Model T Time Machine
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- First Name: Tim
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Model T Time Machine
I just looked at a thread featuring a number of excellent B&W photos of cars and times long past. We forget sometimes that the world then was just as real as it is today.... full, vibrant color, sun, sky, wind, rain, smells....the whole lot. Sometimes when I drive my T I find myself in places little-changed from a century ago. At such moments I feel almost transported in time... I experience what my father experienced in our family's 1917 Touring all those many years ago and am grateful. In keeping our T's alive we are also maintaining a tangible link with the past..... I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way.
1917 Touring
1946 Aeronca Champ
1952 Willys M38a1 Jeep (sold 2023)
1953 Ford Jubilee Tractor
1946 Aeronca Champ
1952 Willys M38a1 Jeep (sold 2023)
1953 Ford Jubilee Tractor
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- First Name: Steve
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Cruising along a country road on a sunny afternoon with puffy little white clouds dotting the blue sky, watching mile after mile of crops and pastures roll by at a sedate 35 mph with an occasional passing farmstead, it's not hard to imagine you're in 1912, not 2021.
The inevitable often happens.
1915 Runabout
1923 Touring
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1923 Touring
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Re: Model T Time Machine
I agree, the world looks diffetent on a dirt road driving 30 mph.
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Re: Model T Time Machine
I prep all year for the summer driving season to do exactly what
you describe. It is THE reason I bought a T.
you describe. It is THE reason I bought a T.
More people are doing it today than ever before !
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I agree. Driving along slowly, past working farms, brings me back to my childhood working on our dairy farm. I find myself intentionally slowing down to enjoy the many scents emitting from within.
This habit sometimes upsets my passengers, but I am the driver...
This habit sometimes upsets my passengers, but I am the driver...
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Re: Model T Time Machine
Haha! if they complain just tell them “that’s the smell of progress”!Fire_chief wrote: ↑Fri Nov 26, 2021 6:15 amI agree. Driving along slowly, past working farms, brings me back to my childhood working on our dairy farm. I find myself intentionally slowing down to enjoy the many scents emitting from within.
This habit sometimes upsets my passengers, but I am the driver...
“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t-you’re right.”
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Re: Model T Time Machine
Tim,
I agree we are blessed to drive our T's to experience the smell of the orange groves in Florida to the cherry orchards in the state of Washington. However I also agree with your passengers when passing road kill or pig farms. You have to break a few eggs to make an omlette.
Enjoy your ride whereever it takes you,
Dom
I agree we are blessed to drive our T's to experience the smell of the orange groves in Florida to the cherry orchards in the state of Washington. However I also agree with your passengers when passing road kill or pig farms. You have to break a few eggs to make an omlette.
Enjoy your ride whereever it takes you,
Dom
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Re: Model T Time Machine
35 MPH in open country is a lot different than 35 MPH in an urban jungle, which often ends up being closer to 5 MPH. I like riding through the countryside in, or on, a motor vehicle, rather than being encapsulated in a motorized pod, shut away from the passing world.
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Re: Model T Time Machine
35 MPH in open country is a lot different than 35 MPH in an urban jungle, which often ends up being closer to 5 MPH.
Perusing the map to choose a route through Chicago in my 1915 I chose Harlem Avenue because it's a state highway. It turned out to be mile after mile of crawl and stop. If I go through the Third City again I'll pick a different road.
The inevitable often happens.
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Steve,
I believe you took the inside route. Next time go west to 45 & 83, and head north from there. You will go right past my house.
I believe you took the inside route. Next time go west to 45 & 83, and head north from there. You will go right past my house.
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Re: Model T Time Machine
I enjoy driving my Model T's, regardless of the road.