Many Model T owners believed their car had a self-healing feature. Put an ailing Tin Lizzie under a shade tree, come back after awhile, and she would be ready to go again. Sometimes this did happen. When it didn’t, a variety of other remedies were available for what was arguably the most fixable car ever built. It didn’t take much: baling wire, fish line, stove…
Henry Ford is variously praised for having invented the internal combustion engine, invented the automobile, and invented the assembly line. He didn’t do any of these three; but he did make possible the Model T — the car that “put America on wheels” — which marks its centenary this fall. Ford was born in 1863 to a farming family in rural Michigan. At the age…
Since February, we have been previewing the new eBay Motors, which includes research tools, pricing information, an easier way to find local vehicles, and a whole new way to search. Below are answers to the most frequently asked questions we ve received about the new eBay Motors. We will continue to update this based on your feedback and when additional changes…
The Model T came on the scene in 1908 as a reasonably priced, reliable automobile created for use by the average family. The 1200-pound Model T was helpful to people who lived on farms and were accustomed to travelling long distances on horseback. Between 1908 and 1927, the revolutionary assembly line process allowed for the construction of 15 million Model T…
Let s Go Touring Welcome to the Sacramento Valley Model T Club located in Sacramento, California. The Sacramento Valley is rich in places to tour. Whether it s the river and delta area, historic sites here in our state Capital or the rich Gold Rush country in the foot hills, they all provide us with interesting and beautiful places to tour in our T s. The club…
T-1917 Model T Ford Wrench Donated by Robert and Marion Roglin This open-end wrench came with Robert Roglin s first car, a Model T Ford. 1917 is the model number of the wrench. Kansas native Robert Lee Roglin (1895-1987) moved to the Son s Chapel area east of Fayetteville (Washington County) in 1929. He and his first wife, Kathryn, and his second wife, Marion…
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. We re going to end 2008 with the oldest DOTS car yet. How about 89 years old and parked on the street? Granted, this West End car doesn t live full-time on the street, but every so often it spends a few days doing so, along…
We’re at the precipice of a new age of automotive options, as the car of the future is just about here. Tesla’s top of the line Model S 90d, while not quite an autonomous car, is enabled with autonomous driving features that certainly make it a gateway technology to what every transportation sector prognosticator says is just around the next bend. Why are people…
Model T built by the from 1908 until 1927. Conceived by as practical, affordable for the common man, it quickly became prized for its low cost, durability, versatility, and ease of maintenance. More than 15 million Model Ts were built in and , Mich. (The automobile was also assembled at a Ford plant in , Eng., and at plants in continental Europe.) Assembly-line…
The John W. Stoltz Company has been in business for 31 years manufacturing and selling specialized Model T Ford parts made from modern components. The company was founded in 1986 quite by accident. John wanted a speedometer for his 1926 Model T coupe. Authentic Model T speedometers were not only hard to come by they were made of pot metal and did not work. John…
With a ball-peen hammer, a center punch and plenty of 1/8-inch drill bits, the students in the automotive collision and repair program are slowly disassembling a Model T Ford that came off the assembly line 91 years ago. Think about it,collision and repair instructor Chris Baker said as freshman Dan Hadfield went to work on an impossibly rusted bolt from the…
DreamDirt is doing a Co-Auction with Todd Crill Auctions, DreamDirt will be handling the online portion of the auction and Todd Crill will be working the onsite portion of the auction. There will be a 10% buyer premium on all sucessful online bidders. Buyers will be resposible for pick up or shipping. Inventory Selling Saturday, April 29: Tools, Shop Items; Antique…
R makes it easy to fit a linear model to your data. The hard part is knowing whether the model you ve built is worth keeping and, if so, figuring out what to do next. This is a post about linear models in R, how to interpret lm results, and common rules of thumb to help side-step the most common mistakes. Building a linear model in R R makes building linear models…
Let’s get something out of the way early, before Bernie Sanders supporters are burning me in effigy: I like Bernie Sanders. During the seven years I lived in Vermont, I had the pleasure of voting for him twice; first, when he ran for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by “Jeezum” Jim Jeffords, and second, when he ran for re-election. In my personal experience, he was…
* Numbers shown are based on the dates of sale, not of manufacture. ** The actual dates of manufacture of engines before 1913 have yet to be discovered. The numbers shown are based on the dates of the sale of the engine/automobile. From the available data it appears that engines were installed in cars, or sold as engines only, in numerical order until summer…
A new campaign is underway to try and save the original Model T plant in Highland Park. The Woodward Avenue Action Association launched an online fundraising drive asking supporters to pledge five dollars to turn the old assembly line into a museum and visitor s center. Five dollars was the daily wage Henry Ford paid his workers so they could afford to buy the…
TESTED A century from now, let no man or robot or digital personal companion embedded in the cerebellum at birth say that Car and Driver didn’t look at this thing from every possible angle. Thus, we proceed with yet another trial of the Model S. This time we compare the electric car to its direct predecessor, the hydrocarbon-burning automobile, much as our forebears…
Billy Cuddy enjoys nothing more than taking out one of his six Model T Fords — the flagship car for the motor company for 20 years — and driving them. The 70-year old motoring enthusiast, who lives near Glounthaune, reckons there could be up to 20 of the models left in Cork and describes driving them as akin “to riding a pony”. “The Model T is completely different…
This custom 1927 Ford T-bucket Roadster was completed in 2008, and is thought to be the last car built by well-known Oregon drag racer Jeff Jahns. The seller has driven the car 150 miles since acquiring it in 2016, but lacks garage space to keep it. The 2.3L turbocharged and intercooled EFI inline-four was sourced from a Ford Mustang SVO, and is mated to a race-built…
Moderator: Lauren Pheeney Della Monica Participants on Panel: Sam Cady, Diana Horowitz, and Karen Kitchel Topic: The Environment in Landscape Painting Artists will address what the physical world means in the paintings, the meaning of representations of the natural world, and attention to natural resources in the land. Bios: Lauren P. Della Monica Sam Cady Diana…
Ford introduced the one ton, heavy duty, TT truck in 1917. It was the most radically different Ford Model T variant ever produced. While its used the same 20 HP engine and transmission, it s chassis was 25 inches longer than the standard Model T, and was beefier, too. TTs had a different rear end, with worm gears and lower ratios, to enable the classic Ford Model…
Keeling Gaines Pulliam Jr. and Charles Ellsworth McCormick of Lexington, Kentucky, and Morris Julian Crutcher (Maury Crutcher) of Detroit, Michigan, all graduates of the University of Kentucky at Lexington Mechanical Engineering program and members of the Gamma Iota chapter of the Sigma Nu Fraternity, organized the Mercury Body Corporation in early 1920. In March…
In 1908, the Ford Motor Company introduced the world to the Model T. The rest, as they say, is automotive history. In over a century it’s safe to say cars and technology have taken a dramatic turn. From the simplicity of the Model T to self-driving Teslas, it’s clear the future is now. But two men with one mission are intent on delaying that for at least the…
Have you ever wondered how an automatic transmission works? I did, so I looked it up and then designed this desktop model. It has six forward speeds and one reverse. Real automatic transmissions have a hydraulic or electrical system that engages different clutches and brakes to shift gears depending on the driving situation. With this model you control those…
