Chevy Vehicle Overview Images

Sadly this out of focus image of the front end is the best view of the car. As you can see it is very overgrown with sagebrush.

 

Taken a couple of steps to the right, this is the vehicle in its entirety. 

Back panel for the cab.

The back end is a giant sagebrush plant, but you can see the wooden components as well as the tail light in this image.

Harris Ranch 1930 Chevy car parts - Update

Several people asked for more specific photographs of the engine and parts. Any help identifying what the parts are, and when they were manufactured would be of the very appreciated. Please note the car is set up for an American driver.

Engine number reads "88501 // A 8 0 // Chevy Emblem 1". Thanks to Filling Station I was able to identify the engine as built in 1929 or 1930. 

 When you add in the information from the water outlet, able to determine the Chevy is from 1930.

  Passenger side of the engine. Also shows the colour striping.

What ever finally killed the engine it was an internal problem. - Still don't know what caused this damage. Thanks to an unknown commentor there does appear to be a intentional knife cut in the extreme left. Perhaps in hopes of preventing the damage?

Distributor reads: “ANDERSON / Ind// Delco – Remy // Model / 633G// Serial / 480814// AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT”

- Update: Thanks to the power of Google, the cap dates to 1931. 

Starter? Plate reads: 

 “ANDERSON / Ind// Delco – Remy // Model / 7141// Serial / 498795// AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT”

Update - Still working on a way to date the fuel pump. The model number reads "855261".

 Not part of the engine but another unknown. Someone suggested the window mechanism?
Update - Thanks again to an unknown commenter they identified it as a window regulator.  

Thanks to all who have offered help!

Harris Ranch 1928 Chevy Instrument Panel

I was intimidatingly stumped at how to write up the Feature #6 at Harris Ranch: the very overgrown "car" as I know next to nothing about automobiles. Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions on the Historical Archaeology list serve this past week, I will respond back shortly.

The interior toward the instrument panel:

An alternative view:

One of the suggestions gives was to find the old Chevy manuals. From that suggestion, I have narrowed it down to pre-1930s and possibly the 1928 model. Compare the 1932 instrument panel to the 1928.

1932

1928

The car does not have an accelerator pedal, but a button.

Photo Contest Winner - The Table in the Trees

 

This is the area where we meet in the morning for breakfast and our evening meals after we have been working on a project. I photographed this area because I associate it with the peaceful and fun parts of the day. I also think this image portrays that.

J

Chris Warburton

31 May 2013

CHAT Poster

What a weekend! CHAT was amazing... really. How often do you hear those words after an event?

Here is the Storify board of the different tweets generated.

I signed up for Twitter... if you know me you know just how ridiculous that sounds! I did it though. As you may recall, I 'presented' a poster at the event. As there was not a designated posters session, they would only be up for people to view throughout the conference, I needed a way for some kind of interaction. I thought by adding a Twitter hashtag (#Belonging), I might get some kind of response.

Well .... none yet .... via Twitter anyway.

As I promised:

Anxiety Before CHAT

Currently, I am gearing up for the upcoming CHAT conference London at UCL. I will be taking a poster aimed at showing how belonging has been situated in other fields of research, to get people to think about how to situate the theory of belonging into an archaeological context. Unfortunately,  though there is very little room for interaction as the posters will only hang in the common area, but authors will not be given a chance to present the information, so there is little room for interpersonal interaction. I am not quite done hashing out the finer details, so I will wait until after the conference.

Something to look forward to...

A 7-UP Bottle Mystery - SOLVED

This morning I worked to try and find a specific date for the following 7-UP bottle.


7-UP Bottle

 Fortunetly, there has been some good work done to chronical the earlier bottle varieties for the brand. This particular example seems to be quite modern...

WOW.

Even as I was writing and trying to find the updated bottle makers website, the site led me to a seperate page about Anchor Hocking. The page then linked to an outside souce for reading the botttle bases of bottles from the 1960s and 70s.

Orignially from Dick Cole (fruitjar.org).

Until this point I had suspected the soda bottle was from 1976, but with the handy identification guide I now know that the bottle IS dated to 1976 from the Los Angeles Plant.