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In my Ford literature collection zI have one of the 1915 Pan Pacific Ford Exhibition handouts which I presume you could have picked up if you saw the touring assembly show there, or maybe you received it if you bought one of the assembled cars. Beautifully printed. I've tried to resize photos so I c...

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That's amazing. Everyone in such detailed costumes, and lots of marching bands. They put a remarkable amount of effort into it. And the actually look like they are having a lot of fun.

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Yes, fascinating to watch!! Thanks Steve!!

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Oh my, she's a beauty. Is she running a "1913" Kingston 4 ball carb? Sweet ride.

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Wow, so many interesting cars and people. Looks like a Livingston V type radiator on the fire engine.

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Hopefully, this link will take you to one of their advertisements for the "Will Holl" improved patent rear end set up, to make any ford into a truck, from 1917. Pretty pricey, $225.00. https://books.google.com/books?id=Qrg_AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA12-PA80&lpg=RA12-PA80&dq=%22Will+Holl%22+patent&source=bl&ots=G...

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Just leave your wife at home. Or at least have a truthful conversation with her before you paint it. Theres a good chance she's really telling you she doesn't want to go. After you paint it, she may say then that there's not enough leg room, it's too hot, it's too cold, it's too windy, doesn't this ...

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The words "beautiful work" just don't do it justice. Great job! Hopefully, you can park it in your front room for a while.

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Jeff Humble is correct IMHO. One on the left strips the corn off the cobs and the other grinds or "cracks" the corn. I think I have that exact grinder on the garage. The patent date cast into the wheels is 1879 so it's pretty old school. I suppose you could try to grind coffee in it but the grind wo...

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Great Dan, thanks!

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Hi Dan,

I need 20 of these pin bolts. So I guess that's 2 sets.

This is a very big help to me, thanks so much.

I sent you a real email to your yahoo yesterday, if you want to communicate back to me on that too.

Thanks again, Rollie

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Hi Dale, I'd take that steering gear cover that's on the bottom of the photo if it's a brass one. It kind of looks like the top one is nicked and the bottom one is brass. Thanks. Rollie

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I could use the choke cable if you'd want to break up the set.

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Yup she's one hot flapper. If I recall correctly, the old whole expression in my neck of the woods was "come hither" "and yawn."

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Yup, that's true.

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Wow, I wish I could buy an old building in my neighborhood to store all my junk in for $10.00 a square foot. Everything around here is $300 to $400 a square foot.

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Bump for a great looking pair of foredoors. We need to get you some new steel toe boots!

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That's great. With some near crashes!

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If you are tired of waiting for an original, maybe try Rocker Arms Unlimited in California, phone 530-242-1316, website www.rockerarms.com
They do excellent work. They fixed my RAJO. I don't know if they'd work on lower-quality head like Frontys, but maybe thy would!!

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If you are tired of waiting for an original, try Rocker Arms Unlimited in California, phone 530-242-1316, website www.rockerarms.com
They built a set for my Rajo C35. If you have one to send them, then likely you will be in good shape.

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Yes, what a great deal on a great car.

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Hi Wallace, I'll take it. PM sent to you.

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I love the last photo showing the Small Pox warning sign on the car!

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Thanks Keith!!

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Hi Keith, I have a set of Pasco wheels and hubs, so I'll take the wrenches, thanks. I'll send you a PM.

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Tom, Are you using the original plumbing (inlet pipe and exit pipe) on that Whippet radiator? If so, does that work OK on your T motor, especially with the overhead? How'd you do that? I want to put my Whippet radiator on my speedster but I was worried I'd have to change out the plumbing to match th...

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When I was a kid many years ago, I picked up model t parts around my grand parents ranch put together a touring. The engine had a water pump that was iron and had the name Climax cast into the side of it. I would sometimes tell people that I was sure my grandma had a climax in this car. They'd look ...

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Ron. I don't know your email, so I can't email you directly as you request. I can email you thru this forum a third time maybe that will be the charm. I will try that now. Also, maybe you could email me your real email address, as the forum email works fine in both directions. Thanks. Best regards.

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I'll send you another.

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Sure, I will take them. Thanks, sending you an email thru the website.

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You might want to have Ray Wells just build you one. He's the go to person on these. And it will come with all the iron.

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I think it was trying to run on battery and needed to be switched over to magneto again.

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Telephoned.

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Sent you an email

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I'll take it. Sending you a PM.

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The boy is also proud because he is clearly wearing a nice pair of WWI Officers leather leggins, although he has both of them twisted around backwards (probably they were a lot easier to put them on that way, or for his mom or dad to put them on that way). Given the time-frame of the photos, I presu...

