The New London to New Brighton Antique Car Run is an annual 120 mile tour of the Minnesota countryside in August (Inspired by the London to Brighton UK veteran car run) Thank you Joe!

https://www.facebook.com/antiquecarrun.org/

https://www.exploreminnesota.com/event/new-london-to-new-brighton-antique-car-run/5403

https://antiquecarrun.org/

something different in chain drives, the "silent chain" on a 1904 Holsman

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3081456608721869&set=pcb.1723400278889312

https://www.facebook.com/groups/749378762958140

If I win the lotto, I might not tell anyone, but the mansion I have built and the matching brass era car will be obvious signs. (this is a real 1916 photo, of a Massachusetts home, just pure awesome design, I would certainly get this one recreated!))

Nathaniel Sanders owned Boston Motor Company and was a dealer for Acme Automobiles. This was his home in Haverhill MA built in 1881, designed by Ralph Emerson.

The picture is from 1916, the house had 33 rooms. 

It was torn down in 1946, when the family left Massachusetts and owed taxes on it. The city was having trouble with youths going into the abandoned house, partying and lighting fires.

The family sold the estate and land to the city, used the money to pay the back taxes and the city made the land conservation area.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10244036637478188&set=gm.10162739449492481&idorvanity=119087132480

https://haverhill.pastperfectonline.com/Photo/83456724-64EC-40B3-A716-462470667023

See lots more photos of this place, exterior and interior at https://haverhill.pastperfectonline.com/bysearchterm?keyword=Birchbrow

1898 Clarkson & Capel Steam Barouche, colorized 1908 photo

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10243000348523521&set=gm.10162607097797481&idorvanity=119087132480

https://www.diomedia.com/stock-photo-early-clarkson-steam-barouche-image20621560.html

1907 Gobron Brillie

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2481998852252357&set=gm.10162603895062481&idorvanity=119087132480

1911 Chicago Aviation Meet

 

a really early Coca Cola delivery truck!

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/55/

cool and rare striped car

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/91

cool hotel bus, imagine this the next time you catch a shuttle to the airport, or from the airport to your hotel

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/252/

this car ought to get shown around in geometry class, 1914 Delauany Belleville 6 cylinder

back when it wasn't crazy to bring along 4 spare tires. 

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/394/

Don't waste time reading the sign, look down. I'm sure it's stupid people like that driver who caused the law to get passed that trains have to blow their horns at every intersection (WHO CAN"T SEE A DAMN MOVING TRAIN?)

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/373/

a Midland from about 1913, roughly. Great lettering

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/373/

huh, interesting bad weather windscreens! Thanks to Steve, I learned about it, a Cambridge windshield, they were mostly used on sporting type cars

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/336/

This is known as a Cambridge windshield and it's made of either isinglass or celluloid - probably isinglass (originally made from fish bladders) in this case. 

 The earliest mention dates from 1909 and it became a generic term, like the California top became. https://forums.aaca.org/topic/448353-cambridge-windshield/ 

 https://www.shorpy.com/node/24210

well this is one sharp looking kids pedal car! I don't remember ever seeing anything like it

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/430

perhaps his honey do list included picking the kids up from school, and 20 gallons of milk. 1905 Moline 18Hp Model B Light Touring

How long do you suppose that milk was going to last without refrigeration? 

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/418/

great looking delivery, unusual front suspension

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/581/

Alfred DuPont

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/618/

interesting milkman's delivery truck

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/638/

Notice the area between the cab, and the painting of the cow... there is a really big milk can, 50 gallons or so, just a guess. 

Really nice lettering 

a Lion-Peugeot at La Fourche in Boulogne 1910 .... imagine having to look AROUND the hood to drive

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=4126871734242247&set=a.1387454371517344

a much different way to hand crank start a car...

skip the first 1:14 to avoid seeing how many times that this didn't work... a lot like seeing someone try to kick start a Harley a dozen times, it's just boring, until the one time it fires up

skip ahead to 4:20 to watch these Edwardian era automobiles get underway to the start of their race, they don't start racing up the hill til 7:20