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In New Zeland we are entering 4 weeks MINIMUM of enforced stay at home isolation from tomorrow.

What will we do? :-0

Here are some of the things planned/ underway:

1) Sort out the spare T parts in the garage. Uhh, how many nuts and bolts ARE there!

2) Continue our Hill-Lux lunch. Model T guys shooting the breeze over a sandwich each...

I at one time had a book entitle This Was Trucking I just about read the ink off of the pages.
I thought that it might be fun to post some photos of trucks similar to the ones that were in that book.
Her are a few. trucking.JPG pennsylvania creamery truck.JPG valley lumber c.JPG

I am pleased to see the OT section added to the forum. Several members have great steam car photos and some even own a steam car. There were many running around in the Model T days. They are certainly pertainant to the history of the Model T.
I'll start with three large Whites. I somehow got to ride in each of these. The first two were restored by...

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“Many claim Kalamity Dick was a fictitious character made up to frighten children from playing with mechanical objects. However, pictures of this mysterious fellow surface from time to time. Was he real?
As I heard it he was an itinerant tinkerer who traveled in his Raceabout from town to town throughout the West repairing old...

Winter is taking its Toll .... :!:

Time for a Laugh ..... :D

FJ

Finally I have stopped working on this one. After 170 hours it is not getting any better. I will turn it to the wall for a few months and then decide if I like it.
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You may recall that Herb offered this terrific photo a while back:

and Rob discovered some amazing information on Doctor Pagel who likely owned it:

Here are some steps...

It became important for me to do something with the 1919 Harley-Davidson engine. The bike has been gaining in value and parts since the acquisition of a basket case in 1973. A total rebuild isn't an option for me at this time but I believe I can reassemble it and at least get all the parts in one place and maybe fire it up. One of the crank pin...

I am looking at my computer after I got home today and find out 3 of our old car club meetings for next week have been cancelled because of the virus, our stores have ( been wiped out) of toilet paper. Is everybody nuts?

I have a cautionary tail for those of you who enjoy old tractors. Yesterday was supposed to be the day I put my rear axle and wheels back under my Model T and moved it out of my tiny heated shop and turned it around so I could work on the front end - including putting the engine back in. We got several inches of snow so I thought I'd better plow...

Not sure which is more difficult,.....remembering to take my pills in the morning, or, sometime about mid-morning, trying to remember whether or not I took my pills!

I know this may seem unimportant amongst the reports of the passing of Model T friends, but I lost a friend today too. My black lab Goose (a pretty girl, named by my daughter) died in her sleep in the wee hours of Dec 17. She would have been 14 in May and she came to us as a rescue when she was a skinny 1 year old.

She was a friend and companion...

I just purchased a 1916 Buick D45 that has been stored since 1950. I know you folks appreciate old original stuff as much as I do. The story is that this was purchased by a returning WW 2 soldier, he drove it for awhile, then parked it in a barn for a future project. It sat there for 50 years until they sold the farm. He had another metal building...

When you get old everything reminds you of something else. This evening I was on the MTFCA forum and noticed that one of the regulars there lives in Modesto. Dad's boyhood pal, Dow Tout, lived in Modesto with his wife Marguerite and daughter Sue, who was about my age. I was three, or maybe four, when we were on our way to visit the Touts and spent...

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The hood seems long for that type of car.
It's kind'a funky looking.