Life for me is becoming very busy lately.
What with holiday preparations, learning new computer skills, winterization of all those toys, massive overtime, etc, I've had little time for my postings.
However, I usually find time for a little humor, and that got me looking at humor pages. Well, as all you websurfers know, one thing leads to another and who's on first got me thinking it was time to write another automotive column for my friends at the old newsgroup.
The Abbott-Detroit motorcars were built in Detroit, first by the Abbott Motor Car Co from 1909-1915.
The Abbott-Detroit was a conventional car using Herschell-Spillman 8 cylinder and the famous Continental 4 and 6 cylinder engines.
In 1916 the Consolidated Car Co of Detroit took over the operation, which had grown to an output of 15-20 units per day.
Then in 1916 the Abbott Corp moved to Cleveland, and expanded operations. There, they began building a car simply known as the Abbott. Unfortunately the move to Ohio proved fatal for the young company and in April 1918, were declared bankrupt.
Now I could take cheap shots at our neighbors to the south, and make up any number of puns regarding the fate of Abbott. But I'd rather just read some of his best material again. And you can too, by going to the Ohio website, that is linked off the picture of the Abbott below.
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