1910 Velie

the above is the first time I've come across a "Rushmore Dynamo Works Automatic Shaking Grate Generator" which must be a Oxygen Acetylene maker... though I have yet to see anyone ever demonstrate the way that car owners with the gas lights would make them operate. I suppose that they must have had to occasionally add Calcium Carbonate to these generators, and water. Once underwater the Calcium Carbonate leaks out the Acytelene. So I've been told

It might seem like I live in the best car show are in the world, because of so many wonderful cars of all eras, like this large number of brass era autos... and the fact that this isn't the only Velie I've found here in San Diego, the other is a 1911 http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/08/1911-velie-at-lamesa.html

A 1911 Velie won this years great race from Tennesssee to Vermont

Read about it at http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/06/20/100-year-old-velie-wins-the-2011-great-race/

William Lamb Velie, the grandson of John Deere, started the Velie Carriage Company in 1902 in Moline, Illinois. By 1909, he switched to automobiles and incorporated the Velie Motor Vehicle Company. While the Velie used supplied engines in its first two model years, the company switched to its own four-cylinder engine in 1911, the same year a Velie driven by Howard Hall entered the inaugural Indianapolis 500. The company continued to build automobiles – including a six-cylinder and an eight-cylinder – through 1928.

for a gallery of another 1911 Velie (how can 2 of these be driving around, and on opposite coasts?) that I photographed in Aug 2009 http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/08/1911-velie-at-lamesa.html

For an idea of how much it costs to apply; just for the privilige of joining this race, an entrance fee of $125,500 must be forked over for a sponsored car, and $109,500 for a private car.

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/02/heres-story-about-great-race-and-how.html