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Nice guys do finish FIRST

Congratulations Erik

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Matt is a native to the area & has worked for Extreme for (13) years - he dated a gal on the single dirt track road we traveled to get to the homestead 😏 Without Matt & Extreme - those Model T’s would still be sitting there. Well …. This family likes hills & there were more of them where these Model...

So … Matt & I met at Extreme’s tow yard to transfer the Model T from the barn. Matt offered to try & get the wishbone that was out of the socket back in - he did it on the rollback 👍 1B659309-760C-4E69-B943-82BB9C08C4E3.jpeg Then we returned to load the second Model T in the attached garage - I told...

Thanks for posting

FJ

All four tires were flat. The two rear tires had flat spots and were disintegrating. The steering wasn’t connected. The wishbone was popped out of the socket. But Matt got it loaded. One down - one to go ….. EEF17EF2-4F7B-4C3B-8AFE-EC2E0710FBAF.jpeg C58DAC5B-79B9-47F6-8DA2-1CE1F939CCCF.jpeg FE0C5332...

So now to the Meat N’ Taters … If you ever need a tow or flatbed service in Placerville, California ….. 24EBE249-60E4-497A-ADD6-875C58A06EC3.jpeg Native to the area - Matt arrived within an hour of my call with the shortest 4WD rollback in their fleet. I don’t know exactly how he managed to maneuve...

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This section of hand welded water sluice pipe bears testament back to the hydraulic washing of large areas of hillsides to extract gold. It is right outside the barn. FJ 63D0599F-2D44-4285-8BE7-AA0298DD0C0C.jpeg FF15A436-D647-433A-8D02-7C2CCF79E81E.jpeg F0C10BA9-C2FF-4372-8002-0AB1CCD1CF78.jpeg

My experience hauling vehicles out of that area has taught me to go scout a pick up location before I try to get my trailer close or call out a rollback tow truck. So I coordinated tentative pick up with a tow company out of Placerville and parked my trailer in their lot. I drove out to the location...

I got the call a few weeks ago to move a couple of Model T’s from the hills outside of Placerville to Southern California. The daughter of a Model T Enthusiast was trying to get her Father’s cars down to her Mother so they could be closer . The Father had passed less than a year ago so it was one mo...

Starting Order as of (19) hours ago

FJ

Are you & Larry sharing driving duties ?

FJ

Give Em’ He Larry

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Tom_Carnegie wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 20, 2021 3:30 pm
Something about you seems off.

Tom

That - is my new tag line

Enjoy yourself

FJ
“ Something about you seems off “

The new owner is an avid Model T Enthusiast
who will ( no doubt ) give this the attention
it deserves

FJ

It was a long day but it was fun

Once again - KD helps out someone in need
find a new home for a Model T

FJ

Model T Transport To This Tour Is Available
From Seattle, Washington & Southern California
I have room for two Model T’s going to the tour
Room for one Model T returning from Spokane

Call or Text

FJ
260-804-6695

Tip Of The Hat 🎩 To Jerry & Kim Kramer Mark & Rena Atkins The Richmond Boyz & Their Wive Give Thanks To These Folks & All The Volunteers Who contributed thousands of hours to build out The MTFCA Museum & Annex This Year … The MTFCA Board Of Directors Should consider issuing a Certificate Of Merit Ho...

Several years ago at Bakersfield Swap Meet I met Dan & his wife when they donated an upright rod drill press to The MTFCA Museum. I was picking it up to transport it back to the museum - I think it is part of The Overhead Line Belt Workroom now. I did a little interview with him at their vendor spac...

This is an image from the Spring Tulare Meet
The spaces are huge & vendors are welcome to
dry camp at their spaces.

FJ

I am sharing the places I discover in my road travels to get a shower or fuel or get a good meal or ( hopefully ) get all three 😏 Starting off today on I-84 in Bliss, Idaho 89FF1E08-4D85-4FD4-899F-0B0026E6C06E.jpeg If you have your own towel - a shower is just $4.00 which is the cheapest I have foun...

My Dad was a test pilot who flew the B-25’s
as they were readied to be turned over to
the military.

It was a dangerous job with a high fatality rate.

FJ

I wouldn’t advise pulling a trailer from
the south along Hwy 395.

I have taken it both directions from
Hwy 58 at Kramer Junction in California
up to Washington & both times encountered
heavy hailstorms during the summer months.

FJ

My particular problem turned out to be a loose IPR sensor on the back of the HPOP combined with the mechanical lift pump in the valley pan that was starting to fail. I found a top notch mobile diesel mechanic named Brett who spent a couple hours doing repairs at The Saap Brothers Truck Stop in Cheye...

