Art & Inspiration Tether Car TEASER PHOTOS!!! Amazing COLLECTION! Including the OLDEST TETHER CAR

I spent the other morning shooting a private tether car collection (undoubtedly the world's largest) that is about to get packed up and sent to the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. Supposedly they will be creating an entire special area just for it and possibly even be running cars! Could be amazing!

This is just a teaser of what I shot for an upcoming story in the Gazette. The collection consists of HUNDREDS of the rarest of the rare cars, original molds and vintage trophies.




Technically a "rail" car.






The oldest known tether car. The wheels are jar lids!

 

Killer Man!........Nice toys!

 

Wow!

 

damn

 

Killer stuff Kirk! I love spindizzies but they are waay out of my price range. Thanks for sharing your photos.

 

If I had some of those I would HAVE to play with them.

 

Oh hell, Now I've gotta start collecting something else. My wife is gonna kill me.

So cool!

 

KIRK! -

Cool stuff!

Eric Zausner's tether car collection is amazing! (and his MOAL-built Hot Rods aren't too shabby either!)

How long will this "SPINDIZZIES" exhibit be at the Henry Ford Museum?

Here's some more of Eric's "HAMB-friendly" tether cars:

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permanent exhibit. He is donating it to them.

 

I have never seen this collection. I did get to see several of them(not from this collection) run at a GG event in Puyallup a few years back. I had one when I was a kid many years ago. They are crazy fast. I wish I knew then what I do now, I would have some killer shit. Thanks for sharing them with us.
Later,
Dick

 

Thanks for the pic's, amazing detail.

 

Thanks for the post Kirk really enjoyed the cars, I see you have mastered Asian art with your way cool print ID....................

 

My Dad used to have a belly tanker style and a midget style car from back in the day, as well as a spare engine, the post the wire was mounted to and some of the teather wire and a few other odds and ends. I don't know if he still has them or if they have managed to "vanish", courtesy of his wife.

 

VERY cool......thanks Kirk....

 

Those are amazing Kirk, thank you very much for the post.

 

Yes thank you. I found TRJ article amazing enough to order the book. Very cool stuff.

 

Beautiful. I am going to HFM in the fall, hopefully they will be on display.

Nice.

 

As Mr Sulu likes to say: "Oh, My."

 

Dang, those are rad.

 

This one really floats me boat!
Once again, Dr. Jones, GREAT photo's..................your website is not too shabby, either!

 

Thanks guys!

 

WOW thanks for sharing. Those aren't toys just miniature cars . I really like the 4 banger.

 

really nice stuff and great history there....thanks for posting....

 

Amazing!
I'd be happy just to own one "real" tether car
Thanks for sharing the pictures.

 

Yeah, but most cost as much or more than a real car.

 

Pretty damn cool!

Thanks.

 

Bump

 

Amazing, thanks for posting this.

 

Damn! Thanks for sharing Kirk. The speeds these achive is equally amazing as to how well they are built and detailed.

 

Truely amazing detail!!!!!