What is your favorite T moment ?

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John Leffler on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 09:49 pm:

My favorite T moment is when I finally got her running and toke her for that first drive.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tom Carnegie on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 10:10 pm:

When my sister won the Montana 500.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Paul Mikeska, Denver CO on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 10:23 pm:

When my now gone T mentor told me that I had become a good Model T driver.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Danial - Veneta OR US Earth Solar System on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 10:40 pm:

My favorite T moments are when my 6 year old granddaughter insists on taking a ride in it. She loves waving at everybody...grin...


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dan Haynes on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 10:43 pm:

Listening, with my mouth hanging wide open, to my car run the first time I used a borrowed hand-cranked coil tester to set the coils. I gained a new level of respect for the Ford car that day. I couldn't wait to get a set of coils to Ron the Coilman for new condensers and points.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Greg Whaley, Georgetown Ontario Canada on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 11:25 pm:

The first time my grandfather let me take his '23 touring up and down the driveway by myself. I was a bout 12 or 13 - he sat in a lawnchair and kept an eye on me....that car was his baby.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bill in Adelaida Calif on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 11:41 pm:

Every time I start Mine :-)

Bill


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Cameron Whitaker on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 12:02 am:

I had just bought my '24 Touring last October, and it was my understanding that the engine hadn't been running in at least 30 years. After going through every check I could think of, I got it running the day I bought it! I drove it about a mile down the road, and then my low band disintegrated. The guy I bought it from offered to tow me back, but I was not about to let my pride suffer, so I politely refused and told him that I could get it back. So naturally, I drove my new T all the way back in reverse!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rob Heyen - Nebraska on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 12:09 am:

Family outings.

Christmas day, 2004. 6 degrees F


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John Gelfer, Milwaukee WI on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 12:29 am:

The first time I pulled a steep grade on a long hill. I retarded the spark several clicks, and just kept going in high gear. I was afraid I would have to go up in low. It gave me confidence in what the car could do. I'm still learning things about the car that make me smile.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob Cascisa - Poulsbo, Washington on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 02:21 am:

Reaching the summit at Rocky Mountain National Park ... 12,183 feet. Thanks Dave.

Be_Zero_Be


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Stroud on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 04:38 am:

Riding in an original '26 Tudor sedan when I was fourteen years old with my sixteen year old buddy Bill Brandon driving in 1965 or so. It was owned by an old friend of ours that lived in southeast NE and he had MANY old cars and tractors. What a hoot! Dave


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob Coiro on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 04:52 am:

I can't isolate just one moment.

I was a little shaver in 2nd Grade when my Dad took the family to Henry Austin Clark's "Long Island Automotive Museum" for the first time, back around 1962. That's when I fell in love with all that shiny brass and the diamond-tufted seats and the hand-cranks and the blue smoke and the tires that said, "NON SKID." The antique car bug really bit me that day and Dad said, "Well, Bobby, someday, you'll buy one and drive me around in it." Afterward, Dad took us out for pizza and ice cream.

I remember finding this website and watching "Katie Across the Nation" in the summer of 2009 and thinking to myself, "Okay, it's time for me to get me one of those cars!"

A few days later, I went to lunch with a new friend—an antique car restorer in my local area who had been a contemporary of the late Henry Austin Clark. He was kind enough to explain to me the basics of what to look for when shopping around for a Model T.

Then, there was the day I drove a Tin Lizzy for the very first time, in May of 2010. It was an absolutely untouched, barn-fresh, 1914 Touring that had been rescued from fifty years in a chicken coop. That same day, the owner of that car sold me a 1915 Touring which had been his "Driver"—a term I heard for the first time that day.

Then, there was the evening a few months later when that same gentleman and his wife drove a big, enclosed trailer all the way down from Albany, NY to my Long Island home and I took delivery of "Penelope."

Then, there was the next day when, like a kid on Christmas morning, I got up with the sun and "soloed" my Flivver.
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/118802/154661.html?1281564187

I came full circle when my octogenarian Dad saw the car I'd bought and said, "Holy cow! You actually did it!" And he climbed aboard and we went and got some pizza and ice cream.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Robert Poane on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 07:58 am:

Chugging up the hill with my kids in the back chanting,"I think we can, I think we can."

My 4 y/o son helping me pull out the engine.

