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MTFCA's 57th Annual Meeting is now history. I was again reminded how enjoyable it is to get together with a bunch of Model T people and catch up on everyone's news, especially after the recent forced hiatus in our activities. It's always good to reconnect with old friends and make new ones. I took s...

Mark posted that he got his yesterday in Hillsboro MO. I also got mine yesterday in Ballwin MO.

¿Que pasó? Has comprado un Chebby.

Jerry's not asking about the tour itself, just getting across the border. That's hair-splitting. The reason for crossing the border is the tour and (presumably) everyone on the our will have a Model T. More important, posting on the main forum instead of on "Off Topic" probably ensures that more pe...

Not a criticism, but curiosity. Why would T tours be off topic for the Model T Forum?

Norman Kling wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 05, 2022 9:47 pm
... When Dolores and first married back in 1958 we could go to the market and fill the cart for $10 ...

My parents were married in December 1937, and told me that they set up their housekeeping (food and kitchen staples) for $10.00. According to an inflation calculator, that would be $183 today.

Darren, a friend of mine (coincidentally also from Ontario) once said, "If we had known how much fun grandchildren are, we'd have had them first!"

Leo, I bought my first 2CV in Paris in 1968. It was a 1960 and pretty basic. (Speedometer cable drove the windshield wipers, the gas gauge was a very long dipstick, etc.) Interesting was the centrifugal clutch, which was only available on cars sold in France. It was convenient once I got used to it....

A Charleston. Nice.

Jerry VanOoteghem wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 18, 2022 8:14 pm
...That sounds terrible I know, but it's actually very discreet.

Nothing is more embarrassing when you drive a T than having people notice that you have an indiscreet bow.

... The Dutch seemed to be the "flavor of the month" at that time. The first thing that I noticed was that the clothing is Dutch but the "dialect" being used in the captions is completely German. What is "Dutch" is often misunderstood. (In St. Louis, the word "Dutch" is interchangeable with German ...

... Citroen is the dutch name for Lemon, which shines a different light on the car of same name 1. Hmmmmm. "Sap" is American slang for "A foolish or gullible person." So if a Dutchman buys a car that is known to be a lemon, does that make him a Citroensap "? :D 2. When I lived in Holland in the 197...

The area code for Bergen NY is 585. Unfortunately, although I can remember when sites claiming "free reverse phone lookup" actually provided the name for free, they have now all figured out that they can charge for the information. I'm not even willing to pay $0.99 for the sake of idle curiosity. Ca...

The late Bud Barnes was not only a state legislator here in Missouri for many years, he was also an antique car guy (including a Model T). He watched out for the car hobby when laws were being passed. For years, Missouri's historic plate law was like many other states which limited use and excluded ...

Norman Kling wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 14, 2022 4:30 pm
I wonder what the translation of that sign is? The lower part "del mundo means "of the world in Spanish. I wonder what it means in Dutch?
Norm

Norm, the couple is Dutch, the sign is Spanish. Remember they toured through much of the world in that car. (It was even here in St. Louis.)

There are already 9 subforums on this site. I only use 3 of them. If I have a Speedster post I will title it Speedster. There are about 10 groups or more on FB. For me personally, that is enough. What Dave said. Every time a section gets added to the forum, it generally becomes another section I do...

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It says, "After a certain age, people are like collector cars. What counts is the state of preservation and not the year of manufacture."

Zeer prettige Kerstdagen allemaal!

I see a name heading up a thread, and I worry a moment about the possible situation. So pleased it is not something worse (seems to be happening a lot lately?). .... as I have pointed out numerous times on this forum. In this case, for example, "Randall Anderson Getting Better" would have been less...

I am 5' 7" and my 1924 Touring pretty much feels like it was designed with me in mind. There aren't a lot of advantages to being shorter than average, but that is definitely one of them.

As a newly-commissioned second lieutenant, I had been assigned to Little Rock AFB a few months earlier. I had just finished lunch at the Officers' Club with a couple of friends and we were on our way out when a woman came through the front door crying and said, "He should never have gone to Dallas!"...

AAA emblem that had been on a friend's 1920s-era Marmon. He had sold the car but kept the emblem, and he gave it to me only on the condition that I put it on the T. The Masonic S&C was sent to me by a friend in Paris.

KirkieP wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 20, 2021 2:34 pm
Dick Lodge is pictured below wearing red shirt at Kanab in 09

Indeed. Weren't the headdresses part of some kind of skit we were putting on?

