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- Sat Feb 27, 2021 10:04 am
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: Covid 19 Shot?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1702
Re: Covid 19 Shot?
I got my second Pfizer shot on Wednesday - also no side effects. The young woman administering the shot had a name tag that identified her as a student nurse. She asked if she could roll up my sleeve and I said, "What would you do if I said no?" She answered, "I have no idea. That's never happened."...
- Fri Feb 19, 2021 3:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Vintage Ford
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1279
Re: Vintage Ford
Seeing the posts about people receiving the January-February VF, I was about to email MTFCA about my November-December issue, but it arrived today!
- Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:41 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Sheep with the Wolves
- Replies: 3
- Views: 651
Re: Sheep with the Wolves
...Comparing the T's 2,900 cc of 20 ripping great horsepower with poor Aunty at 1,550 cc and 11.9 HP led to comments about how ‘narrow’ she looked next to the ‘big’ Fords... Not quite the same vintage, but I agree about the size difference. This is the 1936 Austin Ten that we owned in Holland and b...
- Thu Feb 11, 2021 9:36 am
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: Covid 19 Shot?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1702
Re: Covid 19 Shot?
Just as a side note, although the abbreviation used throughout this particular thread is customarily pronounced "hippa," it is in fact HIPAA. It stands for "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act" (hence HIPAA). Minor correction, I know, but once a proofreader, always a proofreader. The...
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 10:20 am
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: Covid 19 Shot?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1702
Re: Covid 19 Shot?
Tim, I had the first Pfizer dose on February 3rd and am scheduled for the second one on the 24th. No side effects. Someone asked me about soreness, and I compared it to having bumped my arm against a bookcase (i.e. negligible). I've been getting shots and taking medications all my life. (What's the ...
- Sun Jan 31, 2021 8:13 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: POSTAL ISSUES please read.
- Replies: 45
- Views: 2008
Re: POSTAL ISSUES please read.
Billdizer. My dad was a WW II vet and had no middle name. It was just the other day I was explaining to a coworker that my dad would sign documents with "Anthony NMN Spaziano". Mike, when I was in the Air Force, a friend of mine also had no middle name. In his case, the abbreviation in use at the t...
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 2:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: POSTAL ISSUES please read.
- Replies: 45
- Views: 2008
Re: POSTAL ISSUES please read.
... Hopefully the new administration will appoint a new Postmaster General who knows the postal system and its problems, instead of just appointing a "Good Ol Boy" appointment as the last administration did. ... I realize that one of the most popular sports these days is finding new things to blame...
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 5:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Dressing the period part
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1166
Re: Dressing the period part
.. Some T folks like to wear period clothes to match their cars. If you're looking for appropriate men's attire for the twenties, this will give you some good examples of what to look for. I had the same thought after I got my T. I went to the microfilm room of the St. Louis County Library and chos...
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 8:28 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: 56th MTFCA Annual Meeting Update
- Replies: 3
- Views: 448
- Sat Jan 09, 2021 2:40 pm
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: RANT: AMERICAN GREED
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1044
Re: RANT: AMERICAN GREED
Like others in the thread, I am puzzled by the modifier "American." Okay, the seller is American. He may also be blond ("blond greed"?), he may be tall ("tall greed"?), he may not hear well ("hard-of-hearing greed"?), etc. I could see "seller greed," perhaps, but I don't understand the gratuitous sl...
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 10:04 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Special Photos of Jay Klehfoth Wanted
- Replies: 9
- Views: 961
Re: Special Photos of Jay Klehfoth Wanted
Aleesa, when I saw your original request I looked. If I had had a digital camera in 1997 when the National was held in St. Louis, I'd have had plenty of photos, but I didn't. The few I took in Richmond are blurry. Sorry. Will keep my eyes open.
- Fri Jan 01, 2021 9:25 am
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: FJ - Some Humor To Brighten Your Day
- Replies: 857
- Views: 113619
Re: FJ - Some Humor To Brighten Your Day
Mergatroyd! Do you remember that word? Would you believe the spell-checker did not recognize the word Mergatroyd? Could be because it was misspelled. According to Google, it's Murgatroyd. :D "I tried to dial his number but got a busy signal." (I'm not even sure what we say now. Touch a number?)
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 11:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: "T" Parts Terminology
- Replies: 11
- Views: 790
Re: "T" Parts Terminology
I have also heard it called a "commentator."
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:17 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Stan Howe's Birthday
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1503
Re: Stan Howe's Birthday
Stan, I only know you through the forum. I wish I could meet you and a lot of the other guys face to face. I'll be 78 in about 3 weeks, so we'd probably relate well. Rich, I felt the same way for a long time. In 2017, my girlfriend and I were on a road trip out west that coincided with the Montana ...
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Home page not working?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 395
- Mon Dec 21, 2020 1:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Off Topic Christmas Poem
- Replies: 9
- Views: 706
Re: Off Topic Christmas Poem
Stan, for some reason your post caused me to flash back to Herman and Frieda. Isn't about time for them to reappear? (Spot the hidden commercial?) 