Teaching my other son to drive the T when he was old enough - 8y/o and eventually 25 y/o

Having a goal of getting my first T to run by Thanksgiving. I finished her the day before Thanksgiving and then took her out half put together as the snow fell.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rob from Nova Scotia on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 08:03 am:

Mine was when I took it for its first long drive, from the garden I got married in to the reception hall. It performed flawlessly, and my wife was absolutely giddy it worked so well


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Michael Mullis on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 08:33 am:

I have two best moments. The first one happened when I realized that I could actually drive a Model T proficiently despite all the false warnings that "those things are hard to drive"

My second "best moment" happened when my stepdad took his first ride in my Liz and remarked: " I don't remember one ever running this good! What did you do?" (He learned to drive in a T and drove one regularly in the 50s)
I know some of you will find this hard to believe but he said that even though I insist on running the car on magneto with a conventional timer and a set of those "old fashion" coils.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Don Lyon, PDX, OR. on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 10:27 am:

Took my car for a ride to see how the new bands were working and the low peddle stuck to the floor. In the confusion of the moment I left the rev's about midrange as I hooked my foot under the peddle. Instead of bringing the peddle up with my foot, it slipped off the side of my shoe and snapped up to high. I heard a chirp and realized I just gotten 2nd gear scratch!! Outta 20H.P.!!! I'm lucky I didn't break something in the rearend cause that's my next project to rebuild, its really sloppy. Don.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steven Thum on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 10:38 am:

When my Dad called me and told me he could no longer store "MY" car and to come get it out of his garage.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By JIM WILSON, AMORY, MS on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 10:48 am:

The police stopped me when I took my newly rebuilt chassis around the block for a test drive. He explained all the requirements for driving an auto on the street (of course I had none of them) then followed me back home.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Henry Petrino in Modesto, CA on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 10:59 am:

After a long period of rebuild/repair it was finally time to start it. I cranked and cranked and cranked some more. No cigar. It turned out that I had a short in the coil box. As soon as I discovered and fixed it, the ol' truck fired up on the first pull. It was the first time I had heard it run in over 40 years. I was thrilled!!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John Memmelaar Jr on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 11:17 am:

Driving it to the top of Pikes Peak, and making it down!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve McClelland on Sunday, September 16, 2012 - 12:13 am:

Sometimes I think I'd rather work on T's with my Dad as drive them, I've been fortunate enough to be able to build model A's and T's With him ever sense I can remember we've always worked on an old car. Seems when we're working on an old car we spend a lot time of together but once we finish it we drift apart somewhat ....
I guess the old cars and antique guns are the glue that keeps us close, we took a 6 hr road trip just this past Friday to pick up some long lost rusty Gold !
We have plans for the second trip set up to get the rest also, Im looking forward to time well spent with Pop...
So my final answer would be building them with my Dad is no doubt the best T moments for me by far.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Matthew David Maiers on Sunday, September 16, 2012 - 01:01 am:

driving through taco bell in reverse, twice, at two different locations. they dont know what to think!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Larry Smith on Sunday, September 16, 2012 - 10:18 am:

My favorite T moment is every time I crank it up and it runs!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Gary Moe, Utah on Sunday, September 16, 2012 - 01:10 pm:

My favorite moments...

Working on restoring my T with my two kids, then 8 and 10, sitting in the back seat under a blanket while my dad and I tacked the top on the top bows in 30 degree weather.

Taking my Dad for a ride just when I was learning how to drive a T. He is now 85. He grew up with T's on the old homestead. As we were driving, the engine started to run rough. Dad reached over and pushed the coils down and it started running really well again. He smiled and said, "When we get home, let me show you how we used to fix that."

Taking my grandmother for a ride and having her tell me about the time when she was a little girl and her father packed the family up in a T and drove from Southern Idaho to California to see the ocean. She beamed telling me that she was the only girl in her school who had ever seen the ocean. The trip took seven day there and seven days back.

Three weeks ago taking my car to a car show sponsored by a retirement home. An elderly lady came up to the car and walked all around it with her hands clasped together and giggling. She told me her father had one. I asked if she would like to hear it run. She said, "Oh can I?" I cranked it and it started right up. Giggling almost uncontrollably she said, "That's what they sound like, that's what they sound like."

Love it!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mark Stewart -Calif. on Sunday, September 16, 2012 - 01:26 pm:

When I finally got my 14 Runabout started. It blew out massive smoke and shoot all over my truck parked in the drive way behind it. It was worth the clean up.


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