{"id":3656,"date":"2012-12-31T12:02:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T18:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=3656"},"modified":"2012-12-31T12:02:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T18:02:34","slug":"the-doodlebug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/31\/the-doodlebug\/just-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doodlebug"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just bumped into this photo on Flickr while looking for something else… such a cool old truck!<\/p>\n

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The photo belongs to Flickr user Ned & Neva<\/a>; unfortunately there’s no clues as to where the truck was when the photo was snapped. The caption below the photo says it’s a “1929 Ford Ag Uitlity Vehicle”, and you can see hints of the Ford Model A cowl, door frame & dashboard, but the colors scream Ford 8N tractor<\/a>. From the Flickr pages, it looks like it was taken at an event held at the Michigan Flywheelers Museum<\/a> in Bangor, MI, which looks to be just down the road from Muskegon, one of our favorite vacation spots! Next time we’re in the area… <\/p>\n

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I’ve heard the term “doodlebug” many times before, and according to Wikipedia, it can refer to a lot of different things<\/a>, but in this case<\/a> a doodlebug is “a home-made tractor made in the United States during World War II when production tractors were in short supply. The Doodlebug of the 1940s was usually based on a 1920s or 1930s era Ford automobile which was then modified either by the complete removal or alteration of some of the vehicle body.”<\/em> That description seems to fit this little gem perfectly.<\/p>\n

What I was looking for was a higher resolution image of a sign like this…<\/p>\n

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I don’t recall ever seeing that as an ad or a sign before, but I think I can hear Dad saying something like it! I might have to make something like that to hang on my shed, or in the garage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just bumped into this photo on Flickr while looking for something else… such a cool old truck! The photo belongs to Flickr user Ned & Neva; unfortunately there’s no clues as to where the truck was when the photo was snapped. The caption below the photo says it’s a “1929 Ford Ag Uitlity Vehicle”, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[433,434,435,436],"class_list":["post-3656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-just-stuff","tag-8n","tag-doodlebug","tag-ford","tag-tractor"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}