Shorpy RULES!!

[Dave Harris sctchbld]

A couple of years ago one of you posted a picture of an auto carrier and recomended SHORPY as a site for interesting photos. BOY HOWDY IS IT EVER!!!
I can't do any real modeling right now --all my model stuff is already in Colorado , I am no longer working and TV is NOT the way I want to spend very much time! I spent a good deal of time yesterday on SHORPY and I got some really interesting images of things I would like to model . I also found some "prototypes" for some of my junkyard cars. Here is one of them .
My car is a Packard, shorpys a Buick but otherwise?

   

Buick
   
   

My Packard .

[Dave Harris sctchbld]

This would make an interesting scene in any model set between 1932 and 1944 it is a FSA (farmers security adm. ) camp . This is similar to what the Joad family ran across in The Grapes of Wrath-- Good movie--.
This picture was taken in 1941 it said --- after the depression was pretty much over but FSA was still in business.






... Pennsylvania. "Each group of ten trailers in the FSA camp at Erie has a trailer service unit, water faucet, slop sink, and garbage pail." Photo by John ...    

[Dave Harris sctchbld]

How about this neat little business for a full model or a backdrop flat in any RR up to the say --late 60's--- after that "top shops" pretty much dissapeared -- try and find one advertised that way today --- few upholstery shops will even consider doing a convertible to let alone do mostly that!
   

[Dave Harris sctchbld]

On Another thread we were discussing using rubber O rings to make tires for my junk yard and it was postulated that O rings would be too skinney for tires in 1/64 or HO .

Hmmm? I wonder --look at these tires!
   
   

[Dave Harris sctchbld]

Hmmmm? Perhaps an idea for a building for my Junkyard --- Used to see things like this a lot in the 50's -- at least I did --- but then I hung around some pretty junky places!


   


OR perhaps this---- Have the junked cars out back --the ones that got there but could not get home!

   

[Charlie B]

I have a short cut on my desk top. I never miss a day checking out Shorpy.
Charlie

[Charlie B]

And yet another wreck for Dave to model. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/13395?size=_original#caption">http://www.shorpy.com/node/13395?size=_original#caption</a><!-- m -->


Charlie

[Charlie B]

On Another thread we were discussing using rubber O rings to make tires for my junk yard and it was postulated that O rings would be too skinney for tires in 1/64 or HO .

We had a tire manufacturing company here in town, It was the McGraw Tire Company. The president of the local bank told us about his days as a tire tester. They would give him a car with 4 new tires on it and 4 new tires for spares. The idea was to see how far he could drive on a set of tires and the spares. He never missed being home that night with 8 worn out ruined tires. He said he only made the next town to the west once (10 miles) Probably why no one ever heard of the McGraw tires. He never drove too far from the railroad so it wasn't hard to hitch a ride to the station.
Charlie

[Dave Harris sctchbld]

And yet another wreck for Dave to model. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/13395?size=_original#caption">http://www.shorpy.com/node/13395?size=_original#caption</a><!-- m -->


Charlie

What a beauty of a fender bender! I have a 36 Ford coupe that WILL get that treatment! Thanks Charlie.
What catagory of Shorpy did you find that in? --I had little luck searching for "wrecked cars" --no matter what I looked for --traffic accidents , auto wrecks , fender benders --none returned any results.

[Dave Harris sctchbld]

On Another thread we were discussing using rubber O rings to make tires for my junk yard and it was postulated that O rings would be too skinney for tires in 1/64 or HO .

We had a tire manufacturing company here in town, It was the McGraw Tire Company. The president of the local bank told us about his days as a tire tester. They would give him a car with 4 new tires on it and 4 new tires for spares. The idea was to see how far he could drive on a set of tires and the spares. He never missed being home that night with 8 worn out ruined tires. He said he only made the next town to the west once (10 miles) Probably why no one ever heard of the McGraw tires. He never drove too far from the railroad so it wasn't hard to hitch a ride to the station.
Charlie

A few years back there was a story in the RJ Paper here that related to a story printed in the same paper from about the late 1920's or early 30's. ,It told about how at that time, the LEAD headline was about a DR. and his wife who drove to San Diego & back without having a SINGLE FLAT TIRE!!

[Charlie B]

Dave, I don't search Shorpy, I just go to the site every day and look at the pictures. There is usually something of interest in all of them from old dinner ware, light fixtures, chairs, autos and of course railroad items, Last week was a picture of sinking a section of tunnel for the Michigan Central <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/13351?size=_original#caption">http://www.shorpy.com/node/13351?size=_original#caption</a><!-- m -->
If you look at the main page today <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.shorpy.com/">http://www.shorpy.com/</a><!-- m --> you will see some more wreck pictures.
Charlie

[steinjr]

And yet another wreck for Dave to model. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/13395?size=_original#caption">http://www.shorpy.com/node/13395?size=_original#caption</a><!-- m -->


Charlie

What a beauty of a fender bender! I have a 36 Ford coupe that WILL get that treatment! Thanks Charlie.
What catagory of Shorpy did you find that in? --I had little luck searching for "wrecked cars" --no matter what I looked for --traffic accidents , auto wrecks , fender benders --none returned any results.

If you use http://www.google.com and search for e.g.
sitehorpy.com accident

you get among other things that crash on US 40 near Hagerstown:
Part 1: http://www.shorpy.com/node/13395
Part 2: http://www.shorpy.com/node/13398

1920 accident: http://www.shorpy.com/node/6957
1917 accident: http://www.shorpy.com/node/5327
1921 wrecked car: http://www.shorpy.com/node/3067

There probably are more - just use google with the sitehorpy.com qualifier in the search terms.

Smile,
Stein

[Dave Harris sctchbld]

[quote="steinjr"][quote="Dave Harris sctchbld"][quote="Charlie B"]And yet another wreck for Dave to model. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/13395?size=_original#capt">http://www.shorpy.com/node/13395?size=_original#capt</a><!-- m -->




If you use http://www.google.com and search for e.g.
sitehorpy.com accident

you get among other things that crash on US 40 near Hagerstown:
Part 1: http://www.shorpy.com/node/13395
Part 2: http://www.shorpy.com/node/13398

1920 accident: http://www.shorpy.com/node/6957
1917 accident: http://www.shorpy.com/node/5327
1921 wrecked car: http://www.shorpy.com/node/3067


I Just realized that the pictures of the wreck on highwway 40 was of BOTH cars involved and that BOTH were new 1936 Fords--one a coupe and the other a sedan. How odd the two current year Fords would clobber one another!

[Dave Harris sctchbld]

Here ere the two wrecked Fords .        


I almost think they are damaged bad enough as to "total" them both --I have a sedan AND a coupe -- be neat to have them side by side in the junk yard--hmmmmm?

[Dave Harris sctchbld]

That was a BIG accident --- I just noticed that there is some kind of car upside down behind the sedan !!