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As we've found out by now is that northern European cars sits lower on 1926-27 models than American models. We have been talking to a Swedish oracle that told us that because the body sits lower the rear fenders are different and hence the rear quarter panel must be different and the rear doors. He ...

Time for an update at last. Was at the car show Motormessa in Rørvik the weekend 21nd to 23rd of June. It was an success. Got a lot of good feedback and people thought it was a cool project. Talked to several people that thought that the crack in the original engine block was possible to fix somehow...

It has come a long way from when I brought the parts to the workshop. Here we have placed the parts as we assumed they would be. After I got the chance to buy the green car and all the other bodies we decided to take the best parts for my car. The plan was to leave the green car untouched but as the...

After my '26 body was postponed slightly by the workshop due to other projects, it is now full ahead again. The goal is to have the whole body temprarily assembled but all bodyparts, fenders, windshield frame, running boards etc. to have been sandblasted and black epoxy coated to the fair "Trønderma...

Hello guys. A lot of interesting answers here I see. I'll take the best engine block of the other two and renumbers it in the first hand and then I see what will happen with the original engine block, I'll definitely don't going to throw it away. The body work will cost a fortune on my project so ma...

I was recomended a company to weld a crack in my engine block. When he started welding he quickly found out that the steel was rusted thin. Apparently there was something sticky fluid inside the cooling channel that caused this. This is at the top of the engine block. My question is, is it worth fix...

Roar_Sand wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 04, 2019 3:51 pm

Hei Vidar!
Right now it escapes me how to post pictures, but I did post in another thread. Look in the thread titled "How long have you owned your old iron".
My car is a 1926 Touring.
Roar

That's ok, same as mine then.

Thanks guys.

I'll check with the paint shop to what would resemble cadmium plated surface.

Thanks guys.

I forgot to say that it was 21" demountable rims.

They have to be sandblasted and painted, så then it's probably good old RAL 9006 then. I'll check with the workshop that's doing the job.

Anyone have the colour code on the wood wheel rims 1926 model?
Preferably in RAL code. They're supposed to be silver coloured aren't they?

Hei Vidar! Thanks for the update! I just remember how it was in the "good old days", as I have not lived in Norway since 1962. Now I just visit. My daughter moved from Umeå, Sweden to Smøla, Norway last year, so I'll be visiting her again this year. I will also try to make it to the 60 year reunion...

My question to Vidar concerns how to get an up to date title to my car. Norway used to only issue one document, which served the purpose of title and registration. Now they do issue two pieces of paper, Part 1 to keep in your car to serve as registration. The other, Part2, serves as title, not to b...

Hei Vidar! Jeg leverte inn skiltene i 1964, da jeg dro til USA for å finne en jobb. Jeg har det gamle vognkortet, men det er i min første kones navn. Jeg har også en signert salgsmelding fra henne til meg. Det gjør eierforholdet litt rotete, så det er derfor jeg er interessert i å få det nye vognko...

Here is a photo of the farm where my grand mother was born, must be in the 50's (most likely) or 60's I reckon. The Model T used to be parked in the farmyard in front of the red "Eldhuset" (washhouse) to the right with the headlight towards you looking at the photo. When the car went out of use 30th...

Ordered lots of parts at Snyders last Sunday, got a 8 page invoice in my inbox and 4 parcels for delivery on Wednesday. Shipment costs for normal parts wasn't bad just 11% added, and then 25% VAT thats inevitable when ordering. I'll have to look elsewhere for seat springs, thats the buggers that mad...

The serial number list is in Bruce McCalley's Model T Encyclopedia. Part of the Encyclopedia is on the MTFCA website, much abridged. It's available in book form, but the disk version is better because of all the extra information it contains. Details are here: http://dauntlessgeezer.com/DG80.html B...

Steve Jelf wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 17, 2019 2:39 pm

I may have missed it somewhere in this long discussion, but the engine assembly date is Monday, April 12, 1926

Hello Steve.

Thank you for your reply. That's interesting, where do these dates come from?

Hei Vidar! In regards to the assembly date of your T, your car was probably assembled in Copenhagen. Norway fell under the distribution district for cars built there. Chances are there could be weeks, if not months, between the engine build date and the assembly of the vehicle. My car, 12987766, ha...

Welcome Vidar - I've been to Trondhiem...beautiful city, wonderful country. Your car dates to April of 1926. Someone with better references might be able to pin it down more closely. Unfortunately, most of the records for Model T's built after 1911 were lost in a fire many years ago. You should be ...

Tuckett Brothers in England would be a good starting point for parts. www.modeltford.co.uk I have come across them before. Maybe I should contact them, I do need a new rear seat toe panel og rear center panel. I saw they was included in one episode of Channel 4's Find It, Fix It, Flog It (S01, E01)...

Here is a few photos of my car from last weekend when I visited the workshop.

Note that the red Volvo 142 is my dad's car bought from my great grandfathers youngest son and he has driven my Model T.

As for the parts. My dad has a cabin in Åre, Sweden. It's 180 km and a two and a half hour drive from Trondheim and in Summer 2017 I was walking around among the permanent housing area on the other side of the main road E14 when I saw an old car on a car-trailer. As a complete novice I hadn't a clue...

Thanks guys :) I have a lot of stories about the car so I am thinking of starting a blog or it's own Facebook page if that's allowed. I found out that it will be a car show in the region where my great grandfather lived and contacted them to hear if they was interested in displaying the project. The...

Got the opportunity to buy back my great grandfathers old 1926 touring in May last year. It's a complete restoration object, dad still says "had you not told me I still could not tell if it had been a car or a plane wreck". I'm a complete novice at this kind of project so I have a workshop to do the...