- Sun Dec 20, 2020 9:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Let Us Remember....,
- Replies: 5
- Views: 626
Re: Let Us Remember....,
Before masks, I looked at the mouth to see a smile. I have discovered recently that I can recognize a smile from the eyes in many cases. A nod also reinforces the invisible smile. My biggest complaint about everyone wearing a mask is that I am hard of hearing, and wear hearing aids. Even before mask...
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 1:14 pm
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: 1969 Renault 16 parts
- Replies: 3
- Views: 275
Re: 1969 Renault 16 parts
A number of the hits I got were people who deal in vintage Renault parts. Also got some hits for Renault clubs, who may also have some tips.
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 10:11 am
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: 1969 Renault 16 parts
- Replies: 3
- Views: 275
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 10:07 am
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: Some members of my household are difficult to shop for.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1090
- Sat Dec 12, 2020 11:39 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Neat promo, and Model T also!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 430
- Fri Dec 11, 2020 11:08 am
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: For the Record - An Objection
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1294
- Thu Dec 10, 2020 11:12 am
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: For the Record - An Objection
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1294
Re: For the Record - An Objection
... When we were having meetings, religion and politics are left at the door and what we talk about after the meeting is between personal friends not a public viewable forum. Personal views on politics, religion should be kept to ones self or their friends that have the same view. This forum can be...
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 5:28 pm
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: For the Record - An Objection
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1294
Re: For the Record - An Objection
I agree that the rules do not specifically prohibit the expression of political views. The rules also do not prohibit proselytizing for a specific religion, yet I would be as unhappy with that on this forum as I was when I saw the political posts. (And no, if someone objected, it wasn't me.) Many de...
- Wed Dec 02, 2020 10:46 am
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: "Pretty far-fetched" and stuff
- Replies: 71
- Views: 3563
Re: "Pretty far-fetched" and stuff
Which also brings to mind a couple of military (or Air Force, anyway) expressions referring to long ago: "Back in the brown-shoe days" and "Since Christ was a corporal."

