This is the newest T(T) in my collection - #3 for those who are counting...

Good looking TT! But you sure don't get in a hurry with one. I really like mine, though.

Chuck
Adiction; when you run out of money and space.

Chuck, Nice!!!!!!!!!!

Les,

I have run out of both!! Anxious to see your crank.

Paul

When you can give out the engine serial number for your cars faster than your wife & kids date of birth.

Admitting you have a problem is the first step.

The only solution is for you to send me that TT.

Dont know but can tell you that 3 is not enough..........

Dont know but can tell you that 3 is not enough..........

Buy all you can possibly afford and store. Hoarding them may do something positive for the value!

News Flash:
We HAVE run out of space! That's why all the cars are outside!
(from the girl with the Jeep addiction!)

Addiction - When your wife catches you washing that blue stuff off your white tires in her clean bathtub. At least that's what she told me when she caught me.

Chuck,

BTW, space or not, that is a great looking truck. I hope you find some way to prevent Mother Nature from taking her toll on it so that it will always look that nice!

Nice TT Chuck. Certainly one of my T model want list items. Please post some interior pics when you have a chance.

Car hobby addictions have no known cure.
1st rule of collecting: Space is irrelevant.
I like what Jeff Foxworthy once said:
If you're wife asks you:"Honey,can you move the transmission,I need to take a bath!" You might be a redneck !
Or an old car nut!

There aint no cure for the addiction.I started out in the old gas engine and garden tractor hobby and after allmost 20 years I still grab a "bargin" if I see 1.you would think at about 300 vintage Briggs engines and about 65 2 and 4 wheel garden tractors I would have enough.Naw,brought 1 in a couple weeks ago.
T's Cant get enough of parts or big ideas of what I can build.

Except for the occasional breathing of exhaust fumes and busted knuckles every now and then, it beats all other addictions I've ever heard of. There are plenty of earth-friendly detergents and hand cleaners to take care any messes that are inevitable.

Now, when the folks from the TV show "Intervention" come knocking on your door, then and only then should you worry that your better half has had enough.:-)

Seth

I knew my hobby had become an addiction when my wife complained that I had two pictures of my (oops OUR) T in my wallet and none of her & my daughter.

Well this may never happen but I have been planning on building a new house. The house of course will include a "Mega Shop" as the house I built to date has a 3 car garage and is far too crowed with machines and a T. When I built this house I had not as of yet entered the T hobby. Three years later I need a new house... does this qualify? :-)

...how about building a double long shed out back where the other 3 are, housing 3 A's and a T, just in case we find something "interesting" in the future to put in it...

Now imagine this was "her" idea. I am truly blessed... :{)

The problem is that its insidious! The addiction causes you to make irrational decisions. I just purchased my 9th T. Prior to that number 8 cost me the addition of 2 A models to get the T I wanted. I'm getting better though I passed on a speedster body for a great price just this past weekend. I feel much better now. I am in control its just by coincidence that I'm going back to visit in my truck. After all its only five hours away from where I live... seems normal doesn't it?

In an attempt to retain the status of harmless hobby, exhibit personal balance and have her believe that I have my mind right, I took the "one less approach" when "we" built the "shop". One less bath and one less ton of AC than the house. She may make me live out there one day.
Ken from Houston

A garage or shop with a cot is a good idea,sayeth the wise man.
We bought our current house to accomodate the cars and the kids.

My wife accused me of being addicted when she found out that I was using our dishwasher to clean Model T parts. Hey, it works great!
Bob

Addicted sure. If you work on something long enough you will have two of them, then four, then six, ok I have a problem. How about the wife finds a new home that has more shop and out building space than the home, God bless her she understands.

Mike Bender

Chuck
Great looking Truck. One that is on my list to own.
It becomes an addiction when you put a computer on your work bench to have access to this forum while you are at work, Just in case you run into a problem and need to access the answers or just to see what other T folks are up to. And to walk away from a good paying (in the air cond.) office job to work on these T's and make it a business so you have an excuse to be in the shop all day. Am I just wacked or are there others out there with this same obssesion I meen addiction :-) My therapist insist I learn the word "No"


JS

PS; My door is always open and the light is on.

I've owned 6 or 7 T's continuously over the past 40+ years .I sold my last T about 3 years back and decided to call it quits and move on to other cars. I just couldn't do it------bought another T this past winter-----will never be without one again !!!!!!!!!!!!

To the person involved, it is always a positive, heathful, and profitable hobby; to the person who constantly desires that you waste time mowing the lawn, taking out the garbage, painting the house siding, etc., it is a negative, unhealthful, and unprofitable addiction.

Old car addiction? Never heard of it. We just got a 1924 Depot Hack that won't fit in our current garage space. So we are building a 24 x 46 garage with a lift and upstairs storage. I consider this normal behavior, not an addiction.

Mack - you forgot to mention your 12 trailers & 75 lawn mowers !! now thats an addition !

opp's addition to the addiction !

When one takes out a third mortgage and spends the kid's college fund to finance a hobby, it's an addiction. Jim

Stuart,you aint gona beleive this.I sold my smallest trailer 2 weeks ago!
I am down to 11.BUT when I get back to the T trailer project ,that will get the numbers back up!:>)

I go at least every other month to T.A.-- that is Model T Anonomous. There we all gather for a common goal. To meet and discuss our mutual "addiction" Tim

Bob Schmitt, The voice of sanity. I was really starting to get worried. Thanks for posting. BTW my shop is 30 x 60 and I really regret not going 40 deep. My wife to this day still doesent understand why I wanted 8' x 8' doors in the basement.
Scott Davidson

Chuck, does this mean you don't need that pickup box anymore? If I cut it in half, I think the garbage truck will take it..

rdr

Mack - your too much mate ! see you at George's pig picking Sat.

My story: Probably 15 years ago, when we lived on a 20 house street in So Cal, one of my neighbors told me that several of them had been talking about hobbies and one guy had said, "Vern's hobby is old cars" and another replied, "That's not a hobby - it's an obsession>"... I guess 6 cars in a 3 car garage and another 6 or so stored all about town would have qualified me for that assessment.

When we built our new home here in Prescott Arizona 12 years ago(high country - never gets very hot), I had 11 old Fords.. Therefore we designed our home to sit on a hill atop an an eleven car garage (+ shop, office, full bath), with a big 2 car garage on the upper level for the modern iron.

Now the old Fords have been pared down to include 2-'32s; 4 Ts and a '67 Cougar. The therapy sessions must be working!?!!?