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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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This is the plate on my 1924 Touring.

Kaiser wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 20, 2020 5:54 pm
Nothing quite equals the sheer joy of waking up in a damp tent, putting on your damp clothes and go out in the rain to have a morning pee Dick

Quite true, Leo, but it doesn't rain as much in Michigan as it does in NL (gelukkig!)

While it wasn't period correct, Anja and I decided to drive up to Oceana County Michigan in 2006. Our son was finishing up the summer as a staff member at Camp Miniwanca (which my dad attended in the 1920s and early 1930s, my sister and I attended in the 1950s, and all of my kids and her kids attend...

Thanks for posting those, Mark. I have largely stopped taking pictures at car shows, but I am always glad to see them.

Interesting. I went to high school with George Dorris's granddaughter.

https://mohistory.org/blog/automobile-row

I visited the OT area for the first time the other day and was surprised at how much activity there is over there and how interesting the discussion is. If all those OT threads had been posted in the general discussion forum, all those posters might have lingered and posted something related to Mod...

Steve Jelf wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 11, 2020 12:37 am
It's very likely I have some originals somewhere, but it will probably be weeks or months before I find them.

It won't be weeks or months. You will find them the Monday morning after the weekend when you need them.

Scott_Conger wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 08, 2020 1:59 pm
... Imagine if insurance was provided by only one source, and the coverage was what they said it was and not necessarily what you wanted.

Gee, we could call it "Autocare for All" and people could run for president on the issue.....

Walter Higgins wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 08, 2020 10:06 am
So if I come along on a hauling recommendation thread and say, "Avoid FJ"....

I thought this was a hypothetical discussion....

Walter Higgins wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 07, 2020 9:05 pm
That's called "forming an opinion based on the description provided by someone else" who also apparently was not present for what actually happened.

Isn't that pretty much what all of us here on the forum do every time we read a post? This is a discussion forum, not a court of law.

I have been with Hagerty for years. As I recall, one of the deciding factors for me was permitted use of the vehicle. Missouri has a generous policy on historical plates (thanks to the late Bud Barnes, State Representative and also old car hobbyist and Model T owner). He rewrote the historic vehicle...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horch

RustyFords wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 03, 2020 3:21 pm
Some whacko is surely going to demand that this is abusing the pigs and demand that it stop.

Don, first thing I thought of as well. Probably convincing anyone that PETA stands for Pigs Enjoying T Activities would be a hard sell.....

I never worried about anyone stealing the car, figured they couldn't drive it, even if they could start it. But I never thought anyone would steal the key. I have known quit a few T owners on tours who left the key in the ignition. That was always their argument, i.e. no one will know how to drive ...

From another website:

Beware! If you have an irresistible urge to buy another Model T, you could be suffering from... Car-owner virus!!

Not a problem on my desktop, Leo. I just click on a photo and it appears right side up.

Three engineers were discussing what kind of engineer God might be. The first said, "God must be a mechanical engineer. Just look at all the things we can do with our bones and muscles, all designed to work together in a wonderful way." The second said, "No, I think that God must be an electrical en...

Very well deserved. Sam taught me to drive a Model T about 25 years ago and got me hooked. A few years later, I owned one!

Sam's favorite parade is Veterans' Day. From left, Karl Abe, Sam Atkinson, Dick Lodge in 2016.

"Calvin Klein Wants Me ....."

Actually, Jim, it appears that Calvin Klien wants you. Probably a cousin of Mr. Clean....

Remember that Google is often your friend. https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showthread.php?t=250389&showall=1 https://www.ebay.com/itm/1955-lincoln-ford-nos-power-seat-window-relay-FDA-14677-A/283454078314?hash=item41ff2dfd6a:g:C9oAAOSwUuNctf8s https://www.ebay.ie/itm/1955-lincoln-ford-nos-power-seat-...

I will also give fair warning that when I assume my rightful position as Emperor of the World.... Age-appropriate joke. One day, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin were talking. Roosevelt said, "Last night, I dreamed that I was president of the world." Churchill said, "That's odd. I also had a dream l...

CJB wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 06, 2020 5:09 pm
Interesting. Maybe it's more common/less rare out west. We used it some as adolescents.

My grandparents were adolescents in the 1890s. May also have played a role....

