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There is a question on the classified for information on 1912 top boots. I have some pictures to share of an original 1913, which I would assume would be similar. Note the straps, and the common sense fasteners were riveted to the boot. I didn't do this when I made mine, and shall correct it should I have an opportunity to do another. I did rivet the straps however.

Hey there Larry! Thank you for posting those pictures. Very helpful for those of us considering the making of a top boot.

I have many more photos to share if anyone wishes to see them. For some reason, I don't believe anyone has ever done the proper research on them, but I have tried! 1915 is the final year for the side flaps. In 1916 they went to the later style with no flaps.

I'd like to see more pictures of the '13 top boot to use for our '13 T. I agree with - why make it incorrectly when it can be made as it was originally?

Here are more pictures.

Thank you Larry

Thanks again Larry! I have bookmarked this thread so that if I ever get my '15 runabout far enough along, I can make my top boot at least something close to right. My car will never be perfect. But the closer everything is to right, the more I like it.

I've never tried the archives on this topic. They had the prints for the side curtains for my '25 roadster. I'd be willing to bet they might have the prints. I don't think Ford called our boots, boots! I think they called them top covers?

Linguistics is a fascinating, and frustrating, subject. English, and most notably US English, has three to four times as many words than nearly any other Western civilization languages do. English is rooted in more than four different old-world languages. The Romance languages, descended from Latin, include Spanish, Italian, and French. Northern European languages (Norse, which literally means "North") make up another major word group in English as well as what we refer to as the Germanic languages. Additional historic origins include Anglo-Saxon and Celtic and/or Gaelic.
Nearly everything we can say, has different words from different origins to say the same thing.
It is no wonder we cannot all agree upon what something should be called. Not now, and not in Henry's day.