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Mark Gregush wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 19, 2020 2:33 pm
You do know that you can edit the title.

I assume that applies to my own posts. I doubt I can wander through the forum, changing the titles of everyone else's threads willy-nilly....

Walter Higgins wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 19, 2020 12:54 pm
He has been checking in here with the thread that he started ten days ago:

True, but his last post there was six days ago, hence my concern about a post that was about him, but not by him.

Terry, this falls into the category of "gentle chiding." The subject has been discussed on the forum before, but here goes again. If your subject line had been "Good news from David Dewey" or "David Dewey Okay," I would not have had the moments of worry that a name standing alone as a subject on the...

Loftfield wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 18, 2020 6:49 am
... but by then I have had the satisfaction of bugging them as much or more than they bug me, turnabout always being fair game.

And the longer you keep them on the phone, the less time they have to bother others. On behalf of the Mercifully Unbothered Multitude, thank you....

StevenS wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:30 pm
If you want to get some excitement, just ask, ....... "What oil is the best to use in my Model T ?"
or how about this question, ....... "Should I use a water pump and which one ?"

Or how about, "What kind of oil should I use in my water pump?"

Kaiser wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 11, 2020 4:17 pm
We even had a big item about the Oregon fires here on the news....

Leo, BVN has a website with a section called "Uitzending gemist." I often watch Nieuwsuur to keep up with the news from a Dutch perspective. Friday or yesterday I saw coverage from Oregon. Scary stuff.

Dick, I really like rough looking old trucks like that. Then I saw the painted door on that.... hey I lived in Webster Groves in 1976-1977! Terrie and I had just married and I was still in Dental school down the road. I didn’t see any old cars there then. I didn’t even see anywhere one could be hid...

A couple of better pictures of the "turn signal."

People have been asking Sam for pictures of his barn-find TT and he asked if I would post these for him. IMG_6328.JPEG IMG_6333.JPEG IMG_6338.JPEG IMG_6339.JPEG Mr. Wagner also decided at some point that he needed a way to let people know if he was going to make a left turn. If you look carefully, y...

...I decided to join and went to there introduction page and introduced myself and shared I recently acquired the following contents and wanted advice:... Matt, your original post here indicates that you asked for advice. That seems at least worth an answer, even if your post there was going to be ...

Did he name the new Pontiac...? I don't think he ever named another car. He had a Mercury Grand Marquis around the early 70s that he occasionally referred to as "the green dragon," but it wasn't really a name. Just that it was big and green. I remember reading that it is in the area of cars is wher...

It has that wonderful "old Photo" look doesn't it? Thanks, Rich. Somewhere I have a few more pictures of the car. A few years after this, he started dating my mother, who was very much not a convertible person (too windy). Dad told me that when they would go on dates, he would have to borrow his pa...

Today would be my dad's 111th birthday. He was never a Ford guy, but his first car was an early 1930 Plymouth Roadster, which he named Bonnie Jean.

One of Carlin's lines that has stuck with me is, "Hot water heater? Why would you need one?" Since hearing that, I have tried to make a point of saying "water heater," but I will admit that old habits die hard....

My great-grandmother was born in 1866 and died in 1962. She lived with my grandparents and I saw her frequently. I don't think she ever referred to the car as anything but "the machine."

In the Stutzman thread on the General Discussion forum, Steve Jelf made the comment that something was "pretty far-fetched." My grandfather often used the expression (generally in response to something I had told him). I still use it occasionally, but probably not as often as it was used in days pas...

My understanding is that automotive engineers who are sent to the "other place" are condemned to spend eternity working on the cars that they designed in life.....

... AND he has a funny accent ! Gotta love a little character ! Don't know first-hand, but I have understood that most Amish know three languages... the German dialect they speak at home and among themselves (often referred to as "Pennsylvania Dutch"), proper high German which they use in church se...

....but all of the facts are not yet known. The protestors don't care. Many of the protestors came by the carload from outside the area. Chicago is fairly close, isn't it? Maybe they ran out of things to break and set on fire there, so they headed farther afield. This too shall pass, we can hope.....

I have been following this thread and completely forgot about the badge on my desk in the living room! (It's fun getting old, isn't it?) In the 1950s, Anja's parents owned a 1929 Chrysler Touring and a 1931 Morris (Minor, probably). Around that time, a group of car enthusiasts in Holland started a c...

