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Le feriez-vous?

Peut-être vous avez déjà vu des mèmes montrant la photo d'une cabane dans les bois, à l'air très romantique mais aussi si éloignée du monde trépidant, accompagnée du texte suivant: "Vous devez rester dans cette cabane pendant un mois. Vous avez tout ce dont vous avez besoin : nourriture, eau et bois de chauffage. Vous n'avez pas accès à l’ Internet, aux téléphones portables ou à la télévision. Le dernier jour, vous repartez avec 100 000 dollars”. Le feriez-vous? Eh bien, nous le ferions ! Et nous pensons qu'il n'y a pas beaucoup d'entre vous ici qui ne le feraient pas non plus. 

Le fait est qu'il y a un siècle, la vie n'évoluait pas aussi rapidement qu'aujourd'hui, ce qui, bien que la vie ait dû être plus dure, fait que certains d'entre nous ont la nostalgie de ces jours d'antan. Cette magnifique photographie d'un chercheur d'or "fouillant la terre dans sa cabane dans les années 1910" dégage ce même esprit nostalgique. Que faut-il d'autre que de la nourriture, de l'eau et de la chaleur ? Cela nous a fait penser à la magnifique Miner's Song du regretté Bill Staines :

"Les temps étaient durs dans les mines à ciel ouvert, 1800 pieds sous terre".
"Un jour tu gagnais deux dollars et le lendemain tu étais en pleine gloire".

 

Attends, à part le strict nécessaire, une voiture peut être utile aussi. C'est ce à quoi notre mineur semble avoir accès. Nous n'avons pas pu distinguer le véhicule. On dirait que les ailes ont été enlevées, sûrement pour pouvoir arriver là en premier lieu par des sentiers forestiers et des chemins rocheux ? Mais même avec ses ailes, ce serait toujours un véhicule très étroit. Quelque chosed’autre? Il pourrait même s'agir d'un véhicule composé de plusieurs parties, n'appartenant pas nécessairement les unes aux autres ? Comme toujours, nous aimerions avoir de vos nouvelles.

 

(Texte Jeroen Booij, photo The Alaska Life)

 

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mardi novembre 22nd, 2022
William Lee Kohler
25 Novembre 2022, 12:22
Not a Dodge Brothers. Their radiator shell was almost square with sides straight up and down, not slanted. Curious what country this picture is from?

Emblem is on the radiator shell but needs better resolution and magnified. Front axles angularity and hub caps might also tell. Not positive is not a Dodge Brothers.
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R Walton
25 Novembre 2022, 01:27
I think he is washing up his breakfast cup and dish before heading off to his favourite spot for an other day of panning and day dreaming about buying a new Caddy and palace in California on the beach..............if only.
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Steve Diggins
23 Novembre 2022, 00:46
I think this could be an early Nash and yes, it has been modified. It looks like the engine has been raised in order to give more ground clearance for the flywheel bellhousing. This would have been the main snag point for off road driving. With the body also raised it makes fording rivers more possible. It looks to be quite well thought out for the job.
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David Scott
22 Novembre 2022, 14:36
Saying people wouldn't choose all this crap is ignoring the power of corporate advertising, including the subliminal advertising on television that they told us was banned, whereas in fact it was only ever a "code of conduct", and we know how that gets ignored? And now the entire economies of the West are utterly dependent on people consuming crap they don't really need, can't afford and that they put themselves into debt to acquire, wars and bottomless debt, by plundering the world's resources. And people still buy this "constant growth" mantra!
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Joop Terpstra
22 Novembre 2022, 09:24
Nowadays all the stuff that we own and buy like the latest model Iphone and all the electric gadgets that you can think of doesn't make us more happy. Maybe that old lifestyle from 100 years ago was better with less polution and thinkering on the car yourself was the norm... instead of bringing your car to the dealer in 2022, who presents you with a shocking high bill for almost no work done..?
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Michael Schlenger
22 Novembre 2022, 10:01
What makes people happy or not should be left to them to decide for themselves. If the lifestyle from 100 years ago would have been preferable, people wouldn't have had a reason to innovate and make their lives more comfortable. While we all love the automobiles from that period, probably most of us wouldn't like to live like average people back then - just think of a visit to the dentist. And remember: most people (outside the U.S.) couldn't afford a car at all, while the pollution of air and water in densely populated areas was much more severe than it has been in developed countries since the 1980s. You can no longer kill yourself with the exhaust fumes from your car and most people don't even know what unburnt petrol smells like. There is absolutely no reason to problematise modern cars from the point of view of pollution and to wish back to the outrageous poverty of the general population before the Second World War.
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Joop Terpstra
25 Novembre 2022, 10:39
Quote: '' You can no longer kill yourself with the exhaust fumes from your car" Really? I'm sorry but I don't agree Michael. And electric cars have their own problems when it comes to pollution but that is another subject ;-) Enjoy your weekend.
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David Liepelt
22 Novembre 2022, 04:36
Body and radiator look like maybe Dodge Brothers, but chassis narrowed up to run on the local trails.
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David Burnett
22 Novembre 2022, 02:38
The car is a Dodge Bros.
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Rick
22 Novembre 2022, 01:50
Dodge-ish? Early 20s? Photo looks 'staged' - if 'panning' for gold wouldn't you be at a stream, with flowing water, and a lot of sand to search through?
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