Posted by Goose on March 09, 2018 at 07:26:12 from (166.182.87.226):
With all of the recent posts about Model T's, I gotta tell this. My maternal grandfather had a Model T coupe, a '26 or '27, one of the last ones made, with electric start, etc. He insisted on continuing to drive it even after the rest of the family had upgraded themselves.
My father was always the ultimate square when it came to driving. Anyway, one summer during wheat harvest when I was maybe ten, Grandpa had to go the grain elevator some three miles way on some business and asked me if I wanted to go along. I was more than willing.
Halfway between Grandpa's farm and the elevator was a slough with a one lane bridge over it. As we approached from one direction, an empty grain truck approached from the other. Grandpa yelled, "Let's see if we can beat him to the bridge!". He pulled the throttle on that old Model T wide open and in effect played "chicken" with the truck to see who would cross the bridge first. Grandpa won, and laughed at the truck when we went past.
As timid as my dad always was about driving, it really impressed me at that age that my Grandpa would play chicken with a truck for nothing more than the exhilaration of beating the truck to a bridge.
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