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Dealer Keys. It's easier to grab the master set to bring cars in and out, move them around, etc... that way the keys for the car didn't get lost. I'm not sure how many were available outside the "official Ford network" but if you ran a shop or dealership garage where you worked on a lot of cars, it ...

I think his white face is a "wound mask", fairly common in the post-ww1 era when people would survive a ghastly, debilitating event (say half his face blown off), as to appear normal in public... There was a popular TV show (Boardwalk Empire?) where one of the main characters lost a third of his low...

Gee, Dan... If you really feel the need to scrap it send it my way instead, I have a '17 motor that will likely not get a starter, and the iron hogshead is a LOT more durable (and less hard to get) than the aluminum version... They only made them for what, 3 years or so?

I believe Henry Ford thought that hemp fibers were a good ingredient in his attempts to make a composite car body in 1941. 61FCBEE0-15D0-4DE4-87FE-BEFA98C96D32.jpeg The (East) Germans did something similar for the bodies of the (infamous) Trabant... using cotton waste and resin for body panels. Whi...

Back 50 years ago most vehicles did not have a refrigeration plant installed in their car for "passenger comfort" - we had "4-60" air conditioning, Bee-catcher swamp coolers, etc... even 30 years ago my work truck had a heater and vent, and if you needed it cooler there was a 2 speed fan bolted to t...

That's great to hear, both for the 30x3 1/2's and the x3's... impatiently waiting! --lol--

Here's where it gets fun. The MOTOR in the car dates it to December 1915 (a day shy of car 1,000,000)... so people say automatically it's a '16... EXCEPT... the body number dates it to Mid-August 1915... so it's a '15. And the accessories on the car come from the 20's... and that's fine. It's not a ...

Need to put a "drive-in" next to that "airport"... could sell billion-dollar hamburgers. :lol: It's hard to fathom being around from before we set foot on the moon to actually flying an aircraft on Mars... what a great time to be alive! And my car has seen even more... like before one could fly acro...

And used to adjust the output of your generator by moving the third brush's position...

It's easy - if a mask is required, wear a mask. If a mask is not required bu you feel more comfortable wearing one, then wear one. If you're fully vaccinated and don't want to wear a mask and it's not required, then don't. If you're not sure - well, you've been wearing a mask for the past year... N-...

I wonder... it's just a WAG, but It almost looks like a burner control valve for a boiler...

I don't know about gold... maybe silver...

Boat people have a saying, that boats are just a hole in the water that you pour money in to .... Are airplanes just a hole in the sky that one pours money in to ??? High powered motor with a spinning shredder blade on the front, that you rev up as fast as you can, stand in front of it, and throw b...

Just wait until we have people who buy one of these, um, "things" and decide it's a real T...

1975-ish (maybe i was earlier, it was around then) a couple of miscreant Model T Affecianodo's, a heavily mustacio'd guy named Ed, another Ford enthusiast named Larry, and a few other old car miscreants ( :lol: ) built a replicant of one of the coast to coast cars, for enrty into the Ensenada to La ...

This is one of my favorites: Prix-des-reparations.jpg Cuthbert's Model T Garage Service & Repairs Motto: "We may not do the best work in town, but we're slow !" If we can't fix it, we won't. Sign that should have been on a now defunct motorcycle shop that I worked at for about 2 weeks, and left afte...

Brasso isn't what it used to be. Neither was that old grey mare... I've used Nev-R-Dull wadding, it works (or at least it did) fairly well. I like the ketchup idea. Also someone said if I had coffee pot descaler, mix it up like you're descaling a coffee pot, get it hot, and the tarnish will almost r...

999 or the Arrow...

or any one of the early "Ford Special" race cars (since they were not technically a production T)...

More realistically, an F2 with a flathead V8 and 4WD.

Suzanne, the other side of the tracks is where the low income people live. Do you call the Interstate the highway, the freeway, or the expressway? We use all three terms here. The Freeway has on and off ramps, the Highway has streets that intersect with it (not ramps), and the expressway has fewer ...

Hey Dave, you know what they say about "fast" women!

Wow, Goat just brought back a whole passel of memories... That 2 door 2 passenger hardtop was a "Coop" (like he chicken coop). The 4 door with a back sea was a Sedan (pronounced SeeDan). The 2 door ones were a "two door". A roadster was the upscale version of something small, quick, and (when I was ...

I had heard the looms on which the scandanavian linings were made on were scrapped, and that's why they're no longer made...

