Two Edwardian ladies in enormous feathered hats sit imperiously in a stranded motorcar while three men scramble underneath and around it — one prostrate at the front axle, another cranking at the engine, a third pumping a tire — in this delightfully comic hand-tinted pre-linen card that captures the fraught, adventure-laden early days of automobile travel with gentle satirical wit, the rolling green hills and a distant red-roofed village completing a scene that could be the English Cotswolds or the Rhine valley. Published by the Philadelphia Post Card Co. (Serie 416), the card was mailed from Larabee (or Larrabee), Pennsylvania, postmarked around 1907–1909, and sent to a woman named Mrs. J. C. Cornell in Lopez, Pennsylvania — the writer noting something about a "dame" and a "letter," the handwriting tantalizingly half-legible. Early automobile-theme comic cards are a perennially popular collecting category, and this example's hand-tinting, European pastoral backdrop, and Edwardian costume detail make it an especially appealing specimen.