Dropacent wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 23, 2020 1:01 pm
I got this from a good friend. It’s in a little rough shape , as am I.

There's a lot of that going around, Tim....

Dick, zip code didn’t start nationwide until 1963. Tim, more postal trivia for you. My mother's maiden name was Frances Day, and her second cousin was Ed Day. He was JFK's first Postmaster General and it was during his time as PG that zip codes were introduced. I got to know him somewhat because he...

The license plate is my legal Missouri YOM plate. (Bit of trivia: 63081 could be a ZIP code in this area. (Mine is 63011.) A Model T friend who retired from the Post Office told me that there is no 63081 ZIP, but that 63080 is Sullivan MO and 63084 is Union MO, so that if there were a 63081, it woul...

This is all bringing back some memories. Twenty years ago, Anja and I participated in the Greentree Parade here in Kirkwood. Since it was an election year, we decided to decorate the car appropriately. Since the car is a 1924 Touring, we opted for a Coolidge campaign car. (The sign on the side is a ...

Funny what the combination of a little persistence and a Sunday morning can do. I found the forum message in 2010 that included a link to the NPR program in 2003 about our trip: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1298953 George Clipner Sr. and Les Flautt are both gone now, and Ken...

Dick, Hap and George, You seem to all know each other for many years!? That is great!!!! Lisa, I have never met Hap in person, but after a while people with whom we interact frequently on the forum begin to seem like people we know. George I know because his dad (who lived in Missouri) joined us fo...

...Two of those pics had my dad in them. The one stopped along the road and the one arriving in Dearborn. As I recall, your dad and Les Flautt were the two oldest participants in the trip. I think they were both 78, but not sure which was older. We thought it was pretty impressive that they were so...

...in her Citroen 2CV. For those of you who don't know about it, it looks like a VW made with flat sides and is powered by a small engine (two cylinder I think?). We were "zooming" down the freeway going flat out when we were pulled over by a CHP who informed us that we were going too slow to be on...

I don't anticipate the car being driven anywhere significantly lengthy..... Lisa, never say never. I bought my '24 Touring in 1996 and spent at least a week just driving around the block (right turns only the first few days). After a couple of weeks, I ventured to the County Library and back (about...

Dick , no the cars need the vehicles standards WHEN they were built !! Toon, that's an improvement. A friend of mine in the Dutch Austin club imported a 1932 Austin Heavy 12 into NL from the UK in the 1970s, and (as I recall) had to replace the original headlamps with modern sealed beam lamps, add ...

...All this legislation was brought on since they discovered a lot of very expensive cars that were "imported" were in fact built up from a mix-n-match of stolen parts, think Ferraris, Maseratis, Porsches, Mercedes , Range Rovers etc. In other words, yet another case where laws preventing crooks fr...

Mel, I can't really help you much. Requirements change through the years. I do remember a friend who imported a pre-war Austin from England to NL in the 1970s. Unlike the US, where a vehicle has to meet all legal requirements in effect during the year of manufacture, NL required a car to meet all th...

There was a good turnout of enthusiastic folks in Kirkwood outside of St. Louis this morning. Yes, it was a good turnout and people stayed around for quite a while. Will be watching Channel 4 News this evening. Model B STL-01.JPG Steven Williams, St. Louis Club President Model B STL-03.JPG Stephen ...

... I see you don't have a water pump which in the opinion of many is a good thing. Tim, with respect, that sentence is ambiguous. It could be read to mean that not having a water pump is a good thing, or that a water pump is a good thing. Having hung around this forum for years, I am going to assu...

...But at this point in the twenty-first century who doesn't have email? Uh..... a lotta people our age, Steve. I share the frustration, though. Next in line are the people who say they have email. When asked how often they check it, they say, "About once a week." Then I ask them if they have a box...

There were three episodes when I went to the link. I will likely watch all of them, but I find myself kinda wishing that they were a little less "cutesy." Oh, well.....

Ken Meeks car rolled. She survived, he did not. I've been thinking about that during this thread. I'm afraid that the hard and fast rule is that there is no hard and fast rule. Their open car rolled twice. Marge was ejected as it started to roll the first time. Ken was not belted in, but was fairly...