Fifteen thousand dollars for what is (obviously) a later "nineteen bitsa"... I looked at it about 5 minutes, there's so much wrong, regardless of what year car you're building, that you'll be into it another 10 or so to correct everything... I'm guessing you can sell the hodgepodge of parts and make...

I have a kitchen scale that reliably goes to 0.1 g. I got from one of the online kitchen supply houses (originally for weighing flour - fresh bread, anyone?? :mrgreen: )... it has a decent sized platform, and I check it against known weights and is (apparently) still accurate... It has a maximum of ...

After the days of Bay Bridge Sue? Y-u-u-u-u-p! I used that one for a looooong time, tho honestly, I had such a rash of bad (as in gleefully abusive to the point of tears) bosses from there I needed to change it, both for my own sanity and to disassociate my "normal" life with people like that. 8-)

Been my first name since the o-o-o-o-ld forum, where pretty much everyone used their name. Easier to remember that way, which makes a difference as we get older... um... what were we talking about? :lol: On other forums I also go by "Lassen Forge", after the 1870's blacksmith shop that our 1970's ho...

I tried this as well with my '61 Fury, and it too ran really hot - I came to the conclusion that while it may have a higher boiling point (and lower FP) that it's thermal conductivity was apparently horrible as compared to good old H2O or a 50/50 mix... To me that's the important factor - even if "w...

BAR is great for regulating businesses, and shutting down businesses that are doing cruddy work... but if you have your cousin's brother's friend off Del Paso or north on Watt, (you're in Sacto, you know of where I speak) who knows a neighbor named Vlad and his brother in law Iggy who can do that fo...

It's Sacramento, and it has no basis in reality. It started with a couple people running "shade tree" shops out of their garages (and up and down their street, around the block, etc. etc.), and making a shambles of the neighborhood (and yeah, I remember them, and they really were that bad), but the ...

It was known as the Carrington event, it was caused by a massive solar flare that was aimed at the earth when it cut loose... unleased all kinds of havoc. We came a gnats eyebrow to one a couple years ago, fortunately it was off by a few degrees... otherwise we'd all be responding to the board by ca...

Steve actually had a valid point about not having our "rabies shots" (as I'm jokingly calling it) yet... I just made it past the 2 week post #2 last Wednesday, and with both of us having "pre-conditional conditions" and the other half still early in recovery from rotator cuff reconstruction surgery,...

Here is one that reflects part of your thought I think http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/179374/249787.html?1322924618 photo below Hitch4.jpg Yes, that's what I was kinda sorta exactly talking about. It's like a tractor wher the pull draw is tied to the axle housing... :mrgreen: It would (maybe ...

I remember when I was a kid in my 20's and going to swap meets, if I showed up on Sat AM then it was halfway done. I got my Indian snubbers and the head gasket for my rajo there... Think about this. Swap mets used to be Friday to Sunday, now heven help us if we have to be out ther Saturday Morning.....

If I thought I was going to hit a phone pole (or up here, where sugar or lodgepole pines, ponderosa pines, dougie firs et al grow wild) I would bail out of my car WAY before that tree could do us damage... Seriously, thats part of paying attention to your surroundings.... IF you can't avoid your sof...

My thoughts on this is fab up a multi-point hitch, 2 coming from bolted collars around each axke hald at the pumpkin, 2 bolted to the frame, almost like a 3 point (or in this case, 4 point) hitch geometry... I would NOT trust either the spare tire carrier (as it wasn't designed for those kinds of dy...

THIS is getting fun!!! Thanks! Yep, that's what I was talking about... My car(s) will run as long as there's gas in the tank and it's not turned into syrupy varnish... Then... what? I've heard people talk about running them on alcohol, but is that really feasable, and even then, you'll have corrosio...

However, in a modern car, a "fatal error" isn't as fatal as plate glass... :lol: I'll say it's a toss up. And if we DO get hit with an EMP style nuclear attack (because a deliberate EMP attack will be generated by a thermonuke or better over our heads) having a running car will be the least of our w...

The one a few up of "Black Butte outside Mt. Shasta City" is where I-5 runs along that same right of way... BTW, the "Black Butte" is actually a volcanic cinder mound, and yes, it's both black and it's still there... So the original 2-ish lane "highway" is now a 4-6 lane freeway. And up near the top...

But why NOT have the hammer on the right side of the car, whacking around the driver?? --lol-- -- WHAP!! Sorry, mate! -- I remember as a kid people still running 1/4 and 38' mile dirt tracks as "exhibitions" and having hoop-caged polo cars out on a field would be wild!!! Would I do it? You betcha!!!...