From 2005 until about 2011, I hauled my 1924 Touring around the country on an open trailer. (Longest trip was probably St. Louis MO to Kanab UT and back for the 2009 Canyonlands Tour.) Initially, I worried about the dire warnings. I did lower the top and secure it with bungee cords, but I never remo...

Tim Rogers wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 12, 2021 1:14 pm
Is it really SPAM if it's in the "Off Topic" section?

Yes.

The Veterans' Day parade in St. Louis was last Saturday. As always, the St. Louis MTFCA chapter participated. Photos in a different thread: "2021 Veteran's Day Parade in St. Louis."

I got an email from a friend one morning saying she was stranded in London without money, etc. etc. Since I had seen her at dinner here the evening before, I knew it was a scam. Out of curiosity, I answered the email innocently as though I believed it and asked her some questions. I got plausible an...

One thing I forgot to mention was that each unit in the parade was asked for a blurb that the announcer could read as we passed the reviewing stand. Since it was Veterans' Day, the one Sam wrote included, "Many of these cars were built by returning World War I veterans and are today being driven by ...

2007 Rocky Mountain Tour. Spent the night in Steamboat Springs and started the next day by driving to the top of Rabbit Ears Pass. Would have to see if Google Maps can tell me how far I drove in low, but it was all the way up as I recall. I pulled over and stopped like this a couple of times to let ...

Oops! Mea Culpa! In the group photo, Paul Diebold behind Keith and Jenny Sanders. Sorry....

After a couple of years of slumber, my T has (been) awakened and today participated in the St. Louis Veterans' Day Parade with other members of the Model T Ford Club of Greater St. Louis. My girlfriend, Jane, is visiting from New York and we invited my grandchildren, Alex and Sofia, to join us, whic...

I have suggested this before (largely in vain, apparently), but a subject line like "Looking for Contact Info for John Regan" or even just "John Regan Contact" will avoid the reaction that often occurs with just a name in a subject line, i.e. "Oh my God, something must have happened to John!" Just s...

Dom Denio wrote: ↑
Thu Oct 07, 2021 8:22 pm
1918 Spanish Flu with Model T Ford in the background.

Dom, I have seen that photo often before. It was taken in St. Louis.

Charlie B in N.J. wrote: ↑
Thu Oct 07, 2021 5:42 pm
Oh Gevalt.

Charlie, you're mixing languages. German would be "Oh, gewalt" and Yiddish would be "Oy, gevalt." I don't think I have ever heard that used in German, but in Yiddish..... oy, gevalt!

I can only recommend a proper Smartphone - as you are an "Apple man" iPhone will be the obvious choice as it will work with your Mac. You can get fixtures with a suction cup that can sit in the bottom of the windshield and then with a proper charger it can run all day on GPS (GPS mode use a lot of ...

I have no idea any more when I discovered this forum, but I know that Gus Stangeland was running it at the time. I suspect that makes me somewhat of an old-timer here.

Norman Kling wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 25, 2021 2:19 pm
...We called certain people "Colored people" now that is incorrect....

Has anyone told the NAACP?

By the way, I heard a great comment the other day on TV. "At least the plus side of 'wokeness' is that kids these days all know what pronouns are. Maybe we should work on adverbs next."

Yes, the Catch 22 of this forum is that responding directly to the spam post ("Why are you posting this junk here??") moves it back up to the top, which is what the spammer wants. Best to report it and ignore it. Then eventually it does a "reverse Topsy," i.e. it jes' goes away (thanks to the admini...

Kaiser wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 07, 2021 12:04 pm
... just a month ago, the Jewish Council declared that 'Jodenkoeken' is not a derogatory term ...

Good grief, can you imagine the effect that it would have on Dutch (especially in Amsterdam) if the Jewish Council started objecting to things? That would be mesjogge!

We could follow the Dutch example and call them "autochthons."

Dave, in the case of my son's wedding, there were no arrivals. The wedding was held in the building of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Maryland (not because of any Masonic connection, but because it's a magnificent and popular venue for elegant events). Everyone was there before things got underway. The ...

As far as what to wear as chauffeur, I can't help. I have been to one Indian wedding in my life. It was a couple of years ago and the groom was my youngest son. The bride's parents immigrated to the US in the early 1970s from India and settled in Baltimore, which is where the wedding was held. The c...

Indian = someone from India Native American = someone from US Jewish person is never a Jew, always Jewish 1. Indian is also used in the American sense by members of American Indian organizations (e.g. National Congress of American Indians, Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs, Americ...

Anyone who has driven in St. Louis will appreciate this.

