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Ok guys! We did it! I was able to access Phil Mino’s email and get his account information to his son who has reactivated www.fordfarm.net! We are updating stuff and hopefully will have some pages with old photos or what’s been going on with his estate and some of his cars. Stay tuned but thank you for the interest and for remembering Phil. He was a great friend and mentor.

This is great news! Phil had a lot of pictures and information about his original 1911 Touring that had a serial number within a couple hundred of mine. I had saved some pictures but not all and had thought that great reference had been lost. I hope that information will be available again. Thanks, Art

We should be good Art. His son in deciding on whether to leave the page alone or to add content and make it a little more easy to navigate. Unfortunately, we won’t have Phil’s knowledge to utilize. At least he documented a posted some information in his own words.

That is great news. Phil and I used to talk for hours about T's usually with a beer close by! We were good friends. I only wish I had lived closer, so I could have visited more often. Just over a year ago I got a surprise package in the mail from Phil. It was a pair of NOS burners for my headlights. That's the kind of guy he was. I was just at his house last week, as a guest of Jason, but it just wasn't the same without Phil. RIP Phil! I'll see you in Model T Heaven someday.

Phil's car has a serial number about 3,000 earlier than my car, so production and detail wise they were pretty close, except his has the Ford aftermarket retro-fit fore-doors and mine were installed at the factory. Phil was very helpful in sketches, diagrams, and original survivor photos of "how things were." When one of the bow separators fell off my reproduction top bows, Phil sent me a replacement that he had lying around the shop.

Rest in Peace, Phil.

Keep Carrying the Torch, Jason.

Larry: did you get the tubing? Kim found it right after you pulled out of the driveway.

Jason:
Got it! Thanks.