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A hundred years of the model T and we've gone from spookin' horses to wakin' politicians, now that's progress for you !

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It was not a brass one but you came really close i'd say Rich

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It doesn't matter how nice a basket you make for them, they always find your favorite spot the best...

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A 1902 Percheron on the left and two 1889 Nags in front of the stable doors

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Whoa ! look at that hill... and with a plank track it didn't matter what brakes you had

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Nice to know these trucks had lousy brakes, driving without having a 'headache rack'

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Well, that truck being a steamer we can rule out that it is hauling a##

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The towing business is changing fast, modern cars with permanent 4WD and electrics can not be towed with wheels on the ground without seriously damaging the driveline. The truck in that first yuotube clip was developed just because of that problem.

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What a great way to loose your front teeth on that coupe's pumpkin

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The most impressive experience happened to me a couple of years ago. I needed a left side kingpin set for an early Postal Jeep i was fixing to drive the winter. Parts for these cars are not to be found on our side of the pond, as only a few were used on US Airforce bases. So i called Rockauto in the...

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I have to agree, the Cobalt bits that have come on the market in recent years are the cat's pyamas, they stay much sharper for longer than other materials. Of course you get what you pay for, some really cheap "cobalt" bits are the same crap as the so called Titanium bits, just cheap a** metal with ...

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WOW what a great sign !! hope someone steps up and preserves it....

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Thanks Rob, i was experiencing some withdrawal symptoms recently but just in time you provided some new racer info

Vroom vroom

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We, who are living in the so called 'Free Western part of this World' all live unhampered by governments that tell us what we can or can't say, and we should keep in mind that civilisation as we know it does not come for free or is some kind of 'natural state', people fought and died for it. To keep...

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Interesting, that chopped up T in the second to last picture is a Australian standard utility T from WW1, the body is quite distinctive, but it appears a LHD ? wonder where and when it was taken..
Here's a period picture of one with the top ;

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Well George, that's like offering a shot of Whisky to an Alcoholic

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you can tap them in as described earlier here if you're carefull and keep moving the punch, if they are a bit on the tight side blasting the bearing race with a CO2 fire extinguisher will chill it enough to shrink it so it'll almost drop in.
Good luck on the effort !

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Welcome Bradley, you've come to the right support group

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Ahh ANZACs

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Hey Ian, body numbers were normaly not registered in the title, they were just for production purposes. cars were registered by engine number and later (from about '25) the engine number was also stamped on one of the framerails. So the body number you have will prove to be a dead end street, the on...

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Now there's a fine truck !
The brake rod device is a great idea, think i might steal that idea off of you..

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I had one of these a couple years, how about three pedals and five levers.....

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Those last three pictures are cool, probably a Canadian motor fieldrepair depot during the second half of WorldWar 1, the Model T ambulances are 1916 or later and are the British standard pattern and have British War department number plates with the 'broad arrow', the campaign hats in the second ph...

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Just some extra clarification on the chart i posted, the only thing that it compares is viscosity, other characteristics of the oil is not taken in consideration i.e. the 'stickyness' of the oil or the capacity to absorb moisture or protect against corrosion. Another important feature of the oil in ...

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I found a paper in the interweb that gives a nice comparison between the different ways the viscosity of oils are given, remember there are different ways of rating the oil for different uses, as in gearcases, engines etc. The 600w is a industrial gearcase oil rating, which compares to a 140w to 160...

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Nice one, thanks
(terrible background muzak though)

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Now that is a very neat and usefull addition to any T, well thought out too with the sliding adapter, nifty ! thnks for sharing !

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Great video Dan, that was an incredible achievement, to build a complete aircraft plant from scratch in such a short time

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Little chance of outrunning a forest fire in that old beast

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Yep, you are absolutely right Dick, see my post on the 'Happy Veterans Day' thread.
'Lest We Forget'

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Early Rolls Royces had a similar setup to get fuel from the gas tank (which was down low behind the rear axle) all the way to the front where the carb was above the level of the top of the fueltank, they called it the 'Autovac'.

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Not only is it Veterans day, it is also Armistice Day, the day WW One ended !
Lest We Forget

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From the picture it is hard to discern but in between the 'Ford' and 'Since 1903' there is something else written, that might provide the clue..

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World War One FWD searchlight truck, but not to search for aeroplanes, but to light up "No mans land" in an attack 'over the top'
Great picture !

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How very sweet !

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Found it on Streetvieuw, here it is :

https://www.google.nl/maps/@42.3146962, ... 8192?hl=nl

Still has a Ford out in front

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Have a look, who knows more about this car and man, and who has pictures of the car as it is now ?

https://www.prewarcar.com/hot-rodding-n ... hite-house

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This is the general idea, pilot project in Brasil:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP3Goegsl2I

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Here's a tree hugger for y'all

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That last one is the stuff nightmares are made of

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In the second photo you can see two knobs in the lower corners of the windshield and what looks like a seam, what makes it seem like the whole windscreen opens upward, but still would be a *itch to change the plugs

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Maybe it was custom built for the actor that played Pinochio...

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Disregard myprevious post, i did some googling and found more info, posted it in the other thread.

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O.k I did some searching on the Interwebs, here's what i found : The motor you show is from a 'Gutbrod Superior' introduced in 1951 it was the first car produced in series that had mechanical gasoline injection directly into the cylinders. the guy who engineered the system, Hans Scharenberg, later w...

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Well it may be a bitsa/parts salad, but it is a great story and something unique !
Nice score for whoever got it, but yeah probably a scary ride

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Love it !

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Get one of these, works for all voltages...

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Mark Osterman has a valid point here, it depends very much on where you live as a youngster, don't know about the USA but here in Europe there is a lot of difference in history lessons in school depending on the country you're in. We in the Netherlands were 'Neutral' in the first war, in our schools...

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It's definitely French, after WW2, the Bosch pump is imported from Germany (i.e.ïmportee d'Állemagne") probably for one of the scores of light commercial vehicles made after the war in the 50s, most "voiturettes" for personal transport were built with gasoline engines, but some light commercial vehi...

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Hey Stan i see that coupe is a trailer queen

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Hey Dick, that is one of the things that i notice too, sometimes even holding your side of the road seems to be loosely interpreted. I guess the street was 'common ground' so to speak, of course the speed difference between old dobbin and pedestrians was not that big to be a problem but when the car...

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Thanks to my dog i get clean hands and a nice shiny fur on the dog

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What a great find, congrats ! another one back on the road

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Have a look, really nice footage of the travel between The Hague and Amsterdam in 1927, this was the most important route then in '27, it is now 6 lanes highway each way!
Lots of Ts and TTs and other transport of the era !

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MAimbqVSxDw&t=93s

Enjoy

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A boat anchor

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Yes the bodies were French built, the American Field Service bought T chassis and had the French coach builder Kellner build body's for them, there's one original left, it's in the AFS museum near Paris in France. all others are replica's or recreations. The AFS donated all their ambulances to local...

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Henry Ford was a pacifist, and at first he did not approve of his cars being a part in the conflict, however he did supply the allied forces with chassis to build into ambulances, when the US joined the war he quickly put all his production facilities at work to support the War Department AT COST......

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That nr17 car in the 1913 Indy photo is still around !, it seems to be featured in this video ;

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V-rYGg_74PE

(it's OT but hey..)

Enjoy,
Leo

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The difference between Silver Solder and Silver Bearing Solder is in the Silver content. Most if not all solders are a mix of metals that melt at relatively low temperatures, the mix is a determining factor in the melting temerature. Silver solder as it is usualy called can contain up to 50% Silver ...

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You may be on to something there Wayne

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Could it just be that a wood spoked wheel was easier to repair in the day, as most rural areas still had blacksmiths and/or wheelwrights who could do it, steel wheels (disc or wires) were relatively novel techniques. The so called 'Artilery Wheel' with wood spokes and a steel hub that could be taken...

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That is a pretty fancy delivery but why no rear mudguards ?

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I was told by my grandfather as a kid: 'There is no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid answers' and i live by it to the day. This forum has helped me a lot in the past and i'm learning something every time i visit, and that is exactly what this forum is about, Steve Jelf is absolutely righ...

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Joerg, a plastic fan whirling around at speed will do the same harm to a radiator. so keep the original

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I bet if you put a battery between the passengers feet and connect two jumper cables to the trailer plug and tell your passenger to hit the battery contacts NOW it would stop on a dime even if your T hhad no brakes at all

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WOW

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It sure could be a fun car for someone, it's just that all the other cars in the auction are rather 'high end' this seemed to me the 'ugly duckling' among them, wonder what it will bring at the end of the auction ? There is another T in the same auction with different bodywork, wonder what the story...

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I noticed the button on the left reads 'American Bosch' i have no clue

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You could always start a B&B in it, it's big enough :D All jokes aside a beautifull piece and for a very reasonable price too Prices for antiques, specially clocks and furniture have hit rock bottom here in Holland, sometimes its even hard to give it away. Out of my fathers estate we had a "Friese s...

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About that garbage truck, imagine running up those stairs all day with a full 50gal bucket on your back

those were the good old days huh??

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Green with envy for who's gonna buy these !!
Wouldn't you like to own them both.... come on, 'fess up..

This one:
https://www.prewarcar.com/308112-1902-hercules-126
And this one:
https://www.prewarcar.com/308108-1909-c ... n-roadster

Now where did i put that lottery ticket?

