As a teenager I once spent nearly an hour in Manhattan’s Bryant Park listening to a Thomas Edison devotee expounding on the virtues of Edison cylinder recordings and why they were superior to vinyl discs.
At the end of this monologue he invited me out to his place in New Jersey to see his collection. My brain decided that would not be a good idea. Maybe he would have driven me out there in a Stanley Steamer…
What a great story! I would totally have jumped in!
A WOODEN seat? No thanks.
Well, if it was really a Bearcat, some things were wrong with it. Bearcats were the absolute king of the road back then. There is no way any came with wooden seats. Their seats were usually two well-stuffed leather thrones that would have looked great in a country club. Check out this typical photo:
If you like “Chasing Classic Cars”, one of the best episodes is when Wayne buys an original, stored for decades Bearcat. Now that version was a bench seat, but beautifully leather covered over a spring foundation. Like this one:
Dennis
^ That windshield (in the first link) is a hoot!
Jeez, you could have at least offered to buy him a tank of petroleum distillate or re-vulcanize his tires.