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HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama

Post by Bill Robinson » Thu Jul 09, 2020 1:36 pm

Pictures, but not much in details right now. Hopefully, the info will get updated later.
https://www.waff.com/2020/07/09/huntsvi ... d-model-t/

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Re: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama

Post by Susanne » Thu Jul 09, 2020 1:51 pm

Hopefully better pix as well - I think the "gorilla" on the running board is supposed to (maybe) be blanking out someone sitting there?

Let us know when more details surface... thanks! Odds should be it wouldn't end up here, but you never know anymore...

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Re: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama

Post by Steve Jelf » Thu Jul 09, 2020 2:13 pm

What's a "side gear shift"?
The inevitable often happens.
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Re: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama

Post by Oldav8tor » Thu Jul 09, 2020 2:37 pm

Is the victim known to anyone on the forum? It would take a knowledgeable person to drive it away.
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Re: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama

Post by DLodge » Thu Jul 09, 2020 3:43 pm

Steve Jelf wrote:
Thu Jul 09, 2020 2:13 pm
What's a "side gear shift"?
I don't know, but when it's totally restored, it really increases the value of the car exponentially. You know as well as any Model T guy that a half-restored side gear shift is no better than a completely unrestored one, worse perhaps....

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Re: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama

Post by Quickm007 » Thu Jul 09, 2020 4:33 pm

Dick,

It is better buying full restored or not restored at all. Half way restored is the worst scenario... I learnt it by the hard way. Lol :lol:
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Re: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama

Post by Tmodelt » Thu Jul 09, 2020 6:38 pm

My side gear shift is connected to my new flux capacitor. I am still trying to get 100 mph or of my speedster. I have been unsuccessful so far but hoping my dad one will help.

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Re: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama

Post by Bill Robinson » Thu Jul 09, 2020 7:38 pm

David Walker has a side shifter on his speedster. And, an under shifter, an over shifter, and probably 1 or 2 shifters that I don't know about. Can't anyone call David...... "Shiftless". :shock: :lol:

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Re: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama

Post by Buckelew » Fri Jul 10, 2020 4:56 pm

I haven't revealed the other shifters to Bill because he's afraid to fly -- he won't ride with me :P


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Re: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama

Post by SteveTN » Fri Jul 10, 2020 7:08 pm

My side shifter aka e-brake handle is fully restored with two springs and three coats of black rustoleum.

And for those who don't know, David has an app on his i-phone that keeps up with what gear that thing is in at any given moment.

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Re: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama

Post by Susanne » Fri Jul 10, 2020 7:11 pm

This whole thread is getting kinda shifty... :?


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Re: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama

Post by Wayne Sheldon » Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:44 pm

I just hope the shifty B********s that stole the car get the beat-down they deserve!


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Re: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama

Post by Mike Robinson » Sat Jul 11, 2020 12:26 am

I have a restored side shift and it works great . It’s for the Ruckstell. A little fun on a Speedster.
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Re: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama

Post by 1194668jc » Sat Jul 11, 2020 1:23 am

How do you guys prevent a stolen Model T? A shoe brake?


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Re: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama

Post by Wayne Sheldon » Sat Jul 11, 2020 3:32 am

Most stolen model Ts seem to be stored in enclosed trailers. The SOBs steel the trailer to use for some illegal use (meth labs, hiding or transporting dope or other stolen goods or materials). Sometimes, the model T will be found dumped off the side of a highway days or weeks later. How to drive a model is so alien to modern thinking that most people cannot figure out how to drive it, let alone start it. Many T owners leave keys in them at shows, tours, or other meets without any problems. I actually do not recommend doing that myself. Some public are simply so stupid and full of self entitlement that they have been known to mess around with other people's antiques at shows. The risk of their doing damage is enough for me to pocket my antique's key, if it has one. On the other hand, I have had antiques that did not have a removable key. And I never worried about it.

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Re: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama

Post by DLodge » Sat Jul 11, 2020 8:07 am

Wayne Sheldon wrote:
Sat Jul 11, 2020 3:32 am
... Many T owners leave keys in them at shows, tours, or other meets without any problems. ...
Yes, I have known people who leave the key in the car. Their argument is, "They can't steal the car. They won't know how to drive it." My answer is, "They can't steal the car, but they can steal the key."

There are plenty of jerks in the world. Why help them steal things?


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Re: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama

Post by John Codman » Sat Jul 11, 2020 11:56 am

I don't leave the key in my T because I'm afraid that some a*****e will steal the key, not the car.
I hope that the Ts owner gets it back in one piece.

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Re: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama

Post by Susanne » Sat Jul 11, 2020 12:25 pm

I caught someone trying to take the motometer off the radiator of the car while I was inside paying for gas, he was trying to pull it up by the dogbone cap. As soon as he saw me coming like a pissed off doberman at him he bolted... but yeah, people have not a clue.

I also had someone steal a fairly rare caboose taillight (out of my collection) off the back of an "art car" we built for Burning Man, we're pretty sure who it was but could never know for sure... guess we should have rigged a padlock for it, but we somehow thought it was safe there...

Hope they get the car back. Really hurts losing a treasured famly member to the light fingered crowd. And don't think thieves don't know what they have - there was the one who traded a pair of old cars for modern iron. They don't care what it is, as long as they can fence it off for bling. :x

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Re: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama

Post by Novice » Sat Jul 11, 2020 1:34 pm

With the left side shift it narrows it down quite a bit. Most non T people think there worth mega bucks little do they know. enclosed trailers are in demand because they can transport contraband and stolen goods in them. large Round trash cans are a target of thieves as well they can put stolen stuff in it and set them in the back of a pick up truck and no one is the wiser.

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Re: HEADS UP! Stolen Model T- Huntsville, Alabama

Post by TRDxB2 » Sat Jul 11, 2020 2:10 pm

You can not prevent theft but you can track it for $39.95
https://www.google.com/search?client=fi ... +preventer
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