Buncha jamtarts! Chris, my dad was born in Kingston, my grandmother's family were all from eastern Ontario and my grandfather's from the Maritimes. I was the only kid growing up in my St. Louis neighborhood who regularly had roast beef and Yorkshire pudding for Sunday dinner. This is, however, the ...

DHort wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 05, 2020 5:03 pm
FB won't let me copy the picture. ...

If you can't copy the picture itself, you can put it at the middle of your screen and take a screen shot, then open the screen shot in a graphics program and save it.

Thanks to everyone for your help.

He was born in 1904, so he was in his twenties in the picture. It was taken somewhere in or near St. Louis, MO.

A good friend of mine just received a huge envelope of family photos that included this picture of her uncle as a young man. She asked me to identify the make and year of the car and I had no idea. I told her that I had access to an amazing source of automotive historical knowledge and that I would ...

... and knowing the drivers by name and face ... Scott, there was a time some years ago that I received 2-4 UPS Next Day or Second Day Air envelopes a week and had to sign for them. If I wasn't here, the driver would leave a notice of attempted delivery. Sometimes it was something that I really wan...

Bill D wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 19, 2020 12:14 am
... The first one the white house is the one called the "Little House" the second one is the "Rock House....

Bill, I found the thread on the old forum of the 2007 Show-Me Tour that included Mansfield. I have posted a link to it on the "main forum" here (since it has plenty of Model T pictures).

A recent discussion in our "Off-Topic" forum evolved into an exchange between Bill Dugger and me about Mansfield MO and the Wilder homes and museum. That got me to thinking about the Show-Me Tour in that area. A little digging turned up the fact that the tour was in 2007. Just to see what I might fi...

How are things in ST Louis? I was in the Ozarks this past May for my 67 year out of High school back there. I saw the new Wilder Museum in Mansfield and what a gem. If you have never been there and you are in the area do take the time and the tour. Bill, you're ahead of me. My high school class had...

Bill, that can also work in unintended ways. When I was a kid, I remember that my dad would sometimes answer the phone with, "Kelly's Pool Room, Kelly speakin'." Then one day the call was from a vice-president of the company he worked for, calling from New York. The caller hung up and I think Dad ma...

I am curious why they say the linked-to photograph is "September 1921"? Most of the other pictures in the line-up are dated between 1927 and 1931. Those dates all appear to be near correct. The "1921" picture clearly is not that early. Most of the cars are enclosed bodied cars, a scenario that woul...

The online edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch regularly runs features taken from the paper's archives. Not surprisingly, they often include pictures of cars and trucks of the day, as well as other interesting stuff. https://www.stltoday.com/news/archives/photos-work-in-the-s-and-s-widened-severa...

Rich Eagle wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 13, 2020 3:43 pm
BIG JON AND SPARKY, Saturdays at 8:00 AM. 1950 thru 1958

Yup. Later called "No School Today." Theme song Teddy Bears' Picnic.

I clearly remember the moonlanding in the summer of '69.... Leo, I was working in Amsterdam at that time for a Dutch subsidiary of an American company, and had had dinner that evening at the apartment of two American women who had been transferred there from New York. The TV was on and we were watc...

Rob, I just posted a link on the Austin 10 Owners Group on Facebook. Good luck!

...A lot of time the person would scream " my barns on fire" and hang up. .... Reminds me of the farmer who called the fire department and shouted, "My barn's on fire! You gotta come as fast as you can." Fireman said, "Wait! Don't hang up. How do we get there?" Farmer says, "Well ya still got that ...

... When the band played a march, Don would invite listeners at home to get up and march around the breakfast table, so I did..... When I was eight, we moved from a 2-bedroom house to a 3-bedroom house. (I didn't know it at the time, but it was because my parents had found out that my sister was on...

Cory, in 2007 a group of people I was in the Air Force with the mid-sixties decided to have a reunion in Colorado Springs. The day our reunion ended, a couple of Colorado Model T clubs had organized a tour that started in Loveland. My late wife and I decided to trailer the T to the reunion and then ...

This sort of relates to a discussion in another thread. I don't know whether Cory lives a block and a half away from me or across the country. There really is something to say for knowing where we are when we're carrying on a discussion.

If you click on "PROFILE" the locations are there. Yes, if you look for it, you can find it. But up until fairly recently, it was shown on the right side of the message along with the other information. As Fred pointed out when he started this thread, one day it simply disappeared. The fact that it...

