Enjoying their new car

@JudyEv (326093)

• Rockingham, Australia

25 Feb 23

I'm glad the photo has survived.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (206316)

• Walnut Creek, California

25 Feb 23

They really do.

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (95623)

• Marion, Ohio

25 Feb 23

That was a great car

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@JudyEv (326093)

• Rockingham, Australia

25 Feb 23

It made cars more readily available for the average John Citizen.

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ShannyBananny

@shaggin (71663)

• United States

25 Feb 23

Your great grandmother shows her age more in the photo than he does. What a lovely photo!

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (45574)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

25 Feb 23

@JudyEv Maybe that was an option then.

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@JudyEv (326093)

• Rockingham, Australia

25 Feb 23

The back looks like a postcard so I don't know who would have taken the photo or why the back of it looks like a postcard.

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https://www.maas.museum/inside-the-collection/2015/07/30/henry-fords-model-t-impact-in-australia/

rebelann1949

@rebelann (111249)

• El Paso, Texas

25 Feb 23

I wonder how much he paid for it and if he knew how to drive it. The article I just read was interesting and made me wonder how people learned to drive back in those days.

www.maas.museum

https://www.maas.museum/inside-the-collection/2015/07/30/henry-fords-model-t-impact-in-australia/

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rebelann1949

@rebelann (111249)

• El Paso, Texas

25 Feb 23

Oh, I'll bet he had no problem driving once he got the hang of it. My dad learned to drive a tractor before he could drive a car. Granddad was a share cropper.

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@JudyEv (326093)

• Rockingham, Australia

26 Feb 23

@rebelann It was interesting that the article said farmers were the hardest to teach to drive.

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@JudyEv (326093)

• Rockingham, Australia

25 Feb 23

What an interesting article. Thanks for the link. I don't know what he would have paid for it but he would have learnt how to drive it.

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James Higgins

@JamesHxstatic (29256)

• Eugene, Oregon

25 Feb 23

What a great photo to treasure!

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@JudyEv (326093)

• Rockingham, Australia

25 Feb 23

Thanks. I think so too.

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99423)

• Atlanta, Georgia

25 Feb 23

Is that a model T, the first car that was made?

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@JudyEv (326093)

• Rockingham, Australia

25 Feb 23

Not really the first one but Henry Ford made these to be available to 'ordinary' people. They were much more affordable than anything else that was available.

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@JudyEv (326093)

• Rockingham, Australia

26 Feb 23

@RubyHawk Yes, they were and a real status symbol.

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99423)

• Atlanta, Georgia

25 Feb 23

@JudyEv Cars were a novelty in those early days.

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Lee Ka

@kaka135 (14916)

• Malaysia

25 Feb 23

Yes, they look cool! It's nice that you still have these old photos. I wonder if they needed to sit for driving test in those old days....

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@JudyEv (326093)

• Rockingham, Australia

25 Feb 23

Probably at this time they didn't need licences but the car must have been licensed.

allen0187

@allen0187 (58444)

• Philippines

25 Feb 23

This picture has some serious history in it.

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@JudyEv (326093)

• Rockingham, Australia

25 Feb 23

Yes, I guess it has. I hadn't thought about that.

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Ptrikha_2

@ptrikha_2 (45543)

• India

25 Feb 23

Awesome picture! We do have some such pictures with this or similar cars of those times as Postcard pictures! They would have been a status symbol in those times! The Dressing looks like that of the British colonial times' high status one. So was that dressing common in Australia too at that time?

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@JudyEv (326093)

• Rockingham, Australia

26 Feb 23

Those would have been his town clothes. This is printed as a postcard.

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Ptrikha_2

@ptrikha_2 (45543)

• India

26 Feb 23

@JudyEv Such postcards have their own charm!

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Always smiling

@allknowing (130077)

• India

25 Feb 23

This looks like a vintage photo may be over 100 years old.

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Always smiling

@allknowing (130077)

• India

26 Feb 23

@JudyEv You have preserved it well.

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@JudyEv (326093)

• Rockingham, Australia

26 Feb 23

If it isn't 100 years old, it would be getting very close to that.

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@JudyEv (326093)

• Rockingham, Australia

26 Feb 23

@allknowing Thanks

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Anne Marie Guyer

@LeaPea2417 (36494)

• Toccoa, Georgia

25 Feb 23

That's a wonderful photo. Old cars like that fascinate me.

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Anne Marie Guyer

@LeaPea2417 (36494)

• Toccoa, Georgia

26 Feb 23

@JudyEv I agree.

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@JudyEv (326093)

• Rockingham, Australia

26 Feb 23

It's amazing how cars, along with everything else, have advanced so much.

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@DaddyEvil (137142)

• United States

25 Feb 23

It's a really nice photo! I'm sure they got a lot of use out of their car.

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@JudyEv (326093)

• Rockingham, Australia

25 Feb 23

It would have made a world of difference to their lifestyle.

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@DaddyEvil (137142)

• United States

26 Feb 23

@JudyEv I'm quite sure of that...

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The Horse

@TheHorse (206316)

• Walnut Creek, California

25 Feb 23

Were horses to draw the thing an option in those days? I'm sure they were aware of global warming.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (206316)

• Walnut Creek, California

26 Feb 23

@JudyEv That's pretty cool.

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@JudyEv (326093)

• Rockingham, Australia

26 Feb 23

I suppoose they were but I don't know of it. I know Dad put tow-bars on old horse-drawn machinery to convert it to tractor-driven.

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Shiva

@Shiva49 (26216)

• Singapore

25 Feb 23

They do look like having arrived as cars were a rarity to start with. My grandfather purchased a car in 1936 and there was just a handful of them where he lived. It was a Morris car.

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@JudyEv (326093)

• Rockingham, Australia

26 Feb 23

Cars were certainly a status symbol in those days. I remember the Morris cars and my grandfather later had an Austin. This is my Dad's Oldsmobile. That's me in the middle.

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