- Fri Nov 27, 2020 10:07 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: This and that, not all ford, but you’ll relate.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 782
Re: This and that, not all ford, but you’ll relate.
Apparently, Baldwin & Cargill was in Houston, and the photo of their building is credited to Litterst Commercial Photo (vehicles seen in photos 12 and 16).
- Thu Nov 26, 2020 10:30 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: E.B. White: Revisiting an old favorite
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1201
Re: E.B. White: Revisiting an old favorite
...I don't know if the other teachers read to their classes or not. When I was in the fifth grade, Mrs. Bellows used to read to us from The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew . I remember her doing different voices for the different characters. For some reason, the phrase, "So there, Polly Peppe...
- Wed Nov 25, 2020 10:51 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: E.B. White: Revisiting an old favorite
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1201
Re: E.B. White: Revisiting an old favorite
I agree with everyone who says it's a great read no matter how many times you've read it before....
- Sat Nov 21, 2020 5:16 pm
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: I Fear We're All Out of Date
- Replies: 13
- Views: 869
Re: I Fear We're All Out of Date
However, I don't think it is appropriate to hire people strictly according to "diversity" standards. I agree with what Norm said. From a purely mathematical standpoint, Joe Biden's statement before he had chosen his running mate was, essentially, that it would be a black woman. In other words, he w...
- Thu Nov 19, 2020 10:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Places we used to eat on the road.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1614
Re: Places we used to eat on the road.
Steak 'n Shake was always big in the St. Louis area. When I was in high school, I don't think there was anyone in my class who didn't have a Steak 'n Shake salt shaker in his glove compartment.

- Thu Nov 12, 2020 9:35 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Model T Capabilities on Hills?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2152
Re: Model T Capabilities on Hills?
There are many different criteria for making life choices. That seems as good as any......kfazenbaker wrote: ↑Wed Nov 11, 2020 9:12 pm... Our first date he made me crank start his Farmall M. I manage to do it, so I got to stay.

- Wed Nov 11, 2020 9:19 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Remembrance Day
- Replies: 2
- Views: 241
Remembrance Day
November 11th, Veterans' Day in the United States, is also Remembrance Day in the countries of the Commonwealth. At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the guns of World War I fell silent. "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years co...
- Sun Nov 08, 2020 9:37 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Watching Norte Dame/send a few pics
- Replies: 10
- Views: 603
Re: Watching Norte Dame/send a few pics
Found this for photo number 3: Title E.G. Heartick Furnaces truck, Louisville, Kentucky, 1919. Contributors Caufield & Shook (photographer) Description An open-cab truck is parked in front of the Louisville Free Public Library building on York Street near Third Street. Painted signs on the truck inc...
- Sat Nov 07, 2020 3:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: nice weather
- Replies: 5
- Views: 360
Re: nice weather
Bud, you mean it chimed the hour and half hour?

- Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:05 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: 13T - Christmas Parade Question
- Replies: 8
- Views: 679
Re: 13T - Christmas Parade Question
... However, if you are careful in your driving, it is possible to minimize the extra wear on the low band. While parades are usually a lot of "stop-and-go" slow speed driving, you can wait until there quite a gap ahead of you when you depress the low pedal to advance, and by waiting for a fairly l...
- Thu Oct 29, 2020 5:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Happy Halloween
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1055
Re: Happy Halloween
Norm, possibly Glenda the Good Witch in Oz.... Don't remember her having a T, but it's been a long time and I may have forgotten.

- Thu Oct 29, 2020 11:18 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Happy Halloween
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1055
Re: Happy Halloween
Beats that drafty broom! 

