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This weekend I came across this in Colorado Springs.
What do you think?
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Model T Running Board Stairs
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NorthSouth
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ThreePedalTapDancer
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Re: Model T Running Board Stairs
That’s interesting. Are those frame rails underneath? I have seen all manner of things made out of running boards. Better than being melted down back in the day, and they will be there for a very long time.
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Mark Gregush
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Re: Model T Running Board Stairs
More important, the pancake Hasslers sitting on the cement next to them! 
I know the voices aren't real but damn they have some good ideas! 
1925 Cut down pickup
1948 Ford F2 pickup
1925 Cut down pickup
1948 Ford F2 pickup
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Don D
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Re: Model T Running Board Stairs
Steve,
Thanks for sharing this interesting use of materials from our hobby. Is there a photo of the complete gate on the far right? What I can see looks as interesting and very creative.
Dom
Thanks for sharing this interesting use of materials from our hobby. Is there a photo of the complete gate on the far right? What I can see looks as interesting and very creative.
Dom
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TRDxB2
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Re: Model T Running Board Stairs
I started another discussion on repurposing T parts but this goes here too
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The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
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jiminbartow
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Re: Model T Running Board Stairs
Nice concept. While I am as impressed as the next guy, those running boards look good enough to be used for their intended purpose, on a Model T and as much as new running boards cost (as much as $150.00 apiece depending on the year), with good condition originals going for even more, unless you have a Model T Junkyard, it is cost prohibitive. Jim Patrick
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Dropacent
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Re: Model T Running Board Stairs
Really cool. I’d like the iron lawn jockey !
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TWrenn
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Re: Model T Running Board Stairs
Yeh I agree with Jim. Really cool...but...who's out there needing the "real thing" which these probly are Nd instead has to buy "fake" repros for a lot of money. But I really like the person's artistic ingenuity. Sadly, I don't have that kind of vision. 
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Re: Model T Running Board Stairs
Running board fenders, as seen on modern trailer
The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures. Henry Ford
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halftracknut
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Re: Model T Running Board Stairs
Very good ideas....great thinking....I just need more junk...don't trip over that pump handle 
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NorthSouth
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Re: Model T Running Board Stairs
Howell's Sheetmetal Co.
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Bryce
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Re: Model T Running Board Stairs
I once saw a picnic table made from T running boards
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John kuehn
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Re: Model T Running Board Stairs
Well at least the T floorboards weren’t cut up for smaller stairs, yet.
But they are good enough to still clean up and use for a restoration. To each his own I guess.
It’s not as bad as shorting the bodies of 57 Chevy 2 dr hard tops and making one seat dirt track cars out of them. There was a guy in the 60s and 70s that would buy them at wrecking yards in the area that would do that. And again to each his own on that one!
But they are good enough to still clean up and use for a restoration. To each his own I guess.
It’s not as bad as shorting the bodies of 57 Chevy 2 dr hard tops and making one seat dirt track cars out of them. There was a guy in the 60s and 70s that would buy them at wrecking yards in the area that would do that. And again to each his own on that one!