Car - Garage - Popping a wheelie 1915 - Side by Side
by Mike Savad
Title
Car - Garage - Popping a wheelie 1915 - Side by Side
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Hand Colored Photo
Description
Hand colored photo from 1915
Original title: Unknown
Photographer: Unknown
Location: Under a car
When you hear grandpa saying, "well back in my day we had it harder", this is what he was talking about. Though I suppose Its not as bad as his father when he had to hold the car up himself. Now you may be asking, is what he's doing safe? No. No its not, not by today's standards, pretty sure a shop would be shut down if that was done.
Other than being smooshed, it seems like it should be pretty easy on your back to work under there. But if you were taller, I would imagine they would crush the rear bumper and spare, and if they had a trunk, would they always have the same angle?
There wasn't really much to go on with this picture. The year roughly identifies as 1915 or so, you can barely make out the word Buick on the back of the coveralls, so that IDs the car make. It seems they really did lift cars like this in the past, that was normal, despite the look on that other guy's face. Some shops had tracks all over the shop and they just moved the hoist where needed. How it didn't swing side to side is beyond me. Safety just wasn't that big in those days. That was invented after things like this fell on people.
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May 31st, 2024
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