You actually can tell the "southern track" cars for where the wheels are on the fenders... on a (pardon me) "Damyankee" car, the tires are pretty centered on the fenders, on a Southern tread, they are right on the outer edge. I always wanted a Southern Tread set of axles and the matching wishbones, ...

I agree with George, every time you do a photo "dump" I spend (literally) hours poring through your photos, everything from TT cab bodies to historic photos of how life was when our cars were new... I'd lodge a complaint, but like a good addict, all I can say is "More, more, more"! --lol-- THANK YOU...

I kept hearing how you could use a T coil to do an electric fence, and now I get it!!! That glass tube and bearing is the heart of zapping bears, elk, and coyotes who want a free chicken dinner... I've always wanted to make a T coil electric fence (after I nailed myself on a T spark coil) and I thin...

Well the current motor is "factory cast iron pistons" stock. But I could see myself doing the next one with aluminum pistons, a Waukesha head, SCAT crank, just enough porting to smooth the intake passages, and a slightly higher lift cam. I've got a mid-1920s Winfield pamphlet that listed the 4V for...

I've always noticed the auto polo cars I've seen have a rather interesting roll cage on them... I'm guessing so when (not if) they went on their sides they'd continue on over and (hopefully) land on their pins again... as if it was a regular and expected occurence to have the rubber sides up... Also...

No, it's a HORRIBLE carb, you'll hate it, just send it to me and i'll be glad to get rid of it for you! :lol: :D :lol: :D :lol: :D I run one, they take a bit of finesse to get it dialed in (they can be a little "fussy"), and be careful as some parts are fragile as heck, but once you do you might jus...

Darn! Using the "Dating Game" picture clue, I was going to guess he didn't have a cute blonde next to him in the car.

in 1948 I wasn't even a gleam in my daddy's eye yet, not by a long shot, and my in-laws had just PCS'd from Trinidad to London...

I usually tend not to doubt the integrity of the CHP when they do a vehicle inspection prior to issuing or verifying a vehicle... but in this case I'll make an exception. Then again, if it's not a highway vehicle, someone can "call" it whatever they want, just like my 6 CI briggs powered Learjet 75 ...

I was a kid, maybe 7 or 8, close friends of our family (called them Grandpa Tony and Gramma Annie) had horses, someone got the idea to put me on the back of Grandpa's docile, older, totally loving quarter working gelding, Tequila... the horse had NEVER done anything to question it's utter vanilla di...

I'm not sure I'd use a wire brush - steel wool would probably be a lot safer... What I'd worry about (having done it) is trying to melt on new solder contacts to the base and losing the glue that way...

That would be a fun project to take home... looks like it may be set up 2 high side 2 low side... still, I bet that put out a SIGNIFICANT volume of air. (not to mention probably a considerable amount of oil in the air stream from blow-by - wouldn't want to use it to fill my SCBA tanks!) What would b...

I keep thinking somehow something is binding either the timing gears or the transmission gears... maybe a dropped bolt / washer / cotter key? Once it's wedged in there you're locked up... sad part is you have to get into it to find it, but once it's out it should turn normally, Good luck, Steve!

I know of people having fought the corruption of certain "manufacturing vendors overseas", and I swear, unless you can travel there to hold them to account and keep them honest, this kind of thing is not uncommon. Also... I had a family member who went through this... decided to turn his hobby in hi...

The one in the first post.

And my uncle (who is a bowtie affectionado) used to say that a quarter horse was the power rating on most Ford cars...

Reminds me of the old slam they used to say about Franklins - Great cars, but you need to check the frames for termite damage... That is one clean, well lighted, and organizd dealership... Mr. Ford would have been proud. BTW - white coveralls added to that until they got dirty. And dirty they would ...

You can say that again. We had a cattle hauler bringing a mixed load of herefords (Smaller heifers, larger steers & a pair of full sized cows) and someone at the yard half-loaded the top part of the trailer with the 2 cors and all the steers, then filled the bottom with the lighter heifers... he too...

I agree, these are fascinating and give a feel for the days when our cars were young.. plus the captions are a blast... #3 - early Ford ad slogan - "When you have a Ford, you won't go to the dogs." #15 - Providing you excellent service, Manny, Moe, and, um, "Mac"?? #21 - I was told it was a drive-th...

I'm just glad this post is here so we can x-ref them to the other sub-forum.

