Our Grandfather’s Car
By Pete Vack
Photos by Jonathan Sharp from the London to Brighton Run.
Charly Seavey’s Brass Era Cars gallery persuaded us to pull out an appropriate book for review, a classic we’ve had for years, first published in 1943. The author, Bellamy Partridge, was born in 1877 and spent his childhood in Phelps, New York, just north of Geneva near Lake Seneca. Trained as a lawyer, Partridge turned to writing and by 1940, now in his sixties, wrote a series of books about life during the turn of the twentieth century. Excuse My Dust was one, chronicling the impact of the coming of the automobile on a small rural community.