Model T's getting offloaded from the train to the dealership
The tools and grease pump display board on the far side of the car are a reminder that a garage once was a display case for the small oil company products, for a good look at one see the Richfield lube rack https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ78fdQmTBO2J4RuVC7k_hfEQugtnAjjv9DPV_ku0jAdNPRGrt4wOJE6A8QBpG7PHiD5Tq2nBAGD3MGnCmWe_jeFh_bmay2JnYHwXtn3874woybI4CBC1hqzsazmntidpUL_-HG1uuyQcP/s1600/DSC_0038.JPG
Doesn't she look cute in the sailor outfit
great photos I've never come across before! terrific Tumblr site, now on my recommended list http://21studs.tumblr.com/
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Model T's on 21 studs tumblr
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
The first Ford exported from North America, went to South Africa
In September 1903 Mr Arthur Youldon of Johannesburg, an importer, was in New York where he saw Henry Ford demonstrate his new car. He immediately placed his order with
Henry Ford, who informed him that it would be the first Ford to be sold outside North America. The Ford Motor Company was founded earlier that year, on 16 June 1903.
The car only arrived in February 1904 in Port Elizabeth from where it had to be transported by train to Johannesburg. This car survived to this day and can be viewed at the Franschhoek Motor Museum in the Cape, which has a large display covering 100 years of motoring in SA
During July 1923 Mr Holmes and Mr H.F.A. Stockelbach visited the Ford factory
in Canada to investigate the possibility of starting an assembly plant in South Africa.
Due to preferential tax and duty applicable to Commonwealth Countries, it was
advantages to source the kits from the Canadian Ford factory rather than the USA.
This was realised in February 1924, when an old wool packing shed in Port
Elizabeth was used to start the assembly of the Ford Model Ts.
Info from http://www.dyna.co.za/cars.htm
Thursday, May 5, 2011
What can be found in your dad's tool box might surprise you
if you can't see the info on the wrench, it has a number 1 on the left mouth, and the center has T-1917, and the number 2 on the right mouth. Ford Model T wrench. 94 years old.
Brad found it in his dad's tool box, in Australia, and wonders if anyone can give hime more information about it... like what the 1 and 2 nut or bolt were found on the Model T, and if the wrench is a winning lotto ticket if he sells it. Heck, I'd like to know that too!
Steve emailed me to let us know:
According to the forum at http://tinyurl.com/437zenl there were 3 styles of the T-1917 double end wrench. All were 5/8" by 11/16"They sell everywhere from $5 to $10.
Description of all Model T tools here: http://www.model-t-restore.com/tools.htm
Model T nuts and bolts here: http://www.model-t-restore.com/nuts.htm
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Logging trucks, trains, and look at the size of those logs!
Above via http://www.roadtransport.com/blogs/big-lorry-blog/
Driving the model T cars onto the tree trunk is wild, but a team of horses? Did they think about how they were going to get those horses to back up the whole way off that tree trunk?
that train on top of the bridge is cool... but what the freak! How long did it take them to make that bridge? And they had to have it pretty level for that train, believe it.
Old fashioned spam came on a post card, from Ford, and tried to sell Model T owners new fenders, pistons, and axle overhauls
Monday, December 27, 2010
Real unusual things from trailer washers, motorized wheels, to tank track Rolls Royces
Never seen one before, and something about the age of a black and white photo tells me that these are obsolete
I have no idea at all what this is
Ok, but why take it out if you have to add skis?
Really early car phone
Odd stuff on this tow truck
1890's and I was told it's a velocipede
Lenin's 1922 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost snow machine. Most expensive snow machine conversion? or strangest use for a Rolls Royce?
I've never seen a photo of a tractor involved in a car crash
no idea what the motorbike in front is
Never seen a train engine like this... must be for moving train cars around in a train yard
For packing dirt roads?
Early Daytona Beach racers with superchardged Auburns, before NASCAR took over racing on Daytona Beach
Click for full size to read the story
Two of the rare Jeeps the (1959) FC 59, but the below is even more rare
Model T tank
Love the motor wheels... I'd so love to ride one! This one was investigated by Hemmings Blog and you can read more about it: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2010/11/22/m-goventosas-one-wheel-to-obscurity/ it went 93mph... I doubt that anyone did that more than once given the conditions of roads in Italy in 1931 to 1933, that's when the above photo was taken, 1931
Puegeot in 1934, great designed car, looks like the top is coming down
Wipers on the inside and outside... and that might be Ron Howard... like Tere commented, it sure looks like him during the Andy Griffith showtwo USPS (post office) mail carriers that weren't stopped by high water in the swamp
for more postal carrier vehicles, the variety was astounding! http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/postal-delivery-vehicles-from-vespa-to.html
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