You know it's summer in Vermont when the motorcycles start ripping by
the Hemmings offices on their way to Lake George or Rhinebeck or
Laconia or simply out for a ride. Looking through the photos of the Landscape Change Program at the University of Vermont, we see some things haven't changed in 80-plus years.
We were intrigued by a couple batches of photos we recently came
across in the program's photo database, both appearing to depict road
trips, and both with minimal information regarding the locations and
dates of the photos or the people in them. One road trip seems to have
been taken in the wintertime in a Ford Model T coupe, while the other
took place in a warmer season astride a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. The
more we looked at the photos, however, the more the two stories seemed
to converge.
First, we confirmed that these weren't just a bunch of random photos
of different cars. After all, Model Ts were ubiquitous at the time;
Harleys maybe not ubiquitous, but certainly not uncommon. Indeed, many
of the details of the Model T – the canvas cover over the radiator, the
placement and illegibility of the license plates, the chains, the
condition of the car and the lack of any external aftermarket items –
suggest that it is the same car. The Harley, which we believe to be a
pre-1927 model, carries two license plates: 8 early on, then 319 later.
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