Must be Model T's at the mall

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Fred Dimock, Newfields NH, USA on Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 04:15 pm:

I was working at my computer this afternoon and my wife called upstairs about a movie on the TV with the title "The Charge of the Model Ts" and asked if I wanted to see it.

My first thought was they must be going to the Mall and using a charge card, but she added that the description was about a general that used Model Ts in a war against Mexico.

When we turned to the channel we found that it was one of the few out of 300 that we could not get so I might have been right!:-)

If I was politically correct I would not add the following but I'm old and have earned the right to speak what is left of my mind ---

Maybe the border patrol should begin using model Ts again.. :-) :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Darel J. Leipold on Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 04:29 pm:

It was 1916. General Pershing was in charge and used a Dodge. He like that car so much, that he used them during WWI in Europe. Lower officers and enlisted men used Fords


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Hap Tucker on Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 04:54 pm:

Fred,

The movie was not nominated for any academy awards etc. Watching the Model Ts drive around was the part I liked best -- and watching it with the sound off is ok also. For $6 you an purchase it new at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000MRNWL0/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&conditi on=new (that includes the shipping). But I think your $6 would be better spent on gas for your Ford or towards some parts etc. If I knew where I put my copy I would gladly let you borrow it. It was not a bad movie -- but probably a low production budget movie. Several Ts later than WWI were used in the movie.

There was also one link for it for "free" on you-tube. But you had to click on another link and depart you-tube and I did not want to take a chance on that. You-tube I sort of trust -- and of course the anti-virus software should help -- but I did not want to go there.

Respectfully submitted,

Hap l9l5 cut off


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Brian on Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 05:02 pm:

There is a famous photo of Gen. Fransisco Villa in a T taken just before his death.
Maybe it was a war capture T from the invading force. He liked T's too, he used them in place of a horse when possible.

Your US history books called him Pancho Villa


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Philip Berg on Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 05:07 pm:

FYI

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078953/


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ricks - Surf City on Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 09:25 pm:

On the good side, it had Arte Johnson. Louis Nye drove Professor Fate's car that ahd been drug out of the back lot.



It's so bad I think everybody should see it at least once, especially you, Brian. No Mexicans were harmed in making this movie.

rdr


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Gary H. White - Sheridan, MI on Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 10:26 pm:

"the Charge of the Model Ts" playbill shows a swastika which wasn't used till WWII.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Garrison on Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 10:33 pm:

Gary, don't let that stop you in seeing it. The swastika's there because they didn't have a Star of David.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Gilbert V. I. Fitzhugh on Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 10:42 pm:

The Mexican song "La Cucaracha" (the cockroach) was named for the Model T Pancho Villa used. On the progressive tour from Colorado a few years back, I noticed some hispanics in one of the hotel parking lots ogling the Ts. I asked them if they liked the cars, and one said "Sí, ˇlas cucarachitas son muy bonitas!" (Yes, the little cockroaches are very pretty!) Now you know!

Gil Fitzhugh, Morristown, NJ


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Terry Horlick in Penn Valley, CA on Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 10:47 pm:

If I remember correctly, in an early scene the hero rebuilds a front wheel with a stick of wood and his whittling knife... same tools needed for a complete engine rebuild!

TH


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ricks - Surf City on Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 11:17 pm:

Gil, I didn't know that. Thanks. Almost makes me want to paint the car black. :-)


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