My dad's other car

[Dangermouse]

Dad has lent my brother his 4WD so when he came over today he brought his other car....





Car is a 1924 Dodge, that my dad restored

I also took a short video



cheers
David

[Dangermouse]

Made and imported for the Australian market I think.

I will get dad to give me a bit more history on it.

cheers
David

[waaytoomuchintothis]

The Dodge Bros would be so proud.

By the way, do you know why right hand drive came about? Yes, I know, I'm priming the internet forum pump here.

[dreinecke]

That is fabulous! Thanks for sharing that!

[Dangermouse]

They were imported from Detroit as a cab chassis in right hand drive, basically cut off at the windscreen/dash, 4 wheels, two rear mudguards, the body was made in Australia. They used to drive them off the boats with a box for a seat.

[waaytoomuchintothis]

All chassis for special bodies were done that way. My father-in-law had a job driving truck chassis to the school bus fabricator when he was young. Same box for a seat.

[FootScoot]

Yep, the Dodge brothers would be very proud of this car. I had a friend years ago that had a Dodge brothers car, and truck. Just neat classic cars, kinda rare too. :)

[Dangermouse]

Interesting read on the whole left right thing here
http://www.worldstandards.eu/driving%20 ... 20left.htm

Short summary
Seems pre cars most folk road on the left to keep their right (sword) arm free
Seems the change to right hand side came about from large wagon trains with multiple horses/oxen and there was also a link to the French Revolution where the nobles were on the left and the peasants on the right seems after the revolution everyone moved to the right side of the road

Good yarn anyway

[DHansen]

Thanks for the link. I have always wondered why the drivers side changes from one country to another. But one curiosity is that most of the civalized world started out driving on the left side of the road due to the horse and sword being on the left and mounting the horse from the left. So I would have thought that it would have stayed that way [driving on the left side of the road]. But it didn't.

[waaytoomuchintothis]

There's any number of neat stories about why it changed, but the fact is, most folks are right handed, and the sword hand needed to be ready to greet untrusted oncoming traffic on the paths. That one actually goes back far enough that Chaucer mentioned it as being old when he wrote in the late 1300s. Neat, huh?

[DAVE]

Very nice restoration. I like the wooden artillery wheels.

[Dangermouse]

"Love all the badges...I'm sure I could Google...but, are they for concourse, rallies or States visited or something else??"

They are all from different rally events - I will take some more photos and post them

cheers
David

[dge467]

Beautiful looking Dodge!