I wonder if he actually needs the pump. The common failure is a high pressure line that wears through where it lays on the left valve cover. There is also a wiring harness there that can wear through. My experience anyway My first PSD blew a high pressure steel fuel line in Florida - if you have en...

The mechanical fuel pump sits in the valley pan between the fuel filter bowel & the turbo pedestal. None of the mechanical pumps last longer than a year - even though they are lifetime warranty. There are shortcuts that don’t involve removing the turbo pedestal - but I have never changed mine & I do...

Anyone have know a good mechanic with experience
changing out a mechanical fuel pump
in the galley of a 1996 Ford 7.3 PSD ?

FJ
260-804-6695

Over the years I have transported at least four Model T vehicles Mark has sold - no one was disappointed. For you folks that want there to be Model T parts available for you - your children - your grandchildren 🤔 Mark is carrying on the family business and the proceeds from the sale of this vehicle ...

That is a nice thing you are doing Ed

Looks like a good Model T at a fair price.

FJ

I will be streaming video live from The Huge Tulare International Ag Center covering the The Tulare Fall Pre-War Swap Meet. Videos will be posted on my Facebook page. I will also download them so I can post them on my YouTube channel. In case you didn’t attend - The Tulare Spring Pre-War Swap Meet w...

I am dropping off in Tacoma Washington around June 8th or so.

I have an anchor load to Florida but I would like to stay on the West Coast and do runs up and down between California and Washington and Oregon before I head east.

FJ

Hi Bill

Thanks Again for putting in the effort to bring
a much needed pre-war swap meet to the west coast
in the Fall.

For those that attended the earlier meet
as you know the facility & accommodations
were excellent.

The vendors & customers gave it high praise.

I will be there

FJ

I had received a message from Ed last night.

The catalog showing White Models
does not apply to this car.

FJ

Wayne 👋 Ed Minney reached out to me thru FB messenger when I posted a video on my FB page. He owns that car. I have been on The AACA Forum since 2008. His car is the same chassis & engine but with a slightly longer wheelbase. BTW …. 💡 White designed - engineered - built their own vehicle chassis and...

There are probably less than (5) folks living who have firsthand experience with 1917 White passenger vehicles - they are quite rare and quite obscure. This White has an original front full bench seat. I have seen the full catalog for the 1917 model year. The touring cars have front bucket seats. I ...

Jerry Kramer discovered the unique original
sliding windows

YouTube video @ https://youtu.be/c590HKuBpAo

This 1917 White is a Four Soor Sedan which
sold for $5650 new

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I make it a point to stop and visit “ The Richmond Boys “ whenever I have an unusual - obscure - rare example of auto history ✅ On May 26th in the afternoon I will be stopping at The Wayne County Historical Society to show a 1917 White Four Passenger Sedan 👍 A largely original survivor that runs and...

Thanks Duey 👋 This 1917 White will be at Richmond, Indiana on May 26th - it will be running 😏 It will be at Dean Yoder’s Farm in Iowa City, Iowa the following week - not sure of the day yet. It will be running. This is perhaps one of one known to exist ✅ FJ BE72C9FA-A330-435B-8F58-A2D1DDF07BFA.jpeg ...

The 1917 White Passenger Vehicle Chassis
cost $5000 - the body style determined the final price.

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The CID is listed as 330

It is a T Head

FJ

1917 White Four Cylinder 72 HP Engine GM Advance Design Four Valves Per Cylinder Only (5) engines like this were known to be produced Until last year - only one of those had ran in the last 50 years Only one other known example was built with two spark plugs per cylinder This engine is installed on ...

Nope

FJ

SOLD

FJ

Take a guess as to the engine and what vehicle
it might have been installed in

FJ

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I tow at an average speed of 60 mph. Even at that relatively low speed a tire blowout could destroy the wheel & probably cause the trailer to possibly flip. I should start taking images of busted @ss single axle trailers sitting by the side of the road damaged to the extent that they are not roadwor...

Purchase Pending

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I bought this at The Tulare Pre-War Swap Meet from the son & daughter of Cliff King who lived in Hacienda Heights, California. Cliff King only collected Model T’s according to his son & daughter. I took a short interview with both of them at the swap meet with this at their space. Their Dad bought t...

