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Approximate Year Of This Model T?

Post by MichaelPawelek » Mon Sep 19, 2022 3:34 pm

Taken out in the Big Bend area of Texas. Looks to be a three window top. What is the approx. year of this Model T? Thanks….

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Re: Approximate Year Of This Model T?

Post by Fire_chief » Mon Sep 19, 2022 3:46 pm

Three window openings in the rear of the top indicates it is '17 to '22.
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Re: Approximate Year Of This Model T?

Post by 1925 Touring » Mon Sep 19, 2022 7:17 pm

Is it just the lighting, or is that a brass radiator?
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Re: Approximate Year Of This Model T?

Post by TRDxB2 » Mon Sep 19, 2022 8:47 pm

This should help
3 windows & Brass radiator
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Re: Approximate Year Of This Model T?

Post by John E. Guitar » Tue Sep 20, 2022 8:05 am

Perhaps you could get a clearer copy of that photo if you contacted these guys?

https://marfamuseum.org/2019/09/05/duncan/

They probably have a few other interesting photos with Model Ts.
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Re: Approximate Year Of This Model T?

Post by TWrenn » Tue Sep 20, 2022 8:47 am

TRDxB2 wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 19, 2022 8:47 pm
 This should help
3 windows & Brass radiator
Brass radiator cars had the "crown" rear window, not 3 small windows. May be lighting, may be a replacement top put on an earlier car? Pic just isn't clear enough.
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Re: Approximate Year Of This Model T?

Post by Wayne Sheldon » Tue Sep 20, 2022 8:32 pm

Just not clear enough detail.
The front fenders could appear to be flat? Could be 1915/'16 with a brass radiator? Or not. I wouldn't go from the shiny top of the radiator however. The shiny area appears too rectangular. I suspect that is a license plate hanging on a radiator neck bracket. I like the era accessory brackets myself, but do not like the way they look on cars. So I have never used one.
Tops were sometimes replaced by later style replacements, putting the three windows on late brass model Ts.

A 1913ish pickup,
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A 1914 touring with later headlamps and top rear curtain.
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Re: Approximate Year Of This Model T?

Post by John E. Guitar » Thu Sep 22, 2022 5:46 pm

A slightly clearer crop from Terry at the museum.

https://marfamuseum.org/2019/09/05/duncan/
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Re: Approximate Year Of This Model T?

Post by Wayne Sheldon » Thu Sep 22, 2022 7:16 pm

Wow! So much better to work from an unadulterated early generation copy! Thanks J E G !

Without the colorization and digital manipulation, it can clearly be seen as a brass era radiator! No high mounted license plate. I can almost make out the "Ford" script on the radiator, and a small dogbone cap without a Moto-Meter.
Without brass rims on the lamps, likely a late 1915 or 1916 with a later style top installed as a replacement.
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Re: Approximate Year Of This Model T?

Post by Moxie26 » Thu Sep 22, 2022 7:16 pm

Thanks John 😊
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Re: Approximate Year Of This Model T?

Post by TRDxB2 » Fri Sep 23, 2022 11:24 am

A little better
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Re: Approximate Year Of This Model T?

Post by Rich Eagle » Fri Sep 23, 2022 11:29 am

the 3-window rear curtain was 1917-Mid 1922.
When did I do that?
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