... Many T owners leave keys in them at shows, tours, or other meets without any problems. ... Yes, I have known people who leave the key in the car. Their argument is, "They can't steal the car. They won't know how to drive it." My answer is, "They can't steal the car, but they can steal the key."...

Scott, I got a "Page Not Found" with the link you posted. I found this link on their main page. It seems to work.

https://milehighpedalpushers.com/mhpp-home/tech-tips/

Steve Jelf wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 09, 2020 2:13 pm
What's a "side gear shift"?

I don't know, but when it's totally restored, it really increases the value of the car exponentially. You know as well as any Model T guy that a half-restored side gear shift is no better than a completely unrestored one, worse perhaps....

bud delong wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 08, 2020 2:23 pm
I think next time i will use Susanne's reply.

No one has ever called me to offer me a car warranty, but I'm with Bud on this one. If anyone ever does call, Susanne's answer looks good to me!

...Ben is in Tucker Ga. near Atlanta. 646-884-8882, 2 other numbers from his business card, home 770-938-3376, cell 404-789-6350, I spoke with him last week on the first number. George, Toon is in the Netherlands. If Ben's business card has an email address, that would be a much cheaper way for Too...

OilyBill wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 23, 2020 8:06 pm
I started out in a pedal car when I was 4.
And here I am back in one!

The car was mine, but I'm the one behind it in this picture. Love to have it now!

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ChrisB wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 18, 2020 8:27 pm
Pal is on this forum, only 1 post though, signed up in 2019.

Pal is on Facebook. Found a fair amount about him. Frank, if you are also on Facebook, you might look for him there.
https://www.facebook.com/automuseums/ab ... 1592659373

Emmo213 wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 06, 2020 12:42 pm
John, I don't think #3 was ever posted....

But it still can be.... Jeff?? Chris??

Old car guys can appreciate this....

I think it has something to do with downloading from a cell phone. I believe Norm is right. I never have a problem posting a picture from my desktop computer. I never post pictures from my cell phone, so I don't know what the pitfalls are there. I have a tendency to go with what works. (Perhaps it'...

... the freezing Dutch climate where they had a really hard time adapting to the ways of the Dutch and finding jobs etc. And after around 300 years of colonization (as the Dutch East Indies), there were a lot of people who were descended from mixed marriages. Calling themselves Indos, they had Dutc...

I made this post on my IPhone 📱 I wanted to make the accent marks correct but my skills are limited 😉 Jim, it's even easier on the iPhone. Hold your finger on the e , then slide your finger to the right and you get all the choices of e plus accents. Stop at the one you want and release your finger.

Duey, it would be Spanish in Argentina and Portuguese in Brazil. Steve, I googled South American official languages. They are indeed principally Portuguese and Spanish, plus smaller numbers of English, French and Dutch. The last one caused a bit of consternation here six years ago. The World Pediat...

Jim, as a quick side note, you can make accents on a Windows-based computer by holding down the Alt key and typing 130. That way, you get - for example - Irénée du Pont. (I'm sure you can do it on a Mac as well, but I don't know how.)

This is a completely uncritical, purely-out-of-curiosity question, but since the topic of this thread is a Model T, why is it in "Off Topic" instead of the main discussion forum?

Interesting thread. I was 20 when my great-grandmother died, so I knew her well. She was born in 1866 in North Augusta, Ontario, and died in 1962, so she saw a lot of things in her lifetime. She lived her last years with my grandparents here in St. Louis. My birthday was October 26th and my grandfat...

ChrisB wrote: ↑
Mon May 25, 2020 3:34 pm
Si, mi nonno e nato in Italia!

Brancaccio? Italiano? Difficile da credere!

Danish tested and it looks good. I installed the Dutch for a few days and thought that it also looked good. I eventually went back to American English so I wouldn't have to keep making the mental switch back and forth as I moved through the forum. I gather the translations were done in the relevant...

TonyB wrote: ↑
Sun May 24, 2020 11:48 am
Sorry I missed it, however I’m confused, easy these days, did it happen or was it postponed?

Tony, either it happened or I had a very convincing dream that lasted about an hour....

