 mph. The friend had a new Javelin and my aunt was astonished that it was driven at 60 mph! As with our Seven, 40-45 mph was cruising speed of the Dodge. Times have changed.