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Showing posts with label magneto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label magneto. Show all posts
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Motoring Magazine and Motor Life, 1913, and available online to read at your leisure
0 comments Posted by st at 10:12 PM I enjoy reflecting on the cars of 100 years ago, it's amazing that they were all simple enough for a gearhead like me to work on, repair, or improve on.
What do you make of the above tire covers? A primitive retread? And that company name, Leather Tire Goods... what leather tire goods did they make?
I think I've pointed out several times that roads were so bad that tires were lucky to last a couple thousand miles, just last week I found a photo of a the "3000 mile club" tires that were amazing enough to get that kind of recognition.
the above is a Winton
look through the 6 issues on http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Automobiles%20--%20Periodicals%22
Labels: advertising, Buick, magneto, shock absorbers, tires, what is it, Winton
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Labels: advertising, drag racing, magneto, Vertex
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