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A Boat Load

Post by rnwilliams » Wed Aug 04, 2021 10:47 am

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Looks like a 26/27 touring to me?
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Re: A Boat Load

Post by John Heaman » Wed Aug 04, 2021 12:10 pm

A two boat load!

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Re: A Boat Load

Post by John Heaman » Wed Aug 04, 2021 12:11 pm

No boat...no problem!

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Re: A Boat Load

Post by TXGOAT2 » Wed Aug 04, 2021 12:33 pm

S.S. Sprague: Sternwheel tow boat, Built 1901 at Dubuque, Iowa. 318 ft long, tandem engine, 63" bore, 12 ft stroke... was in service at least thru 1927, capable of handling 55-60 coal barges.

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Re: A Boat Load

Post by rnwilliams » Wed Aug 04, 2021 2:40 pm

Lol. I fully expect my son to have one of my T’s looking like that one all jacked up when I’m going from here.
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Re: A Boat Load

Post by ModelTGal » Wed Aug 04, 2021 3:14 pm

Great pictures guys!! Keep em coming!!

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Re: A Boat Load

Post by Mark Gregush » Wed Aug 04, 2021 3:20 pm

1924 or 1925, cowl is too steep and short.
I know the voices aren't real but damn they have some good ideas! :shock:

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Re: A Boat Load

Post by Dan Hatch » Wed Aug 04, 2021 3:25 pm

Look at the front fenders.

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Re: A Boat Load

Post by TWrenn » Wed Aug 04, 2021 3:28 pm

Woulda been fun if not scary to watch those lunatics load that T on those 2 skinny boats without everything ending up in the drink!! Gotta hand it to 'em! No guts, no glory!

Nice pics BTW, all of 'em.


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Re: A Boat Load

Post by FordFool » Wed Aug 04, 2021 3:32 pm

Large drum rear end fender mounted head lights??

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Re: A Boat Load

Post by Henry K. Lee » Wed Aug 04, 2021 5:37 pm

The original "Float-A-Ford"!

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Re: A Boat Load

Post by rnwilliams » Wed Aug 04, 2021 7:20 pm

Those front fenders look round to me. Either way that’s a cool picture.
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Re: A Boat Load

Post by John Heaman » Wed Aug 04, 2021 7:26 pm

Splain this one!

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Re: A Boat Load

Post by Sarikatime » Wed Aug 04, 2021 7:47 pm

The T on the two small boats has some really nice snow chains or mad chains.

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Re: A Boat Load

Post by Hap_Tucker » Wed Aug 04, 2021 7:54 pm

Ricky,

Thank you for posting the original photo. A higher resolution copy would make it very easy to determine the year (or year range). Using the copy you posted, if you click on the photo it opens in a larger format. Zooming in on that, I believe you can make out that the back window area of the touring tops are two distinct windows rather than one single window. "IF" that is what is shown and "IF" the cars are USA then they are before the late 1925 model year cars when the single window in the rear curtain was introduced prior to the 1926 model year cars (ref Page 312 Bruce McCalley "Model T Ford). (I.e. they would NOT be 1926-27 USA cars.)

The slant windshield on USA production was introduced with the 1923 model year cars made in the USA. (For cars produced in Canada the slant windshield and one man top was introduced on the 1920 models. But they had a pair of "Oval" windows in the rear curtain rather than a pair of rectangular windows in the rear curtain. I'm not sure what time frame they went from the "Oval" rear windows to something else on the cars that were produced in Canada).

I also agree with Mark's comment above that the 1926-27 cars have a relatively smooth transition from the hood to the cowl to the windshield while the 1924-25 have a more pronounced curve down to the hood. I would add that the 1923 USA cars have an even more pronounced curve down on the cowl to the hood. And from that photo, I cannot tell the difference between a 1923 and the later 1924-25 cowls. But perhaps he and others may be able to tell the difference (my eyes are not as good as they once were).

And I am assuming they are all "new cars" and not a boat load of used and new cars.

From memory (not as good a written note) I think I have seen that photo or a similar one before. Perhaps there is better copy or one that is correctly dated. Many of the older photos are sometimes misdated. I don't think people mean to mislead others, just that they don't know what year the car really was. (Grandpa told me it was a 19xx).

Again, thank you for posting the photo.

Respectfully submitted,

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Re: A Boat Load

Post by John Heaman » Wed Aug 04, 2021 8:09 pm

....I don't mean to barge in

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Re: A Boat Load

Post by John Heaman » Wed Aug 04, 2021 8:30 pm

...so, why not combine the two?...boat and T.
It must be a beggar to crank!


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Re: A Boat Load

Post by Norman Kling » Wed Aug 04, 2021 8:38 pm

John, it has a starter!
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Re: A Boat Load

Post by John E. Guitar » Wed Aug 04, 2021 8:42 pm

One more.

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Re: A Boat Load

Post by Mark Gregush » Thu Aug 05, 2021 8:11 pm

Mark Gregush wrote:
Wed Aug 04, 2021 3:20 pm
1924 or 1925, cowl is too steep and short.
I was talking about the car coming off the barge, which is what the posting started out with and was being called a 1920. Sorry for any misunderstanding.
I know the voices aren't real but damn they have some good ideas! :shock:

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Re: A Boat Load

Post by Steve Jelf » Thu Aug 05, 2021 11:15 pm

In 1974 I crossed a river in southern Mexico on a ferry much like the ones in some of these photos.

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I wish I had taken a picture of my beetle on the ferry, but I was on there with the car. In the distance you can see the pylons for the new bridge that will soon put the ferry out of business.
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Re: A Boat Load

Post by It's Bill » Fri Aug 06, 2021 6:40 am

Human ingenuity is infinite! :)

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Re: A Boat Load

Post by rnwilliams » Fri Aug 06, 2021 11:18 am

Another thing. From the top photo the tires on that car don't look black to me.
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Re: A Boat Load

Post by John Heaman » Fri Aug 06, 2021 12:44 pm

Colorized it...tires still white!

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Re: A Boat Load

Post by ModelTGal » Fri Aug 06, 2021 12:52 pm

Any pics of the outside of that one Model T "boat"???

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Re: A Boat Load

Post by John Heaman » Fri Aug 06, 2021 2:38 pm

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....and when you don't us a ferry or raft!

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Re: A Boat Load

Post by John Heaman » Fri Aug 06, 2021 2:52 pm

After searching the World Wide Interweb, I did find an exterior picture of the Model T powered boat! It's a reproduction of a 1926 Ridley boat, with a 21 foot mahogany hull.

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...and if you don't have a Model T engine to power your boat...how about a two horsepower source!

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Re: A Boat Load

Post by Poppie » Fri Aug 06, 2021 8:09 pm

John,
Great and interesting photo of a two Lung two horsepower vehicular ferry.
Would be a slow old trip coming this way if the horses had to walk backwards.... :) .....n.


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Re: A Boat Load

Post by John Heaman » Sat Aug 07, 2021 1:42 pm

Poppie wrote:
Fri Aug 06, 2021 8:09 pm
John,
Great and interesting photo of a two Lung two horsepower vehicular ferry.
Would be a slow old trip coming this way if the horses had to walk backwards.... :) .....n.
Ha ha Neil! :lol: I was thinking also what if only one horse walked and the other one refused to. :o
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