- Tue Oct 27, 2020 10:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Dutch traffic in 1927
- Replies: 7
- Views: 735
Re: Dutch traffic in 1927
Leo, I also enjoyed the chicken walking on the road near the drawbridge at (De) Zweth. (According to Wikipedia, the municipality's official name on one side of the bridge is "Zweth" and on the other side is "De Zweth.") Tim, I lived there for over eight years. I think it would look odd to me not to ...
- Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:10 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Dutch traffic in 1927
- Replies: 7
- Views: 735
Re: Dutch traffic in 1927
That's fascinating. Weet je nog wel, oudje? What strikes me in this film is the same thing I see in films from that period in the U.S. Pedestrians seem constantly to be wandering into the street and crossing the street, picking their way among the moving motorized vehicles. Also children who today w...
- Fri Oct 23, 2020 8:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Andy Loso - need contact info
- Replies: 5
- Views: 622
Re: Andy Loso
Glad nothing happened to him. Messages with just names often look like sad news....
- Tue Oct 20, 2020 1:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: To Kentucky in a Model T - 1929
- Replies: 7
- Views: 640
Re: To Kentucky in a Model T - 1929
..,. So what is your Dad's name? You should post the photo of you and your dad side by side. Thanks for sharing.jw John, my dad was Richard Lloyd Lodge and I am Richard William Lodge. (His dad was William Lloyd Lodge. We tend to recycle names.) It would be interesting to see if I could find a photo...
- Tue Oct 20, 2020 10:19 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: To Kentucky in a Model T - 1929
- Replies: 7
- Views: 640
Re: To Kentucky in a Model T - 1929
More.... knox6.jpg knox7.jpg knox8.jpg knox9.jpg In the above pictures, "Jake" was Bob Jacobsmeyer. Eight years later, he was best man at my parents' wedding. When I went into the Air Force as a second lieutenant in 1963, I looked like I was about 15 years old. Looking at my dad in the last picture,...
- Tue Oct 20, 2020 10:15 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: To Kentucky in a Model T - 1929
- Replies: 7
- Views: 640
To Kentucky in a Model T - 1929
I knew I had posted these photos here before, but couldn't remember when. Thanks to Google, I found that I posted them in 2011 and again in April 2016. Since there are new people who have joined the forum in the last 4-1/2 years, I thought I'd post them again. In 1929, my dad was a student at Washin...
- Wed Oct 14, 2020 11:59 am
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: Could this fit a Model T?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 936
Could this fit a Model T?
This was posted to a British Austin group. It originally appeared in a New Zealand Austin magazine. How much work would it take to adapt it to a T?

- Wed Oct 14, 2020 10:28 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: need a sorcerer
- Replies: 14
- Views: 972
- Wed Oct 14, 2020 10:19 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Phone Apps: Interesting test tools - tachometer, strobe light, rpm, speedometer, elevation, etc
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3409
Re: Interesting test tool - tachometer, strobe light, rpm measurement
... If needed, we can take this off topic, but it's really not. Aha! "Admin Jeff meets Frustrating Forum Features ." Not a problem for me, since I have learned to check the Off-Topic Section at least once a day, but I did prefer the "OT" designation used in the subject line on the main forum. That ...
- Wed Oct 14, 2020 9:55 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Greetings from NC
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1222
Re: Greetings from NC
Where in NC are you? I live in Wilkesboro and my club, the Tar Heal T's is centered in the Greensboro area. Neil, that was my first thought as well. The poster's location is in the summary to the right of the screen. He is in Hope Mills NC. It's good to see these helpful responses from people in th...
- Sat Oct 10, 2020 2:15 pm
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: "Pretty far-fetched" and stuff
- Replies: 71
- Views: 3563
Re: "Pretty far-fetched" and stuff
Then there's always, "That don't make me no never mind." Is that regional, I wonder?
- Fri Oct 09, 2020 9:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Model T Registry ?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1037
Re: Model T Registry ?
I doubt that there will be one. Getting the information would take the cooperation of many governments, organizations, companies, etc., and would be a huge task. Probably an impossible task, considering the number of curmudgeons of an, ahem, advanced age (or even younger ones) who don't want their ...
- Mon Oct 05, 2020 5:11 pm
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: What cars other than Ford do you own?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 478
Re: What cars other than Ford do you own?
1936 Austin 10 Sherborne, bought in the Netherlands in 1974. Between 1974 and 1977, drove in five European countries (usually tent camping). In 1977 brought it with us to the US. My wife and I, plus a 17-month-old daughter (visible here in the back seat), drove it 6,500 miles through 15 states and f...
- Tue Sep 29, 2020 8:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Barn Find TT
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2950
Re: Barn Find TT
Do we know who bought it? Is it anyone here on the forum?
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 7:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: SCAM
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1192
Re: SCAM
The language in the reply tells you all you need to know. (Or should I say, "The laungage in the replie tels you all you ned to no" ?) Even though I don't know what the next stage of the scam is, I know that is has "BOGUS!!" written all over it. If it was an email, you can switch "view headers" to "...
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 10:53 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Dan Treace
- Replies: 2
- Views: 369
Re: Dan Treace
Well, at least Dan is all right. Whew!
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- Thu Sep 24, 2020 8:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Where is your T?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1678
Re: Where is your T?
I guess I wasn't paying attention. I thought the photos from the old forum would be transferred to the new one. I will hunt up a photo to post.
- Tue Sep 22, 2020 10:43 am
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: "Pretty far-fetched" and stuff
- Replies: 71
- Views: 3563
Re: "Pretty far-fetched" and stuff
I just thought of another expression my grandfather used, but I'm not sure whether it's an age thing or his Canadian origin (since the usage is both archaic and British). It's the use of "want" for "lack." If something was squeaking, for example, he might say, "It wants oil." If he tasted something ...
- Sun Sep 20, 2020 11:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: The T and friends.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1067
Re: The T and friends.
Dallas, this thread is taking me back. Anja and I had planned to visit our son in 2006, and were going to tent camp in the same campground on Stony Lake Road (off US31 at New Era) that we had been staying at for over 20 years (Holiday Campground, family-run and very pleasant). Because we had partici...
- Sun Sep 20, 2020 7:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: The T and friends.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1067
Re: The T and friends.
Silver Lake... that's in Oceana County. In 2006, my son was on staff at Camp Miniwanca in Stony Lake, and Anja and I drove up to spend a week there. We decided to trailer the T with us, and used that as our transportation while we were there. Loved wandering around the back roads. michigan02.jpg mic...
- Sat Sep 19, 2020 3:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: David Dewey...Good News!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 838
Re: David Dewey
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....

