That's the biggest damn doodle bug I've ever seen! It's weird to see these classic cars turned into tow trucks, etc. But its an example of how quickly the automotive world was changing and the mindset that this wasn't a collectors item, it was just a used car. In a way its very smart, given that the Buick no doubt had a bigger engine and gobs more torque than most any tractor you could buy and would be a lot cheaper.
It is odd but not surprising ,but most doodlebugs were Ford A's or T's. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1366&bih=655&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=7EOXXIaxAtG8ggfV7Y2wCA&q=doodlebug+car&oq=doodlebug+car&gs_l=img.12..0l2j0i8i30l2j0i24l6.67649.67649..72978...0.0..0.120.120.0j1......1....1..gws-wiz-img.4xdQGdIsupc
I like to see them because you get a glimpse into someone's imagination, ingenuity and necessity. Especially interesting because pretty much everything about them is hand made and or scrounged parts. It's pretty cool to see the way people would take a bunch of stuff that really shouldn't go together at all and make something useful out of it.
I was sure the proportions here were too odd to be true, but then came upon a similar Buick Doodlebug which is about the same http://www.dannreunion.com/buckrake.jpg
When I was a kid in the 1950's the farm down the road from my uncle's place had a 1930's Reo doodle-bug. Three or four farmers (all dairies) would get together and do their haying as a team. I've seen that sucker pull a hay rake, a bailer, and two hay wagons all day long.
Got to be the most elegant looking tractor I ever saw.
ReplyDeleteThat's the biggest damn doodle bug I've ever seen! It's weird to see these classic cars turned into tow trucks, etc. But its an example of how quickly the automotive world was changing and the mindset that this wasn't a collectors item, it was just a used car. In a way its very smart, given that the Buick no doubt had a bigger engine and gobs more torque than most any tractor you could buy and would be a lot cheaper.
ReplyDeleteIt is odd but not surprising ,but most doodlebugs were Ford A's or T's.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1366&bih=655&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=7EOXXIaxAtG8ggfV7Y2wCA&q=doodlebug+car&oq=doodlebug+car&gs_l=img.12..0l2j0i8i30l2j0i24l6.67649.67649..72978...0.0..0.120.120.0j1......1....1..gws-wiz-img.4xdQGdIsupc
I like to see them because you get a glimpse into someone's imagination, ingenuity and necessity. Especially interesting because pretty much everything about them is hand made and or scrounged parts. It's pretty cool to see the way people would take a bunch of stuff that really shouldn't go together at all and make something useful out of it.
DeleteI was sure the proportions here were too odd to be true, but then came upon a similar Buick Doodlebug which is about the same http://www.dannreunion.com/buckrake.jpg
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid in the 1950's the farm down the road from my uncle's place had a 1930's Reo doodle-bug. Three or four farmers (all dairies) would get together and do their haying as a team. I've seen that sucker pull a hay rake, a bailer, and two hay wagons all day long.
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