1908 Maxwell (HC Series)
Swap Meet and Car Show held today at Bonanzaville, West Fargo, ND, U.S.A.
The incentive I had to tour this auto show was that as a youngster I knew the original owner of the 1908 Maxwell, above.
Also one of my uncles was an original owner of a 50s Hudson, very similar to the 1956 model below.
Feel free to add your own vintage autos in the comment section.
more below:
1928 Ford Model A
1929 Chevrolet
1939 Pontiac
1942 Studebaker
1956 Hudson
Ford Model T Race Car
on the right 1916 Dodge Touring
1958 Edsel Station Wagon
Cool!
and yeah, it was a little cool, overcast and 50s today.
These horseless carriages (heh 🙂 have such character.
It’s great to see you btw!
Thanks, Olivia!
Yeah, wouldn’t it be fun to go tooling down a rural dirt road in one of those 1908 Maxwells?
We’ve got a few of them up N too, no gravel, no pavement, ha ha!
great pics
brings back memories of some of the cars that my dad had.
first one l remember was a 1925 Model T Fordoor:
remember this thing in pieces in his shop and riding in it when it was restored.
then the was my first car, a 1953 Ford Customline…flathead V8…totaled it…:{)
and a couple tail fin road locomotive’s that l see around the /hood:
kewl…
thanks for the memories
lTMF’sA
Crosley Roundside c: 1950±
ugly little bugger….but got about 50mpg…2 cyl. if memory serves.
lTMF’sA
That looks like a boulder on wheels … 🙂
first one I called mine was a ’49 Ford 4 door, it had a flathead V-8 in it from year ’51.
2nd was 58 Ford Galaxy
3rd was 64 Ford Galaxy, (still “resting” in the yard up north.)
no photos of any of them available today.
Dad’s family had a ’29 Paige, but that was long gone before I arrived.
I do remember my grandfather’s Model A.
Never heard of a Crosley before, accept that they made some of the first radios, probably different company.
to link…but here are the lyrics of the song this brought to mind,,hence the comment:
how did you find me here?
I don’t look all that ragged for all the time it’s been,
But I’m weakened underneath me where my frame is rusted thin.
And this year’s state inspection just barely passed
Won’t you drive me ‘cross the country, boy,
This year could be my last.
I’m a tailfin road locomotive from the days of cheap gasoline,
And I’m for sale by the side of the road going nowhere,
A rusty old American dream.
I rolled off the line in Detroit back in 1958,
Spent three days in the showroom, that’s all I had to wait.
I’ve been good to all who owned me, so have no fear;
C’mon, boy, put your money down and get me out of here!
I’m a tailfin road locomotive from the days of cheap gasoline,
And I’m for sale by the side of the road going nowhere,
A rusty old American dream.
This car needs a young man to own him
One who will polish the chrome,
I will give you the rest of my lifetime,
But don’t let me die here alone.
Just jump me some juice to my battery,
Give that old starter a spin,
Hear me whir, sputter, backfire through the carberator,
And roar into life once again.
I’m a tailfin road locomotive,
You can polish my chrome so clean
We can fly off into the sunset together,
A rusty old American dream.
© david wilcox
lTMF’sA
I’d never heard or seen those lyrics. Guess we’ll have to have an auto rode rally… ending in E Ctrl ND, ha ha!
Some great looking cars NDD and dada.
I’ll take one of each please. 🙂
yeah, would be fun to have one of each, hah! 🙂
I love car shows, thanks for the photos. I recently became the owner of a vintage vehicle, slightly younger, of course, but interesting just the same. Here it is, my ’94 Subaru SVX. (220 horses, 4wd, styling by Giugiaro)
didn’t know Subaru made anything like that. They’d be rare around here I guess.
Yep, Subaru sold 14,000 of them here during the 5 years they were sold.
Hey NDD,
I would have loved to see that show. Here`s a pair of 1937 HD`s.
The pic was taken about 20 years ago. I still have the black one, a Knucklehead. The blue one, a “Flathead” was a beauty & a terrific ride.
I stupidly sold it to a friend a few years ago. I also had in my stable at the time , a 1970 “Electroglide” in blue.
I also have a 1946 Hudson in my storage. It`s a beaut, with suicide doors & is all original.
but those old hard-tails are hard on your body.
lTMF’sA
dada
It`s not too bad when you`ve got a hard body, but after 44 yrs. of hard riding, believe me, my body, though still hard, cannot bend. Ya, it`s definitely hard on the body, but you`ll notice on the Flathead, I`ve got a “pogo” seat. The seat post collapses into the frame tube on an adjustable spring system.
On the Knucklehead, the “cushiony” ride is provided by bicycle seat springs, [really]. My old 46 Knuckle was a true “rigid” where if you drove over a postage stamp you could tell if it was a 10 cent stamp, or an 18 cent stamp. All my oldies have either been “Jockey” or “suicide”.
Here`s the old “rigid”. Note the “Weed” leaves in the paint on the side of the tank.
46 Knucklehead taken around 1974.
Found a great link to the story on Crosley at The Detroit News
[…]When the Crosley automobile was created, Powel Crosley had already made a fortune as a radio and appliance manufacturer, owner of WLW the “Nation Station” and the Cincinnati Reds baseball team. […]
Very nice diary.
Jack Benny’s on-air persona drove a Maxwell (sound effects provided by Mel Blanc), although I don’t remember what year it was.
I love stuff like this. Even old cars, although I don’t own or drive a car. I was just looking at some sites devoted to mechanical musical instruments the other day — everything from music boxes and player pianos to the big orchestras-in-a-box. I used to be awed by the Bovey instrument collection in Virginia City, Montana. Some of my favorite T-shirts sport vintage likenesses of Mickey Mouse — not the modern version or even the version from the 40s and 50s, but the version you’d see in cartoons from the 30s.
Hey Omir,
Here`s a link to my friend, Brad Franks, coin box & jukebox restoration site.
He`s a top guy in that world.
He exhibits some of his stuff at car shows for people who have period garages & might want to add to the vintage atmosphere of their displays.
I helped him install one in Dick Clark`s house a few years ago.
http://www.chicagocoinsbandbox.com/
That’s a pretty cool deal. My granddad did a little bit of that sort of thing — not on a major scale, mind you, but I remember him rebuilding a jukebox under his carport one summer when we came to visit. He was always messing with stuff like that — I remember seeing old cylinder Victrolas come in through the house, music boxes (big ones, in a cabinet the size of a breadbox, things like that).
Thanks for your various inputs here! How’s the denizens of the tank doin’? ‘Been missin’ those photos!