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Is it a Model T ?


JRA

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Thanks. The picture is the first and original  store of a later large supermarket chain in Brazil. So the express body makes sense. What year would it be?

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Ford came out with that painted steel radiator shell and the Model "TT" trucks in 1917, so it dates from after that.

 

Model Ts and TTs got a slightly taller radiator in 1924 (some "TT"s got it in late 1923), but I think* yours is a  shorter version, so iif it is, it would have been built before  late 1923.

 So lets call it a  a truck built somewhere between 1917 and 1923.

 

Of course, those commercial Model Ts had a rough life  and stayed in service a LONG  time (some up into the 1950s) and there were plenty of   T parts laying around to be used. Many, if not most Fords of this era  became an assemblage of semi-related parts in short order, so it COULD  be a 1926 truck with a 1920 radiator that was swapped in to replace a damaged one in 1937! I guess you could possibly date the photograph from the style of clothes to get an approximate date, but I'm no fashionista!

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