I hadn't noticed, but you're right. I have always thought that the location of the poster was useful information for being able to offer help. Wonder why it's gone.

...To prevent this from happening to us, we set the home to the house across the road and down a couple hundred yards.... Fred, I did the same thing when I first got a GPS. Set "Home" to a place a little over a block away. All I needed was to get into the neighborhood. Three years ago, I downsized ...

There will no doubt be other answers, but you will surely be told to contact a local Model T club. In addition to the cameraderie, it will be a very useful source of information.

https://www.mtfca.com/clubpages/chapters.htm#ok

fschrope wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 28, 2019 11:32 am
Since no one else seems to be replying, I will. Stan is a '42 Model. I"m a '43 and Dick, IIRC, you're just postwar. Right? No biggie, we're all "Ole Farts"..........and love it.

Nope, Fred. Six weeks to the day before Pearl Harbor. Definitely a '41 model....

Stan, I can never remember if I'm a little older than you are or you're a little older than I am. Either way, I just stand back when my birthdays go by and give a brief nod. Then I go back to whatever I was doing. Hope you have a good day.

Dallas Landers wrote: ↑
Thu Dec 26, 2019 2:02 pm
" All his friends" both of them?

Yes, Dallas, but one of them is imaginary and he found the other one in the phone book....

Dick, i'm in Spakenburg, near Amersfoort, so "boven de rivieren" but when i happen to be traveling South i'll look him up ! Fijne kerst ! According to Google Maps, 57 km or 41 minutes. De moeite waard als je in eenden geïnteresseerd bent. Heb kerstavond en 1e kerstdag bij m'n dochter en schoonzoon ...

In essence it is the same idea that made Henry design the model T but created around forty years later and by French engineers, well.... As I recall, what André Citroën told his engineers was that he wanted a car that a farmer could drive across a plowed field with a basket of eggs on the back seat...

Dick, ... were all your 2cv's that same blue color ? I think the first one in Paris was just a generic blue, the one in Holland was kind of an off-white as I recall. The one that was shipped here was called "bleu myositis" ("forget-me-not blue"). Am I the only one who sees the humor in Citroen chan...

Uh, yeah .... I'd say the 2cv is pretty wonky ! :lol: :lol: :lol: I have owned three of them: one when I lived in Paris, one when I lived in Holland (gas rationing had been introduced and my weekly allowance wasn't enough to get back and forth to work in the Audi) and one here in the US. A Dutch fr...

...to freeze my email if I didn't click on the link. It said something was "batten" but didn't mention hatches. Steve, I remember that one. As I recall, it wanted you to click on the "batten." Right consonants, wrong vowels. When I get one that purports to be from a bank, I generally forward it to ...

Nothing here, FWIW.

Nothing like occasional posting of a standalone name to make me think that we've lost another member followed by the realization that we haven't. Who knows? Perhaps an adrenaline rush every now and then is good for us...

The French design aesthetic has always been wonky, compared to elsewhere, from this sloped down hood to the 2cv and Citroen D series, nevermind the Panhards .... Burger, this is the car I bought and drove when I was living in Paris in 1968. You tellin' me I had a wonky car?? eend parijs 68.jpg

In 1929, my dad was a student at Washington University in St. Louis, and was also in the ROTC program. He and three of his buddies were assigned to attend summer camp at Camp Knox, Kentucky. They bought a 1920 Model T, made some modifications to carry themselves and their luggage and set off. (I hav...

Sorry, I forgot my good friend Google.

https://soundcloud.com/stanton-howe/sets/stan-howe

As an aside to all this, a song I wrote 30++++ years ago when I was a famous Cowboy singer, "Take Me Back Along the Yellowstone" has been sung at a lot of funerals in the West, some times by me and quite often by others. I have had people contact me and ask for permission to have it sung at their f...

On Sunday:
Chag urim sameach!

On Wednesday:
Merry Christmas!
Joyeux Noël!
Prettige Kerstdagen!

It's nice to hear Merry Christmas again! I guess it wasn't politically correct for awhile. Anyone who wants to wish me something happy, merry or otherwise good, regardless of the religion, national origin, native language, philosophy or politics of either the wisher or the wishee is welcome to do s...

