Ever seen a picnic awning on a car before? Me neither, and I've seen this car in the Nethercutt Museum. Fatty Arbuckle's 1923 McFarlan
in the museum they just have the car parked like any other http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/04/unusual-rare-and-restored-cars-from.html
my favorite movie character name, Ford Lincoln Mercury
He assumed the name from the sign in the background of the photo, because he wanted to be a race car driver... that is, until he was inspired by Keving Costner's character, the Postman, and then he grew the postal service in a post apocolyptic world of the American North West
I've only ever seen 3 of these "fatman/tilt lok" steering wheels before, and today I found 3 all at the same event...
more astonishing is that the vehicle above had it's wheel in one position, and the same wheel model below was in another car and in the opposite position, so you can compare and get an idea of how it functions so big bellied drivers could get in an out of a car
for one from last year http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/06/flip-up-steering-wheel-was-found-on.html
plus I looked through the archives, here are a couple other styles that flip up
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/02/flip-up-steering-wheel-on-model-t-i.html
the worst looking example of a project car i think I've seen, and the most astonishing restoration... which won peoples choice at the LaJolla Concours 2013
full gallery here: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/04/1929-packard-model-640-runabout-with.html
I talked to the owner today, and asked him about the woodlite headlights, he said that once he discovered that they were a Packard preferred accessory/optional equipment, he searched the big swap meet at Hershey or Carlisle until he found a set
Coachbuilder badges from a variety of cars at the Palos Verdes Concours
this last one is something odd in a photographic sense, the badge is silver or aluminum, and yet the reflection only shows the highest parts in silver, and shades the rest all black where there actually is none
