A while back Tom Rootlieb offered on the Classifieds section to award a Running Chassis to a winner of an essay contest that he would run he did this in an effort to promote the hobby to a younger generation. A member of my family was reading the classifieds that evening and asked me to enter the contest. Without hesitation I said “ absolutely “ a poster board was made, essay written, and videos of her driving in a local church parking lot copied to a memory stick and shipped to California for Tom to enter into the contest. All of these memories happened over the last 11 years, driving for the last 3 years
Today the car was delivered to our home, Olivia who turns 11 at the end of the month is a proud girl. Her and I worked for about three hours to change the oil, rig up a gallon gas can, change the carburetor, adjust the bands and fill the radiator.
After a few minutes of messing around we had spark, and a quick tow from her grandfather, we were driving up and down the block.
For a YouTube video of everything please see the following Link
http://youtu.be/Ff5jZM7sQXE
Olivia, That's cool! Have fun and be careful. Joe
VERY COOL !!!
Congratulations ! !
Sure is wonderful to read some good, entertaining, refreshing, nice stories about people these days!
Kudos to daughter for the work and to father for the encouragement and inspiration.
This is great! More life lessons to be learned here than on a cell phone and texting!
Good deal.
Inspirational, I am excited to see this kind of interest from young folks as well as the assistance from parental units to help make a dream come true. And what a great idea from Tom. Congrats to all.
Very cool!! And obviously she got more that just a running chassis. What a great start to a new generation T'er. Cheers to Tom Rootlieb.
Others with the wherewithal should step up and make this an annual essay contest.
Wow! Truckloads of kudos to Tom Rootlieb! What a great guy and what terrific idea!
Heartiest congratulations to Olivia! The fun is just beginning!
John,
Watch out. Every young man in the neighborhood will be hanging around now. Pretty young woman and a Model T - irresistible!
That's awesome! Love seeing younger people interested in the old stuff!
Too bad she's not ten years older, i've always wanted to date a lady who had her own T.
Jerry, even if she WERE ten years older she would still be 30+ years younger than you. Why would a beautiful young lady with her own T be interested in you?? =)
Olivia,
Your car is awesome!!! It sounded great in the video. You are one lucky young lady!
Verne Shirk
Wichita, KS
Uncle Stan,Is there an echo on here?? (G)
Absolutely Fantastic! Congratulations on the winning essay and thank you to Tom Rootlieb for supporting youth.
Congratulations to Olivia! A great big thank you to Tom Rootlieb! What a great way to help the next generation discover the fun of Model Ts.
Respectfully submitted,
Hap l9l5 cut off
Wonderful opportunities all the way around.
It would be nice to follow this story for awhile.
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2
I'm thinking this is a story for the Vintage Ford with updates on Olivia's progress every so often. Also, I think there are a lot of us who would donate to some kid who was interested if we knew who needed some things and that they were actually working on a T.
I would like to donate a '26 - '27 frame.
We met this nice young man and his T Coupe project on the Montana Majestic Mountain T Tour back in 2010. His name was Adin, if my feeble memory serves, and his project was under the tutelage of Mr. David Cooley. Like Olivia, Adin had lots to learn, and to look forward to on his project. Congratulations to Olivia and our hats are off to the Rootlieb Company & Dave Cooley for thinking about the future in a positive way. Here's two cases of folks getting young folks interested in the hobby. Are there any more out there ???
Check out the grins !! W
Aden had his coupe pretty well done the last I heard. I think he is 17 by now. He's a goodun.
CAPS LOCK ON
three cheers to everyone that can get a younger person interested in our way of life OLD CARS and young women.
Forget the cell phones and texting- go for the old cars, they are a lot of fun and enjoyment-oh and maybe some HARDWORK!!
Bill d
CAPS LOCK ON
three cheers to everyone that can get a younger person intersted in our way of life OLD CARS and young women.
Forget the cell phones and texting- go for the old cars, they are a lot of fun and enjoyment-oh and maybe some HARDWORK!!
Bill d
opps double post sorry bout that
Just wanted to give an update to the progress of Olivia on the car. We had it running and then she had basketball games last weekend plus a lot of homework, so not progress. This weekend though we took it to my work and she drove around for about an hour.
a video of her is here
http://youtu.be/jxu3fiXof3M
enjoy!