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For sale is a 1927 Model T Roadster in good mechanical condition. A driver car. Runs great. New battery. Good interior and top. Located in Silver Spring, MD. $7,000. Clean MD Title.

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I have what I believe is a right side lantern for a 1914-15 Model T. No mfg information. Missing wick and tank. Good condition. $50 plus $15 shipping.

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Sat May 11, 2024 4:14 pm
On the way home they where working on the road heading north so we had to take a detour, I can see the wonderful time it would be to take a T around those back roads, all the little hills and curves!

Our Model T club had a tour in that area about a year ago. It was great.

I should have taken more pictures. I find it hard to look at stuff and then take pics. Lots to see and share. Well, maybe next year.

And a few more.

Some sun, some rain, some clouds, but a great day, regardless. A few pics from today.

At least you GOT build sheets from them! Long ago when I HAD an '11 Torpedo I sent in my check and info to get one for it and never did hear from them, except that they cashed my check! Buyer beware I guess! :evil: Interesting. I ordered a build sheet for my 1910 touring and didn't hear anything. I...

Thanks for the suggestions. I had looked at the Speedway frame and am considering that. What about the windshield support arms that go to the front of the frame? Are they available anywhere?

Thanks.

Hello,

I hope to install a windshield on my 1910 Touring. Does anyone have the dimensions of the windshield riser? My firewall is good and I would like to try to make my own rather than buy one. Thanks.

Hello. I need a windshield frame and associated hardware for my 1910 Model T Touring. Does anyone have one for sale? Thanks.

I brought my new to me 1910 touring to my garage. It's been stored since 1985 and in the same family since 1955.

I still have mine, but it is 1.25 scale. It is in pieces. I retrieved what remains of my old models and reassembled them as best I could. I gave a short talk on the history of AMT and my car modeling at the recent meeting of my Model T club chapter.

9 to 4 are typically the hours, although the Star Spangled Banner is played at 8. Some will hang around until 5. A lot of good parts this year, though.

I am looking at a 1910 Touring car without a windshield and would like to know how tall the car is with the top up and to the top of the windshield. I need to make sure it can fit in my garage. I would like to put a new windshield on it. The current owner never put the top on it and the car does not...

How close is it to 24-25 wood? Plans exist for the 24-25 wood.

There is a Model T guy in Delaware who is active on Ford Barn. He lives in Clayton. His user name on FB is A Bones. There is a chapter of the MTFCA in Delaware, as well.

Heart of Delaware T’s
c/o Pete Ratledge
307 Ratledge Rd.
Townsend, DE 19734
pratledge@aol.com

I am starting to fabricate the wood I need for my 24 coupe. I have been procrastinating on this. I needed to create some space to work in my basement, which I have done. I made a dust collector for my band saw and hung a light over the workspace and then started on one of the sills. This has been a ...

I had a digital copy of Ron Buckley's plans made when I copied a couple of sets for people recently with Ron's permission. If he has authorized sharing the plans, I am happy to donate the memory stick that I have to the plans repository so it will be available to those who need it. Ron's source for ...

Maybe lots of folks should call them asking about it. It might encourage them to hold it.

Baime's column appears on Wednesdays. It was on Oct. 27, so a month ago. https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-ford-mod ... 753?page=1

An interesting article in a recent issue of the Wall St. Journal. Whoops. The first part of the article is last in the pics.

Thanks for the comments. While cleaning the engine off today, it appears that there may be some black under this green color, so maybe it was black and was repainted. There is quite a lot of grease and dirt on the engine, so it was hard to tell. It was last painted a long time ago. The way it is pai...

I have done some research on Model T engine color and from what I gather, engines were black until some point in 1926, when the color was changed to a color called "moleskin." I have a 1924 that has been sitting unmolested since around 1962. I removed the water outlets on the block and want to paint...

I mounted new tires on the rims I had galvanized. The rims and wheels are Jaxon. They came on the car when I bought it. I also blasted and painted some misc. parts and took the head off to check on the cooking system. Given the amount of rust I found, that was a good idea. The car had been sitting f...

I have a 24 and these came with a lot of tags I bought a few years ago. Unfortunately, I think the one is too far gone to restore.

He wrote a column called One Man's Meat that was collected in a book. One of the best writers ever. Stuart Little is another of his children's books.

Thanks for this. I love FoMoCo history. Looking forward to Part 2!

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I have kept at it over the last few weeks. I got the wood plans in the mail from Ron Buckley. I have barely looked at them. I have done some more work on the panel I am repairing. Last weekend I added another patch panel. A couple of weeks ago I removed the back panel so that I can repair the rust o...

Thanks for the comments and suggestions. As I have the tank out, it seemed that now is the time to do something. The Eastwood kit is cheaper than the POR-15, although you need to buy acetone and muriatic acid to use with the Eastwood kit. I suspect people have used one or the other, not both. If any...

I removed the gas tank from my 24 T, as has been shared here before. Car has been sitting since the early 1960's, tank drained. It looks quite good inside, at least as much as I can see. There was some rust rattling around in it. I have removed the rust as best I can and I really don't see much stil...