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Found this on the PreWarCar site, it's up for auction at "Hershey at home"
It is a lot of things, but i don't think it's 1917 for starters, fire away...

https://www.prewarcar.com/310269-1917-f ... 4-oct-2020

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We even had a big item about the Oregon fires here on the news

Hope everybody is safe !

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I just love how these mysteries keep turning up every once in a while, wonder what this great forum is going to dig up about this one !,

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Well he came third, that's on the podium right?

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Quite the opposite happened when i bought my 23 T from Kent Sumner, not only was he very clear on all the faults of the car, it had a lot of nice period goodies on it that i had not noticed myself from the pictures, plus it came with a complete toolset, new battery and two extra good rims. You can o...

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Way to go Darin ! have fun driving the wheels off of it

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You are absolutely right there Chris, although the T is considered a light car with small capacity engine in the US, it was quite "Big" compared to most European light cars, that Bugatti 37 has a capacity of 1496cc compared to the 2878cc of a standard T. Reason for that is the way cars were taxed in...

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Here's a great instruction video on a tapping machine of the era !

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c6kmdkWXKc8

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Im guessing the Mayor of Wallace was just trying to get in the Centre of Attention !

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What puzzles me in the picture of the road to Silver Plume is there are 50 wires going up the road but only 8 coming back, who or what is using up all that jizz ?
Maybe the members of the Venerable Institution can shine their light on this discrepancy...

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A good friend brought me one back from a trip to the U.S. it read ; F**k the whales, save the cowboy, It gave me a good chuckle but it was on my cars rear bumper just a week or two when someone else probably liked it even more and tore it off

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It is because of guys like this that i am here on this forum almost every day, and it sure is a shame that "another one bit the dust" doing one of the best things a man can do, ride.
Ride on Charlie Shaver !

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Bill the little South Bend is a great asset to our workshop, it could do with a scraping of the bed and the gears are a bit noisy at higher revs but we use it for the quick fixes and small jobs, we're sure happy to have it !
Some great behemoths here on this thread !

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Very clarifying, thanks for that, the Depasse name is well known to me through my searches into the WW1 ambulance history, and the American Field Ambulance (later Am. Field Service) history in particular.
I should have checked my facts before firing from the hip

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Great picture !

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Thanks Chris, I'm still breathing... Like you noticed in the add, it was just that vagueness that alerted me, you are right there are no false claims in the ad, it only hints at a racing history but still i think sellers should be a bit more straight in telling what it really is, there should be no ...

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Thanks a bunch Chris, although id does not clear up what it is, it sure does clear up what it isn't ! I was hoping you'd chime in for your expertise on these cars, you must have seen quite a few fakes and lookalikes ! Not that i don't like people like the Argentinians building cars to their liking, ...

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Great stories, cool truck !

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You could try Paruzzi.com, they are the main distributor for all things for old VW's, they should be able to set you up with aal the Bosch parts you need for your Distributor.

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For you "Boiling Water Buffs" on here ;
I have no connection to either seller or site, just found it and thought some on here would like it or even need a new project

https://www.prewarcar.com/306351-1905-s ... x-runabout

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Must be in WW1, the one in the rear is indeed a Jeffrey Quad, both in the infamous Flanders mud !

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Hello Melchior, welcome to the affliction as they say. That might prove to be a tough one to solve, the RDW is very strict these days, I ran into some troubles myself a couple years back with a T project with sketchy paperwork. Also they require you to show the project as soon as possible after the ...

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Best story in a long time Dallas !

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Great pictures, looks like the rear tire is just coping with the weight of the girls

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Great photo Steve, funny to see the wide main street stop abruptly at the town limit and continue as a winding dirt road

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Yeah Rich i thought it a interesting car constructionwise, sure has a few creative solutions in that driveline !

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Found this one for sale on the PreWarCar site, as usual i have no connection to the seller or the site, just thought it would be of interest for some of the early cars and Buick lovers on here, I think the price might be a little on the high side, i see a big freeze crack on one cylinder, but everyt...

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Kevin the cabinet is quite sturdy but on the light side, a heavier cast lower makes a big difference in stability, but hey it was cheap and it came with all the right gears for turning SAE threads, which is not that common on lathes our side of the big pond. I didn't think twice when it came up for ...

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Yoohoo i got a picture to post right side up ! thats a first for me...

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Our 10" South Bend from 1943, probably came out of a WW2 mobile workshop truck, hence the lightweight under cabinet, it was in a sorry state when we got it but luckily all parts are still available so we refurbished it and it works just dandy for us !

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I heard from a reliable source that KD sold his patents on the Skyhook system for a dollar to the US army in support of the war effort, he was rumoured on the other hand to have made a bundle on US Army regulation swimwear for the pilots..

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