{"id":495,"date":"2015-07-02T19:28:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T00:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2015-07-02T19:28:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T00:28:01","slug":"the-old-lind-family-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"THE OLD LIND FAMILY CAR"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article was written by my son, Charles Standifer, in 1979, when he was a junior student at Georgetown High School.\u00a0 Under the guidance of his history teacher, Ms. Marietta Mugford, he entered it in a contest sponsored by the Williamson County Historical Commission. He placed second.\u00a0 He still has the car.<\/p>\n

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Lind Family Car in a parade, date unknown
Ann Lind sent photo to Charles Standifer in 2002<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The old Lind family car is a 1923 Ford touring car.\u00a0 The car was one of 239,189\u00a0 cars built in November of 1922 in Henry Ford\u2019s plant in Detroit, Michigan.\u00a0 It featured the new one-man top, a standard 9 gallon fuel tank, 20 horsepower motor, and optional electric starter.\u00a0 The car was purchased for $350 at Georgetown Motor Company by Carl Lind of Georgetown in early 1923.<\/p>\n

Carl Lind was a well-known blacksmith in Georgetown.\u00a0 He had one son, Chester Lind, who opened a garage in the same building with the blacksmith shop in 1944.\u00a0 The C.C. Lind garage was located southwest of the square in Georgetown on Rock Street.<\/p>\n

When the car was delivered to Carl Lind, he did not know how to drive.\u00a0 A close friend, Morris Johnson of Round Rock, took the family for their first ride in the car and probably taught Mr. Lind how to drive it.\u00a0 Mrs. Lind never learned to drive, but in later years the car was driven by Chester Lind and his wife.\u00a0 It was the only car that Carl Lind ever owned.<\/p>\n

After Carl Lind bought the car, he built a shed at the blacksmith shop and a garage at his home so it wouldn\u2019t set out in the weather.\u00a0 He even drove it into the garage when he was home during lunch every day.<\/p>\n

The Linds drove the car as far away as Brady and Corpus Christi.\u00a0 They always went to the Swedish Old Settlers Reunion in Round Rock in those days.\u00a0 However, most of the car\u2019s trips were in Williamson County.\u00a0 Blenda Lind remembers she and Chester Lind \u201ccourting\u201d in the car.\u00a0 They went to places like Taylor, Burnet or Liberty Hill in the car.\u00a0 Sometimes they drove it with the top down.\u00a0 The car took the family on shopping trips, to parties, and to the lakes on fishing trips.\u00a0 Mrs. Lind remembers making many trips to Austin to Walter Tipps\u2019 to get horseshoes. \u00a0She would make the trip with her father-in-law so that he wouldn\u2019t have to go alone and to help him with the driving.<\/p>\n

Blenda Lind recalls Carl always washing the car and taking very good care of it.\u00a0 She said, \u201cHe would probably walk before he would get the car muddy.\u201d\u00a0 He had the car reupholstered and repainted.\u00a0 He took pride in the car.<\/p>\n

The car was on display at the Ford dealership in Burnet sometime in the 1940\u2019s.\u00a0 It has been in several rodeo parades.<\/p>\n

In 1952 Carl Lind died, and the car was set up on blocks in the garage at the Lind home.\u00a0 It stayed there until after Chester Lind\u2019s death in 1972.\u00a0 Then Mrs. Lind had the men at the Lind garage clean and tune it up. *<\/p>\n

On July 26, 1974, Mrs. Lind sold the car to David E. Sandefur.\u00a0 The side curtains could not be found.\u00a0 However, with the original tires on it and the original wiring, Mr. Sandefur started the car and drove it from the Lind home on Austin Avenue to his home in northwest Georgetown.\u00a0 He put new tires on it and painted the wheels, and rewired it.<\/p>\n

On December 7, 1978, Mr. Sandefur sold the car to F.K. Standifer, my father.\u00a0 Actually, I bought the car, but it cannot be registered in my name until I am eighteen years old.<\/p>\n

Old cars are not as easy to drive as most people think.\u00a0 The car has three levers in the floor.\u00a0 They are the forward lever, the reverse lever, and the brake lever.\u00a0 The forward lever has two gears and neutral.\u00a0 On the steering column there is a throttle lever and a spark lever.\u00a0 There is a battery operated electric starter.\u00a0 I usually use the hand crank on the front of the car for the challenge of it.<\/p>\n

With the help of the original owner\u2019s manual which the Linds had kept, I keep the car in good running condition.\u00a0 I have cleaned the carburetor and adjusted it so that it starts and runs better.\u00a0 I have also readjusted the transmission bands.<\/p>\n

I hope to always keep the car because I believe it will increase in value.\u00a0 I plan to keep it in original condition and someday restore it to show room condition.<\/p>\n

Now the car is setting in the garage waiting for the Williamson County Sherriff\u2019s Posse Rodeo parade.<\/p>\n

*Family information given by Blenda Lind, widow of Chester Lind, of Georgetown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article was written by my son, Charles Standifer, in 1979, when he was a junior student at Georgetown High School.  Under the guidance of his history teacher, Ms. Marietta Mugford, he entered it in a contest sponsored by the Williamson County Historical Commission. He placed second.  He still has the car. 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