- Sat Sep 19, 2020 2:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: David Dewey...Good News!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 838
Re: David Dewey
True, but his last post there was six days ago, hence my concern about a post that was about him, but not by him.Walter Higgins wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 12:54 pmHe has been checking in here with the thread that he started ten days ago:
- Sat Sep 19, 2020 12:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: David Dewey...Good News!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 838
Re: David Dewey
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...
- Fri Sep 18, 2020 9:36 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: I got a phone call
- Replies: 6
- Views: 875
Re: I got a phone call
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....

- Thu Sep 17, 2020 2:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Model T Forums Dead
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1814
- Sun Sep 13, 2020 9:19 am
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: Fire evacuation In Oroville
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1336
Re: Fire evacuation In Oroville
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.
- Fri Sep 11, 2020 3:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Barn Find TT
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2950
Re: Barn Find TT
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...
- Thu Sep 10, 2020 11:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Barn Find TT
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2950
Re: Barn Find TT
A couple of better pictures of the "turn signal."
- Thu Sep 10, 2020 11:16 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Barn Find TT
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2950
Re: Barn Find TT
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...
- Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:14 am
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: I just got banned... from the watch repair forum!?!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1102
Re: I just got banned... from the watch repair forum!?!
...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 ...
- Sun Sep 06, 2020 1:02 pm
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: Happy Birthday, Dad!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 477
Re: Happy Birthday, Dad!
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...
- Sun Sep 06, 2020 11:34 am
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: Happy Birthday, Dad!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 477
Re: Happy Birthday, Dad!
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...
- Sat Sep 05, 2020 7:18 pm
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: Happy Birthday, Dad!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 477
Happy Birthday, Dad!
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.
- Sat Sep 05, 2020 9:00 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Need ideas on weird noise
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1037
- Mon Aug 31, 2020 12:25 pm
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: "Pretty far-fetched" and stuff
- Replies: 71
- Views: 3563
Re: "Pretty far-fetched" and stuff
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.... 