Nephew Jesse wanted 1915 California plates so I found a pair at Tulare Swap Meet 😎 114A4811-B9CF-46C3-B8B0-05847DD10544.jpeg After The Tulare Swap Meet - I dropped off the 1915 Model T Roadster to Jesse & his wife in Wildomar, California 👍 BE7F8154-7E6C-4DF2-8DFC-39DFFFCC4076.jpeg 2E56A007-B51C-45E6...

So the two Model T’s shared the trailer west across I-80 to Iowa City, Iowa where I stopped to visit my welder Reg 👋 Then it was south from Des Moines , Iowa thru Kansas into Tucumcari, New Mexico. Then I-49 west 😎 Grandson Jared Is moving to Tucson, Arizona in June - his 1926 Model T isn’t running....

Matt Madison here there is a program up here in Brooks Oregon at the Northwest Vintage Car and Motorcycle Museum that teaches kids to build Model T speedsters -The speedster program- you might reach out to them ? could work a way to move it up the coast ? Matt 👋 Anything you do to teach the younger...

After dropping the tractor off in Indiana I headed up to Henderson, Michigan to pick up a 1926 Model T from Gramma Pat 😏 16D32AF0-2F82-40E3-B9DB-3DCA12F32A9E.jpeg Gramma Pat lived on a busy road outside of town with nowhere near to load - the Model T didn’t run so she met me in town with the rollbac...

Thanks for posting Miss Kathy

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Over (400) Model T’s transported since 2006 So I thought I had seen just about everything 🤔 But then the opportunity arose on my schedule to haul two at once that were being passed down to family members 😏 The first was from Uncle Chuck in Bolton, Massachusetts to Nephew Jesse in Wildomar, Californi...

If your coils are before 1913 - you might contact R.V. Anderson to have them rebuilt. He does rebuilding on all Model T coils but he specializes in the early years. He does rebuilding as well as reproducing. Randall did the coil work on The 1905 Ford Model B that Kim Dobbins brought back to life. Ra...

ThreePedalTapDancer wrote: ↑
Sun May 02, 2021 11:41 am
Anybody take video or pictures of the items for sale on the actual swap tables so those that couldn’t attend can take a look see?

Live long video taken by me in the early afternoon
was posted to Facebook yesterday.

FJ

Thank you for posting

FJ

Wowzers

KD rarely - if ever - authors a thread giving
thanks to someone - Wow Bill you done good

Thanks for posting Kim

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Times have changed. Thursday - Friday - Saturday I took probably four hours minimum of live onsite videos & posted them in real time on Facebook. There is not time to take images & post them on all the public forums. Live streaming has been around for years. I am late to the game but I am catching u...

I left around 4 PM today. I arrived Thursday around 4 PM. All I heard from the vendors in line And from the shoppers today was “ Thank You To Whoever Made This Hapoen “ So - Mr. Bill Bennet of Visalia, California .... 👋 The Vendors & Attendees Wish To Say BDFA28A0-7E7B-460E-A0D3-36E3FA930BC0.jpeg Yo...

The Toughest Swap Meet Critic ....

Just rated the
First Annual Tulare Brass Era/Prewar Swap Meet ...

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And so it begins ... 👍 I have the Dubious Distinction of having the first sale on the grounds of the Ag Center 😊 I bought these 1915 California plates in line from my friend KD for my customer in Wildomar, CA. E6A271DF-D759-4772-8D39-35C3C337AEE1.jpeg They are for this 1915 Model T Roadster that I a...

@ https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc7.com/a ... /10557625/

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I had success with my first live video stream from World Wide Auctions last Saturday in Auburn Indiana. For several years I am taken short videos and laboriously Uploaded them to Instagram and Facebook from Bakersfield Swap Meet. This year I’m going to live stream long videos directly From The Tular...

Bill Bump

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Red Roof Inn is a No

Motel 6 is right off I-70 & has limited trailer parking
There are chain & independent motels in town
Call around

FJ

Thanks Kathy

Look for the tent at the end of rows J & K

If COVID restrictions allow - I plan on having
pizza - water - soda - dessert items

The Blue Angels will do a “ Ford Formation Flyover “
Saturday at high noon

FJ

Bumped

FJ

I don’t know if I could stand those average sweltering daytime
temperatures of 77.5 degrees Fahrenheit ...

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I personally know a few folk who regularly take cannabis oil. I sent some to my brother in Idaho who is dealing with multiple sclerosis and I have recommended it for years to other folks. Some folks make fun of what they don’t know. They don’t take the time to get educated. Maybe if they had a famil...

If you are going thru Auburn, Indiana and have room for a box of t shirts - please give me a call - they are being sold to
benefit The Early Ford V-8 Foundation Museum
in Auburn, Indiana.

