Dodge Brothers

Sheree is off teaching a class. I am sitting here, pushing pixels around. (We all must have a skill...)

 

I am looking at this close-up shot of a Dodge from 1934 and doing the math. This car is over 75 years old...and it' lives in the front yard somewhere in Shelby Montana.

 

I have concluded that Montana-ummm-ites allow all their vehicles to roll into the front yard until they rust and die. But there was something different about this one.

 

Sheree had taken great pains to photograph it the previous day...but I was working on something else. It made no impression on me.

 

"Besides..." I thougth cleverly, "I have like eight and a half million shots of old cars. Do I really need eight million five hundred thousand and one?

 

Then I got closer to the car and started thinking about the kind of crap I always think about when in the presence of an old vehicle.

 

"Who rode in this thing? Mobsters or farmers or both? What did it look like when it first rolled off the lot? Did families take long vacations in a world long gone in this car?"

 

Then I saw the logo. It said "Dodge Brothers." Huh? I am not a car guy. (I remind you that I once attempted to fix a car that wouldn't "go" by shoving a sock into something that looked like a carburetor...which led to much merriment when the guys at the garage saw it...) But I don't ever remember hearing of a car referred to as having been built by the Dodge Brothers.

 

So here it is. Who says I don't share with others?

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