Seeing Greg's photos of his T with the steam engine convinced me to post some photos of my baby. I finally got it pretty well finished and went out, drove it around town, and took some pictures of it. Just thought I'd post my favorite picture of it, and wanted to open up a thread to see some more vintage-style pics of people's T's. I love looking at those old Shorpy photos, and a lot of you have to have some similar photos of your own T's!

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I plan to do some old style photos when I have my TT assembled. To get the proper sharpness and depth of field I'll use a relatively large (4x5) format camera. That's the secret of the "Shorpy look". You aren't likely to get it with 35mm or digital.

When you are ready, drop me a line. I'll point you in the direction of some nice paper to use. Or I could send you my 8x10...

Here is a re-touch on the computer of a digital pic of my '24 Touring, just changed the setting to b&w and the effect is pretty good as long as you have a period backgound without modern tech showing anywhere.

Accidentally posted two threads w/the same topic...here's my pic.

On a recent Covered Bridge Tour in IN. My '21.

Here's another

I don't know if you'd consider this photo "vintage". It was taken sometime around 1954. The people pictured are (left to right) me, my brother, my grandfather, and my cousin.

It's not too good of a picture of the truck, but it's a 1918 Wood Cab TT flat bed. The cab roof was removed so orchard trees would not be damaged. We used it as the sole means to bring in the crop until my grandfather retired in 1963. I now have it. It runs well, and looks the same. The only difference is that now I'm the old guy and my grandchildren climb on it with me.

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I've never posted a picture before. I hope it works!

It worked Henry; and it's a great picture!

Jerry, those are some great looking pics...I live in Des Moines IA, not too far from the covered bridges of Madison County, and I've been meaning to take the racer down there and take my own tour of the bridges and snap some good pics.

09 T, 13 T, 11T, and 06 N taken last week.

Hello,
Here a pics style 1920, photographed in June 2008 at the time of the centenary of Ford model T in France.

Best regards

Olivier
http://www.ford-t.fr

Jerry's second picture is the best "new old" shot so far, despite the depth of field. A tie for second place goes to Olivier's shot of T traffic and Phil's "road" pictures. It's hard to pick favorites from so many nice shots.

Took this a couple of years ago, took some cropping to get the Beemer out of it.



Alex

Here is a picture I took while on tour this past summer in the Nebraska Sandhills.

This is the same shot before I "worked on it"

This is a photo from last winter in Michigan

Here's our 1926 T Truck working on the railroad "back in the day."
John and Stathi

Heres mine

Bob

My 14 Ford LaFrance hose car, Les

Did some adjusting with the computer of a day tour thru Nisqually Valley near Mt. Rainier. The "road" is a long 1/2 mile drive to a 1911 farm house. One is an old road that is now covered in houses. The last is in front of a restored 1909 Dairy farmhouse on Steamboat Island, WA The owners of the homes have enjoyed getting copies!

There are some GREAT photos here!! Keep them coming. My favorite is the one from France - I would have never guessed it was modern.

Craig

Didn't get the T very well but like the background.

Henry, the boxes in the background of your TT, are those honey bee supers, or boxes for fruit?
thanks!
Steven

Steven,

Those are 50 pound fruit boxes supplied by the packing house and used to ship dried apricots once processing was complete.

We used smaller 40 pound boxes to transport the fresh apricots from picking to the cutting shed to reduce bruising. Once cut, sulfered and dried we'd scrape the dried fruit off the drying trays into the larger boxes for shipment to the packing house.

Sure does seem like a long time ago. I started working the fruit seasons with my grandfather when I was 8 years old. I wanted to make some money but the real value turned out to be the lesson of life I learned very early on.

My grandfather put me to work picking "ground fruit", that is very ripe apricots that had fallen to the ground, but were still OK to process. The instructions were to put the fruit in the bucket and when the bucket was full, empty it into the box. Then stack the full boxes so he could pick them up using the TT (gotta keep this T related!).

So, I started on the first tree, then the next, then the next. Soon I could see the end of the row. I worked faster to get to the end of that first row. Somehow it seemed that I would have accomplished something by finishing it. I finally got to the end of that first row. Then I realized that there was another row to pick, and another,and another....

So, I learned early on what it meant to put my head down (literally) and keep going. It paid off. I earned the princely sum of $7.50 that season. That's right, $7.50 for the season. I was the hapiest 8 year old ever. It was enough to buy what I wanted, a new Daisy BB gun, and lots of BB's to go with it.

Not really a T story, but the T conversation started it. Sorry. I hadn't looked at that photo for a long time and it brought back a lot of memories.

The TN T's did a tour in Henderson KY this year and our host knew of a farm house that had an old gas pump out front so we stopped to check it out. One of our members restores gas pumps and explained to me that those old pumps often went to farms as they didn't require electricity. Hope this works.

Olivier,

That's a wonderful shot, looks like a vintage moving picture, I keep looking at it expecting the cars to move.

Alex