After finishing the rear axle in my 1923 touring, I drove it once and found out that the front wheel bearings were shot. I bought new bearings, but wanted to save them until I could have some demountable wheels ready to replace the nondemountables. Then yesterday the light went on. I realized that I had two good demountable front wheels I restored a couple of years ago for my TT project. So on they went, and today I drove to town. Here's the video:
http://youtu.be/21k8N9rR0GU
Steve
Great! Your hidden camera shot of the choke lever and starter button is super
And see that you left the rear door open and your dog jumped out and starting barking for you to stop and get 'em for that ride to town.
Say, why was you key still on batt, doesn't the mag work on your touring ?
Isn't it fun living in an area where can just jump in and go for a drive without worrying yourself stupid about everyone ELSE?.......
Even the state highway that runs through town, State Road 66, isn't so heavily traveled that I need to worry much about traffic.
Besides, the wide "bicycle" lanes along side the traffic lanes let me drive far enough to the right that most traffic can pass me without crossing the center line anyway.
What fun!
That was great Steve!!!!!! I'm going to show it to my Son.....He loves to make videos.....I hope it turns out half as good as yours...thanks for sharing.....Carl
I would like to meet your camera man. This was great! Do tell!
Steve,
Very good! Was this one man production or did have some help? You need to add credits.
The driving down the road/street scenes are very good. If you did them yourself I could just see coming back to get your camera and someone had ran off with it.
Jim
Dan, I usually drive on MAG, but in that one shot I guess I was distracted by video recording and forgot.
Great video and your part of Kansas is beautiful.Town looks peaceful and quiet.
Very cool, well done. I did not see another car? or any other people,unbelievable. You would not believe the difference here in L.A. + what we drive in. Looks like what I would of thought of our country in the 30's. Looks like great T country for sure, thanks for sharing.
It was a one-man show all the way. Shots of the choke, brake lever, and spark lever were hand-held, as was the underpass shot. Everything else was by tripod. I was lucky to find a couple of relatively deserted residential streets, but I also had to wait for some occasional traffic to pass. Sometime I'll enlist a helper and do a fancier video.
Steve: One word... WONDERFUL
That was killer Steve.
Steve, you are becoming quite the video producer! Two thumbs up! Dave
I bet you had as much fun making that as we all did watching it. Well done. A real simple pleasure we can all relate to even if we live in a less pastoral area.
Steve, i really like Your little movie. You have an eye for details. Great!! All movies have goofs, just look at American Graffiti, another cult movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069704/trivia?tab=gf
One of my favorite goofs, which appears all of the time in movies and TV, is the scene where someone is driving a vehicle with the automatic transmission shift lever in the "Park" position. There are of course MANY others. Makes you wonder just how stupid these people think we are. End of rant. Dave
Great video! I think your dog would have loved to join you on the trip
Great Steve. Loved the dog running down the lane too.
Great Steve. It tells a story, and that's what I like about such a film. Pity you didn't show what you went to town to get! I particularly liked the welcoming bark you received after turning into your driveway.
Thanks, Dane
Well done Steve! I found myself wondering how long that little trip to town must have taken with all the camera setup and planning. Very instructional as far as operating the car as well. I'm looking forward to the sequel. Thanks, John
Thanks all for the good reviews. Whenever I'm out driving around the county I keep an eye open for good shooting locations. One of these days I'll do a video on T era roads.
Daisy is a sweetheart, but she doesn't ride much because she sometimes springs a leak when she gets excited.
Dane, I went to town for materials to make a Model T tool. I'll post a picture of it if it works.
A Ghost?
Steve that was a mighty fine video!
Did I get a glimpse of a ghost at 0:41? Thank him for shutting the back door when it slung open.
At 2:13 I think I caught a glimpse of him.
Let's have some more videos!
Film flubs are an interesting thing. While many flubs are exactly that, it amazes me how many things are called errors that really are not. When an entire day from more than a dozen viewpoints is compressed down into ninety minutes, what hand someone is holding their cigarette in is not an error as every single motion of their hand cannot be shown and they could have easily switched between view changes. (I read the "American Graffiti" list) It reminded me of the "Pretty Women" flubs list. On their picnic, in one scene Richard Gere has his shoes off, in another scene he has them on. But the conversation clearly places some time between the two scenes. There is no reason to believe he could not have taken them off and put them on several times during their leisurely afternoon. Yet flub lists continue to list that one.
Wolfman Jack WAS on Mexican radio in the fifties and early sixties. Many communities banned him at that time. The Mexican stations were known as "pirate" stations. I can not tell you if the call letters were correct or not, but Mexico did not use the "W" or "K" call series. There were far fewer stations on the air in those days. On AM, it was common to listen to stations even a thousand miles away, well within the reach to Modesto.
