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Just seeing if I can do this.

It looks like the photographer was good at cutting off heads.

Good to see you found your way here Jim. What year would the photo be?

Sounds like a good topic. My first T. Then 1 year later at Long Beach Hill Climb.

The day I brought my first Model T home, March 1981. I guess I didn’t trust the parking brake in the first photo, taken Christmas Day, 1982.

My first one. I purchased it in March, 1997.
What a fun old truck.
It didn't come with a top, instead the previous owner attached a big umbrella.

By gum, you did it Jim!
You had a helluva lot more to start with than I did!
And tires with air in them!
Very cool!

I got this T about 1958 as a collapsed 20 touring. I drove it in the fields as shown for a few years and then installed a ratty touring body. Finally in about 63 I found a nice roadster body and made it street legal. Had to sell it in 70 to help support a family

Real nice. My first T and only T was a '26 Tudor out in the woods with a big tree growing up through it. Bought it in 1962 from a farmer for two dollars, and it's still out there in the woods ...

This is what it looked like when I got it.

All, note that if the thumbnail for a picture is rotated funny, if you click on the thumbnail the original picture will show up in the correct rotation.

I like those wheels Dallas.

I thought they were pretty cool until I removed one and found the original hubs drilled for Shay replica wheels and only 3 threads holding lug nuts on the rear.

My first complete T . I started collecting parts as a kid, but my dad kept throwing them away. Finally put this one together in 2016

My first Model T.

This was my first,

Before: After: Big thanks to the MTFCA and the local club for helping me get my T up and running about ten years ago.

E THOMAS wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 08, 2019 4:31 pm

I started collecting parts as a kid, but my dad kept throwing them away.

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Mine did the same thing ! In spite of all our acreage, he'd haul off everything
from parts to whole cars. And this was a guy who built Model A hotrods in the
early 50's ! Go figure !

Am I the only one a little concerned about the body in the trunk in your photo ?

The dummy in the trunk is dressed in some sort of 1950's scanty outfit, likely part of a car show display. The owner may be from Providence, and those folks are used to having bodies in the trunk. The Model T is shown at its first car show, a casual local event. Won "best in Pre-War".

Oh my. Dallas, I didn't realize you were stuck with that plight/blight when you fell into the T world! Yikes! Like I should talk with the wheels on one of mine!
I've shown off my hunky clunker 24 Runabout enough I think.
Skyler, that looks darn good! You young punks are where it's at! More?

Raoul von S. wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 08, 2019 8:59 pm

E THOMAS wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 08, 2019 4:31 pm

I started collecting parts as a kid, but my dad kept throwing them away.

IMG_20180804_113909_resized_20180804_024103161.jpg

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Mine did the same thing ! In spite of all our acreage, he'd haul off everything
from parts to whole cars. And this was a guy who built Model A hotrods in the
early 50's ! Go figure !

Am I the only one a little concerned about the body in the trunk in your photo ?

You didn't raise your fathers right.

I dragged this TT back to our farm with our old Farmall tractor when I was 16. I never got it running and eventually sold the parts and we hauled the frame out to the edge of the back field. Now I could get it going in a couple of weeks.

I did a painting of that same dismanteled TT when I was 17.

Since I am a new guy, I aquired my first T, this 1915 touring car, a scant 2.5 years ago. I was warned the cars seem to multiply, and they have, we now have added a 1922 coupe and a 1923 coupe. Now the work will never end!

My wife is in the 1915 and I am on my 1925 BMW R32, the photo was taken last fall.

Mine has been owned by me for less than a year...
It was assembled before I was born, and I went along for all the tours while still in diapers. After that, I was the one that made the whole group stop every 1/2hr so I could run in the bushes !!
I think it wasn't until the 80s when the old man fixed the chip in the locking steering wheel horn button, from me cutting my teeth on it. But I spent many hours helping my dad work on it and many other Ts !

The first car I ever drove was the Akron club assembly car, through a field behind Art's house.
Once a T gets into your blood, it stays forever.

Here's Betsy, my first (and so far only) T.

I meant to post a picture
This is what she looked like when I started to refresh...before and after.
Ok, after and before !