Dixie Flyer "Firefly" speedster photographs

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Hello Scott

I guess I am teasing you a little bit but it is unintentional. Now to tease you a bit more here is a photo of the tachometer that our son Steve has just finished restoring. It now matches the clock and minor instruments perfectly.

3-29-2010

Thanks West

We have some pretty nice Packards here too, if not the super ones you have or nearly so many. Here are a couple that I photographed at a run last weekend. If you see copies of the Automobile magazine from the UK I have regular contributions in their Automobiles in Action section.

3-31-2010

Looking back I started this post asking if anyone had Dixie Flyer Speedster photographs. well 23 pages later and so far the only photo that has been found was one taken in 1923 and forwarded to me by West Peterson following a reply to my series in the Antique Automobile by a 90 yo gentleman living in Boston. Surely there must be some others around in old albums or somewhere? What have you got up in the attic?

4-4-2010

Hi Al

Thanks for the thought! You cannot possibly imagine the sort of pressure I am putting myself under to get this job completed. 

I just felt that it was a timely reminder as to what this thread was originally all about. Finding Dixie Flyer photographs. I guess that the lack of response only confirms how few out of the original 7.000 remain. Some people will tell you that this is because they were so bad. My theory is that because they were so "tough" that rather than be put out to grass or parked in a barn they were all driven into the ground, then had vital bits salvaged to perform other functions around the farm or where ever. I believe that many of the low millage barn find veterans are only there because they broke down early in their life and were pushed into the barn often in disgust rather than from a wish to preserve them.