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Nooooooo!! Nein! Non! Nee! Not ready for this, and hope we have a mild winter.

It's OK Tim, just don't be like the first guy - remember to put the top up before it snows. Look at the feller in that sporty '12. He's having a great time. Wouldn't it be great to have a model T snowmobile ? That one driver may have stayed out too long. He looks a little cold ! I see that even a hundred years ago snow removal crews seemed to delight in burying the occasional car

The weather we get is the weather we got !

Rich Bingham wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 05, 2021 9:48 am

Wouldn't it be great to have a model T snowmobile ? That one driver may have stayed out too long. He looks a little cold ! I see that even a hundred years ago snow removal crews seemed to delight in burying the occasional car

The weather we get is the weather we got !

Noooo....it wouldn't be great to have a model T snowmobile!! I agree, that poor fella definitely been out too long, and well, yeh it probly was a bit fun to bury a car. I think they still do, and knocking off mailboxes!!

Wouldn’t it be fun to get the kids up and going to school, knowing you’ve got to get out in below freezing weather and getting your T going! Especially if it’s a Touring in 1919 and back! WOW what fun and nostalgic! Sarcastic humor my friends

I read the weather report and it has been colder in Detroit than it was in Helsinki! Here in California it is about like summer except it gets dark earlier. Usually our coldest days are in January where a few times during that month it might dip below freezing at night but warm up during the day.
Norm

John kuehn wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 05, 2021 10:37 am

Wouldn’t it be fun to get the kids up and going to school, knowing you’ve got to get out in below freezing weather and getting your T going! Especially if it’s a Touring in 1919 and back! WOW what fun and nostalgic! Sarcastic humor my friends

It's fun to imagine our Ts replacing our modern cars in our current lifestyle, but things have changed so radically in a hundred years, we often don't recall how differently folks lived back when the Model T was king:
Up before daylight on a snowy morning, the kids would have had chores to do, bring in wood, maybe bring in water too, feed livestock, maybe milk a cow - then either walk or ride a pony to school. Some lucky kids may have been on a schoolbus route.

Meanwhile, if it was necessary to get to town or elsewhere, after doing his morning's work, Dad would likely invest a considerable amount of time and effort coaxing the family Lizzie to life; perhaps employing kettles of boiling water and even small fires. Not infrequently, the auty-mobile was furloughed for the winter as being too much trouble, unable to negotiate deep snow reliably, and folks would rely on the "tried and true" modes of winter travel - a team and sled, or perhaps a fine horse and a sporty "cutter".

I like R Binghams post and the key words are —————- TIME AND EFFORT! Things were slower overall way back when! These days? Not so much!

Just curious how do you gals & guys actually start your Ts in that kind of weather? I’m not talking about a T that’s garaged but those that are out in the open or covered shed. It can get cold here in the deep south but mostly it’s a slow overnight drop in temperature not a consistent freeze. When it is in the 20s & 30s here it’s like turning the crank in a engine filled with honey. Absolutely wears me out.
Best Regards, John

Four degrees … New Years Day, Rochester, NY

They did that wearing a tie?

JTT3 wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 05, 2021 10:43 pm

Just curious how do you gals & guys actually start your Ts in that kind of weather? I’m not talking about a T that’s garaged but those that are out in the open or covered shed. It can get cold here in the deep south but mostly it’s a slow overnight drop in temperature not a consistent freeze. When it is in the 20s & 30s here it’s like turning the crank in on a engine filled with honey. Absolutely wears me out.
Best Regards, John

Drain off a quart of motor oil and replace it with a quart of MARVEL MYSTERY OIL. (Seriously!) Also: Clean oil seems to thicken less than well-used oil.

A few years ago we had to attend a family event in December in Moses Lake Wa. We flew up there and rented a car to the hotel. There was ice on the roads. In the morning, we got up and the sun was out, however, it didn't get over about 20 degrees and the ice didn't melt all day. To me, who has lived 85 years in southern California, it was very strange to have the sun out and still ice on the road. Once every few years we have about an inch of snow here, but when it does, it melts in an hour or two as soon as the sun comes out. We usually try to avoid travel to cold areas in the winter. It does snow in our higher mountains and when the kids were young, we would go and spend a few days in a cabin and do a little sledding an skiing. But not anymore.
Norm