This is not a Shriners car is it?
I saw that car on display at the Henry Ford Museum 35 years ago.
Note the zig-zag wood floor in the photo - same as the Henry Ford Museum.
Also - my opinion is that it was probably built around 1926-27. Incredible detail.
Definitely not a 1950s Shriner car.
Wow! Can't help ya but that's the most accurate one I've seen. Note the headlights and front axle among others. Even the windshield stanchions look correct. I can't tell what's in the back--Maybe a motor. But it looks too small to be a Shriner car. Too nice to be a peddle car.
Great detail!
The windshield looks like a two piece, however. Henry didn't do that in 26-27.....grin
"The windshield looks like a two piece, however. Henry didn't do that in 26-27..."
Really? How 'bout the '26 Touring in my profile picture?
I have NEVER seen a '26 or '27 T with a one-piece windshield.
Only the coupe/2door sedan had one piece, Runabout,Touring and Fordor had split.
Geo. n L.A.
I kind'a like the little set of demountable wheels .....
From what you can see in the picture it looks extremely correct, like some sort of publicity stunt. Note the tag on the front "15,000,001"
I love it! Guess it's the spare wheel that can be seen on the trunk. Is it still at the museum or was it sold in the infamous 80's auctions?
The license plate #15,000,001 indicates it was made after Model T production was halted in 1927?
Perhaps a few highly valued craftsmen who Ford didn't want to leave didn't have so much to do after Model A prototypes were built and everyone waited for the Model A tooling to be ready - so they were assigned to do this?
..Perhaps it is Edsel's children Benson (b.1919) and Josephine (b.1923) in the car?
That's amazing.
But the tag should have read #15,000,000 1/2
Ah, ok, I'm still learning. I thought they were all one-piece.
So sue me...grin...
It must be a real hot rod, its got a bunch of louvers in the hood!
It's not Edel's children in the car.
The photo appears to have been taken in the late 1950s or early 1960s based on the boy's clothing (Jay North/Dennis the Menace style overalls) and short haircut.
Judging by the children's clothes and hairdos the photo was probably taken in the 1950's (my sister had the straight bangs as a little girl back in the late 50's and I had the crew cut),to be printed in a company-wide Ford newsletter. Possibly the children of a Ford executive or Ford family member sitting in a one of a kind museum piece manufactured by Ford in 1926 or '27. Jim Patrick
Did Ford ever build a "builders model" for cars before going into production? Much like a ship builder would build a model of the ship?
Did Edsel have that done for the Improved cars of '26 and '27? to mock them up. He was likely doing that with the Lincoln's.
Just a thought.
Larry
You were all suckered in... this is the production #15,000,001 1927 model T. They used those two freak giantic kids for the publicity photo!
That's my story and I'm sticking by it!
TH
Terry, if you look at the size of the kids and where their knees would be, I think you might be on to something.
I know someone that just found a front axle like that,it was in a barn and it looks like the picture. It has spindels,tie rod, ridge spring and the wishbone. Don't know what it came off of but it sure looks like a mini T axle.
Bob
Perhaps it was something like the video in this thread:
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/257047/304825.html?1344515312
Herb