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Body tags showing American:

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Cool. Yup, it's Ford factory body finishing company for 1912. (1909-1912 and later). The link below has a photo of a ford factory winged ford paper body tag showing American was one of the ford body "finishers" as opposed to being one of the ford body manufacturers. It's a very interesting long stor...

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Or, alternatively, Walt is all hat and no cattle.

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Hi David, The rear Budd hubs I have are not Model T. Rollie

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Hi George,

I need a set of these. That be a pair for the front bow.

So, are these $45 for a set of 2? Thanks!

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Just a guess but Stewart Warner might be able to tell you if they made them and or if they can still supply the internals and connectors. They have a website. They used to make sever product lines for classic and vintage cars. I think they called the different product lines names like Nostalgic, Vin...

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You can pull up all the patents granted on that date. And just start looking for the one you want. I have done that for various model t aftermarket parts. There may be several hundred on a given day, so this is typically about a 3 beer project, at least for me.

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Gee, that is beautiful. I have a family photo of my G-pa sitting in his with g-ma and kids in 1920. And unlike a T, it has real brakes and so much more!

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Allen, no offense intended, but I don't see a later running board brackets or a later driveline housing as having any effect on price of a driver car, especially a black-era driver car. In the US, loose stock T chassis parts for 1917-1921 cars have typically have little to no current value. Unfortun...

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Look like a nice set of 60 spoke Pasco ?? wire wheels on the car in the last photo.

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A nice RHD 1913 that could use a wash. Original tyres?

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Rajoracer had a bunch of them hanging on the wall in his "thinning out my collection" below and at least some looked original.

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The 4th one down is from Peach Springs Arizona.

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I'd say correct. It's not a problem. Sometimes when you put them back together just randomly they'll do that worse than if you try to figure out which way they originally went. Sometimes one side is bent a little bit more than the other side and they sort of need to all Nest together on the same sid...

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I am always fascinated by woodworking and the rim you made came out great. Thanks

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How much? Thanks

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My wife has already told me that just as soon as I'm dead, she is having a big sale in the driveway, shoveling out all my collectbles ("your junk"), putting a dollar price tag on each item, and just calling the my few friends that she likes. Frankly. I was very surprised by this. Because I didn't kn...

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LOL, and when it got towed, it became the worlds' first 5th wheel.

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I bought several parts from her. She is helping her parents sell their T parts. So help her, don't be mean.

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The one thing that seems to be true IMHO is that Model Ts, all of them, from a monetary standpoint seem to be worth less and less as each day passes. A lot less. And the decline in value to me even seems worse for parts..... No one (us) is building cars up from parts like we used to. And money makes...

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I have no association with this, but thought some here might like the photos.I am always partial to a Whippet style radiator!

https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/ca ... 00127.html

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I have no association with this but thought you might like to see photos, as not many Gemsa powered speedsters come up for sale.

https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/de ... 68929.html

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So we all have to look at this for the rest of our lives. I'd say if this gets to 100, you owe us all a beer.

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Here you go;

https://www.ebay.com/itm/122951164925?h ... Swd4tT~~4X

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Any jewelry supply store sells Jax. They make many different solutions to tone all different metals, brass, silver, copper etc. It comes in small or large bottles. To tone model t brass, I personally use the Jax Brass toner for Brown Finish. There is also a brass solution with a blacker finish if yo...

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These years and these closed car coupe body styles were not desired back in the 1950s to 1970s and when the wood fell apart no one took the time to rewood them. The coupe bodies almost always were just thrown onto the large piles of rusty T Ford body tin, where from which they were never retrieved. ...

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Well said Wayne!

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I too love these time machine photos. The photo of Highway 60 in Arizona looks just the same, the same track out of the canyon north of globe Arizona heading toward Show Low arizona. Except now, there's always going to be like 12 motorhomes in front of you going up or down, all going about four mile...

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Noel, thanks for the idea, that is a good simple way to do it and that would get me down the road.Yes,I won't forget to peen!!!

John, I will try to find out who was making the reproduction Pasco caps, etc., thanks!

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I am getting close to completing a set of five Pasco 60 spoke wire wheels and I'm looking for the drive pins, or maybe they are called pin drives. I need 30 of them for the five wheels. I have 18, but they're all pretty worn. The pins are internally threaded and screw onto a stud that goes through t...

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Thanks guys! That's all very helpful.

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This is not my favorite task. I have beaten these out with a long chisel and hammer in the past to remove the ball bearing style, but thought I'd ask for suggestions now. Maybe a little heat on the race or the hub might help? Thanks.

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Happy Birthday Darel!!

