Nice straight '32! Good luck in the concours - if the rest of the car is up to the quality of work from Nick's shop, it should do quite well. Is your Dad in the National Woodie club?
I'm not sure. I know he's the, get this, current national president of the Horseless Carriage Club of America!
The 32 looks immaculate. He's been restoring it for about 35 years or so. I can remember him yelling at me to stop jumping around on his car. I looked at him in astonishment then burst into laughter. I had been jumping around on the frame laying in the side yard in the gravel and was about 3 years old at the time.
He restored his '10 T and has put enough miles on it to warrant a rebuild of the engine. He even drives it every couple of years from the Bay Area to Yosemite.
He's got a hundred year old underslung chassis he's making a circa 1912 racer to run in his Model T Club endurance run each spring. He's probably the only one in the world currently converting an electric car into a gasser! We're pretty convinced it was electric since there were several original cross-members where any engine would have been put and it would have had an oil pan hanging there.
I love your M H by the way. That thing is awesome.
Here's a couple of pics of the T and speedster project.
Me Driving the T earlier this year.
Early photo of the speedster. He's got the wheels restored. 29" or something redicullously big!
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Thanks...I'm lucky to have it.
Model Ts are the greatest; hundred year-old cars shouldn't even exist, much less actually run and look good! Tell Pop to rock on!!
Thanks...I'm lucky to have it.
Model Ts are the greatest; hundred year-old cars shouldn't even exist, much less actually run and look good! Tell Pop to rock on!!
Will do! I don't usually link to another site, but here's a review of driving the Model T I wrote on FordMuscle. I've got a 64 Falcon Convert with a 289+Toploader+9" and so I spend a bit of time over there.
Were they just in Superior, WI? my buddy said he talked with them, since he lived next where they gathered.
Let me rephrase that, lol. My friend was talking with members of the horseless carriage club at the Fairlawn Museum in Superior, WI. One of them he was talking to was the president of the club. They came from all over the country to meet there.
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Have you all seen this? Now you too can have a 1940 MH woodie, plus a second very nice donor woodie, for one package bid price. My guess is that these are owned by Tom Cotter who is a noted woodie collector. Too rich for my blood, but it'll be fun to watch. Stu
Definitely Tom Cotter's car (same town & phone #).
I hope whoever restores it keeps those funky hood scoops. I've seen a few M-H 's with similar modifications (including mine that came with a two rows of nice louvers on the hood and another scoop below the radiator); I have old photos of another Merc woodie that had the hood sides pounded out to fit a bigger radiator. These cars/trucks were worked hard at low RPM, and the flatheads undoubtedly needed some extra cooling.
The phone number I didn't know, but I figured there couldn't be two woodie collectors in Davidson, NC. And, assuming it's the same car, he did an article in V8 Times about it when he first found it. As I recall in his article, he found this woodie and a 46/7/8 MH coupe at about the same time. One of them was listed in a local Deals on Wheels type shopper of all places. It pays to have your ear to the ground. Stu
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