Steve Jelf,
You continue to amaze me. An incredible video, very well done! And that touring is also looking great!
I would not call the ghost a flub. The camera view is from the drivers point of view. If I were driving that car there, would I not see my reflection in the glass? And, it looks enough like me to accept it.
Drive carefully, a lot, and enjoy, W2
Wow Steve that was fantastic. I bet that video consumed more than a day of work to produce. Very nice indeed.
The Wolfman was on XERF in Ciudad Acuņa, Coahuilla, and XERB in Rosarito Beach, Baja California. Those stations were "border blasters", high-powered AM stations that covered much of the central and western US at night. Free of FCC oversight, they advertised products and services like bogus male enhancements that weren't heard on US radio.
The trip to town, including the shooting, took about three hours. Using iMovie, editing took about an hour. I think the program includes fades, but I can't use that feature because I haven't found it yet.
Steve - Very nice film. I can appreciate the work in making it by yourself.... Stop, set up the camera & start it, then drive the T by, then turn around & pick up the camera, then move on to the next place, etc. Very nice.
Thanks, Keith
Very well done Mr. Jelf. This forum is better place because of those like you. Thank you.
I used to listen to the Wolfman when I was in high school in Oklahoma. He said he was coming from Del Rio, Texas.
I just found this on Wikipedia: Del Rio is known as the American address of legendary Mexican radio stations XERA and XERF just over the U.S.-Mexico border in Ciudad Acuņa; their 500,000-watt signals could be heard at night as far away as Canada. Legendary deejay Wolfman Jack operated XERF in the 1960s, using a Del Rio address to sell various products advertised on the station.
I never knew that.
Somehow Powell Crosley got permission from the FCC for WLW to broadcast "experimentally" at 500,000 watts. Supposedly people in the Cincinnati area could hear the station on their eyeglasses and their fillings and barbed wire fences.
Okay. I have to tell this. When I was in High School, back in the '60s. One of the last classes I had for the day was in a portable building on the edge of the parking lot. When mid spring rolled around, the poor teacher had to put the air conditioner on in the afternoon, or roast. Along about the second day of AC, he, and the rest of the class began to hear something. A couple days later, as it kept getting a little bit louder, he started demanding that "whoever brought the transistor radio had better turn it off and never bring it back!" After much denial and discussion, the sound was found to be coming from the air conditioner. Within days, it was torn apart, nothing found, and they could only make it stop by turning off the AC. As the weather heated up, the problem got worse. No one in class would listen to the teacher because they were so fascinated by the radio station. Most of the last six weeks of that class were held on the lawn under a tree.
Under certain circumstances, a fan can act as a tuning oscillator and speaker.
I kid you not.
Drive carefully, and enjoy the ride! W2
Pure inspiration to go work on the '21 touring out in the garage. Some day............
Steve, you're dating yourself and me too. I remember XERB and 'Wolfman Jack' quite well. Just out of curiosity, could you pick him up in Kansas?
Wayne,
Wasn't that the basis for "mechanical" vs electronic TV?
Larry
Dennis, I don't know. I was in California in those days. I imagine they could get him here when he was on XERF. I do recall a bunch of us from Pepperdine driving to Muskogee in 1962. We left in the evening, and started picking up KOMA in OKC around Palm Springs. we listened to it all through Arizona and New Mexico that night. The hits we heard over and over were Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport, Sukiyaki, and Sweet Dreams of You. Listened to it again on the return trip. Same songs.
All great Songs. Sukiyaki was a little hard to sing along with.
"My friend is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk"......
Steven Wright
We used to listen to KOMA here in N.W. MO. in the sixties and seventies. It wouldn't come in until the sun went down, didn't make any difference what time it was, just when the sun went down. Came in great then. It was my favorite station back then. Dave
We could get good reception on KOMA in the evenings in SE South Dakota when I was kid in the '60s...great reception actually...
I asked my cousin Dale about Wayne's story.
He sent this reply.
"Electrogalvanic corrosion sometimes makes a diode at a metal joint.
(such as copper attached to galvanized steel)
(you can see the green stuff oozing out of the joint)
Two different kinds of metal in loose contact.
That joint rectifies an amplitude modulated wavefront. (AM radio)
Don't really know what would provide the "speaker" !
Unless the motor or solenoid moved with the detected wavefront.
The rectifier, diode action, is like the old crystal radios.
Herb
Wayne "Where were you in 62?"
Herb