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The guys on "American Pickers" were picking the barns of an old Vermont farmer who had extremely early farm equipment, buggies, wagons, and cars. They came across skis for Model T cars.

Evidently, in the winter months when the countryside was snowbound, the front tires of a Model T could be removed and replaced with modified skis fashioned out of caste-iron. The car-skis were popular for mail deliverers and doctors.

Now, I wonder if early Packards could be equipped with car-skis.

As always
Garrett Meadows

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Sure, most any car could be so-equipped. There are a number of vintage photos of Packards with skis, not so uncommon in Scandinavia and Russia with special after-market devices. I believe this photo is of one of Czar Nicholas' fleet of Packards; the caption says Twin Six but I think it may actually be a "48". This one also has a kind of half-track conversion kit.

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Yes, it is one of the cars of the Russian Czar or better, it was. The photo shows the moment of expropriation.

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It is a clip-on system "K?gresse", developed by the French engineer Adolphe K?gresse, who worked at court of Nicholas II. Later he went back to his home country and sold the Patent to Citro?n.

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