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Oldav8tor
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Model T Time Machine

Post by Oldav8tor » Thu Nov 25, 2021 8:20 pm

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.
My dad, uncle and grandparents in 1917 or 1918 - about 30 miles from where I live today
My dad, uncle and grandparents in 1917 or 1918 - about 30 miles from where I live today
1917 Touring
1946 Aeronca Champ
1952 Willys M38a1 Jeep (sold 2023)
1953 Ford Jubilee Tractor

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Steve Jelf
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Re: Model T Time Machine

Post by Steve Jelf » Thu Nov 25, 2021 9:48 pm

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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.
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Humblej
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Re: Model T Time Machine

Post by Humblej » Thu Nov 25, 2021 10:02 pm

I agree, the world looks diffetent on a dirt road driving 30 mph.


Burger in Spokane
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Re: Model T Time Machine

Post by Burger in Spokane » Fri Nov 26, 2021 1:46 am

I prep all year for the summer driving season to do exactly what
you describe. It is THE reason I bought a T.

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More people are doing it today than ever before !


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Re: Model T Time Machine

Post by Fire_chief » Fri Nov 26, 2021 6:15 am

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...


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Re: Model T Time Machine

Post by Bryant » Fri Nov 26, 2021 7:29 am

Fire_chief wrote:
Fri Nov 26, 2021 6:15 am
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...
Haha! if they complain just tell them “that’s the smell of progress”!
“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t-you’re right.”


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Re: Model T Time Machine

Post by Don D » Fri Nov 26, 2021 8:05 am

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


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Re: Model T Time Machine

Post by TXGOAT2 » Fri Nov 26, 2021 11:06 am

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

Post by Steve Jelf » Fri Nov 26, 2021 11:53 am

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.


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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. :D
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Re: Model T Time Machine

Post by DHort » Fri Nov 26, 2021 5:59 pm

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.
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Re: Model T Time Machine

Post by Original Smith » Sat Nov 27, 2021 9:33 am

I enjoy driving my Model T's, regardless of the road.

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