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Tangled T: 1924
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:18pm.
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Exhibit B in the Case of the Battered Buick is this twisted Model T. The second in a series of 1924 photos captioned "Max Wiehle." Max, son of the founder of the long-defunct Fairfax County, Va., hamlet of Wiehle Station, was a Washington, D.C., businessman who owned Potomac Sales, a car dealership. View full size.
Modern Vernacular
Submitted by Jeb70 on Sat, 08/13/2011 - 12:09am.
In todays parlance I believe one may say that this car has "Cr-pped the bed".
Re: "Maryland Drivers."
Submitted by Walter on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 4:21pm.
I am from the Old Line State and I take offense. I gotta make this short. I'm texting from my car and there's an officer behind me.
Maybe add a sofa
Submitted by Yaboo on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 3:03pm.
I wonder if young Max kept defunct refrigerators in his yard too.
Wiehle Station
Submitted by Dale Neiburg on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 2:27pm.
Wiehle Station probably was very near the modern intersection of Wiehle Road and the W&OD Trail. It was located convenient to the rail line, and was subsumed into modern Reston. I suspect that that's the family's summer home (nucleus of the community) in the background.
[The location of this photo has nothing to do with good ol' Wiehle Station. This is most likely the District of Columbia or Maryland. - Dave]
Wiehle Station
Submitted by Rute Boye on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 12:19pm.
Wiehle Station was located roughly where Sunset Hills in Reston, VA is located today. See the attached 1915 USGS map for the exact location.
The HOA's going to hear about this!
Submitted by Born40YearsTooLate on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 9:48am.
I'll bet the neighbors weren't happy about seeing wrecked cars parked on that vacant lot.
Buff it out
Submitted by switzarch on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 9:01am.
Now here we have a classic "fixer-upper"!
Maryland drivers
Submitted by timeandagainphoto on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 8:22am.
For those who don't live in the DC metro area, the joy of motoring amongst Maryland drivers has few parallels outside a dentist's chair. It's a mystery to those of us in Virginia, but the state of Maryland seems to require a mastery of ineptitude in its drivers.
Fender Bender
Submitted by MacKenzie Kavana... on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 6:39am.
My grandfather once told me,"When there were only two cars in the entire state of Kansas, they ran into each other."
Spicoli Says
Submitted by Kablemodem on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 12:06am.
My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.
The Original "Airbag"
Submitted by JTF1972 on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 10:29pm.
Steering wheel, meet chest.
Ouch!
Gee, he's from where I live now
Submitted by deemery on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 9:09pm.
I don't know exactly where Wiehle Station was, but we live very near the intersection of Wiehle Road and the old Washington & Old Dominion Rail Trail. Nothing in the photo looks particularly familiar, unfortunately.
[Wiehle Station was long gone when this picture was made. - Dave]
T, boned
Submitted by JohnHoward on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:45pm.
The Model T supposedly had a top speed of 40-45. I would say the car had to be pushing the limit when this occurred.
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