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Ten-year-old Model T driver

Post by Steve Jelf » Mon Jul 29, 2019 11:50 pm

Years ago I read of a boy aged ten driving a Model T from Tulsa to New York city with his seven-year-old brother as passenger. I wonder if anybody here is familiar with the story. I've been trying to recall where I read it, but that was before this week, so of course I can't.
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Re: Ten-year-old Model T driver

Post by V4F » Tue Jul 30, 2019 1:14 am

Maybe the Abernathy Boys?

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Re: Ten-year-old Model T driver

Post by Mark Gregush » Tue Jul 30, 2019 1:52 am

I know the voices aren't real but damn they have some good ideas! :shock:

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Post by Steve Jelf » Tue Jul 30, 2019 8:43 am

So I misremembered the details. They bought a Brush, not a Ford, and I had forgotten their other adventures. It's quite a remarkable story.
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Re: Ten-year-old Model T driver

Post by Mark Gregush » Tue Jul 30, 2019 9:41 am

There was also Floyd Clymer and his brother (11 and 14) and their adventures driving a Flanders "20" around 1910. Their planed drive was from Denver to Spokane. Floyd talks about it in his book "Henry's Wonderful Model T".
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Re: Ten-year-old Model T driver

Post by Original Smith » Tue Jul 30, 2019 11:05 am

What state issues drivers licenses to ten year old boys?


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Re: Ten-year-old Model T driver

Post by Dallas Landers » Tue Jul 30, 2019 11:22 am

That Brush was at the Gilmore museum last year along with the story. They were driving it around.


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Re: Ten-year-old Model T driver

Post by autoneer » Wed Jul 31, 2019 5:51 pm

That was the Abernathy Brothers, and it was done in 1910 to meet their father Jack's old friend, Teddy Roosevelt in NYC. They rode horses from OK to NY, but it was real hard on them (the horses, not the kids) so they bought the Brush and drove it home. A few years later in 1912 n0r 13? they duplicated the stunt on Indian motorcycles.
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