Have Your Hobby Pay For Itself

[George House]

Seek out wedding venues. Good $$ and fun too!

[Ruxstel24]

My dad picked my sister and husband up after the wedding.
Rice was found for years after under the seats

It should be an easy money venture.

[Erik Barrett]

Check with your insurance company because doing anything for money with your cars.

[Erik Barrett]

Before doing anything. Stupid auto correct.

[Mark Gregush]

Could be a slippery slope! You would now be operating a limo service and would require license and insurance to cover. You MIGHT get away with it for family or close friends but for no pay. Now if they slipped you something later, I will not tell.

[Scottio]

My Roadster only seats me and one other so I guess I’ll do divorces.

[Chad_Marcheese]

Mark and Eric bring up excellent points. However it is so sad that we truly have to think this way nowadays. There are no such things as unfortunate accidents nowadays. Money hungry society and lawyers have seen to that.

[Mark Gregush]

Not just about accidents and lawyers. Think abut this way, you own a limo service and follow all the rules, then some guy swoops in without following the rules and takes your potential customers away.

[Hal]

I've done this on 3-4 occasions. All but one was people we knew. One of our friends just would not take "No" for an answer and ended up sending me a check a week later. In reality, it probably about covered me expenses, which I was quite willing to absorb, but I did trailer it close to 100 miles each way as the wedding was held in one of the squares in downtown Savannah.

I had a friend of a friend contact me once saying her husband wanted to ride in a Model T. She wanted to 'give' him that for his birthday. It was a couple of towns away, maybe 30 miles, a nice drive if you will. I did that for them and even taught him how to drive it. He drove around the quiet streets of the small town for 10-15 minutes. When they asked what they owed me, I asked that they make a donation in any amount they chose to the MTFCA. I didn't know if they would or not, but left that up to them. Then, several months later, I got a letter in the mail saying they had finally made a donation.

[George House]

Mark, your glass is half full. I have on several occasions begged out of carrying people around high trafficked population centers - not out of fear of accidents but a fear of lawyers. But this wedding venue is on a beautiful ranch a mile down a gravel road from my place. Their choice of my Model Ts would only take them here to their modern car. And there’s no limo service in the entire county...

[Dan Hatch]

I know someone that does this for living and does very good at it. He started with a Model A Towncar and now has about 4 other pre war cars with drivers. He has said be ready to have your car trashed out because most couples get drunk and get sick it the car. You have to have ins and license for this too. Dan

[Charlie B in N.J.]

Quite a bad idea. Almost as bad, if not worse, as giving strangers rides at shows or anywhere else actually. If you're giving rides you darn well better be rock solid on your insurance coverage. And I do mean rock solid. Not your "educated guess". You could, (and very well might), be sued by someone injured just getting out of your car while it's sitting still. For a picture for instance. No Thanks.

[Hal]

I admit I live in fear of some things, but giving a stranger a ride at a car show is not one of them. Yeah, I'm sure things happen, but then again, I could hit by an asteroid too. Life's too short for me to live in fear of that one.

[George House]

Charlie B; back in 1955 I wasn’t in elementary school yet and a man gave me a ride in some kind of non-Ford horseless carriage from our corner grocery store to the plaza in New Braunfels and back.... I was hooked at age 5.If he hadn’t done that, I might’ve been a rich man today instead of having a dozen enjoyable pre 1930 cars. No kid gets a ride in one of my cars without parental permission. Folks today are too sensitive to “stranger danger”, “drive bys”, “see something, sat something and “turn around, don’t drown”.
Concerning the latter; how else can you get hickory spokes to swell up ?... I’m with Hal on the asteroid thing.

[Dallas Landers]

Geesh! Im suprised any T's leave the garage for fear. Guess Im used to small town thinking. Maybe thats bad?
I can be sued for looking at somebody now days or posting here.

[George House]

For another way to have our beloved T’s pay for their upkeep, see my recent underviewed thread titled “Lotsa Model Ts in a Made for TV Movie” this Forum...

[Ruxstel24]

Not a money deal, but similar.
When we had my dad's funeral, there were 15 maybe, Ts in the parking lot. In June.
When his friend Art passed, his son Gary drove the 21 touring to the funeral home...it was December then, and snowing.
It was touching, my wife was speechless.

[VowellArt]

I've been dying to put one of those Lyft stickers on my windshield, just to see how many people would call in looking for the Model T Lyft car.