Written on the bottom right of the photo appears "DeLux Ford (?) 1919".
To me the car looks much later than that.
Is that a semaphore type traficator mounted on the back?
I had a pair for a while on my 26, after a misguided DMV employee insisted i have turnsignals, and they looked just like that.
Roar
More likely it is the bracket to support the top when folded.
Nice car though, I await the full story from the usual suspects......Peter? David?
Chris M.
Now that's a sporty T, makes me want to go out and
find a sporty looking Skimmer and a Seersucker Suit.
OH Look Bernard!...They are shinny and glossy.
(just yank'n your chain)
Yeah . . . for a few weeks!
Do you know why Jay Leno picked a '25 Runabout as his Model T? Why not an '11 Torpedo or a '09 Touring? Not enough cash? Bad advise?
Nope. Jay wanted a T that is typical for what a T stands for. And while brass cars are more expensive and more desirable to many enthusiasts and collectors, the typical Model T is a low cost black car with no nonsense on it.
For the same reason a typical T should look not overly shiny, not like a car that was just rolling off the assembly line. Unless somebody has a pure show car or is just enjoying his T the way he likes it -- which is fine with me -- we all have to acknowledge that the Model T's unique traits are not only the planetary transmission, the coils, and the low price, but a finishing process that served its purpose.
Little side info: in the 1950s, assembly line workers at GM still had a bucket with engine paint and a brush to touch up engine blocks that did not receive a full coat of paint before. The General wanted to make sure that these engines wouldn't be rusty before the brand new cars would leave the showroom. Up to recently American restorers painted their engines like the exterior of a Rolls Royce: remove casting imperfections, sand, prime paint, color-sand, buff. While that is pretty, it's also dishonest to the products integrity.
Dane
Here is a simular car to the one above with simular windshield, noted as
Joseph Bishop-Beechworth Delux Ford
Could be the same family
Mark
Mark, while the windscreen is mounted similarly, there are so many dis-similarities I doubt they are of the same manufacture. The roadster is earlier, going on the round felloe, thin spoked wooden wheels. It is more extensively modified from standard; eg. Mudguards, valances, hood, radiator. These are all standard Ford fare on the tourer. Other than the reverse dish on the steering wheel, it could almost be taken as other than a T model.
I love the roll in the panel work on the top of the tourer body. It sure has more modern lines than the 1919 date ascribed to it. Those kick plates are unusual too.
I can't help with identification. I hadn't seen anything like that windscreen mounting until you posted the roadster photo.
Allan from down under.
Always learning Alan, always learning something new.
I am surprised that somebody hasn't corrected the year of the car by now. The date in the first photo is somewhat optimistic, more like 1921 at the very earliest, probably a 1922...