a 38 Olds Doodlebug on the farm

https://reservatory6.blogspot.com/2014/03/beater.html

I'm sure this must be the Little Ol Lady from Pasadena's grandmother

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/598/

a Litchfield, Illinois farm started in the 1850s has come to the end, and some very old farming things are being sold off, like 3 farm doodle bugs!

https://bids.aumannauctions.com/auctions/43924-ophelia-l-niemann-national-historic-manske-niemann-farm-living-trust--personal-property

I REALLY liked todays header, a Lincoln converted to tractor/doodlebug functions around a farm

 Those are some BIG back rims and tires... I am just going to guess American LaFrance fire truck in origin

https://www.iamfy.co/product/homemade-tractor-made-of-old-lincoln-car-which-is-now-lifting-power-for-hay-stacker-ouray-county-colorado-by-canvas-print

on the tv show Northern Exposure, late in the 5th season, they had the character Chris (John Corbett) makes a half track doodlebug

plans are in motion in New Zealand to scratch build a Texaco Doodlebug, Steve and Sue Keys who just finished the restoration of the Diamond T Texaco fuel tanker, learned a lot about the Doodlebug, and well, it's time for a new project!

They've found another Diamond T 614 chassis and a Hercules Diamond T six-cylinder engine of unknown size along with front and rear axles, 10-bolt Budd wheels, a transfer case, and other smaller components including side vents and instruments. 

The plan is to have Simon Tippins and Craig Garland of Creative Metal Works scratchbuild the body, they were the crew that did the bodywork on the Texaco fuel tanker

 https://texacotankerproject.com/new-project-update-45/

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/texaco-doodlebug-replica-project-begins/

if you didn't have to heat your home with wood, you probably don't know what a buzz rig is... for those who know that they are mostly anything that was welded outside a local garage, with anything that could power a spinning wood cutting saw, this is no surprise, but it's got a really fun saw blade cover

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/411944/494083.html?1416110314

a Genuine Ford factory Doodlebug from 1914 that serviced Ford's Canadian Factory.

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/411944/480677.html?1415887122

It's rough, but I bet it dig get the job done better and faster, than a horse.

 https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-251#post-13308596

Thank you Dennis for the photo of your grandfathers Model T water pumper in 1945

Thanks Dennis! 

His grandfather was an official tire repair man for the OPA in WWII. 

(On August 28, 1941, President Roosevelt's Executive Order 8875 created the Office of Price Administration (OPA). The OPA's main responsibility was to place a ceiling on prices of most goods, and to limit consumption by rationing.)

He kept all his vulcanizing equipment when he retired and made those rear tires (on the pumper above) by cutting the tread off tractor tires and vulcanizing them around the stock tires on the old car. They worked well enough for low speeds.

He placed ads in the local paper during the war. He would get one or two tires from the OPA that he could sell without needing a rare tire coupon. He would advertise each tire individually.

You could not go down to his store and buy a tire, there were none. The ones he could sell without a coupon were seconds that were certified as such. Otherwise the buyer could get arrested for illegally obtaining a tire. 

The only people who could get new tires were doctors, firemen, etc. Gramps kept many tires going by repairing them over and over.

He was a retired tool repairman for Ridge Tool (known far and wide as Ridgid, you've seen the Petty pin up art, or the Raquel Welch I posted) in Elyria, Ohio. 

He could take a broken 48" wrench from the oil fields and do a brazed repair. He even got such wrenches back again that had broken in another place - his brazing held! He taught me how to braze and I can still recall the soft hiss from the slow, lazy flame he used as it played around the iron wrench.

and bonus, here is a little cart his grand father was photographed in! 

there are a lot of people making CGI/Photoshop renderings online, but not many seeing the potential for cool old stuff like this, to be used in advertising

found on

jukkari, jokeri or joker, a Finnish-English word for a truck or car repurposed for farm use. Tuovi & Toini Wiitala and Lillian Lahti posing like they are getting it started, hand crank method. Yoopers know that as Sisu power

so much a part of many of the little Finnish American family farms. It simply referred to a homemade tractor, since few of those raising annual crops of mostly rocks could afford a factory-made farm tractor such as Ford produced.

Ken Holster recalls the "Ruxel" two-speed differentials as desirable, as was a "creeper or crawler" gear in the transmission. Al Reko told me that his uncle added a second transmission to really gear down. Our neighbors' - the Ostolas - even had a "power take-off" source so they could run other equipment from the extra driveshaft, such as a saw-rig.

https://www.facebook.com/michiganskeweenawpeninsula/photos/a.10152810030160081/10157998410365081/?type=3

Doodlebug fresh from manufacturing outside the plant

I don't recall where I found the image, I held onto it until I had some time to compare this image to the other Doodlebug photos I have, to see if I'd posted it already (the effort I got to for you all! ) 

Dan at Hemmings came across photos of a Doodlebug fuel tanker truck in Australia

all found on http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013/06/18/doodlebug-down-under-baps-own-streamlined-tanker-truck-of-the-future/

Concept and prototype cars

1941 Chrysler Newport Dual Cowl Phaeton

1941 Thunderbolt
Credit for the design goes to Alex Tremulis

1951 Buick the XP 300

1955 Chevrolet Biscayne

1954 Packard Panther Daytona

1954 Pontiac Bonneville

1956 Chevrolet Impala

I think the above is a Gaylord

 above,
http://lost-show-cars.blogspot.com http://www.carstyling.ru/en/cars.1954_Oldsmobile_Cutlass.html http://history.gmheritagecenter.com/wiki/index.php/1954_Oldsmobile_Cutlass_Concept

 1954 Mercury Monterey XM 800

Above, Chrysler Ghia Diablo

above, a 1956 410 SuperAmerica by Ghia that Storm Bringer knew
http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/4566/Ferrari-410-SuperAmerica-Ghia-Coupe.html http://www.carstyling.ru/ru/car/1956_ferrari_410_superamerica/

1954 DeSoto Adventurer

Diamond T Doodlebug, one of my favorite trucks

All from among the huge variety of cool cars and pre-1980's American culture on http://fifties50s.blogspot.com