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I like old ships and this a a pretty cool cap. If I had one, I'd put a small speaker in the bottom of it, and then when people are looking at the car, I'd quietly whisper "help me" "help me" into the microphone to freak them out! I do like the idea of a finned lower radiator pipe too, I also think t...

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Buy a new Ford and get rid of your mother in law at almost the same time? Seems like it that subtle inuendo would have marketing appeal to some buyers.. Have you ever heard of Henry Ford's mother in law?? No? Henry had a reputation for not being a nice guy, esp. not nice to his own family members. L...

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Beautiful car early car!! The mustachioed driver looks strangely German to me? I love the tire chains in dry weather on cobblestone pavement. Maybe the boss had been stuck in the mud before and he told the driver never to do that again!!The 1912 Ray Wells built towncar body I had drove horribly. The...

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Do the engine pans help with cooling? That's what I was told, but it is difficult for me to believe....

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Great photos! Thanks Tom!

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Could be Salt Creek Beach area near LA?

Live Cam of the beach there:

https://thesurfersview.com/live-cams/ca ... rf-report/

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In light of the recent "What is it " post trying to ID that head/engine, I thought you speedsters might like to review the article Pete Schumach wrote years ago; it still has a lot of good info in it:

https://www.nwvs.org/Technical/MTFCA/Ar ... Fronty.pdf

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I suspect people just Google "cranking a model" with the hope they'll get porn? Instead, they got you starting your car. Imagine their disappointment..

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He was a great craftsman and a great man. My condolences to his family and all that knew him.

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The original "Hot Rod Lincoln" song lyrics were written about racing up the Lewiston Grade...

https://lmtribune.com/a_and_e/that-hot- ... 52071.html

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Since it's in Lewiston Idaho, having spent a lot of my youth and the area, in all likelihood they were racing up or more likely down the Lewiston "Grade" on the highway. The highway drops about 2,500 feet in 5 miles so you can probably see how fun that would be. You have to go down pretty slow or yo...

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Use half inch conduit tubing that is sliced lengthwise and slip cut tube over the straight metal edge and tack weld the tube on. Much faster and cleaner than tapping out a wire edge with a hammer.

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She has some hairly legs! Is that an Arizona 1923 plate?

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My friend in Calif said he made some weed brownies last year in his manifold cooker. Said it worked out well because after eating them everyone on the tour was too afraid to drive over 25 mph. LOL

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Could be a town car. The whole place looks like Heaven to me....

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35 V8 truck grille is a one-off part. You'd be better off searching over at the hot rod HAMB website than here, it's a great website if you are not familiar. Some V8 hot rodder will have it. No one has that modem stuff here... https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/1935-ford-1-2-ton-pickup-gril...

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I told DMV my 1915 roadster was a 1-door and my 15 touring was a 3-door. And I insisted I was correct. That really confused them!!

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It does look gray not green on my computer. It looked greenish on my phone, sorry.

Yes get an exacto knife and take off a chip; they can scan it and match it exactly. No use to use the old forumala charts anymore...

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My 28 A pickup has Rock Moss green body and fenders, which is a carryover from the improved coupes and maybe the two-door sedans as well, I'm not sure on that I've never had a rock moss green 26 or 27 two-door sedan.. The 28 A pickup Rock moss green color looks like that, even though it's hard to te...

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You know, you're right, I bet that car was put together from parts from the British expeditionary force in Egypt, Palestine, and all over that area from about 1915 to about 1920? I forget what the problem was, I think the Ottomans or somebody attacked the British in Egypt. I do remember the story a ...

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Right hand steering, odd cowl lights, fenders all have an unusual pronounced bend design to the middle of them that I sort of like, odd hood 2 louver side panel, wind shield looks like just the top have of a Model t windshield?

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This photo is just too good not to post! 1920 Pike's Peak champ!!

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I love slanted louver hoods. The car looks likes it's going fast just sitting. Here is a 1922ish Lexington

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I have head envy.

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Love the look and patina on this speedster!

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https://theoldmotor.com/?p=175368

http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/b/bub/bub.htm

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That's definitely a first generation Man Cave. Maybe the first one ever?? Great car, all those girls, liquor, and a huge Teddy Roosevelt poster... I'd guess this guy was a rough rider, so to speak.

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1939. Early taper leaf front spring, one early oiler front shackle, one non oiler front shackle, some kind of little fork mounted headlights? What's he hiding under that LooNG canvas hood? This guy is making me feel a lot better about my own funky speedster!!

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I do a lot of fire claims, and the smoke that's on your car will prove to be extremely corrosive. You may have already concluded that by seeing that the nickel plating on your headlights is now ruined. This will happen to the rest of your metal electrical components although cleaning them as soon as...

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Beauty! A symphony of polished castings!!

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