Darn, I love that trailer (complete with round felloe wheels) - the patina is great, and I'd say that once you stabilize the bed (maybe blacksmithed round stock from the "fron motor mount" to the end of the bed (wonder why the builder never did that??) it looks like it was built to m-o-o-o-o-ve some...

It was called Cyclone after the company in Michigan in the 1880's (at least here), it wouldn't surprise me if they opened a branch in Australia... IIRC the famous "rabbit proof fence" was made of Cyclone mesh. It's history is to me (who installed many, many rolls of the stuff) was fascinating - it c...

#9 -
"Ernie, I just can't get it to start..."
"Well, Clem, I think she's flooded."

first in the last bunch - The first pre-MTFCA national tour... (I think some of us were there...)

Glassworkers head for working with "spun glass" and glass tubing. You wanted the hot spot where both flames cross each other (ergo the adjustability of it). (One of my long ago former coworker's brother had a custom neon sign shop; each of his workstations had these heads mounted to a workbench to b...

Wow!!! Nice save on the "wavy" cyclone material (which is becoming, if not unobtanium, Hardtofindium, in its own right) and REALLY cool on the repop sides.

...but truly came to an end when the parking lot rental went from $200 per year to $12,000!! The event would only NET about $1000... before the price hike!!! The person they dealt with for 20+ years retired and was replaced by someone who was going to correct the public school systems perpetual cas...

This is the number on my '22 Centerdoor I just realized how awesome that picture is - From the club for those new-fangled Fords with shifty transmissions and clutches: 1920. Efforts were started in 1916 to locate a Ford assembly plant in Des Moines. The facility was completed at Nineteenth St and G...

I remember driving past the Chevron refinery in Richmond one evening years back and seeing a few different brands of tankers getting filled up there. Surprisingly to me it was the "cheapy" brands - 7-11, Acme oil, Thrifty Squirrel/Terrible Herbst, a couple "jobber's" tankers, but none of their own t...

:lol: :D :lol: :D :lol: :D :lol: :D :lol: _________ (phone call a few short years ago... from a place a few miles down the road... ) "Hello, this is Susanne, whassup?" "Honey, the car is making a funny sound." "What's it sound like?" "Kind of a ticking sound... here, listen..." (Sound of 2 shot rods...

And one I hadn't thought of until now... It was my granddad's delivery wagon, my dad's (and a lot of people's dads, and mom's) first car, and (most remarkable to me) they held a LOT of auto production records for decades (most car of one model built, most built in a year, most built in a day, etc.)....

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Fri Feb 26, 2021 6:32 pm
On our local news tonight, gas station sold gas with 70% water. Dealing with many complaints.

They were just trying their hand a making their gasoline more, um, green... since algae is green, well...

Thanks, Jerry... I have an early 20's Harley and I was (seriously) tempted to get the jugs electroplated, but knowing this, I think I'll get an electroless set up.

Question - how do I keep the nickel from the inside of the jugs doing this?

Thanks, hudson... I'm going to put in an order as soon as Tuesday comes back around (I wanted to wait because I figured Tom would have been flooded with orders...). And I agree 110% - This is our fun, our release, and our hobby, please don't let it become a way to kick each other, treat each other l...

My knees are shot, to the point I have an extension on the gas shut off so I don't have to get on my knees and then spend a painful 5 minutes getting back to my feet. Not that I *can't*, but it takes the enjoyment of working under my car. And callling me "lazy" would get you 2 words from me, the sec...

OK, to add to Tim's hat filler... :D I've gone crazy at times looking for some very specific "goodies" and every time he's worked with me to find them he has been probably one of the most stand-up guys I've ever had the honor and pleasure to work with! He's one of those people I hope to eventually m...

The guy with the truckful of bushel baskets reminds me a lot of the pallet recyclers you see nowadays, sideboards roped together, and stacked to the rafters...

It's that you have a car that was built light yet rugged enough then to keep running (with TLC) now 100 years later, not necessarily the fastest horse in the stable, nor by far the most powerful, but it'll get you there, get you back, and simple enough for even those with the least mechanical knowle...

I was hoping to see a link to the website in the "Services" section of the forum...

Very First Picture - SoCal Edison invents the step-side 5 passenger pickup.

Parts are fairly easy to get, there are a lot of vendors who sell repop and used parts...

If you can post a few pictures of your new baby, that would help us a lot to see what you're into.

As long as they don't want shares of a diamond mine, it's prety hard to go wrong.

