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Waving the flag on Independence Day 2020

You know the 4th of July is a bit of a special day for the Americans. If they aren’t patriotic enough, they’ll fully compensate for the rest of the year on this specific day. Parades can be seen everywhere throughout the country as they have been seen there for centuries. With fully adorned motor cars and motorbikes which have been used for them since they came into existence. Just wonderful. And just as one of our favourite Randy Newman songs puts it so brilliantly: “Oh they look so nice – just like angels have come down from paradise. Oh mama, that’s the life for me – when I’m grown that’s what I’m wanna be” (click and listen to those lyrics).

Anyhow: it means there are plenty of photographs of parade vehicles about. But this whole flag-waving thing does not make it particularly easy to identify some of them. All we can say about the 10 pictures attached here is that they show cars that were made in the US – hey, there can be no misunderstandings about that. Who will be the first to recognize all of these 10 fully patriotically decorated cavalcade cars..?

Words by Jeroen Booij.

 

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sabato luglio 4th, 2020
Steve Diggins
04 Luglio 2020, 20:42
I just noticed in the upper right corner it says State Library of Queensland. So, the photo was taken in Australia and the car is a Canadian built RHD Model T. It is a nice photo of people celebrating what I think is Empire Day.
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David Liepelt
04 Luglio 2020, 15:15
I enjoy the puzzle. I can try 6 of them:
#2 - 1908 to 1910 Buick Model 10
#3 - circa 1922 REO?
#4 - 1914 or earlier Model T speedster
#5 - 1913 Ford Model T - windshield folds forward
#7 - 1914 Ford Model T - windshield folds rear
#8 - 1910-11 Oldsmobile Special or Autocrat
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Steve Diggins
04 Luglio 2020, 09:00
I do see lots of cars flying the stars and stripes, but there is one car which is not. It appears to be an early brass era right hand drive Ford Model T. The flags it has look to be the British flag with some sort of embellishment in the centre. Where did that come from?
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