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I thought I'd start a new thread showing photos of members. We've lost a few and added a few and it would be nice to see who we're communicating with. I'll start the ball rolling
Richard Gould, 77yo

RGould1910 wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 07, 2023 6:36 pm

I thought I'd start a new thread showing photos of members. We've lost a few and added a few and it would be nice to see who we're communicating with. I'll start the ball rolling
Richard Gould, 77yo
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Sorry that I have to suggest this
if you post a photo do so with some background next to something, not a close up. Reason your photo can be used by a hacker to mascaraed as you
Not me but you get the idea

Rich

This is me. Dennis

Dog days gone by.

Lookin good John!!

John, I'm keeping a good thought you feel better. I will miss not seeing you in Chickasha.

The T looks better than me.

John, You look great for a 26/27 model....n

Hah! The T is older, but I think there is more miles on me.

I'm shameless about sticking my mug all over the internet, so people sometimes recognize me. Here I am anyway.

Here’s my wife and I. She’s a lot easier to look at than me. Jim Patrick
PS. I’m the one one the left…

A colorized tintype of my great granpappy
FT (FreighTer Timmons) stopping for a libation
when he took Loutentant Dunbar out
to The Old Soldier Fort.


FJ

Ok, here ya go.

Here we are catching a breeze on our first drive in the Runabout.

Me and Babe. Don't mind the flattened ears and sour expression - Babe really is a sweetheart

Norman Kling putting gas into "Harrison" Ford.

Me and the family
Bryant 42

It's a real treat to put faces on our friends' posts that we've enjoyed for years !
It's great to see you all !!

I hope more will post too.

Unlike Allan from down under I haven’t learnt to post photos yet and regret this. Maybe he will post one for me taken at his home on my last visit?
Alan In Western Australia

Okay, here's a classic of Wayne Sheldon. Wayne is the first guy/gentleman on the left. Mounted on a Western Pacific locomotive. Next to him L to R is Dan Erceg and Steve Lehto. Photo taken in the late 70s
Ed aka #4

To think they rode all the way from Salt Lake City to Oakland like that !

My brother and I in the OCF photobooth a couple years ago. I am the
one wearing glasses:

Burger, both folks are wearing glasses, at least one person needs them ha. Best John

Busted last summer at the Henry Ford.

Well, if we're going to resort to photo booth pictures I'll have to post this recent shot from only sixty years ago.



Herb Schmidt was Rot Clancey and I was Arnie Farn on KWAV, the Pepperdine campus station.

Forest with wife Morgan on the right. I built the 1925 tow truck with my Dad Lonnie on the left.

My son Ridley in the custom pedal car built by my dad. Got to get the next generation hooked early.

Rich, Babe is still mad that you replaced him with a horseless carriage. Jim Patrick

This could end up to be a longer thread than 'fitting engine pans'

jiminbartow wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 09, 2023 9:40 am

Rich, Babe is still mad that you replaced him with a horseless carriage. Jim Patrick

Jim, Babe knows she can't be replaced, for lots of reasons. Lizzie isn't good at sorting calves, for one.

Re/ horseless carriage, I found it amazing that our horses, long accustomed to cars, trucks of all sizes, farm machinery etc., etc. came totally unglued and ran like the devil was after them the first time they saw Lizzie in action ! Go figure ? Liz only frightened them once though.

This is a great thread! I've always just had cartoon characters made up in my head until now. I know there's some others on here. come on don't be shy. Rich E, Pink Floyd? you just went another step up on the cool list

I seem to be in the minority of the 'beardless ones'

My future wife and I July 1973.

FreighTer Jim wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 07, 2023 10:28 pm

A colorized tintype of my great granpappy
FT (FreighTer Timmons) stopping for a libation
when he took Loutentant Dunbar out
to The Old Soldier Fort.


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FJ

Why don't you put that in your book!
Back east somebody say ...why dont he write?

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My wife Marjorie, myself and our two ankle biters.

Barteldes wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 09, 2023 5:40 pm

FreighTer Jim wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 07, 2023 10:28 pm

A colorized tintype of my great granpappy
FT (FreighTer Timmons) stopping for a libation
when he took Loutentant Dunbar out
to The Old Soldier Fort.


3E6BC92F-7FA9-4EBB-9A3C-F6E0AC30ADDE.jpeg


FJ

Why don't you put that in your book!
Back east somebody say ...why dont he write?

Timmons was the Inspiration for “ FreighTer “.

The capital T in “ FreighTer “serves both
as Homage to him and The Model T.

If I lived in The Old West ….

No Glory for me as a Gunfighter or a Miner
or Cowboy or Rail Road Man or Rancher ….

Just a freighter with a buckboard
and a team of mules and a
jar of pickled eggs ….