I was going to ask how would one change the oil after this conversion, but I see that's been addressed... I have modified the car so I don't have to crawl under it every time I want to shut the gas off... Tho it's always a good idea to inspect the car's undersides every so often, being older it real...

I'm running a Ford Faithful oil cover, so I have to remove the cover every so often to clean and flush it anyway, and it gives me a chance to look at my drums along with my bands... if I had something that made me more lazy, I'd be in trouble!!!

Putting my hand up...

I'll send an email.

I saw pictures of the Ford PPE assembly "line" and some of the characteristics of those cars were what led me to believe my car (Aug 15) is a PPE car... I'd love to find someting showing body numbers (that would settle it once and for all) - the year is right, the timing is right, the location was r...

Be careful, my friend, she may hand you your screwdriver...

That hurts! I wonder if it was repaired or scrapped? The Caddi doesn't look beyond repair... The Ford, on the other hand... well, it's just a Ford, throw it away and get a new one. Maybe even one of them new-fangled ones with the electric headlights... heard the price even went down on them. :mrgre...

I would recommend a more conservative approach - the Services subcat was just started, why not let that run for a while and see how that works before we start adding more "weight" and potential for contention to the forum... What I fear (having been a forum mod elsewhere) is, by adding a section del...

I found one of those "Moore Drop Forge" Ford wrenches next to the old well in our former house (I took i as a sign to buy the place --lol--), cleaned it up, detailed it and hung it on a wall. $40+? Man, maybe I should go into the Model T parts business... As to Miss Spaghetti Strap in Winter in New ...

Below the coupe there's a "family portrait"... I don't know what worries me more, the "bulges" in the 2 guys respective pockets ("Mr. Sneer" has a revolver in his right coat pocket, the guy behind him has a smaller one in his left jacket pocket), or the eyes on the woman holding the guy with the sne...

I remember reading in a forum post a few years back that the metal body tags were Baudette bodies... The FIshers (and Ford) built bodies were stamped into the wood to the right of the floorboards. There were instructions when ordering body parts the dealers had to include body nimbers because of the...

WOW! 35,000 for a '14 Roadster? I'm happy it found a new home, but... yikes! Talk about our hobby going into the stratosphere? I'm kind of worried, as I want to build a pre-'16 T speedster (and have a chassis in sight) and this might put the bar way outside where those of us with moderate means can ...

Thats kind of what I was thinking... Modern roads, gran prix racetracks, or anywhere where pulling the car str8 ahead, it would be awesome... If you had something like the Brickyard or Daytona where you have a constant pull to the left, maybe not so much so... but when I made my (not quite so faceti...

Hey, if he wants to give me 75+ large, maybe more, we can talk.

That strange recurve on the bottom of the windshield lower half would be a giveaway - whatever it is I sure want one! Darned pretty car! Question - how do we know that the green shown in the colorized version is what that color was? Always wondered how they could take a shade of monochrome gray from...

I heard they're terrible and horrible, a menace to society, for safety's sake you should let me take them off your hands...

Seem like they'd work... tho backing up might be tricky...

Hey Ron, I sent you a PM...

The '15 in the first picture... I want those Firestone demountables... VERY cool accessory... BTW - I mentioned the difference between '15 and '16 headlight rims in a different post - you can tell the difference here, between that photo (with the brass rims) and the later ones below... 1 & 3 are '15...

Headlights are '15 - the brass rims stand out more and have a lighter color in the original photos than the black rims... the front right fender has a bend in it, and there's a ding in the left splash apron... I'll hazard a guess considering their clothes and say maybe mid to late 20's? Maybe 30's...

I realized as well there were 3 separate sets of stamps used on that block... different sizes, different numbers, etc... 2 different sizes of "1"' (one matches the "3", the other doesn't), and the 2 and 8 are smaller... I doubt those were done at Highland, and I wonder now if they were even done by ...

Jellified (old) gasoline in the carb that keeps it from flowing... especially at the main jet. Also recheck your timing, especially since you replaced the timer. IIRC (someone correct me if I'm wrong) the Anderson timer is set using a different "gauge" than the stock Ford timer.

Don't forget the pillow behing her back so she doesn't slide away from the steering wheel when she hits the brakes!

I think I have a case of lust over that wrecker - with a tow dolly and stiff-leg struts... and the C cab... Wow. Just... Wow! The Hilltop Dairy wagon rates a VERY close second to it... I wonder if the "Texas Livestock Sanitary Commission" truck was also their "rendering" pick-up... that would have m...

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