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Are there any documentaries or videos of the T-100 project?

Jason: This was posted here last year, I thought it provided good insight on what is involved keeping those T's, two locomotives, and other vehicles running at Greenfield Village. jb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM09DBBs1Jw

jab35 wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:10 pm

Jason: This was posted here last year, I thought it provided good insight on what is involved keeping those T's, two locomotives, and other vehicles running at Greenfield Village. jb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM09DBBs1Jw

Thank you!!

I rode in 1 when I went to detroit and it was odd to look around on a Model T body and not see any pitting or what not.most of the time we miss a detail here and there and you can look and spot it,but nothing of the sort! Odd experience.

Those T's get a workout but are a great ride thru the village. And like the rust pitted restored ones many of us own, they leave a dribble of oil where they travel. Someone recently posted a photo from space of Greenfield Village, and you could see the route traveled marked with lost oil. The T 100 project left out the pitted metal but still kept much originality in those vehicles! jb

jab35 wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 09, 2024 1:38 pm

Those T's get a workout but are a great ride thru the village. And like the rust pitted restored ones many of us own, they leave a dribble of oil where they travel. Someone recently posted a photo from space of Greenfield Village, and you could see the route traveled marked with lost oil. The T 100 project left out the pitted metal but still kept much originality in those vehicles! jb

I googled for a space image and couldn't find 1.

Here is view from above, but not from space

Shows clearly the center oil track of those Greenfield Village Model Ts as they round the path near the Village Green


Actually it is helpful on T tours, if you have a bunch of 'em to follow, you can forget the tour book details and follow the bread crumbs

Mack: Sorry, my bad, I bet Google Earth would show it, there's more oily concrete to the right (East) of the frame Dan posted. Thanks Dan!
PS: Found this map, you can follow the T100 course if you zoom in a bit and use Dan's image as starting point for the tour.
http://www.maplandia.com/united-states/ ... d-village/

It had been over 30 years since I had been to the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, so last November my adult son and I visited the HF, GV, the Ford Rouge River assembly plant, the Ford Piquette assembly plant/museum and the abandoned Ford Highland Park assembly plant where my ‘15 Model T was built. We had a great time!

While at the Village, we did take a ride in a Model T and two things stood out:

1. While the video in this thread mentioned hose clamps on the spark advance sector, I also noticed a hose clamp on the throttle sector limiting the throttle lever to about 1/4 throttle.

2. I recognized that the $12 I paid for the ride was the least I have ever paid to get a Model T to take me down a road!