Greetings from Long Branch,NJ,Americas first seashore resort and 7 time U.S. summer capital....Ford Motor company introduced the Model T the common mans car to the public on October 1,1908 (at $825...$260 by 1925) and temporarily halted sales in May 1909 after every car scheduled for production through July had been sold and as they say the rest is history....any T stories.... your favorite pics,stock .rod,custom, drag and or round track race car T's? Lee-overnight WRAT-FM
My Dad's stock 23...For me, every car I own and love started with ol number 999 and then the T. Without them, who knows were we would be.
My daughter was sitting behind the wheels of my 1912 T Touring years ago when she was 6 years old and said "Dad I can touch the pedals!". "Then you are old enough to drive it." was my reply and I cranked it up and backed it out of the drivway for a run up the street to see Grandma. With the brake handle set in neutral all you have to do is stand on the low speed pedal and steer, take your foot off and it will coast to a stop, step on the brake pedal and it stops. She drove up the road and back again, and p***ed to boys on their bicycles. I never knew it at the time but they had been giving her a bad time over the fact that she still had training wheels on her bike. Driving the T gave her a lot of selfconfidance and the bicycle training wheels were s****ed two days later. Bungee jumping and skydiving in Australia were to follow years later.
I bet those boys didn't h***le your daughter any more eh? More than likely wanted to be her friend just to go for a ride in the 'T'.
we watched it on our local news channel. was glad to see someone else was paying attention. Those were badd *** cars back in he day. Just glad there still around to see.
Always a Ford fool. I've liked T's since, oh, 1973. I'd have been around 7 years old. A 4-page article about Model T's old and new, modified and stock, street and race, in a hand-me-down magazine called Custom Car. Fixed me good. Circle track cars especially being an oval fan luddite. Hated the Fad T's though. Saw how they should look! I drew them as a lad, tall and skinny tyres, banger and flattie, '24 and '27. Read up on the history of Ford. The good bits, the downright nasty bits. How Henry's strange foibles shaped the whole Ford Empire. Finally built a flattie powered '24T, track style. And a stock '27 - cut down T tourer, bale o' straw hick pick-up style, built for the Ford Centennial celebrations. Joined a Bluegr*** band. Wrote my one and only song named after the ***le of the book written by Garet Garret, "The Wild Wheel - The World of Henry Ford". Enjoy. https://soundcloud.com/hotrodfil/the-wild-wheel Guess I'm hooked a while yet!
Well found a lil T n A here. This is mine that Tom (fritzart.com-Ogle That) Fritz used as his ad in Hop Up during the 2002 yr. I felt honored to have it immortalized, but even better is that the painting hangs over my mantle thanks to Gal Pal C'Deuced who had Tom hang it on Fathers Day 2004. I still have the car,although it now has the RPU look thanks to 6 bolts that can swap it from a roadster w/a turtle deck to a rpu. Thanks Henry for hanging in there even through the very tough infant years! The third time was a charm!
Not much hoopla here, considering the drooling over the Deuce's 75th, eh? Too bad, considering T's and A's probably are THE roots of hot rodding. Gary
How great that I came upon this thread. T's are some of the best and thank you Mr. Ford for bringing such a great car into our lives! I was watching a show last night called Rumrunners, Moonshiners, and Bootleggers. For all the runnin they did in the beginning, it was great to see so many T's out in the the back woods and the cities doing their job. Not to mention the other great cars that came along later. Thanks again Henry. Your spirit lives on with every crank of an engine!
I saw that too. After watching the winter scene where they drove them across the frozen detroit river, I started wondering how mant of them sank to the bottom.
In May I participated in the "Sea to Sea in a Model T Tour" to celebrate the One Hundredth Anniversary. I can't remember what I had for breakfast but I'll never forget that drive. Wayno
Thanks for the feedback guys... I am proud of my A roadster but I will never forget enduring 77 Sunset Strip to get a glimpse of Edd ''Kookie'' Byrnes in the Grabowski T-bucket, checking out Tommy Ivos T and looking at old roundy roundy T coupes doin it in the dirt....and my 7 year old brother up til past midnight on a school night putting together an AMT drag racing T coupe back in 1959 or 60 and listening to rock and roll on the radio.... thanks for the imput and reliving some memories. Lee
Wow, how sad this post only got 14 replies. Model T's are my original "favorite car." Like Monkeybiker, I understood how to do 'em right from the very beginning. You know, there isn't a single four-wheeled motorsport that doesn't owe its origins to the Model T, they've truly done it all. -Dave
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