FreighTer Jim
260-804-6695

Dallas 👋 Good to see you & Joe yesterday 👋 How ironic that later I went to World Wide Auction across the parking lot to video the small items advance auction - what do I see in the car auction holding area but a 1911 Maxwell that is going up today for sale 😏 FDE04197-052F-46F8-A47D-9AADBD80F191.jpeg...

Dallas Landers wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 23, 2021 8:29 am
Heaeded that way in a couple hours Jim. Just look for the old ford.

Parking lot is full of em’

FJ

We Iz A Swappin ...

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Jim, will you be there friday ? I think Joe and I will drive my RPU over around noon. Yes 👍 I am helping out with the swap meet 😉 Terrible Day Today .... Josh forced me to go on a day tour in the The Dennis Carpenter 1956 Station Wagon ... Such Excruciating Misery 😢 FJ E71AAE36-5FD7-45F7-B8E7-DF054...

Dallas Landers wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 21, 2021 10:27 am
See you there Jim

Bring some stuff to sell - you are a member after all

FJ

Bryan

I am leaving Auburn, Indiana this morning to
go pick up a Model T in Owosso, Michigan that
is headed to California with another Model T.

It looks like you live in Coloma ...

Let me know if I can help you out

FJ
260-804-6695

FJ

Looks like a good deal Mark

FJ

I just loaded this 1915 Model T Runabout up in Bolton, Massachusetts. 1233D7A1-9184-413C-BA23-783DF3D5FF0B.jpeg Going from one family member to another 😉 This trip will be unique 🤔 I have to pick up another Model T in Michigan that is also going from one family member to another. Since 2006 - I have...

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If you look at the Piquette Avenue Ford plant, just down the street on the next block, at the corner of John R street, was the EMF automobile company plant, that was owned by Metztger. It was there and you could still read the EMF logo on the back of the factory. I took pictures of it when I visite...

FJ

Come sell or buy at a great event !

You must be a dues paying member of
The Early Ford V-8 Foundation Museum
to vend at the swap meet.

FJ

Henry Ford amassed the power to change recorded events to favor his version of Reaiity. “ Inspiration “ can be defined in many different ways. FJ There's often a very ugly side to total self-actualization. From an Independently Researched Perspective 🤔 From what I have learned about Oliver Barthel ...

That Is Bad@as Wicked Cool

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Henry Ford amassed the power to change recorded events to favor his version of Reaiity.

“ Inspiration “ can be defined in many different ways.

FJ

Vehicle transport is the same.

It’s just a larger package in the mail
so to speak.

Folks don’t realize that logistics dictate a full trailer goes down the road containing cargo that gets closer to the destination.

It makes sense from a shipping standpoint

FJ

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Hi Bryan

It looks like you are in Michigan ?

Get a friend or two that are familiar with
Model T’s.

Check around your area - Facebook Marketplace
always has great deals.

Come to Homecoming in Richmond, Indiana.

There are usually cars for sale there.

FJ

2021 Ford F-350 Crew Cab Dually

Or ...

1937 Ford All Steel Real Deal Racecar
Powered by Flathead Ford
Built By Mike In North Carolina

Video still from yesterday

FJ

I will be manning a booth for The Early Ford V-8 Foundation Museum selling books - t shirts - ? to benefit the museum. Free bottled water - maybe free pizza 🍕 ( Depends on COVID-19 restrictions ) Planning on having Early Ford V-8 parts & accessories for sale that hopefully will be donated & dropped ...

In 2018 - I was 🍀 enough to drive thru a small Minnesota town on a late Friday afternoon in a 1906 Ford Model K for a parade. At the wheel - Kim Dobbins By his side - Dean Yoder I was in the back seat with A Big Cheshire Cat Grin 😊 KD took this image from the driver’s seat 📸 B145D120-B26F-4B17-A4EE-...

This - would have been me in The Frontier 🤔 2B494B65-0437-4155-B00A-E5A6E39838A8.jpeg Timmons - The Freighter He takes Lt. Dunbar to his post @ https://youtu.be/YYLzV5JG9eI The “ T “ is capitalized to accentuate that I transport Model T’s .... 😎 I stopped counting at (300) a couple years ago. Freigh...

I was there on my second run hauling for The EFV-8 Foundation Museum in Auburn, IN. 681E647D-0398-4355-91F9-6B49EDECD621.jpeg Josh Conrad came with Nate to haul also. They borrowed a trailer from the Duesey Museum in Auburn to bring back the 1938 Ford DeLuxe Sedan I had dropped off earlier in the we...

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