In a story from the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner:
One of the most important cars in Alaska history, built out of odds and ends, is set to roll across town Tuesday afternoon in a heated van.
Bobby Sheldon’s handmade 1905 car is to be transported to the Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum, where it will be on loan for the next five years. Sheldon built the car in Skagway, using magazine drawings, as he had never seen a car. He used a two-cycle boat engine and other parts that he scavenged.
Read the rest here. This is from a time when Americans still believed in hard work, ingenuity, and standing on their own ... no government bailouts or loans. If you wanted something, you did it yourself.
It's what being an American used to mean.
2 comments:
LOL - that's very cool. I love it. I would never have thought of doing something like that. Takes a special person to build something they've never seen in person. Just as it takes someone special to invent it.
Ooh! I think I remember reading about that thing when I first came up here - didn't he use it for ferrying folks back and forth along what passed for roads at the time?
Guy had some hutzpah.. the to-and-from settlements up here ain't something to laugh at today.
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