- Sat Aug 29, 2020 3:42 pm
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: "Pretty far-fetched" and stuff
- Replies: 71
- Views: 3563
Re: "Pretty far-fetched" and stuff
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."
- Sat Aug 29, 2020 12:01 pm
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: "Pretty far-fetched" and stuff
- Replies: 71
- Views: 3563
"Pretty far-fetched" and stuff
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...
- Wed Aug 26, 2020 11:26 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: For All Eternity
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1280
Re: For All Eternity
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.....
- Wed Aug 26, 2020 11:23 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: What is procedure for Stutzman?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 3147
Re: What is procedure for Stutzman?
... 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...
- Wed Aug 26, 2020 9:19 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Kenosha
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1383
Re: Kenosha
....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.....
- Tue Aug 25, 2020 3:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Badges? We ain’t got no badges!
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2522
Re: Badges? We ain’t got no badges!
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...
- Sun Aug 23, 2020 3:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Badges? We ain’t got no badges!
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2522
- Sun Aug 23, 2020 11:25 am
- Forum: OT - Off topic
- Topic: FJ - Some Humor To Brighten Your Day
- Replies: 857
- Views: 113619
- Thu Aug 20, 2020 4:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Badges? We ain’t got no badges!
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2522
Re: Badges? We ain’t got no badges!
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...
- Thu Aug 20, 2020 2:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Badges? We ain’t got no badges!
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2522
Re: Badges? We ain’t got no badges!
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...
- Wed Aug 19, 2020 7:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Bumper Stickers on Model t's
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2198
Re: Bumper Stickers on Model t's
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 ...
- Sun Aug 16, 2020 11:06 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: New to Forum and Model Ts
- Replies: 58
- Views: 3233
Re: New to Forum and Model Ts
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...
- Sat Aug 15, 2020 8:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: New to Forum and Model Ts
- Replies: 58
- Views: 3233
Re: New to Forum and Model Ts
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...
- Sat Aug 15, 2020 9:52 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: New to Forum and Model Ts
- Replies: 58
- Views: 3233
Re: New to Forum and Model Ts
...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...
- Wed Aug 12, 2020 9:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: New to Forum and Model Ts
- Replies: 58
- Views: 3233
Re: New to Forum and Model Ts
...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...
- Sun Aug 09, 2020 6:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: New to Forum and Model Ts
- Replies: 58
- Views: 3233
Re: New to Forum and Model Ts
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...
- Sat Jul 25, 2020 2:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Title help wanted from overseas
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1537
Re: Title help wanted from overseas
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 ...
- Sat Jul 25, 2020 9:35 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Title help wanted from overseas
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1537
Re: Title help wanted from overseas
...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...
- Thu Jul 23, 2020 1:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Title help wanted from overseas
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1537
Re: Title help wanted from overseas
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...
- Thu Jul 23, 2020 12:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: FJ - The Friendship Ford Is On The Road
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2252
Re: Good Turnout In St. Louis
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 ...
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:35 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Just Got My First T, Need Some Advice
- Replies: 122
- Views: 6655
Re: Just Got My First T, Need Some Advice
... 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...
- Thu Jul 16, 2020 9:22 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: MTFCA and MTFCI Representation in Georgia
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1297
Re: MTFCA and MTFCI Representation in Georgia
...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...
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 1:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: New Youtube series "Shifting History"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 816
Re: New Youtube series "Shifting History"
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.....
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 9:24 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Seat Belts, What of it?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3677
Re: Seat Belts, What of it?
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...
- Sat Jul 11, 2020 8:07 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3056
Re: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama
... 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."...
- Thu Jul 09, 2020 4:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: Great Tips from Dave Huson in Mile High Newsletter
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2324
Re: Great Tips from Dave Huson in Mile High Newsletter
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/
https://milehighpedalpushers.com/mhpp-home/tech-tips/
- Thu Jul 09, 2020 3:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3056
Re: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama
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....
- Wed Jul 08, 2020 4:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum (started 2019)
- Topic: They hung up on me!!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2680
Re: They hung up on me!!
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!
