.Challengeher: Identifying cars in the wild is a special talent:
Do not tell people I'm an expert," says David Burge. "I'm just a reasonably okay amateur when it comes to identifying cars." Okay. Burge is not an expert, but he's awfully good at figuring out the make and model of an automobile from just the smallest corner of a bumper. "A '25 Hudson," he'll declare on a blurry snapshot showing an embossed curve of fender and a single open door.
Those "reasonably okay" car ID skills have made Burge a bit of a celebrity in a certain nerdy corner of the internet. Every weekend, ason Twitter, he takes on the task of naming the manufacturers and years of cars in photos submitted to him from all over the world.
This is what Burge's weekend Twitter threads do to me every Sunday: not just rabbit holes but full warrens. Paige sold luxury cars, including a sporty model that ran 102 mph on the Florida sands in 1921 and might be the first car to have "Daytona" in its model name—long before Ferrari, Studebaker, Dodge, or Shelby. Even older is the Locomobile, an early steamcar version of which was involved in an impromptu sprint between one of motoring's earliest female drivers, Eva Mudge, and a mounted police officer around 1901.
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