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October 8, 2013

Thinking about Ancestors and Their Cars

A few days ago hubs and I purchased a new vehicle. Wanting to show it to friends and family we took photos and posted them on Facebook. That got me thinking this morning about my ancestors and their cars. Did they take as much (or more) delight in their new vehicles as we do?

Hubs and I chatted, trying to recall any photos we had of family or ancestors with their cars. After a half hour or more of hunting through folders on our two computers, we came up with the photos you see below. They start with hubs' great grandmother (in the hat) in her carriage going to town.

And they end with me in front of our new vehicle. It's fun to see the changes in cars and it makes me wish I'd taken more photos of all the cars I've owned in my lifetime and that my ancestors had done the same! My mom often talked about riding in the rumble seat of her dad's Model T. What I wouldn't give to have a picture of that.....

What photos do you have of ancestors and their cars?


Thinking about Ancestors and Their Cars
Very early pre-car days!
Thinking about Ancestors and Their Cars
circa 1920s
Hubs' grandparents drove off on their honeymoon in this car

My mother and grandfather (far right) circa mid 1930s

1930s. Hubs' grandfather is on the right holding the horse
Hubs' grandparents late 1930s


Car Pride 1950s

More car pride 1950s

A Young teenager (me) circa 1961/1962
I'm shovelling snow from my 1977 Pontiac Acadian

and now...