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Wow, not many like Ford. Anyone own, or ever drive a Ford Model T?

No but I did drive a model A

no, but one would be fun.

T models came before the A models right?

at any rate, they both came before the REA.

we had really rustic dirt roads back then. deep ruts.

it's difficult to imagine the emergence of the infernal combustion engines.

the whole country was about to undergo a transformation. and the iron horse, too.

I loved Ford until the Ecoboost. Now they are dead to me.

My. and many grandmothers broke a wrist cranking a T Ford.

Ford may well have been the most influential man of the twentieth century.

I have pictures (somewhere) of my grandfather (dads) next to his Model T. My mother in her 31 Model A coupe in Iowa City while in college in 1936. My first Ford was 1946 2-door, V-8 Sedan. All I own now, and have since 2004, are Toyotas....

I remember hearing of old family members having to back up a steep, long grade because of the way the gasoline flowed from the tank.

You try to go up a long, steep grade forward, and the slant would not let the gas flow to the engine and it would die.

They had to back up the grade in reverse, and it worked fine.


I heard them talk of that many times.

Barry, that, and the band in the transmission would wear, the reverse band would have less wear.

Not just cars, and trucks.

May need those to go to WalMart before long..

When I was a kid, I remember my GreatGranddad talking about going up Ranger Hill near here that way in a Model T.
That would have been a long ass haul (several miles) in reverse!

The Tri Motor was one of the classiest machines Ford ever built. Those 3 big radial engines stuck on the front are badazz.

It must have seemed like a magical thing to have the infrastructure to manufacture big flying machines back in that time period.

,...wrote an interesting book, also.

https://www.amazon.com/International-Jew-Henry-Ford/dp/B002FSHVJS

Being as I grew up near metro Detroit, I've toured many of the Ford estates. Certainly were an interesting family, and the estates are cutting edge for their time. I own the book too.

bringing adam smith type production lines to real life products, and then paying his workers sufficently to allow them to procure the mfg'd product.
only thing left to do was get the gov't to upgrade the roads so that his product could progress down the "highway."

the rest is pretty much history.

The noise had to be something else...

I drove my brothers 1917 model T. It was only 90 yeas old when I drove it.

Fully awake.

Caught part of a show on history/ discovery channel. Ford built a city / compound in South America. Rubber plantation complete with power generation. Hospital.

Ford apparently started looking for a site for his first vehicle plant in Cincinnati, OH. Somewhere around the Queensgate area on the Mill Creek. For some reason Cincinnati politicians at the time said "No". Ford then went on up the road to Detroit. Growing up with line of sight visibility to downtown Cincy, always wondered how life would have been different if Cincinnati had said "Yes"...