Scott, I noticed its absence this morning as well. The Dutch have an expression that a friend of mine wishes we had in English. You can say of someone, "He has long toes" and a Dutch speaker knows what you mean, i.e. he is easily offended (his toes are easily stepped on). We live in a world nowadays...

Ruxstel24 wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 13, 2021 5:37 pm
...Probably be somebody offended nowadays somehow.

Anyone concerned about offending someone these days should probably not leave the house. My problem is that I am offended by people who are easily offended....

John Codman wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 15, 2021 1:50 pm
... preferably one who speaks Spanish. ...

John, since neither "John" nor "Codman" strikes me as particularly Hispanic, I am curious why you recommend finding a clerk who speaks Spanish.

So is this a post about a new annual tour in Philadelphia PA, or a post about an annual tour in New Philadelphia OH? Inquiring minds want to know.....

Mine arrived in Ballwin MO today, June 12th.

Je moet een gegeven paard niet in de bek kijken?

I am apparently an unusually trusting or unusually lucky soul. I have no idea how many Model T tours I have participated in, but they have been in a dozen or so different states. Each night of each tour, I have parked on the hotel parking lot with the other 20-50 cars on the tour, turned off the gas...

On one of my parents' early trips to Europe, I met them in France and drove them to Vimy Ridge. My dad had studied the battle and had a detailed map. With the battle map and the current road map, he figured out where the charge took place where Uncle Miller was wounded, and we walked through the fie...

Harry, do people with Canadian relatives count for the Canada Day good wishes?

Happy Canada Day to you as well.

My grandmother's brother, Pvt George Miller Briden, died at Vimy Ridge April, 1917

I learned when I lived in Holland that (a) if an American says "hockey," he means ice hockey and if he means the other one, he says "field hockey," and (b) if a Dutchman says "hockey," he means field hockey and if he means the other one, he says "ice hockey."

Years ago, our Model T club used CB handheld radios to communicate on tours. We had one member who always saw to it that he was one of the ones who had a radio and he yammered away during the entire tour. I decided early on that I would not be in the lead or take up the rear, and that I would polite...

Richard, just a comment. If your subject line had been "Need to Contact Larry Smith" instead of just his name by itself, no one would have thought, "Oh my God, something bad has happened to Larry Smith!"

TonyB wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 08, 2021 9:04 pm
... On the recent Golden Gate tour my phone ran out of poop and was stuck.

There's your problem, Tony. You're using the wrong power source....

Jerry VanOoteghem wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 09, 2021 1:50 pm

Humblej wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 09, 2021 12:33 pm
I believe the original posting is with regards to who might own the model T that was seen driving in New Britton CT, not the correctness of it.
Easily distracted bunch, aren't we?

Yup.

Here's a shot of the car on the 2008 Show-Me Tour.

Dick, I believe there was another line to the left hand / right hand student story as Stan told it. One day the superintendent of schools came to monitor his classroom and Stan's teaching style. As he sat in the back of the classroom he marveled at how bright Stan's students were. They were able to...

I watched the service. The combination of my poor hearing and the funeral home's less-then-stellar audio meant that I missed a lot, but I did hear a story that sounded a lot like Stan. When he was teaching school, he would ask the students a question. Stan's rule was that the kids who knew the answe...

speedytinc wrote: ↑
Sun May 30, 2021 2:04 pm
...I personally love my T's too much to risk any of them to a film crew.

NBC shot part of a miniseries ("Will of Their Own") here in St. Louis. I made my T available, but with a driver (me) included whenever it was used. The car made more money for being in the film than I did as an extra.

According to the map, Brian is about 60 miles from Richmond. Probably a good idea to go over and meet people, with or without the car itself.

Harry Lillo wrote: ↑
Mon May 24, 2021 10:36 pm
Dick, Montana is in the Mountain Daylight Time Zone.

Thanks, Harry.

The news of Stan's death sent me to my bookcase and I plan to re-read the Herman and Frieda book I have. I had forgotten this.

I am now all the more determined to re-read it.

...with the service starting at 2:00. There will be a reception following the service. The service will be live streamed on the obituary page of the funeral home at aswfuneralhome.com. Please continue to post your photos, tributes and memories as the family enjoys reading them. Harry, like others, ...

I tried googling [youtube "stan howe"] and found this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT6vp-YgkIg

A many-faceted man.

Sad news indeed. At one point in the 1990s (I think), I read something that Stan had posted on this forum. I was editor of the St. Louis club's newsletter at that time and emailed Stan to ask for permission to use his quote. He replied that I could use anything he posted on the forum whenever I want...

