Sunday show and tell! 5-31-2026!

[nick tures]

Surprised to find this on fbm, another green bike! Clean panther with a few wrong parts, seat, light, and prewar bars that will go. Thanks to a tip from @nick tures . B6 cleaned up nice

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No problem Rick !!

 

[nick tures]

Pedal Tractor, cleaned up the red stingray and and found a coaster orange krate

 

[JRE]

Got back into the Vw Scene and picked up a 57 oval window bug body for a starting point for a father son project with my 80 yr old Father

 

[Carltonator]

I got some stuff

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Wow on the 1919 MA plates...nice job..

 

[Carltonator]

I recently found this advertising booklet for Cushman Motor Company which promotes their marine engines… The booklet isn’t dated but the references in it are from 1903-1905…It’s 24 pages and quite detailed…This is another items that falls into my infamous useless knowledge category….that very few would appreciate…actually “few” could be ambitious…could be only me…

So what’s so great about it?...I have this fascination with the pioneer era of the gasoline engine…Particularly in relation to motorcycles and boats…To understand it you have to disengage from our modern era and imagine the mindset at the turn of the 19th century…People were starting to grasp the potential of the gasoline engine as it related to transportation…Remember 1903-1905 this booklet was produced was just evolving from the horse and buggy era…The world over, not just America…minds were churning…Everyone was thinking…what would happen if I attached a gasoline motor to a bicycle or boat or a wagon…and then it was on…

There is not a lot of gasoline boat motor documentation from that 1905 period…so I had to have it….even though it will just sit in my cabinet and no one will give it a second glance… Before this booklet I only knew Cushman to make scooters and motorized carts…I had never heard of them making boat motors…So now I have something new to rabbit-hole and keep my eyes out for…

On the title page just inside the front cover it announces the company name then “Marine Automobile”…That is so archaic boating terminology…At that stage they were still trying to coin terms for motor boats…Autoboat is another term I’ve seen used…Page 3 mentions “Marine Racing Machines” all caps…what a hoot at that point 25MPH was about top speed for a motor boat…Then the writer says something very interesting…”Then fortune knocked at our door in an opportunity to place a Cushman motor in Rudder’s now famous Dolphin.”…Rudder’s refers to Rudder magazine the leading monthly magazine of all things powerboating and yachting in the 1905 era of the booklet…What’s interesting about that is Thomas Fleming Day was the owner editor…and that boat “Dolphin” would have been his… Thomas Fleming Day was kind of an eccentric…he sailed the first small motorized boat named “Detroit” from New York to Ireland in 1912…Day was also the founder of the Newport to Bermuda yacht race that still continues today…

 

[brwstrmgmt]

Actually bought this off

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ebay and couple weeks ago. Tried to ride it once and immediately fell over. My wife thought it was funny . My son would not even try to ride it. Makes for a good wall hanger though.

Thats a skate bike! I have one ( my son's ) in my basement!!

Definitely not for the faint of heart!!

 

[Nashman]

Thats a skate bike! I have one ( my son's ) in my basement!!

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Definitely not for the faint of heart!!

Bring out the plaster of paris!