I can see it ... Photo must have been taken when the Vicky was almost new ... judging by the other cars in the photo ...
both windshields are open real wide either they just poke around town or someone bumped their heads on em?! my windshield would fly off if opened that far at 70+ mph. the vic looks very saveable & ill bet its in someones garage today.
i thing it was a HOUSTON POLICE running a red light,that caused it. or it could have been an angry model A guy.you know that they never liked the,OH SO NICE,32 FORDS. -danny
If that photo was taken in 1935 or earlier ( I believe it was ... maybe 32 or 33 ) ... everyone in the photo would be 73 years older now ... and are most likely deceased ...
" Well hell Jacob. Guess we'll just have to take the fenders off of it " " Say ya might be onto somethin' there Jethro, Maybe it would go faster with less weight!" And so it begins...
One thing thats different from today is that hes probally not stressed about where to find a gennie grill for it.
it would be a safe bet that nothing in that picture exists today. maybe a tree or building. that's it. those people were adults in the early 30's... they'd be 90 years old. what percent of the millions of cars made in the 30's are still around?? 5%?? less??
The taxi is lettered Capitol City Cab with the Capitol dome...this would put it in Washington, DC. If you know anything about DC in the summer, everybody had their factory A/C open to the max. If heads had hit the windshield hard enough to brake the studs on the side rods, the glass would be broken. Note that the taxi is a '31 Model A with the Briggs body without a visor.
I think I saw that Vicky on the top of a pile in one of those scrap drive pictures taken during WWII. Probably along with most of the other cars in that picture. That was the demise of many 20s & 30s cars. Gene
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