Scott, May I ask you to please specify which Terry that you reply about. I don't want to be blamed for another"TERRY"S" posts. Especially if they are perceived to be negative. If I post something perceived to be negative, I'll "own up" to my own posts. Thanks, Terry Woods Looking back through the t...

Why would I want a picture of my mail before it goes in the box? I am lucky. My mail arrives before 11AM. I have had the service since they started it. I remember once there was a substitute on my route and Informed Delivery had indicated I was getting a check from a client that day. I didn't get i...

... Also, if you stay in the Lincoln area before heading home, Strategic Air Command Museum between Lincoln and Omaha just off I-80 is a great stop. Didn't realize that was there. Have to add it to my list of "Stuff to do when I'm nearby." I spent four years at Little Rock AFB. B-47s followed by B-...

Tommy, your profile says you're in Missouri, but doesn't say where. There are clubs in St. Louis, Kansas City and Springfield (that I can think of offhand - I may be missing one or two). T people tend to be a pretty helpful bunch, so you might try mentioning where you are.

Jack Putnam, in Ohio wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 29, 2021 4:53 pm
Remember that parades progress at the speed of the slowest baton twirler!

...who may well be nine or ten years old.

I never try to match my constant speed to the parade's speed. I tend to drive in on-again off-again spurts. Haven't had any complaints so far.

Enjoyed those (especially the instructions for using the telephone, which I will copy and show to my 14-year-old grandchildren). Some were before my time, but many were familiar.

Jonah D'Avella wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 25, 2021 10:07 am
... The picture[s] should explain themselves, ...

Pictures?

Isn't the classic answer to that question "The nut behind the wheel"?

When I lived in Holland, I had an English Austin. Because it had been in Holland since just after WWII, the nuts on the car were a mishmash of metric and Whitworth. I had lots of different wrenches.... (although I suppose you could also say I had both wenches and spanners.)

I think nostalgia often drives the old car hobby. My dad had a 1955 Customline. I wouldn't mind a Fairlane from that year. On the other hand (nostalgia again) I also wouldn't mind a 1958 Volvo PV444 (my first car) or a 1956 Chrysler Windsor.

... When border restrictions are a memory, considering visiting us in the Maritime Provinces ... David, My 4xgreat-grandfather emigrated from Yorkshire and settled in Mapleton NS. My grandfather was born in North Derby NB and was raised in Charlottetown PEI. As soon as I saw your username, I knew w...

As a general rule using a minimal number of search words is best - adding MODEL T isn't a good idea because you get things that have keywords MODEL and other that have T (Tesla's Model T) One thing to keep in mind with Google is the use of quotation marks. If you google united states you will get h...

Model T people have generally learned the important adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." People who work in IT seem to follow a different philosophy. "If it ain't broke, then keep 'improving' it until it is."

Mark Gregush wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 17, 2021 12:44 pm
... do a search of "ford model t -fits" and search.

Mark, as indicated in a post above, "-fit's" should probably also be included for the many people who think that an "s" doesn't really count unless it is preceded by an apostrophe. (Oop's, should have said "apo'strophe.")

... In the summer it was hot upstairs in the bedrooms so we slept with the windows open. ... Norm, when was the last time you heard the term "sleeping porch"? When I was a child, I would spent weekends with my grandparents in a suburb of St. Louis. This was around 1947-49. In the summer, my grandfa...

... Your generation is bound to see a lot more things which have not even been thought of.... Norm, quite right. That's why I haven't joined the climate change panic bandwagon. In 1890, as I recall, someone predicted that with the combination of population growth and transportation requirements, Ne...

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!

...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...

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...

... 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...

.. 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...

DHort wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 10, 2021 1:54 am
Gives members a chance to go south where it is warm in the winter...

Only someone from Wisconsin (or the like) would refer to a February trip to St. Louis as going "south where it is warm in the winter."

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...

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.

George House wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 30, 2020 6:51 pm
... (and more recently on this Forum: “Commuter”) ...

I have also heard it called a "commentator."

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 ...

Duey_C wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:10 pm
I'm using a Mozilla based browser and it doesn't work. I should try another.

I use Mozilla Firefox and it works fine. Problem must be something else.

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?)

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...

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.

Afrazer wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 18, 2020 9:52 pm
... we have an old one that might be usable but I’d rather find him a new better quality replacement if possible.

An old one what?

I just googled [vintage renault parts] and got enough hits to spend hours on. Try it.

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