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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...

The annual Hillbilly Tour is put on by the Heart of the Ozarks Chapter of MTFCA. They are based in Springfield, Missouri.

Leo, mijn excuses. Ik heb vergeten jouw naam te noemen in mijn bericht.

Leo, my apologies. I forgot to mention your name in my post.

Good to see the Dutch Model T community potentially expanding...

Tonny, have you been in contact with any of the Dutch Model T people? Toon Boer in Klaaswaal or Bert van Amstel in Naarden? They should be able to help.

Als je mij een mail wilt sturen, is mijn adres dlodge-apestaartje-nedcons-puntje-com.

Good luck!

StanHowe wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 07, 2019 11:52 am
I've seen a lot of people flounce off in a snit. Most are not missed.

Thanks, Stan.

I went off in a Huff once, but the Huffs are notorious for water pump and carburetor problems. I decided to trade it in and considered a Snit, but ended up getting a Ford instead.

I'm always a bit skeptical about a quote attributed to someone in the past. This one, of course, is "part of history" according to many, but then, so is Caesar's quote: "All Gaul is divided into three parts." The correct quote would be "Gaul as a whole is divided into three parts." Not a lot differ...

Steve Jelf wrote: ↑
Thu Oct 03, 2019 10:45 pm
Everybody should know that by now. We were doing so well, too. It had 0 responses for a long time.

I know. That's why I decided to post the reminder.

Whenever anyone posts anything on a spam thread (even something like "Why is this here?"), it moves the post to the top of the thread. Please, please... IGNORE THEM!

Thank you.

Space for carrying stuff can be a problem with a Model T, especially a runabout. Steve, this thread sent me back in time. In 1972, Anja and I married in Holland, and in 1974 we bought our 1936 Austin Ten Sherborne. In 1976 our daughter was born and in 1977 we decided to move to the U.S. We had alre...

... when the weather changes, as it often does in the Netherlands. Yes, it does. It changes from light rain to heavy rain to moderate rain to light rain and then back to heavy rain. When I lived in NL, there were days that I would wake up and think, "If I look out the window and it's raining again ...

When we go out in our antique autos we wear not only dusters, but a lot of original, and period-correct repro, clothing as well. In addition to correct hats, gauntlets, and goggles, our collection includes dresses, blouses, pants, shirts, shoes, etc. For certain shows we also carry an antique porta...

1 Why is there air? 2. How do I get $100,000,000 for my hobbies? (after some thought I added another 0 to the amount and probably should add yet another one or two) 3. Where do I find the stuff that will allow me to live a long and happy life? 1. According to an old Bill Cosby LP I have, it is so w...

Hmmmm.... Bufalini, Giulia, Angelina, Martino, Dante.... I may be going out on a limb here, but I am thinking "Italian family" - è vero?

You should not be on the Interstate under normal driving conditions unless you can maintain that speed. It's kind of a case of, "Yes, but..." I suspect that state and county roads that cross the Mississippi on bridges are pretty much few and far between. Steve's solution seems like a good one. The ...

I would guess that he was born before 1800. October 1788 in Kentucky. Very common in going through my ancestors in the 19th century to find them born in Virginia, Kentucky or Pennsylvania and dying in Illinois, Missouri or Arkansas. No one in the opposite direction (and no one made it to Kansas). T...

Brings back memories, Steve. When I was in the 8th grade, my class was put on a bus and taken to Springfield and New Salem. I doubt we appreciated it as much as we would have later. This is the grave of my 3xgreat-grandfather, James Walker, in a cemetery in Scott County that you passed on your way t...

And when we arrive at 58 separate sections, most posts won't be read. The reason each post has a subject is so that potential readers can be informed of what the post concerns and choose to read it or not. Basically, you seem to be saying that, instead of a General Discussion Forum about Model Ts, w...

Steve, in 1972, I brought Anja to the US to meet my parents. One of the side trips we made while we were here was to Springfield to see the Lincoln home. One thing that struck me at the time was that the guide who conducted the tour consistently spoke of Lincoln in the present tense. I remember, for...

