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What general era was your vehichle made:

  • 30s or earlier

    Votes: 38 15.8%
  • 40s

    Votes: 26 10.8%
  • 50s

    Votes: 39 16.2%
  • 60s

    Votes: 52 21.6%
  • 70s-90s

    Votes: 64 26.6%
  • New with classic features

    Votes: 47 19.5%

  • Total voters
    241

Vintage lover

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A REAL Bonneville requires you to kick it and go. :p

My dear sir, I quite disagree. While I would love to have a kick start, I push start her Isle of Mann TT style when I want to flex my muscles and show the superiority of my skill and manliness!

[video=youtube;OZJUo-tJKlE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZJUo-tJKlE[/video]
 

LizzieMaine

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Back from a Memorial Day road trip.

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My dear sir, I quite disagree. While I would love to have a kick start, I push start her Isle of Mann TT style when I want to flex my muscles and show the superiority of my skill and manliness!

[video=youtube;OZJUo-tJKlE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZJUo-tJKlE[/video]

Push it and pop the clutch in gear. Sounds good to me. Better than that lazy push button thing. :p
 

LizzieMaine

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Cool car Lizzie, is that a gas ration letter on the windshield?

That is indeed, revision of October 1942. Above it is a Maine State Inspection sticker for Spring 1943.

The two stickers below the ration sticker are Federal Auto Use Tax stamps, the bottom one expiring June 30, 1943 and the top one expiring June 30, 1944. Every car owner had to pay a $5 annual Federal tax in order to operate that motor vehicle on any public way -- a war tax that continued until 1946. These stamps had to be plainly visible on the windshield of the car, with engine number and other information filled in on the back.

You can't really see it in the pic, but in the top corner of that windshield pane there's a Maine 1943 registration sticker, validating the use of 1942 license plates for the following year. I'd like to have an actual 1942 plate on the car to go with it, but we're only allowed to use year-of-manufacture plates here.
 

Vintage lover

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Wow Lizzie, that is really impressive. I didn't know there were so many stickers and stamps required on cars back then. I enjoyed the lesson. It is inspiring to see somebody who owns a car like yours pay so much attention to the details.
 

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