Posted by Dean on March 09, 2018 at 12:04:51 from (68.50.160.151):
In Reply to: More Ts posted by blackhole49 on March 09, 2018 at 05:50:37:
I have a close friend, over 90 now, and in a home, that knows more about Model T vehicles, woodworking, and several other fields than anyone that I have known.
For decades, he bought, sold and traded Model Ts and parts, always keeping the best and NOS parts for himself.
In the 1970s and 1980s, he started building wooden depot hack bodies for Model T vehicles that he had or had built from parts.
This man was a forester, sawyer and woodworker all of his life. He selected and cut the trees in the forest, sawed, cured, and finished the lumber, and built the depot hack bodies from his lumber in his shop. IIRC, he built 2 or 3 for sale, keeping all of the best NOS Model T parts for his last, which he intended to keep for himself.
I watched him build the last from mostly NOS parts, latest 1927 parts, starter, lights, two speed rear axle, etc. I watched him rebuild his best engine, including pouring and fitting the babbit bearings. I watched him steam and bend the oak bows for the roof. I watched him select, turn and finish the hickory spokes for the wheels.
His health failed just before this last depot hack was completed but friends helped him complete it. IIRC, I do not think that he ever drove it.
Don't ask what became of it.
The world will lose a great deal of knowledge when this man passes.
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