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Math Problems
\nBy Edward Lenahan
\n\"\"<\/a>\u201cThe most exciting thing about piloting an old vehicle,\u201d I said to my wife Marguerite, \u201cis the nagging sense it\u2019s going to kill you.\u201d\u00a0 We had just experienced our own brand of excitement, barely stopping our old tandem bike before a busy intersection, and this comment wasn\u2019t so much a casual observation on my part as it was a way of making our near-death seem innocuous and charming.
\nTo her credit, Marguerite shrugged the whole thing off as if this were normal for her, which, since finalizing a poor choice of men, it is.
\nAnyways, this particular morning being Sunday and there being considerable amounts of time to drink small oceans of coffee, read auction catalogs, and ponder life\u2019s great philosophical questions from the soft confines of the couch, I concluded for the thousandth time that I don\u2019t like math.\u00a0 Particularly when applied to bicycles and vintage cars.
\nAmong the growing assortment of bicycles gathering in what used to be our usable laundry room, for example, sit two sensible ten speeds.\u00a0 They stop, accelerate and change direction with remarkable ease.\u00a0 The shifters snick smoothly up and down through the gears.\u00a0 They\u2019re lightweight, comfortable and safe.\u00a0 Yet in almost every instance, they\u2019re left at home.
\nThe Schwinn Twinn tandem we ride instead is like the bow-tie-wearing neighbor who cleans his garage with gasoline; visually interesting and dangerous in a \u2018this-can-only-end-well\u2019 sort of way.\u00a0 So, while it\u2019s baby blue paint and chrome fenders are charming, its frame is excruciatingly heavy, its seats uncomfortable, and its shifter vague.\u00a0 Also, its drum brakes emit a rising howl alarmingly like the approach of an emergency vehicle.\u00a0 A kind of mechanical foreshadowing, this seems.
\nOn paper, of course, the road bikes are the clear choice.\u00a0 But in the real world the Twinn garners the kind of shrieking joy a child might display upon discovering the monster in his or her closet is actually Yo Gabba Gabba.\u00a0 Dangerous it isn\u2019t.\u00a0 Just unabashedly and relentlessly fun.
\nBut back to math.
\nToo often it seems, vehicles are evaluated using only rational measures like horsepower, weight, top speed, acceleration, lap times and race results; things that can be quantified or otherwise expressed with numbers.\u00a0 Vehicles that produce particularly good numbers, or do so in interesting or unique ways, tend to be the ones that command the highest prices.
\nSo when something like a pair of fast road bikes comes up for sale, significant money changes hands and a laundry room becomes less useful.\u00a0 Emotionally appealing vehicles like the Twinn languish on craigslist until late-night lowball offers are accepted with shocking speed.
\nAs best one can tell perusing catalogs on the couch, this same logic plays a strong role in the world of collector cars as well.
\nThe 2011 RM Auctions London sale<\/a> offered scores of cars possessing speed, racing history and beauty.\u00a0 These are the same cars whose values resemble international telephone numbers and for which one might google the current selling price of human organs ($116,400 for a lung and $91,400 for a kidney, in case you were wondering).
\n\"\"<\/a>By the way, remember that time you swore you\u2019d kill for a 1958 Ferrari 250 GT Long Wheelbase Tour de France?\u00a0 Turns out you\u2019re still 19 lungs and 13 kidneys short of the sale price… before commission.
\nIn any case, the good thing about all of this isn\u2019t that 1950s sports cars remain the sole domain of those with expendable dollars or vital organs.\u00a0 The real news is that some of the most emotionally appealing cars are selling for relatively cheap prices.
\nThese brass era cars trade logic for charm and are named, it can be assumed, because they were made at the tail end of the bronze age when mankind made the great shift from hunting animals with sharpened stone to felling small trees with brass-adorned motor carriages.\u00a0 By modern standards brass cars are slow, complex, and bizarre.
\nThey\u2019re also unreasonably fun.
\nSo, as a service to those among us who prefer their vehicles short on performance numbers and long on smiles, here are three examples of brass era bargains found at the 2011 RM Auctions London sale:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>1899 Marlboro Steam Stanhope
\nEngine Type: 2-cylinder, Steam
\nEngine Output: 5 hp
\nTop Speed: 30mph
\nHammer Price: $43,107
\nThose math minded among us might note that with its 5 horsepower, two-cylinder steam engine the Stanhope has 25% more power and 100% more cylinders than its nearest competitor on the list. \u00a0But anyone who\u2019s had the pleasure of riding in a steam-powered car and listening with wonder to the \u2018chuff\u2019 of the engine simply won\u2019t care.\u00a0 This little steamer drips with charm, from its minimal bodywork to its small white tires and couch-like, two-person seating arrangement.\u00a0 As an added bonus, the Stanhope\u2019s tiller steering allows driver and passenger to trade roles without trading seats.<\/p>\n

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1904 Waltham Orient Buckboard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1904 Waltham Orient Buckboard
\nEngine Type: 1 cylinder, gasoline
\nEngine Output: 4 horsepower
\nHammer Price: $27,840
\nThe Waltham Orient Buckboard is the kind of object for which sight was invented.\u00a0 Beautiful golden wood forms the car\u2019s fenders and intentionally flexible frame (the source of its name and, one would imagine, considerable excitement), green leather cushions the seat, and red paint and polished surfaces grace almost all metal on the car.\u00a0 So pretty is this car, in fact, that it\u2019s hard not to immediately see oneself driving the Buckboard on a nice autumn afternoon with good company, warm apple cider and a wool blanket.\u00a0 We\u2019ve all seen falling leaves through the window of a moving car.\u00a0 Just imagine smelling and feeling them too.<\/p>\n

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1902 Rambler Model C Runabout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1902 Rambler Model C Runabout
\nEngine Type: 1 cylinder
\nEngine Output: 4 horsepower
\nHammer Price: $161,653
\nIt\u2019s almost impossible not to admire the Rambler, with its tufted black leather seats, painted wooden wheels, and array of brass switchgear. \u00a0Or for that matter, its paperwork, which reads like graduate thesis on Rambler mechanics, engineering and history.\u00a0 Its body and mudguards bear lovely black and red paint and display a fine patina earned through decades of careful ownership.\u00a0 Perhaps most importantly, the Rambler affords its new owner the opportunity to participate in the world\u2019s finest brass era events\u2014like the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run<\/a>\u2014at a relatively inexpensive entry price.
\nThese cars just can\u2019t be quantified using numbers. Then again, neither can the chill of an approaching rain, the smell of the passing countryside or the anticipation of steaming boiler.\u00a0 The measure of value is entirely different.
\nJust don\u2019t tell anyone.
\nSo long as performance numbers remain the measure of a vehicle\u2019s worth, brass era cars, like tandem bicycles, are likely to remain accessible for many of the people smart (or, in some cases, impulsive) enough to know a good time when they see it.
\nMaybe math isn\u2019t so bad after all.
\n—
\n[Source: Ed Lenahan; photo credit: Tim Scott \/ Fluid Images; RM Auctions]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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