Great info. Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. Here is the link to the shutoff removal tool from Snyder's. https://www.snydersantiqueauto.com/Prod ... t/gas-tank

Success! I put a little Liquid Wrench on it in addition to the Kroil and it came out pretty easily. Maybe it knew I had posted a question on the forum? The shut off came off easily with Snyder's tool. I wish I had done that before I broke the handle off! Maybe just as well, as there is a lot of rust...

John,

I removed the tank so I could get the sediment bulb off. I just don't want to break anything and damage the tank. I have not gone to your extreme, yet.

I have been trying to remove the sediment bulb from the gas tank on my 24 coupe. The shutoff was frozen and I could not get it to loosen. Tapping it with a hammer broke the handle, of course. I used Kroil and Liquid Wrench and heat. The gas tank has been empty for 55 years, so no danger in applying ...

A good thread (LOL). Is there a listing of the screws needed for a Model T? I guess they vary by year and body style, but it would be a great reference.

John, Thanks for the tip. I have two Model As and two V8s, so I am not new to this, but very new to Ts. I know that there can be some zigs and zags in the road. This one was unexpected, although I thought that the rear wheels looked small for the fender opening. I have a lot to do before I finish th...

I have already bought tires for these because, as far as I knew at the time, these were the right wheels. I think the easiest thing at this point would be to find a couple of the Jaxon rims, if I can find them. All new wheels and rims would be quite an investment. Apparently the car worked fine with...

Here are some other pics of the whole wheel. No notch that I can see.

Final pics

Here are a couple of other photos of the wheel. Unfortunately, I cut off one edge of the wheel, but I don't think it has a notch cut out of it like the ones in the EBay ad.

Mine look like the Type 30. Interesting that they are on a Ford. It has Model T hubcaps. Better pics coming soon.

I think both were used. Jackson was the company name and the lugs had Jaxon on them.

One more pic.

More panel fabrication pics

The last two weekends I have spent fabricating the lower passenger side quarter panel for my car. My car doesn't have a lot of rust through, but that panel was very bad and was taken off of the car. I wondered how to fix this, but a fellow Model A club member has an English wheel, stretcher/shrinker...

I heard Tim give a talk about Model A town cars at the Model A Day at the Gilmore a couple of years ago. That talk was his swan song - a trouper and true hobbyist to the end. We lost a good one, there.

I just heard back from Ron Buckley. Plans are still available at $110 a set.

Thanks, Joe. I found Ron Buckley's e-mail address and messaged him. Hopefully I will hear back. I hope to take a look at the wood in the coming weeks. My front pillar and middle pillar may be salvageable. The rest of the wood looks fairly straightforward. My curved piece at the bottom of the back wi...

I would love to get some full sized prints for the wood. Some of it looks fairly easy to make, others not so much. I would love to know how to obtain a set of prints.

Terrific story. And as everyone says, West Peterson is a terrific photographer. I find it very hard to take a good photo of a car. He is a master.

A friend from the Model A club (I have two of those) and I started to make a repair panel for the passenger side quarter panel. He has an English wheel and has some experience. I had assumed that it would be very difficult to make the panel, and it may well be, but we made amazing progress in about ...

John, how true. In my case it took two years. I kept in touch with her via postcard and letter. She never did speak to me again, but had her son-in-law get in touch. She was totally irrational. At the end of the day, I probably gave her what it was worth. If the engine is okay, they I will have done...

Will, I appreciate your comments. Fordwood is about $1,000 less than Classic Wood for the whole kit and I need less than the full wood kit. Of course, if you can't get it or it takes forever, that means something, too. I could wait a couple of months, however. I took your suggestion and sent a messa...

Fordwood sounds like Howe's. Order and hear nothing for months. I will probably make a few pieces myself, too. I want to get someone to assess a couple of pieces I have. Maybe they can be saved. I have enough to keep me busy in the meantime. The interior is out of the car and is as you would expect ...

Thanks, John. The wood is a mixed bag. Driver's side is good, doors are good on both sides. Most of the passenger side needs replacing although some may be able to be repaired. I have looked at the Fordwood site and I know what I need. My plan was not to remove the body, if I can get away with it, b...

I have started work in earnest on a 1924 Model T coupe I rescued from a garage in late 2018. The find was serendipitous as I was sitting at a traffic light near my house in my Model A roadster and a woman came up to me and said, "I have a car like that in my basement garage and I want to get rid of ...

I have a fairly recently acquired 24 coupe that I am starting to work on. On the car I bought, the moulding covering where the panels meet appears to be aluminum. I recently picked up the rear of a coupe body that I am disassembling for parts and some of the trim appears to be lead. This trim is on ...

I want to see if I can get my garage find running. In October and November I cleaned out the carb, removed two of the very flat tires and removed the old tires from the rims. I replaced the starter cable. Yesterday I took the other two rims off. I decided that I had best put new tires all around rat...

Thanks for all the tips. I have seat cushions to clean, too, but I thought that I would start with the kick panels. I need to replace the fiber board it is mounted on, so I thought that I would take them off and hand wash them.

A 24 coupe. It looks like wool. It is a pin striped fabric.

The original upholstry on my garage find Model T has been covered, but is not too bad. This specific question is about the kick panel upholstry. It is very dirty. Has anyone tried to wash or launder old upholstry of this type before? I guess nothing ventured, nothing gained, so hand washing with Woo...

Very nice car.

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