Tom Laferriere Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 Saw this over the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hddennis Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 Is that Edsel's Hotrod T?Howard Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMoneyPit Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 Wells Maine Auto Museum? Looks like one there our T club had a field day with - you can see where the block was cut & re-stitched together - it was done well but the work done on the head was only fair.Still love to drive it just for kicks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Laferriere Posted July 12, 2010 Author Share Posted July 12, 2010 Claims are a Model "J", built for Edsel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 I certainly hope that the rest of the drive train was beefed up to accommodate the extra 2 cylinders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 Model T ford drive trains are pretty darn tough. They even converted these things to farm tractors. I do not think that there would be a problem with the extra two cylinders as long as it was driven by a Gentlemen. The hard part here would be the crank and cam configuration to get it to run smooth. Dandy Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hddennis Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 Tom, When you first posted this I assumed you were talking about another car I read about on another forum. Very interesting thread: Model T Ford Forum: 1912 ? model T boattail 6 cyl. one of a kind for saleHoward Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest prs519 Posted July 16, 2010 Share Posted July 16, 2010 Dandy Dave, I think there were no gentlemen drivers west of the Mississippi atthat time. Not too many roads to justify such a creature, from the pics I haveseen of the early trails. All the same, the vanadium steel Tees held up, I thinklargely because they were able to flex quite a bit. Keep smilin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Saxton Posted July 17, 2010 Share Posted July 17, 2010 Claims are a Model "J", built for Edsel.Attached I hope are two photos of the actual model J, based on model N. David says it goes like the wind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Saxton Posted July 17, 2010 Share Posted July 17, 2010 Thanks to my son Stirling, you have the two photos I took of David Dryden's restored 6 cylinder J at a show at Lardner Park near Warragul Vic a couple of years ago. The red car in the background is David's 1904 C Ford, and behind that, just in front of the seat you can glimpse his Quadricycle , which was one of three replicas built at Ford Geelong. This one came from the family of the former Ford Dealer in Auckland not long before the photos.The C was sold to David from USA configured as a 1903 A, but the numbers showed otherwise; so he restored it correctly. I helped him by rebuilding original mechanical bits with Metco Spraysteel LS and grinding them, so fit is undoubtedly better than they were originally, and David says the steering and handling is beautiful. David made his own spiral crinckle wound tubes for the radiator, and it can idle for ages without overheating. (Part of the trick in working on these is that you have to use a significantly higher melting point solder to fix the fin on the tubes than you use to fix the tubes in the tanks.) With really good trembler coils in the box, I understand it starts first use of the handle, even on its first meet for 1 & 2 cylinder cars at Parkes in central New South Wales when the mornings were frosty. (During one stop on that event the organisers apparently wanted to shift it in David's absence. As they moved it forward by hand in gear it fired and started to drive off with no driver. ) The other Ford beside these in the display is the very early unrestored two pedal, two lever, waterpump engine T model which David bought at a recent Hershey auction. The car now has all authentic parts, but is conserved as the low use original car that it is. I have photos of all these from the same day if people want to see them; but they would rightly be in a separate thread in the general section. I have photos of other makes there also, including late model stuff such as a 1932 V16 Cadillac that came here new, but travelled extensively since the late 1960's until it eventually returned to Australia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted July 17, 2010 Share Posted July 17, 2010 Dandy Dave, I think there were no gentlemen drivers west of the Mississippi atthat time. Not too many roads to justify such a creature, from the pics I haveseen of the early trails. All the same, the vanadium steel Tees held up, I thinklargely because they were able to flex quite a bit. Keep smilin!You is so right. Only raspy old characters could have survived 100 years ago in the lands west of the Mississippi. The T was true tested toughness, like the folks who drove them. Dandy Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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