That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 29, 2021

Where the idea of a hood ornament originated.

Certainly beats riding side-saddle.

Sure, Rocky was a good navigator, until a squirrel crossed the road.

“Father would only let me drive the horseless carriage if I had a male escort with me. Bruno is the smartest male I know, and he doesn’t try to tell me what to do. There’s undoubtedly a correlation there.”

The original hood ornament…plus with Fido along we always have a “roof”

still for outtake from around the world in 80 days (the original, not the remake)…

Sis: “So what! You should see what he did to my leg ten minutes ago.”

“He protects the car from being stolen, but as hood ornaments go, he’s kind of big.”

“Him? Oh, he’s my guide dog”.

“Thelma and Louise pick up Spike, who has no idea what’s about to happen.”

Women driving cars….the next thing you know they’ll want to vote…..and then….and then they’ll want to prohibit alcohol consumption! This is exactly where our society went wrong! We men should have made them stay on bicycles. (/s just in case someone takes me seriously)

We’re not out of the woods yet; this is a peugeot.

Hurry, we’re gonna be late for the RCA Nipper look-a-like contest.

It was all fun and games till a deer ran out into the road. Sis hit the brakes, and Buster ended up all the way onto 3rd and Main, downtown.

Take a look at the date of the painting – this was painted in the early days of automobiles (Americans started making cars in 1893)

I feared I had slipped a few cogs../ two maidens, in motoring togs/ two robbers in flight ?/ Well, really not quite./ Turns out they’re delivering dogs.

I guess it has a tiller instead of a steering wheel.

Running late for the Victrola modeling shoot.

Doing great ! One hand on the horn, the other on the stick shift.

Inside the dogs brain: “8 more hours in this thing with these two sisters who won’t shut up, where is a train for me to jump in front of..”

And away we go!

On the way to the Victrola audition.

Back in those days a dog really had it good – didn’t have to strain their necks out the side window of a car with tongues lolling out and eyes bugling like demented idiots. I mean, just look at that pup! He’s in canine Heaven.

The intrepid Smythe-Barrett girls, Sis and Jane, with their dog Bravo, in their 1901 Mercedes out for an afternoon of terrorizing the peasants.

You need glasses so you bought a seeing eye dog?

BEATRICE: “Why do the men call this steering device a Joystick?”

MILDRED: “I simply can’t imagine, Bea. Reginald’s Joystick doesn’t steer him anywhere but I can use it to DRIVE him wild! HA! Get it Bea?”

BEATRICE: “No”

“Turn on the radio and search the dial for Sammy Hagar’s I Can’t Drive Five”

Oh, good. Poop jokes.

I’d use Rocky for my GPS but he only leads me to squirrels.

Must be hundreds of euphemisms for, well, poop. But this is a new one for me. I like it!

Bumper sticker : “No fat chicks !”

The Goldsmith Ladies in the Bois de Boulogne in 1897 on a Peugeot cart: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Julius_LeBlanc_Stewart_-_Les_Dames_Goldsmith_au_bois_de_Boulogne_en_1897_sur_une_voiturette.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/stewart_julius_l.html 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/julius-leblanc-stewart 

http://www.schwarzgallery.com/artist/121/Julius-Stewart 

https://prabook.com/web/julius.stewart/3742744 

https://www.pictorem.com/fr/profile/Julius.LeBlanc.Stewart 

https://www.askart.com/artist/Julius_LeBlanc_Stewart/22617/Julius_LeBlanc_Stewart.aspx 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 3 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2014/03/26?comments=visible 

has the prior, which while my comment is still there, with the line breaks removed, its 13 hyperlinks remain inactive, ?&@#!#%&!, but the text may be informative.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2631 (January 28, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

The first GPS.

“I bought this automobile so Fido could chase cats. He’s quite lazy.”

Faster! Faster! I can still breathe!

it’s a good thing the two blind ladies had the dog show them the way.

The Bois de Boulogne, scene of Inspector Clouseu’s undoing one evening. Alas! :>)

In the early days of cruisin’ the “main drag”, … you needed to know when to turn around.

Before reaching fame at RCA, Fido had a short gig as an early bug deflector