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Here’s a photo of a T with a aftermarket radiator or is it just the shell.

There was a similar accessory shell listed on Ebay recently for some good $'s !

Possibly the original radiator - the kit was intended to make your clunky old ‘15 or ‘16 look like the sleek, snazzy new ‘17 models !

Wow! Wouldn’t that be something to have the Bullnose streamlined hood and radiator shell on a restored brass radiator T at a car show these days! Or would you dare! The purist folks would collapse!

It would be interesting to know if any of those kits survived to this day and time.

Sorry but I think it's ugly. Be darned if I'd polish my expensive brass radiator only to cover it up
with that! And spend money to do it too!

Look at Ed's yellow # 4
Craig.

It gives your girlfriend the impression that your Model T is a 1916 Maxwell.

Such upgrade kits were made and sold by several companies! Peerless sheet metal and Ames were two of the best known. And I must be getting old, I have known the name on Ed's number four shell for more than fifty years, but it escapes me at the moment?
I probably have twenty different photos on my computer of 1915s and '16s with such shells and hoods on them.

Erik Johnson wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:52 pm

It gives your girlfriend the impression that your Model T is a 1916 Maxwell.

Like she would know, let alone even care!! (Susanne excepted of course!)

The gal below prefers Maxwells...

Stamped into the bottom horizontal sheet metal framing on the radiator shell on #4 is LAWCO.

Ed aka #4

LAWCO

Leaks All Water Completely Out

THANK YOU Ed! For the life of me I couldn't pull it out.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, updates and fancy new styling aside, this feller is getting back to basics. Classified ad, 1919

Leaks All Water Completely Out??

Yikes!!

That yellow jacket of a number 4 is probably one of the longest lived and best running T's I know of. I was infatuated by it in my teens, i'm 60+ and it STILL, to this day, infatuates me.

What a machine. What a beast! And to think it survives the past 100 yearsto STILL travel at speeds even modern iron can't touch...

On wood.

Just had to throw this in there. You go. Ed. I tell people they "got a runner", but YOU, good sir, really DO have a runner!

Sus

Thanks Susanne, I'm still equally impressed at what a good car it's been. One great package. By the way, speaking of a great package, I still miss your dad. One of the greatest.

Ed aka #4

My Mercury came with this Lawco shell that has had 3 inches added to it.

YellowTRacer wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:59 pm

Thanks Susanne, I'm still equally impressed at what a good car it's been. One great package. By the way, speaking of a great package, I still miss your dad. One of the greatest.

Ed aka #4

As do I, Ed... So many, many good times, from crawling through swap meets to late nights working in the garage on the chassis (much to mom's consternation on school nights) to cold, rainy days in a duck blind (including my 21st B'day) ... All the wonderful people we knew, met, and loved. I know both he and "mom" held you and Karen (and the girls) in high esteem... when we lost first her, then years later, him, it really broke a lot of us. And now... All of us can look back at the memories and grin. Well, that. and the accumulation of "ol' rusty stuff" out in my new shop.

I think it was his love of discovering new things and, of course, travel, that inspired that in me (tho I'm sure he'd wonder what prompted me to move all the cotton-pickin' way over HERE!!). I'm just glad he got to meet my other half, and give us his blessing. Life is, indeed, wonderful!

Thanks for putting a smile on this older (tho not necessarily wiser) face!! Just wish those good memories didn't have to end so darned soon!

Sus