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perry kete
- Posts: 1629
- Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 11:46 am
- First Name: Dennis
- Last Name: Seth
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1922 Coupe 1927 Touring
- Location: Jefferson Ohio
Re: Out and about
Once again great pictures from the past. I often wonder when looking at pictures of the campers and with all the equipment they hauled around where the heck did the people sit in the car!
1922 Coupe & 1927 Touring
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JohnM
- Posts: 700
- Joined: Sun Mar 24, 2019 8:22 pm
- First Name: John
- Last Name: Michaelree
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1926 Touring 1927 Tudor
- Location: st louis
- Board Member Since: 2010
Re: Out and about
. I bet they crept up a lot of hills in low. Heavy wooden cots, thick duck canvas tarps, cast iron cookware, folding tables and chairs! Hey, once you arrive, life is good!-
Mark Nunn
- Posts: 1241
- Joined: Mon Jan 07, 2019 8:01 am
- First Name: Mark
- Last Name: Nunn
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1926 Runabout
- Location: Bennington, NE
- Board Member Since: 2017
Re: Out and about
Here is another angle of the campers in photo 16.
This is an interesting detail showing an electrified tail light and wire wheels.
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TWrenn
- Posts: 3743
- Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 10:53 am
- First Name: Tim
- Last Name: Wrenn
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: '13 Touring, '26 "Overlap" Fordor
- Location: Ohio
- Board Member Since: 2019
Re: Out and about
Mark...re the tail lamp...its interesting how "we" think it's cool for doing the same thing, usually for a brake light, when here way back then they already "one-upped" us on it!
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TBill
- Posts: 73
- Joined: Mon Jan 07, 2019 12:31 pm
- First Name: Bill
- Last Name: Obier
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1926 Fordor, 1926 TT, 1913 Speedster (WIP)
- Location: Rosedale, LA
Re: Out and about
The guy with the shotgun could have been Alex Baldwin.
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Original Smith
- Posts: 3699
- Joined: Tue Jan 08, 2019 10:43 am
- First Name: Larry
- Last Name: Smith
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 13 Touring, 13 Roadster, 17 Coupelet, 25 Roadster P/U
- Location: Lomita, California
- MTFCA Life Member: YES
Re: Out and about
I don't think today, they would punch a hole in the font for the wires!
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TRDxB2
- Posts: 6262
- Joined: Tue Jan 08, 2019 4:56 pm
- First Name: Frank
- Last Name: Brandi
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: Speedsters (1919 w 1926 upgrades), 1926 (Ricardo Head)
- Location: Moline IL
- Board Member Since: 2018
Re: Out and about
Very interesting to see how some Model T's were used for camping and hunting. Now I understand why there are so many running board luggage racks for sale now.
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
Mick Jagger
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TXGOAT2
- Posts: 7391
- Joined: Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:08 pm
- First Name: Pat
- Last Name: McNallen
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1926-7 roadster
- Location: Graham, Texas
- Board Member Since: 2021
Re: Out and about
I believe that "auto camping" was very popular at one time. Also, people traveling any distance in many parts of the country had to carry their own supplies, or do without. Accomodations were scarce in many areas.
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otrcman
- Posts: 366
- Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 2:25 pm
- First Name: Dick
- Last Name: Fischer
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1912 Touring
- Location: Arroyo Grande, CA
Re: Out and about
My paternal grandparents and their 6 children made an epic cross-country trip from Ventura, CA to Paris, ARK in 1923, camping along the way. I had no photos from their trip, so this photo collection helps me to better visualize what it looked like. Thanks for the photos.
My family's trip was made in a 1921 Sheridan. The group consisted of the two adults (my grandparents) and their six children, 3 boys and 3 girls ranging in age from 4 years to 18 years. They had two fly tents, one for each side of the car. Grandma took the three girls on her side and grandpa took the three boys on his side.
My grandfather once told me that they drove off pavement in Castaic, CA, about 20 miles from home. And drove back onto pavement at the same point about a month later on the return trip. All dirt roads everywhere else.
Thet took what he called "the northerly route" because of some sort of flu epidemic rumored to exist along the "southern route". That may have been a vestige of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic.
They had no maps as such. The just asked people along the way the best way to "go East". I recall that at some point (in Woming, I believe) they were told that a bridge had been washed out, but that they could make the river crossing on a nearby railroad bridge. He said that they stopped the car at the near end of the bridge, listened carefully for oncoming trains, and then made all haste slowly across the bridge, bumping along on the bare ties.
My family's trip was made in a 1921 Sheridan. The group consisted of the two adults (my grandparents) and their six children, 3 boys and 3 girls ranging in age from 4 years to 18 years. They had two fly tents, one for each side of the car. Grandma took the three girls on her side and grandpa took the three boys on his side.
My grandfather once told me that they drove off pavement in Castaic, CA, about 20 miles from home. And drove back onto pavement at the same point about a month later on the return trip. All dirt roads everywhere else.
Thet took what he called "the northerly route" because of some sort of flu epidemic rumored to exist along the "southern route". That may have been a vestige of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic.
They had no maps as such. The just asked people along the way the best way to "go East". I recall that at some point (in Woming, I believe) they were told that a bridge had been washed out, but that they could make the river crossing on a nearby railroad bridge. He said that they stopped the car at the near end of the bridge, listened carefully for oncoming trains, and then made all haste slowly across the bridge, bumping along on the bare ties.