Why couldn't people find the webinar? This was posted Saturday morning, just before 10:00 am CDT: Re: Model T Webinar #3 - TODAY Post by ChrisB » Sat May 23, 2020 9:59 am Sorry for the late notice, Jeff has some work commitments he is dealing with. He set this meeting up for us. Please click the lin...

DLodge wrote: ↑
Sat May 23, 2020 8:33 am
The webinar time in Belgium will be nine hours later than the Pacific time that is posted (i.e. 10:00 am PDT is 9:00 pm CET).

Oops. My fault Andre. The webinar is at 7:00 pm Belgian time. Excuses. Mijn schuld!

Andre, you first need to go to https://zoom.us/ and download the software. Then install it on your computer. When Jeff posts the details of today's webinar here, there will be a link to the webinar. The important things are the meeting number and the password (which will be in Jeff's post). The webi...

What is the meeting number?

Susanne wrote: ↑
Fri May 22, 2020 2:56 pm
Thank you, we're awaiting the details!

What Susanne said.....

wayne sheldon wrote: ↑
Thu May 21, 2020 5:38 pm
So it has been replied to again fourteen times!

Yes, but by the original poster himself. People here on the forum know better than to reply to junk like this. It's a classic struggle... the Interloper Jerk vs. Brancaccio the Formidable. I know where my money is....

wayne sheldon wrote: ↑
Thu May 21, 2020 5:05 pm
Looks like it is still there!

Not still there, Wayne, back again. Our admin team bats them away, but then they come back. Kind of the definition of "pest," I guess....

Sounds good. Gotta love trials and tribulations....

Dropacent wrote: ↑
Mon May 18, 2020 1:49 pm
...but they don’t like it. ...

Tim, that's exactly the phrase I use when people ask about my T and speed. It's not a question how how fast it can go, but of how fast it likes to go.

I think I've seen a T pic posted on here some years back that had AC. Have no idea what the post was about or how to find it but it's been done. "Your wish is my command..." :D This is a picture I took of Hal Schedler's sedan at the Centennial in Richmond in 2008. It would, of course, be worth poin...

Oldav8tor wrote: ↑
Fri May 15, 2020 6:35 pm
...it might be worth your while to hire a plane for a couple of hours to scour the local area from the air. ...

Or perhaps put up notices at local airports used by private aviation. There might be a few pilots who wouldn't mind looking around while they're flying in the area.

Whenever I go into an Antique Store and they ask me what I'm looking for, I just say, "I'll know it when I see it." If I am in a store (antique or otherwise) and just want to browse uninterrupted, my answer when I am asked what I am looking for is "Inspiration. I'll let you know if I find it." :D

DHort wrote: ↑
Fri May 08, 2020 11:44 pm
As a health care professional I am offended by your remarks.

Being offended has replaced baseball as the American national sport....

Tried googling the email address. This was one of the first hits: "Update: Jammy Shelhart - AUTOMATED SERVICES LLC (jjlissa10@gmail.com is running the counterfeit check scam. This person is now also running the scam in which they ask you to pay $100 of a $200 inspection fee. Using fake inspector nam...

Scott_Conger wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 26, 2020 10:31 pm
... if you hang out here long enough, you will encounter people who decide to send their engine/transmission out for overhaul "because it probably needed it", but not because it actually did.

Takes me back to something I learned early in the old car hobby, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

AdminJeff wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 18, 2020 5:27 pm
See you next week.

Uh, Jeff, isn't this "next week"?

Is there going to be a webinar? A statement that there won't be a webinar? Anything?

In principle, I agree with Jim's original post in this thread. In the old forum, years ago, I was the one who introduced the use of "OT-" at the beginning of a subject line for an off-topic post. (I had sysopped on three different CompuServe forums and that was a convention we used for much the same...

That picture was taken in St. Louis. It shows up from time to time here in a feature called "From the Post-Dispatch Archives."

Apparently Zoom and Windows 7 can’t communicate and after it started asking for money I decided to stay on the iPhone. Tony, I am still using Windows 7 and I use the free version of Zoom. They seem to play well together. I haven't had a problem. (I have no idea why that is, of course. Computers oft...