FJ

FreighTer Jim, read the history ! The freighters were responsible for the "glory" and the adventures, and more. Read the memoirs of Alexander Toponce

Rich P. Bingham wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 09, 2023 8:40 pm

FreighTer Jim, read the history ! The freighters were responsible for the "glory" and the adventures, and more. Read the memoirs of Alexander Toponce

Well Now …

Looks like I have another Homage to pay
with the capital “ T “ ….

Thank You Rich !

@ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Toponce


FJ

OK, Ok.... you’ve goaded me into it. Me and the wife with our Shih Tzu tour dog ‘Agape’... I got rid of that shirt ‘cause it made me look fat

I'm in black.


I Mize well let the other two guys introduce themselves, Hort Ness they would like me to? Steve's car in the background.
It must have been a Sunday, since he was at church.

The day I thought I was gonna die…..caribou hunting in AK. The current was so strong I couldn't move and just stood there bracing on the stick and afraid to lift a leg. The rest of the hunt, I was addressed as Gandalf.

This is a picture of Barb and I. I'm the vertically challenged one.
This was taken at a stage show I was hired to portray Little Jimmy Dickens on.
I've been an entertainer since I was (I want to say 'little',..but I'll say) young.


Here's the modification to our Model T so I don't need a pillow at my back or a
New York phone book under my backside. Rubber pedal pads were added.
And yes,...I can see over the steering wheel (barely).

...Take an old cold 'tater and wait....

TXGOAT2 wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 10, 2023 7:04 pm

...Take an old cold 'tater and wait....

I'm happier 'Out Behind The Barn'!

Sure, I’ll play along. 50 years young, just married in September to my lovely wife Sharon. Stoked to finally own a model T and nothing but passionate and nice folks in this forum willing to help!

Paul Griesse and wife Linda in Spain/Portugal Model A tour

Here I am in front of my 1912 Roadster that I am working on. (Yes, I always have that worried look on my face when I am working on the 12.)

Myself today, Nathan Pederson, in the lower right corner.
The black and white photo is from 1964 and our Grandpa Julius is supervising as his grandsons gain
some hands on experience building a playhouse. (That's me crouching down.)
Notice Grandpa's Model TT in the background. By that time it had already been in the grove for years
and was missing the wood cab and other parts. As kids we spent many hours sitting on the gas tank,
working the levers and pedals, and pretending to drive that truck. It was also fun to take wrenches
out to it and attempt to unbolt whatever would loosen up. Years later I put the TT back together.
No doubt it was the old truck that got me interested in T's at an early age!

Good story , Nathan

Myself with my Grandson, Luke, at the Auburn Cruise Night.

I stay active. Here I am competing in a half marathon distance trail run in Page AZ.

BLB27 --- Bruce with the T that I bought in 1954 when I was a junior in high school in North Dakota.

Grandson Rosco getting a Model T driving lesson from me.

Bump for new members and older shy members

(shamefully, I cannot remember first fellow's name)
George Akin
Dean Yoder
Myself

at our ranch in Clark, WY
July 24, 2021 (yes, July - look at those long sleeves! Sun exposure can be more brutal than dry heat!)

Thank you to Richard for the original post and to Bryant for reviving it

It is just little old me, nobody, with my hairy son.

Me flying my other mechanical obsession. Now you know why I go by Oldav8tor. I've been flying since 1973, into Model T's only since 2018 ---- Believe it or not, the plane's empty weight is almost 500 lbs less than my Model T. Mechanically it is far simpler than the T if such a thing is possible. I restored the plane from a basket case over a period of five years back in the '80s. It's a youngster, only 77 years old compared to my 106 year old Model T.

Very cool, Tim

This is a great thread ! So good to put a face on posts from all our friends !!
(Good to see you, Joe !! )

Might as well get on the bandwagon. This is a picture of me and my late wife Anja at the Model T Centennial in Richmond in 2008.

Oldav8tor wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 20, 2023 9:57 pm

Me flying my other mechanical obsession. Now you know why I go by Oldav8tor. I've been flying since 1973, into Model T's only since 2018 ---- Believe it or not, the plane's empty weight is almost 500 lbs less than my Model T. Mechanically it is far simpler than the T if such a thing is possible. I restored the plane from a basket case over a period of five years back in the '80s. It's a youngster, only 77 years old compared to my 106 year old Model T.

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"Professor Fate" 30 yrs ago at the stick of his plans built Experimental Cassutt Racer. These pics were 20 yrs before I got my 1rst T.

my late brother Ed in his soapbox derby in 1938. I am looking on.

My wife Marilyn and I on our wedding day in 1983. We occasionally laugh at how serious we were back then!