Superb story, with the sole exception of "An elderly gentleman stopped to talk. We talked about the car, his kids, and his business. He was 70 years old..." Excuse me? "Elderly gentleman"? "70 years old"? Just you wait, Dave!

Mark Osterman wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 11, 2019 7:14 am
Are there new messages to read? I don’t see them even though this thread keeps coming to the top.

Yes, look in the lower right and click on the blue "2."

(Hmmm... Guess Mark won't see this. Vicious circle. Will copy it once it appears and send it to him in a PM.)

Many years ago, I had a friend whose family lived in Concord MA. There was a street there whose name I thought was brilliant. I could just imagine a meeting of the town fathers to name streets and roads. "What are we going to call that old road to nine acre corner?" "Hey, I have an idea!" old road.j...

Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of it, but in 1970, I lived in Amsterdam and was driving to Paris. This was before the European equivalent of our Interstate highways, and the roads in Belgium were not always very well marked. At one point, I was on a two-lane highway through the countryside an...

I have entered shows through the years, but never in order to win a trophy. I just like to let people look at the car and answer their questions. It's especially fun to encounter an old-timer who owned one as a teen. That said, I did end up with a handful of trophies through the years. They fell int...

Mark, my solution probably won't work for you. Being a fair-skinned blond (well, gray now), I have always preferred shade over sun. My solution in the T is to keep the top up 98% of the time. I rarely get sunburned and so far have never had skin cancer.

There is indeed a lot of disagreement about "Doctor's Coupe." I don't see the problem. I have a "Translator's Touring."

dlmyers wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 02, 2019 9:32 am
Wasn't Herb Shriner the guy that said he spent the war in a "rear echelon mess kit repair battalion "?

My favorite line on that subject has probably always been Steve Allen's, "During the war, my father served in a British Thermal Unit."

As a side note, Winchester is the county seat of Scott County and its population is given as 1,650. When we were at the Burgoo one year, Anja bought a T-shirt that read, "Where the hell is Winchester? Between Riggston and Alsey." Alsey's population is 246 and I can't find a listing for Riggston. Sev...

Dick Lodge... Please... what is a Burgoo According to Wikipedia: "Burgoo is a spicy stew, similar to Irish or Mulligan stew, often served with cornbread or corn muffins. It is often prepared communally as a social gathering. It is popular as the basis for civic fund-raisers in the American Midwest ...

Steve, exploring in Google Maps, I figure that you went through Winchester (in Scott County) shortly after you crossed the Illinois River. You could have stopped at the Winchester Cemetery to pay your respects to my grandparents and great-grandparents and swung by the Baker Cemetery at the edge of a...

Not often, but I have used my Garmin GPS in my T and it has worked. Dean Yoder, of course, is the resident authority on such matters....

I seem to recall that, some years ago, there was a problem with Firestone tires on some Ford SUVs. I also seem to recall a replacement deal of some sort. (I don't remember things as well as I once did.) I remember at the time that I had Firestone tires on my '24 Touring and toyed with the idea of dr...

The ones I like the least are posted by someone trying to contact someone else on the forum that list only the name. When I see it, I assume it's going to be bad news instead of a contact request. How about adding "Trying to reach..." before the name?

Not a bumper sticker but a roadside billboard. Some years ago, a cousin in Canada sent me this. It had been put up by the Saskatchewan Pork Council to encourage people to buy more pork. Someone apparently explained to them the problem with the message, and the billboard came down soon after. :D pork...

Prachtig!!

keqwow wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 18, 2019 5:27 pm
...which the index labels as 33-3-36 (Volume 33, Issue 3, page 36).

And the publication is..... ??

I have a straw boater and it's probably the most uncomfortable hat I own. I agree it fits with the Model T, but so does a newsboy cap and the latter is wa-a-a-ay more comfortable to wear.

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In the same category as ladies not wearing white shoes after Labor Day....

Burger in Spokane wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 17, 2019 12:20 am
...he turned to me, as he knows I consort with sketchy figures of the old car underworld.

I understand that there's even a "forum" where those sketchy figures hang out and talk about oil and stuff.

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