Stan, I have been on both MTFCA webinars so far. I was already using Zoom, which helped. I started using it in one-on-one video calls, then expanded to small meetings. You should first go to: https://zoom.us and download the software. Once you have done that, you can join meetings, webinars etc. As ...

I read Roscoe Sheller's book years ago. Would have to search my bookcases to see if I still have it. Some phrase in the book convinced me that Roscoe Sheller was a Mason, but I can't remember what it was. Any book about people traveling in a Model T is bound to be a good book. Too bad about the titl...

Either you dreamed it or you watched it here....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn6sUE0 ... e=youtu.be

On Easter Sunday? Really? I admit I am a little puzzled at the indignant "how-dare-you-?" reactions to having a car club-related event on Easter Sunday. Really ?? The traditional start to the "car season" in St. Louis has been - since 1954 - the Horseless Carriage Club of Missouri's Easter Car Show...

For those looking for a good webcam so you can participate next time, check out the logitech series. I have the 920 but any HD version will have both the camera and mic built into it.Or just join from your smart phone. That little device works great! the only drawback is the screen size. I have had...

I thought the MTFCA Webinar today went very well. I would have thought that if it had been the tenth or twentieth, but it was the first and managed to go well without any glitches. As always, compliments to the Poobah Team! I look forward to the next one (as well as to the official opening of the ne...

The free version of Zoom is pretty adequate for most people. One on one conversations have unlimited duration. Meetings of three or more are limited to 40 minutes.

This was a great experiment. Thank you, hosts!

Rolf, in 2013 the Around the World Tour was in the United States and stopped in St. Louis. This is a picture of Dirk, Trudy and their Model T with some members of the St. Louis Model T Club. I'm in the red shirt and my twin grandchildren are on the fenders. It was extra interesting for me because I ...

MWalker wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 08, 2020 9:37 am
It should come as no surprise to anyone these days that the swap meet which was to be held at Petit Jean State Park (AR) in June has been cancelled.

Gee, Mike, has anyone told Governor Rockefeller?

Dave, you're on the wrong side of the state for me to recommend our club here, but looking at the chapter listing, I found the website of the KC chapter:

http://www.kcchuggers.com/

Have fun!

I lived in Basel for about 8 months and learned German (High German) but surrounded in Basel Deutsch. Nevertheless I was able to pick up on some of the dialect. Nelson, grüezi wie gohts? I lived in Paris from March 1968 until January 1969. The non-Parisians in the hotel where I lived tended to hang...

Fascinating. Thanks. Now I have to warm up...

By the way, the language is Swiss German (Schwyzerdütsch), not Finnish.

jiminbartow wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 01, 2020 2:09 pm
I’m not sure if Suzanne’s statement that the forum is to be shut down, was a joke or not...

Check your calendar, Jim....

mtntee20 wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 01, 2020 1:22 pm
... I am sure that the total of all the members on this forum will have a combined number of at least 1500 rolls of toilet paper. ...

I can see the headline now. "MTFCA FORUM BECOMES TOILET PAPER POWERHOUSE!"

I have noticed, since so many of us are confined to home, that the number of users shown at the bottom of the screen has grown considerably. In the past, as I recall, I would see a handful of names. Just now, I counted 21 registered users plus 28 visitors. Obviously, Model T people need Model T expo...

Not my T, but the earliest picture of me with a T. On Wayne Avenue in University City MO were three houses in a row: the Clarksons, the Lodges and the Murphys. The girl on the right is the Clarksons' granddaughter, I am the Lodges' grandson and the T belongs to the four Murphy boys, ranging from lat...

I have had Informed Delivery since I first read about it. Once I was expecting a check and it wasn't in my mail. Since the carrier (a substitute) was still at the mailboxes in my building, I mentioned that there appeared to be something missing that had been in that morning's email. She went back to...

Leo, Anja's dad saved that one, she inherited it and so I now have it. I never knew the car it was on (a 1950-something Mercedes, I think), but the number looks like it was not long after the provincial letter designations were replaced with the two-letter, four-number plates. There is a story about...

Kaiser wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 25, 2020 6:03 am
Sadly we can't register old plates in the Netherlands, but the plates allowed on your historic vehicle are dark blue and not that bad to the eye as the big reflective bright yellow ones mandatory on modern cars

Leo, you mean like this?

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