The Argo Auto, never heard of it

Mansell Hackett purchased the Argo Motor Company in 1917 and established the Hackett Motor Car Company. Located in Jackson, Michigan, the company produced a line of touring cars and roadsters until 1918, at which time the company was moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan and became the Lorraine Motors Corporation.

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1909 Babcock electric brougham... looks like a mechanized stage coach to me

Above is the factory brochure image, below is the corner of the street photo from Shorpy

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1911 Packard fire engine in Detroit

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Canadian colonization advertising vehicle... looking like a streetcar on a truck chassis

Seems the big wide open plains of the Candian west needed farmers, and they used this to spread the word. Just study that box of a body and let me know if it's anything but a one off single purpose built vehicle
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Old tour bus, 1908

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Unusual rail road crossing sign, ever see one that says "Look out for the cars" ?

1939 photo above, below is one of the traffic signal towers I've been posting, it's from a 1918 photo

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Sailing bicycles, Ormand Beach Fla 1903

photos from http://www.shorpy.com/node/9255

7 Hp Duryea was the first automobile attempt to drive from coast to coast, in 1899

Above are a couple of guys with a REO Mountaineer, 1906... and have nothing but the similar cross country in an early car rlevance, to this story that follows (photo from http://www.shorpy.com/node/8903?size=_original )

after the Louise and John Davis car with the backing of two newspapers left New York City they had about made it to Syracuse, and were passed by a one armed bicyclist that had left new York City 10 days after the car had.

Winton tried it 2 years later in May of 1901, but only made it 530 miles from San Fran in route to New York when he was hopelessly stuck in a sand drift

I often come across photos that I add to posts with similar items... but this time I'll just post the new stuff and links to where they would go

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=weasel

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/photos-of-unusual-from-days-gone-by.html

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/inspection-cars-for-railroad-inspectors.html

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/03/few-more-from-shorpy.html

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Disney

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/10/chuck-yeager-american-hero-drove-hot.html

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-time-super-sport-was-ever-applied.html

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3TPFDobRLZUSBoPy9AVG4wmkiLafd4IxTZ5kmOlxGbIcB-ts8qXKQUXNl7BlO7Uhu7TCp5zIpt0kcTOD1spamBpuaI5kUB98hOfgUSmaTGGKJBAhernD4tW_P3MsW1TU0vvT_Dh-pJMc/s1600/1.jpg

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/10/one-wheel-trailer-trailcar-by-allstate.html

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/ms-linda-and-damn-big-shifter.html and http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/05/ms-hurst-linda-vaughn-and-chrysler-300.html

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/02/dealership-photos-from-20s-through-60s.html

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/11/rare-historical-automotive-jem.html

All those labels under these posts, and in the long column (about 1000) are there to help me, and you, find the stuff you are looking for. They sure help me find the things I recall having posted before, so I can add photos like these to the posts I want them in, or want to let you know where you can find similar things.

photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=270

Harbor Springs, Michigan, circa 1906. "Excursion logging train." The smallest train I can recall seeing

via: http://www.shorpy.com/node/7786 from finding it http://roughingitblog.tumblr.com/page/5

Nik finds cool stuff, that is what he does

the original is bigger and I cropped out a telephone pole, but just look at the abandoned gas station, in 1937. Ain't that just Hank Williams "So lonely I could die" lonely? Via: http://carrosantigos.wordpress.com/ who found it on Shorpy... awesome website of old photographs.

Dear Santa, I know where you can find my xmas presents

Here are close ups, the full image is last, and even bigger after the link

Via http://www.shorpy.com/node/4068?size=_original

Perfect girlfriend material

These have to be from Shorpy originally, but I found them at http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/

Automotive pictures from Shorpy

Vanderbilt's Belmont Park four-in-hand passing the Holland House Hotel on Fifth Avenue in New York 1905

1917 Detroit

Traffic congestion at a 1918 war bond drive in Washington DC

This Winton was wrecked by Congressman never-heard-of-him-before, in 1920

1920 Washington DC

1924 photo of Lincoln hearse

1926 paint booth

1926 service station

1928 Takoma Park Maryland

This is a Cunningham automobile, and was used as a private ambulance by a coroner

1927 four wheel drive auto company dumptruck

1927 four wheel drive auto company

Via: http://www.shorpy.com/

If you like this type of old car photos, look through the rest of the best vehicle photos from Shorpy: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Shorpy

Barney Oldfield tires

1921 and great billboard above the store

1919 Washington DC

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Trains from 1900 and before

1880's to 1890's in Mexico

Florida 1897

1900 (about) in New Orleans

1900 the Detroit river and a car ferry moving a train

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