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Allan
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- Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 7:21 pm
- First Name: Allan
- Last Name: Bennett
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1912 van, 1917 shooting brake, 1929 roadster buckboard, 1924 tourer, 1925 barn find buckboard, 1925 D &F wide body roadster, 1927LHD Tudor sedan.
- Location: Gawler, Australia
Annual Run
This weekend is our annual MTFCA run, this year centred on the famous Barossa Valley wine growing area. These cars were at the start and we picked up more along the route. All is going well, including the weather.
Allan from down under.
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AndyClary
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- First Name: Andrew
- Last Name: Clary
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1914 Runabout 1926 Coupe. Mercury Speedster #1249
- Location: Usa
Re: Annual Run
I always like seeing the variety of cars in the down under. Thanks for sharing.
Andy
Andy
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Allan
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- Last Name: Bennett
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1912 van, 1917 shooting brake, 1929 roadster buckboard, 1924 tourer, 1925 barn find buckboard, 1925 D &F wide body roadster, 1927LHD Tudor sedan.
- Location: Gawler, Australia
Re: Annual Run
Two more T's joined us along the way, the cream 27 tourer and the blue 25 coupe on the far end of this line-up. These are just like US T's, but the tourer was built on the new Ford factory in Geelong. It has a wooden base frsme still, like all the previous cars, but the panelwork is just like yours
Allan from down under.
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George House
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- Location: Northern Caldwell County TX
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Re: Annual Run
Just curious… Is there a wheelwright on the island continent or do you have to send to the US for wood felloe rebuilds ?
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John kuehn
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Re: Annual Run
It’s good to see a Model T in good unrestored condition too. The 25 is still pretty good shape.
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Allan
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- Location: Gawler, Australia
Re: Annual Run
We have two wheel wrights that I know of George. One used to use only spotted gum, a strong eucalypt with similar load capabilities to hickory. It is deep red/brown in colour and really needs to be painted to suit a model T. Now one can do the job with imported hickory.
I post my felloes, two at a time, to New Zealand for re-spoking in Hickory. They come back to me in the same boxes in which I mail them to him. They are fully finished, with the Canadian double taper on the hub end of the spokes. The respoked wheels are mounted in a big old lathe and the hub hole is bored after the rebuild, so they run really true. The guy is in his eighties now, so his expertise looks like being lost to us with no-one to follow on. A Kiwi friend took me to visit him at his workshop and farm on one trip to New Zealand. Watching him make wooden felloes for early wheels was fascinating. I asked him why he was prepared to show me how it was all done? He paused for a moment and said, "it's taken me 20 years to work out all the finer points. I don't reckon you have that long to go." Cheeky bugger!
Allan from down under.
I post my felloes, two at a time, to New Zealand for re-spoking in Hickory. They come back to me in the same boxes in which I mail them to him. They are fully finished, with the Canadian double taper on the hub end of the spokes. The respoked wheels are mounted in a big old lathe and the hub hole is bored after the rebuild, so they run really true. The guy is in his eighties now, so his expertise looks like being lost to us with no-one to follow on. A Kiwi friend took me to visit him at his workshop and farm on one trip to New Zealand. Watching him make wooden felloes for early wheels was fascinating. I asked him why he was prepared to show me how it was all done? He paused for a moment and said, "it's taken me 20 years to work out all the finer points. I don't reckon you have that long to go." Cheeky bugger!
Allan from down under.
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Allan
Topic author - Posts: 7333
- Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 7:21 pm
- First Name: Allan
- Last Name: Bennett
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1912 van, 1917 shooting brake, 1929 roadster buckboard, 1924 tourer, 1925 barn find buckboard, 1925 D &F wide body roadster, 1927LHD Tudor sedan.
- Location: Gawler, Australia
Re: Annual Run
John, that's my Henrietta.
Allan from down under.
Allan from down under.