Timothy Maikshilo Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Here is a photo of my Great Grandma Gertrude just coming back from pimp my ride 1909 Does anyone have an idea on the make of this car? Or should I say horseless carriage? 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dash Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Pimp My Ride........... Quote Jim Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-171727 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoClueJoe66 Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Wonder if they put dubs on it and a big stereo system install...lol Quote This message was brought to you by Hargraves Potted Meat Product. Chopped full of "Peckers & Lips" since 1933 - John Boy & Billy Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-171732 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DodgeMan Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Yo vinny i think that might be a convertible u model.... J/KTo bad the picture isnt a little bit further away. Could see more of a sheet metal desighn, be alot easyer to tell. Model T but just a guess... Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-171733 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Maikshilo Posted March 13, 2013 Author Share Posted March 13, 2013 Thanks Gentlemen,I just had to get a little funny with the post. My Great Grandmother was a hoot and I was lucky enough to have remembered her and Great GrandpaHere they are in 1968 with me and my evil twin. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-171769 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaysm35a2 Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Did you get the VIN lol Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-171771 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Maikshilo Posted March 13, 2013 Author Share Posted March 13, 2013 Did you get the VIN lolJay, you'd have to look at it's hoofs for that! This was one of her newer ridesand myGreat Great Grandfather had a Stutz Bearcat that is buried on his farm in Buckland, Ct.Image borrowed from the web. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-171781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
2stacksuperdog Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Is Buckland Manchester? Quote Matt Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-171784 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Maikshilo Posted March 13, 2013 Author Share Posted March 13, 2013 Is Buckland Manchester?Yes 2stack you are right, if you are on Rt. 291 headed toward Rt. 84 the hi way goes right through the center of the farm. Great Great Grandpa's farm house and some of the land is still there. He was a tobacco farmer and the first to use the shade method. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-171792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
2stacksuperdog Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Yes 2stack you are right, if you are on Rt. 291 headed toward Rt. 84 the hi way goes right through the center of the farm. Great Great Grandpa's farm house and some of the land is still there. He was a tobacco farmer and the first to use the shade method.Cool, all there is up there is tobacco farms or at least there used to be Quote Matt Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-171793 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Maikshilo Posted March 13, 2013 Author Share Posted March 13, 2013 Cool, all there is up there is tobacco farms or at least there used to beYa, in Connecticut we take river bottom land and put industry and houses on it. It was quite a beautiful farm back in the day and I have cousins who still live there. Connecticut was once known as the best cigar rap tobacco in the world. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-171798 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTFormula Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 What do you mean the Stutz is buried? That car is worth a good buck. As for grandmas ride, it's very hard to determine what it is just because many of the cars if the era have a similar style. Could be a Cadillac, could be an Orient, could be many things. Most likely that car is from 1905 or 1906. 1909 manufactures were getting away from the horseless carriage look. The most important clue is its left hand drive. Most vehicles of that time were right hand. Give me a few days and ill come up with something. Quote ~ JT Burkard ~ AKA Sweaty Mack www.jonathanthomasmotorcars.com Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-171850 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dash Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Any shots of the Box Nova after she had it pimped? Quote Jim Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-171852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Maikshilo Posted March 13, 2013 Author Share Posted March 13, 2013 What do you mean the Stutz is buried? That car is worth a good buck. As for grandmas ride, it's very hard to determine what it is just because many of the cars if the era have a similar style. Could be a Cadillac, could be an Orient, could be many things. Most likely that car is from 1905 or 1906. 1909 manufactures were getting away from the horseless carriage look. The most important clue is its left hand drive. Most vehicles of that time were right hand. Give me a few days and ill come up with something.Thanks for the info on this car. Know one in the family has an idea on the date so I just threw 1909 in there. Looks like Grandma was about 18 or 19 in the picture and see was born in 1890. My brother the car buff agree's with what you have said about the car. I appreciate all your help in the detective work. The Stutz was parked in a building with a wooden floor and cellar hole. The car wentAny shots of the Box Nova after she had it pimped?Sorry Jim no shots of the Nova with the twice wide pipes and dingo balls but I hear it was a head turner through the floor and that is where it stayed.I guess back in the old days it was just an old jalopy and Great Great Grandpa didn't bother getting it out and it was buried when they pushed the building into the hole. The last person who knew the location of the building on the farm would have been 96 yo. and passed away 5 years ago. When my brothers and I were little we would go visit the family and ask to hunt for the old car and had a lot of fun in the process. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-171859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dash Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Nice story. So it's still there? Quote Jim Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-171958 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Maikshilo Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 Nice story. So it's still there?As far as I know. Talked to my Uncle today about it and he said the same thing. Would have loved a picture of it for sure! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-171983 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTFormula Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 I wold love o dig up the stutz and rescue it Quote ~ JT Burkard ~ AKA Sweaty Mack www.jonathanthomasmotorcars.com Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-171991 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Maikshilo Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 I wold love o dig up the stutz and rescue itI feel the same way and should have pursued it years ago when my Grandmothers cousin was still alive and he had a good idea where the shed was when he was a boy. I does make good conversation and to know my Great Great Granddad Charles Lathrop had a Stutz. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-172007 Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 I wold love o dig up the stutz and rescue itI think you're too late. Jim took a couple days off work and was last seen heading north east with newly purchased camouflage clothing, night vision goggles, black face paint, a metal detector, shovel, a new battery, and a can of gas. He plans to dig it up, put a battery in it, pour some gas in the carburetor, and drive it home.Here's a picture taken from the surveillance camera at the beer joint metal detector store of Jim and his possible accomplice.Be on the look out for these two Tim! Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-172280 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Maikshilo Posted March 15, 2013 Author Share Posted March 15, 2013 I think you're too late. Jim took a couple days off work and was last seen heading north east with newly purchased camouflage clothing, night vision goggles, black face paint, a metal detector, shovel, a new battery, and a can of gas. He plans to dig it up, put a battery in it, pour some gas in the carburetor, and drive it home.Here's a picture taken from the surveillance camera at the beer joint metal detector store of Jim and his possible accomplice.gdWill1.jpgBe on the look out for these two Tim! Now that's funny! I'll pass the info down to the Manchester PD...If they get caught don't involve me I plead the 5th! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-172293 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superdog Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 alot of good stuff got buried way back when.North of Morning Sun,there's an old steam engine buried on a friends farm,and there's supposed to be 3 or 4 AC Macks buried in an old sand pit near Muscatine. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-172367 Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 alot of good stuff got buried way back when.North of Morning Sun,there's an old steam engine buried on a friends farm,and there's supposed to be 3 or 4 AC Macks buried in an old sand pit near Muscatine.I remember hearing of a Euclid that fell into the slate quarry when I was a kid. Still in there far as I know, they said it would cost more than it was worth to get it out back then. Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-172381 Share on other sites More sharing options...
2stacksuperdog Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 Theres a guy in our town that owns a scrap yard/sawmill and supposedly whenever he got a big piece of equipment for scrap he would dig a whole and bury it. Quote Matt Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-172384 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Timothy Maikshilo Posted March 16, 2013 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 16, 2013 Theres a guy in our town that owns a scrap yard/sawmill and supposedly whenever he got a big piece of equipment for scrap he would dig a whole and bury it.Maybe the gas and tools to break down large equipment in the early days was very expensive and the large stuff was a hassle? Here is a car I wouldn't mind owning that was Great Grandpa's with my Mom back in 1945 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-172386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dash Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 I'm not sure why but I've always enjoyed looking at old family photos, even of people I didn't know. Quote Jim Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30393-great-grandmas-ride/#findComment-172528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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