Speaking of books and Christmas, this is apparently still available. I bought it several years ago.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Th ... frontcover

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...I still pick up pennies, and I prefer coins over paper dollars. I'm not sure about all the countries in the world, but of the ones I am familiar with, the U.S. is the only country with a paper bill for such a small value. Smallest in Canada is five dollars, in the eurozone 5 euros, in the UK fiv...

R.V.Anderson wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 21, 2019 10:40 am
I doubt those parts were genuine Ford. Ford, which cranked out reverse drums by the bazillion, had to get a whopping $3.00 for theirs....

Okay, $43.48 in 2019 dollars. Still inflation....

Using an inflation calculator on my phone, $1.95 in 1925 (middle of "the twenties") would be $28.25 in 2019 dollars. "Inflation!!!" indeed.

This is old, so it may have appeared on one of the iterations of this forum before, but it's still funny.

Dat klopt. Regelmatig in het Turks, heel af en toe Vietnamees maar inderdaad nooit Koreaans.

Kohnke Rebabbitting wrote: ↑
Mon Nov 18, 2019 3:18 pm
I give up, where is the Off Topic section?

At the top of the screen, click on "MTFCA Forums," then scroll down and click on "Off Topic."

My condolences as well. I wish Mike strength in what I know is a difficult time.

While not opening the post itself, I ran the subject of the Vietnamese message through Google Translate. It came out as "Share two ways to play football betting faint always win!" Okay, I get the odd reasoning behind spamming: "If one person in a hundred responds, that's still one percent and if we ...

The Travel section of today's Sunday Post-Dispatch had a long feature article on the Henry Ford. Despite its distance from St. Louis, the article seems to suggest that an eight-hour drive or a one-hour flight is worth it. That's probably correct. (And yes, I put it here instead of Off-Topic because ...

Mark, thanks for the Firefox tip. I didn't know that. Just tried it and it works. Will make things much easier in the future. Steve, I tend to choose addresses where relatives or friends lived 20 or 30 years ago. That eliminates their being obvious (like a birthday), and they include an upper-case l...

The moment the guns fell silent. Eerie indeed...

https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/07/eerie-re ... 1-8114109/

Thank you for that, Fred.

Here are the cars from the St. Louis club before the parade started. We knew immediately that it was a military parade because we had to hurry up and wait.

Harry, all my ancestors on my father's side were born in Canada, including my father. My Canadian military credential was my great-uncle, my grandmother's younger brother, who died in April 1917 at Vimy Ridge and who is buried at a Commonwealth military cemetery in northern France. The family was fr...

Yes, what Mark said.....

November 11th (originally Armistice Day) commemorates the end of World War I, when the guns fell silent at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. In the U.S. it is now observed as Veterans Day, which honors all who served in the Armed Forces. In the Commonwealth countries, it is Re...

Here is the obituary on the funeral home page:

https://www.stumpff.org/obituaries/Larr ... !/Obituary

"This page isn't available
The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed."

Great Race, pulling into Peoria. (2000?)

Late night maintenance.

This was the sign that Ralph put on his T one year when DST ended.

I miss his posts here on the forum....

Chuck, I am in Missouri so no help. On the other hand, you sent me to Google to find out what the heck the "twin tiers" refers to. Thanks.

Apparently in San Francisco....

https://books.google.com/books?id=O53ws ... et&f=false

P.S. Looked at the on-line American Car Collector November-December 2019 and they apparently only include select articles on line. No Carnegie article. Have to check the local supermarket or the library, I guess.

My friend Dick Lodge. Do you have a fear of a friend passing? No, I have simply noted through the years that an announcement on the forum of the demise of a regular participant is often indicated by just the name of the departed friend. I think I would be aware enough to know that my standalone nam...

I've commented on this before and no doubt will again, but if the title of this thread were "Article about Tom Carnegie," I wouldn't have had an instant of worry seeing only his name as a thread title. Just sayin'....ne

Done - Chris

Thanks, Chris. Dick

Okay, you want "Ol' Timers," here are "Ol' Timers"!!

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/80257/112549.html

Dom Denio wrote: ↑
Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:57 pm
Thanks for the information. I missed Missouri in my list. Too funny.

Dom, when you live in St. Louis, the only two Springfields that matter are the one in Illinois and the one in Missouri...

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