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Thu May 03 2012 12:23 PM
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Since I have alot of old magazines, I thought it would be cool to share some of the advertisements in them. Some of these are up to 100 years old, some younger. It'll be a mix of stuff including petro, cars, tractors and other misc things. This 1st batch is from 1917: Says here that HAYES is America's first car? I never heard of that....any truth to this claim?
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Ranger Motorbike sold w/o a motor! LOL
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Came with "Accident Insurance" and a FREE horn though.
Sell me your Gilmore Oil Co. stuff...
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I was thinking about that motorbike thing. I think it's the evolution of the word motoring...they used it to decribe riding your car and in this case riding a bike.
In Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, the second definition of MOTOR is is 'any self powered vehicle' the ninth, 'causing or producing motion.'
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Love the pictures doc....thanks for posting
see me at Mason Dixon Gas, Spring Carlisle M114-115, and Hershey C4E-35.
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Thanks Charles. Still more from 1917!....
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