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Man driving ancient jalopy: “The salesman tried to talk me into spending thirty bucks more for the hardtop model, but I think the convertible is sportier.”

January 25, 2026. 8 comments.

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Occasional Correspondent says:

January 25, 2026 at 12:20 am

Not only sportier but more nourishing too, this being one of the bugs-in-teeth models.

Is the woman(?) in the passenger seat wearing a mask? Hard to tell . . . If so, foresightful prudence.

Also, with the steering wheel on the vehicle’s right side, it appears to be for a drive-on-the-left country like England (unless maybe it’s a postal delivery vehicle?).

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- von Hindenburg says:
  
  January 25, 2026 at 9:39 pm
  
  The side on which the wheel would be placed (or even the side on which people should drive in the US) was far from locked down yet at that time. Aside from the question of whether a given engineer was more influenced by designs from France and Germany or the UK, you had the very real question of whether it was a better idea to put the driver nearer the center of the road or farther to the side (to be safer in a crash, as is done on modern quarry trucks).
  
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hornsby says:

January 25, 2026 at 2:09 pm

Please tell me the horn goes ooga! ooga!

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Belfry Bat says:

January 25, 2026 at 3:59 pm

Was that Squire Toad???

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- Occasional Correspondent says:
  
  January 25, 2026 at 7:22 pm
  
  Squire Toad is one driver who wouldn’t mind a few bugs down the gullet.
  
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chemicker says:

January 25, 2026 at 4:17 pm

License plate notwithstanding, I’m quite sure that no isotope of iron has atomic weight 13.

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von Hindenburg says:

January 25, 2026 at 9:46 pm

Well, I spent too much time trying to figure that out. It’s a 1905 Franklin Gentleman’s Runabout.

https://listings.worldwideauctioneers.com/product/1905-franklin-gentlemans-runabout/

If you don’t care to purchase your own, one can be seen at the Henry Ford Museum (though it has two headlights, rather than this cyclopean model). If you enjoy the sort of whimsy that Dr. Boli shares, you will enjoy as well.

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- Dr. Boli says:
  
  January 25, 2026 at 10:02 pm
  
  The salesman assured our photographer it was a 1908 model, but we have our reasons for not entirely trusting his assertions.
  
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