I stumbled across an old T and just had to have it. Original '15 touring made into a pickup. It's been hidden in an old, small shed and covered with the tarp that's in the bed. The motor turns over, I should have it running pretty quick.
Oh wow. That's really neat just the way it is. I'd love to have a driveable mostly-stock Model T. Great score.
My Dad had a 17 T touring, all stock. In fact the original engine was in it when he got it, that old engine did start and run, after sitting many years. Although it was rebuilt and re-babbitted on the bearings. Those old T engines are not much to them, for that matter the body is mostly wood frame with sheetmetal exterior. Nice find you got there.
Can I ask what you had to pay for that? I don't mean to be nosy, but I'm curious. You don't have to say if you don't want to. It's really cool.
My 'stock' Model T will cruise with town traffic all day long. I was clocked and stopped for going 56 in a 35. I got off as the car didn't have a speedometer
Cool Find! Back in 1959 when I was a kid living in Artesia, Ca. I came across a 1915 T with a '50 Olds engine, trans, & rear could have had it for $15 bucks but there was no way my folks would let something like that in our yard! You know the old "You'll kill yourself"! I think about that car every now and then.
Cool find. You'll get used to the dogs that can keep up with you for over a mile and the little kids that run out to the side of the road and wave. At 35 mph you can look for beer cans in the ditch and scope out what's in everybody's back yard. I spent the money that I got for the sale of my '34 Pickup on a partially restored '26 roadster this past summer and the wife and I have been having a ball cruising the back roads out here in the country. Frank
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