Today in 1927, is when the last Model T rolled off the line! Total production run of 15,007,003! I have four '26-'27 coupes, how many have you saved?...: http://www.youtube.com/user/CarDataVideo/videos?query=model+t
Just my '26 Roadster.. ..and a 1917 Speedster.. Ford produced 15,007,033 cars between 1909 and 1927. Engine production continued until August 4th 1941 to a total of 170,000 until that time. Of those 15 million plus cars produced, it is estimated that 1 out of every 250 Model T's is still on the road today. That is about 55 to 60,000 Model T's....with thousands more waiting in barns, garages to join them.
That is a great video did anyone notice that the part about model Ts leaving the plant the first few all all right hand drive and turn left and the next batch are left hand drive and turn right and the same guys are just standing around for both. They are the same film clip just reversed! Oh well i thought it was funny.
Of all the old cars I've owned I had only one Model T Ford. Yet back in the mid sixties I got stuck with the nickname MODEL T. Guys in the factory began calling me Model T when we talked cars around the water cooler. It stuck when I became a trucker and spent many hours talking to others on the CB radio. Coincidently today is the eighteenth anniversary of my retirement from driving for the company who builds large yellow worms. Me and the ole Model T went out to pasture on this very date. When my kids got me an old computer and this weird thing called internet, they said my e-mail and user name should be Model T. As many of you know, others had many variations of Model T already. But I was lucky to keep trying till I got close to being MODEL T. The Model T I bought from another Model T Ford lover back in the mid sixties was a very early 1926 touring. It still had the larger non-demountable wood wheels and no cross bar for the headlights. This bar was a great help in keeping the front fenders and headlights from shaking and the fenders from splitting. Yet I chose this older style from his stash. My T came from Lincoln, Nebraska and never had antifreeze in the engine. Of course the water jacket in the block soon cracked. So the little touring car became a permanent statioary engine after cutting the lower part of one rear fender off to attach a belt. I still have the low mileage engine/****** with a patch on the hole. The 1926 T was somewhere in a Florida museum last I knew after trading for another project. If only cars were this simple to work on today.
I helped restore a 1918 truck at a shop I used to work at. It's still owned by the original family who bought it new.
I got a ride in a 1912 T Touring in the early 1960's, I was around 12-13 and that was the start of my interest in Model T's. I bought my first on my 16th birthday in 1966, a 1926 Tudor delivered for $220.00. it was rough and I replaced most of it to the point that it was a 1927 Touring car when I sold it. I did manage to buy that 1912 I got my first ride in in 1983 and it is in the garage as I type this. LOTS of T's have come and gone over the years, along with truck loads of parts. Still have the bill of sale for my Grandfathers 1923 Touring, the first car owned by a family member. About 3 years ago I was cleaning out stuff next door in my aunte's ba*****t and found the original key to the T, that is one very special item that will find its way into a car someday. Bob
i have been collecting parts to build a "t". i have most of the ch***is and a real cool open car/truck cowl with door hinges on both sides. i was told it was for a canadian c-cab.
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