Our club was contacted a week ago by a fellow in Indiana who has been on a quest to locate his late grandfather's T. He remembers the car fondly from childhood, and it is probably the reason he became a collector car enthusiast as an adult. He and his family would enjoy the chance to see the car again and learn its fate.
He knows that the 1913 touring car was purchased by his grandfather in Pennsylvania in 1962. At that time it was in very poor condition and undrivable. His grandfather brought it to his home in Raleigh, NC where both he and the car are well remembered. There he restored it and kept it and ran it for the next 22 years. Prior to his 1984 death he sold the car to a friend in Raleigh. This fellow sold it to a man in South Carolina around 1988, who found that it was rated a 60-point car in shows. Around 2000 it went to a man in Bamberg, SC, who around 2005 sold the car to an "elderly couple from Florida" and that is where the trail ends at this point. The car had a distinctive weld mark on the brass radiator which still existed when it was in South Carolina.
He asked that we briefly tell the story of his quest in the hope that the car is known by a Florida member who can give him a lead toward what might be the final chapter in the quest. With luck, the car is enjoying a healthy lively life in the Model T friendly Florida weather.
He has a website where the car can be seen: Grandfather's T
His email address is mygrandfatherst@gmail.com
Whoever owns it now might like to know it's back story which always makes owning one of these cars more interesting.
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bump. what a small world though, my grand uncle was the man that restored it (Rodger Lyons)