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For Sale: Antique Model T Ford. All original. Black. Ran when parked.

>Sigh< Yup. They (or pieces therefrom) used to be everywhere. By the time we throw-back kids began scouring the sagebrush, whole derelict cars were seldom if ever seen, but not infrequently we'd find a complete body and sheet-metal on a chassis. Artillery wheels were still sound in that era (early 1960s) and even usable tires. Eventually, the mines played out, and by the mid-seventies, wood parts were weathered and rotted 'way beyond use. The best mechanicals came from chance "finds" in old garages and farm shops. Like the passenger pigeon, all gone now. Thanks for the memories, great pix !!

The first 3-4 pics sure remind me when old cars were left out on the ‘back forty’ and just left.
A T wouldn’t last to long like that and the ones in those pics are pretty much deteriorated by now. Maybe the frame and rear end are still partially buried or? Days gone by—————-

And some T’s are still out there and used for advertising.
These old pictures are great to view. The 17/22 touring looks
so nice (pic #2 &3). Some rims, tubes and skins and could be goin again.

Yep.

The photo of the big pile of cars reminded me of a story my dad told me.
In the early to mid 50s my dad and a friend of his had a salvage west of Tulsa Oklahoma. My dad said they hated the Ts, chevys, Buick, Franklin's, or any other cars with wood frameworks. He said it was too much work to get the metal separated from the wood. So all the wood frame cars were piled up all thru the spring, summer, and into late fall, early winter. He said they could stack them 5 cars high with an old oil field boom truck they had. Then when the first snow came they set the whole pile on fire. " problem solved" The next day, just pick up the iron and tin, throw it on the truck, and haul it away. Dad said every year they burnt 50 to 100 cars. He also said half the town would turn out for the car burning. And no one cared about the smoke. Different times for sure.

That last one with the RR tracks in the foreground was by Walker Evans. A truly great photographer of the 30s and 40s and later. Many of his photos have As and Ts in them.
https://www.google.com/search?q=walker+ ... 32&bih=651

I remember when driving up to Canada in the late 1950's there were still T's laying along the sides of the roads in Montana.

Not much has changed with this one.

Seems like the only place where one would be most likely to find whole preserved Model T’s like those pictured above would be in the deserts where cars broke down and left where they broke down by the poor migrants who did not have enough money for the repairs during the mass migration to the west during the Depression and Dust Bowl days of the 1930’s. The dry climate of a desert is the only place where such chance finds out in the open would be preserved after so much time. Jim Patrick

The body in my '25 looked like the first photo when I got it.

"Found on road dead" is an understatement. From those pictures it looks like the road died too.