HOT !!! Model "A" Roadsters
 

Someone had some bad luck, this day !
MIKE :) (mikeburch)
CLICK ON PHOTOS TO ENLARGE - Twice

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I've seen it happen! It wasn't my roadster but was one of my model A's and we couldn't put it out. It was caused by a leaking glass sediment bowl gasket. I now use the cast iron sediment bulbs. Never a problem with the lower lead gasket.

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There you go.........just living up to their names, HOT RODS.:D

Wish I knew the story of what happened and casued the fire.:confused:

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that's the last place i would be is near that car... That gas tank ever goes up... it will take all of them....

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Looks like my great-grandmothers yard when I was a kid.My uncles did a lot of scrapping,and they had to burn the cars before hauling them in.To get paid for scrap cars they had to be burned first,no glass,tires,upholstery,fuel in the tanks,or oil in the engines.Oil in the trans and rear end was OK.They always had jalopy races in the sand pit on weekends,when the races were over and everybody thoroughly drunk they would just leave the cars there.My uncles would drag them the mile to their house and burn them before hauling them over the scales.They liked Model A's to burn the best,they would poke a hole in the gas tank with a pick and throw a match in the cockpit.Those pictures look like the jalopy races I remember.

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Well I thought it looked like "Cash for Clunkers" a few years back.

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peters180A .....................
In the second picture, I would guess that the gas tank has already blown, with the rest of the gasoline burning, up through a gapping hole.
MIKE :) (mikeburch)

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How old are those photos?

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denis4X4 .......................
I have no information on these photos, wish I did. If I guessed 1940, I don't think I would be more than five years off, either way.
MIKE :) (mikeburch)

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Sad.

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That was taken by Leslie Jones, a Photographer for the Boston Herald Traveler. It was taken at Readville Trotting Park, a Harness Racing Track, also used to race Autos and Motorcycles. The track opened in 1896 and closed in 1937. Leslie Jones was a well known Photographer that frequently put himself in locations to get great photos. When he died in 1967, his family gave the collection of some 35,000 prints and negatives to the Boston Public Library so they would belong to the public forever. Those photos are part of that collection and were taken on September 5, 1932, which is sort of interesting in itself as those cars were only a few years old.

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QGolden ................
I think that it is amazing that someone could come up with the history of these photos !
I think that the date is amazing too. Those cars still had value, being only a couple years old.
Thank you,
MIKE :) (mikeburch)

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Amazing, indeed ! Something doesn't fit here, as Mike says , 'only couple of years old, if the dates given are accurate. Also, these old Fords were/are touted as being tough long lasting ..testament that they are still being raced here ? Even wrecked cars must have been good for 'valuable' parts. Hm, I guess value may have been different then ?

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It certainly is possible that the date stamp attributed to the photos is wrong, I had noted the same thing about the cars ages. His work is pretty well documented, http://www.lesliejonesphotography.com.