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- First Name: Bryant
- Last Name: Shafer
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1926 Tudor transforming to a closed cab pickup
- Location: Myersville Maryland
- Board Member Since: 2021
Re: This doesn’t look good.
Iam always amazed that auto mishaps became a good reason to get the family together for a group picture. lol
Bryant
Bryant
“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t-you’re right.”
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- First Name: Steve
- Last Name: Tomaso
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1914 Touring, 1919 Centerdoor, 1924 TT C-Cab Express, 1925 Racer
- Location: Longbranch, WA
- Board Member Since: 2001
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First photo - which one of those two young fellas was driving ???????? They're both looking rather sheepish !
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- First Name: CHARLIE
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- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: "27 Tudor / "23 Touring
- Location: Brick N.J.
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Pic #4: Curly Joe Howard and the Missus on a Sunday drive meet Pres. Grover Cleveland.
Forget everything you thought you knew.
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- First Name: Stan
- Last Name: Gadson
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1915 touring
- Location: USA
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At least three of the pre-15 brass cars here have electrified headlamps.
That ‘13 touring with the non-skids on all four keeps a presto-lite on the run board just in case. A cautious man, that one.
That ‘13 touring with the non-skids on all four keeps a presto-lite on the run board just in case. A cautious man, that one.
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- First Name: Wayne
- Last Name: Sheldon
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1915 Runabout 1913 Speedster
- Location: Grass Valley California, USA
- Board Member Since: 2005
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I know you are joking, and it is a good one. But the car being a 1908 model S roadster (a one year only model car) (by the way, missing the mother-in-law seat standard for this model?), the car could have been no more than a few months old as Grover Cleveland died in June of 1908 (I had to look it u to be sure, but knew it was about that time?).Charlie B in N.J. wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2024 10:53 amPic #4: Curly Joe Howard and the Missus on a Sunday drive meet Pres. Grover Cleveland.
Curly Howard however was about five years old when the model S Ford was being produced. The name "Curly Joe" was subsequently used by later replacements after Shemp Howard also passed away a bit young (although I checked, and he was 60).
Electrified headlamps were very popular on 1912 through 1914 model Fords. I see so many era photos of them that I almost quit noticing them. I wonder about that Prestolite tank on the running board though. Perhaps the car has a Prestolite starter?
Picture number fourteen is very interesting to me. It is a really good look at 1913/'14 side curtains. Except? The isinglass "windows" look unusually high up? Perhaps some after-market replacement? Just wondering about them myself.
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Picture number ten is a fresh looking Canadian touring car. Earlier style front engine/spring mount, low radiator and clear headlamp lenses make it appear to be early 1921 or earlier. However the slanted windshield, Canadian style with both panes adjustable, and one man top were features that Canadian Ts had by 1920. Canadian Ts had those features nearly three years before they showed up on USA built Ts.
Also notice the two small oval glass rear windows, another Canadian feature, as well as the full clamps for the folded top sockets at the rear of the body. Although it isn't clearly seen, the car does have a driver's side front door and what appear to be maybe leather pads on the tops of the doors to prevent constant touching to wear away the paint when closing the doors.
Beautiful T!
Also notice the two small oval glass rear windows, another Canadian feature, as well as the full clamps for the folded top sockets at the rear of the body. Although it isn't clearly seen, the car does have a driver's side front door and what appear to be maybe leather pads on the tops of the doors to prevent constant touching to wear away the paint when closing the doors.
Beautiful T!
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- First Name: Steven
- Last Name: Grant
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1920 Open Express, 1922 Centerdoor, 1924 Coupe
- Location: Upstate Central NY
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Take note of the tire pressures in photo #4!
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- First Name: Mark
- Last Name: Gregush
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1925 cutdown PU, 1948 F2 Ford flat head 6 pickup 3 speed
- Location: Portland Or
- Board Member Since: 1999
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From the size of the Prestolite tank was thinking maybe they could use it to inflate that flat tire!

I know the voices aren't real but damn they have some good ideas!
1925 Cut down pickup
1948 Ford F2 pickup

1925 Cut down pickup
1948 Ford F2 pickup
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I noticed the tires in #4. Hard to tell if they were low or if the road was soft and they sunk into the sand? Number 1. I wonder if the wheel came off first causing the car to swerve or if it hit the concrete and came off? I think it wouldn't come off like that unless the nut came off the bearing first.
Norm
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- First Name: Adrian
- Last Name: Whiteman
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1926 TT, 1923 Colonial Roadster, 1924 'Bullnose' Morris, 1925 'Bullnose' Morris, 1936 JD AR
- Location: South Island, New Zealand
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I found this related to #8: