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Taken out in the Big Bend area of Texas. Looks to be a three window top. What is the approx. year of this Model T? Thanks….

Three window openings in the rear of the top indicates it is '17 to '22.

Is it just the lighting, or is that a brass radiator?

This should help
3 windows & Brass radiator

Perhaps you could get a clearer copy of that photo if you contacted these guys?

https://marfamuseum.org/2019/09/05/duncan/

They probably have a few other interesting photos with Model Ts.

TRDxB2 wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 19, 2022 8:47 pm

This should help
3 windows & Brass radiator

Brass radiator cars had the "crown" rear window, not 3 small windows. May be lighting, may be a replacement top put on an earlier car? Pic just isn't clear enough.

Just not clear enough detail.
The front fenders could appear to be flat? Could be 1915/'16 with a brass radiator? Or not. I wouldn't go from the shiny top of the radiator however. The shiny area appears too rectangular. I suspect that is a license plate hanging on a radiator neck bracket. I like the era accessory brackets myself, but do not like the way they look on cars. So I have never used one.
Tops were sometimes replaced by later style replacements, putting the three windows on late brass model Ts.

A 1913ish pickup,
A 1914 touring with later headlamps and top rear curtain.

A slightly clearer crop from Terry at the museum.

https://marfamuseum.org/2019/09/05/duncan/

Wow! So much better to work from an unadulterated early generation copy! Thanks J E G !

Without the colorization and digital manipulation, it can clearly be seen as a brass era radiator! No high mounted license plate. I can almost make out the "Ford" script on the radiator, and a small dogbone cap without a Moto-Meter.
Without brass rims on the lamps, likely a late 1915 or 1916 with a later style top installed as a replacement.

Thanks John

A little better

the 3-window rear curtain was 1917-Mid 1922.