I had all four of my Festivas lined up in the driveway to take a picture for my new avatar earlier this week.
A fellow who lives in my neighborhood, that I have never met stopped and asked if I was setting up a used car lot for Festivas.
Of course I was happy to tell him all about my Festivas. Turned out he owns a motorcycle shop on Folly Road and is
in the process of rebuilding an old 30 something flat head ford at his shop... said he is just getting started and has a long
way to go...so I should stop by and take a look at it. I remember when I was about 6 or 7 we had a 30 something Ford
that the body was removed from the steering wheel back and a flat wood platform was mounted. That was our "peach flat"
We used in the orchard to haul peaches out of the field amount other things.
I was doing a google search to see if I could find a picture of what one looked like and came across this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/inmanignites/
The 26th picture down is similar to what I'm talking about, but ours was a later model and didn't have seats. You just
sat on a cushion on the wooden floor to drive.
This town with the car show (Inman, SC) was the closest to our farm (about 7 miles away) and was where I went to high school.
A fellow who lives in my neighborhood, that I have never met stopped and asked if I was setting up a used car lot for Festivas.
Of course I was happy to tell him all about my Festivas. Turned out he owns a motorcycle shop on Folly Road and is
in the process of rebuilding an old 30 something flat head ford at his shop... said he is just getting started and has a long
way to go...so I should stop by and take a look at it. I remember when I was about 6 or 7 we had a 30 something Ford
that the body was removed from the steering wheel back and a flat wood platform was mounted. That was our "peach flat"
We used in the orchard to haul peaches out of the field amount other things.
I was doing a google search to see if I could find a picture of what one looked like and came across this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/inmanignites/
The 26th picture down is similar to what I'm talking about, but ours was a later model and didn't have seats. You just
sat on a cushion on the wooden floor to drive.
This town with the car show (Inman, SC) was the closest to our farm (about 7 miles away) and was where I went to high school.
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