Visiting southern Vermont, my wife wanted to go hiking through the woods. You should always listen to my wife. So a mile out, I found a wire wheel, then a badly rusted early 20's door and then a pile of s****. This dash was the only luggable thing over the terrain we crossed-so I did. Anybody got a clue what this think is from? There are zero identifiable marks or numbers. Thanks.
why does everyone on here find 20-30's stuff in the woods why not ever any 50's stuff that i may have a shot at iding lol and why the hell can't i find anything in the woods anymore
Funny you should say that. I was staying at the Four Chimneys B&B in Bennington when we started the hike.
Really plain, it might be from a truck, '20's,,,if that is a notch for a column, it woild be pretty up-right,,,,,
I helped a local friends parent back in 1970, building his cabin in central VT. Man, every roadside pulloff area, near any stream or brook was piled with 20s-early 30s bodies and tin.
Oh man, if you were at that B&B then you were walking on Hemmings property and came across some of their "private woods stash"! Ypu should have hollered at me and I could have helped you move all that stuff over to my place!!!
Best thing about building HAMB friendly vehicles is that you don't have to know what that dash came from in order to use it. It's most likely from the late teens or '20s, not anything I recognize, there were literally hundreds of makes of cars and trucks in that period. If you like it and it's suited to something you're building, use it. Just picture it in your car, and some restorer spots it--the very rare dash he needs for his 1922 XYZ--and you tell him, "Sorry, it's not for sale."
I don't think it matches the Moon dash....here's the 1922 Moon dashboard...more gauges, no steering column notch.
mine looks like the one in the first post , so i don't know what I got. Was told it was a Moon cowl---now I don,t know but am still going to use it on my speedster.
No,sorry. I wasn't planning on finding anything and the only camera I had was our SLR digital which isn't suited really to hikes. Wasn't much to photograph anyway.
I've got a great book on Moon's-"Great Cars of the Great Plains" by Curt McConnell. But, it only has one picture of a Moon dash-from 1926-and that's not it. Plus the fact that Moon's were built in Missouri makes it a bit unlikely one would in up in the Vermont woods. There's a secondary/line panel behind the big holes and what appears to be ,maybe, the base of a light socket? And, clearly the key switch is an afterthought.
My great aunt Dolly had a Moon roadster, must have been about a 1924? She was the talk of the family, all the cousins and aunts had something to say about "Dolly, and that darned car. She drives like Barney Oldfield!"
If you like that book, check out Iowa's Automobiles by Bill Jepsen. Fantastic amount of work by this gentleman about EVERY car made or contemplated in Iowa. I think it might have been privately published, but look around.
The Jalopy Journal
