Posted by warbaby on December 09, 2022 at 07:32:04 from (24.247.205.221):
In Reply to: Model T assembly posted by 550Doug on December 09, 2022 at 06:54:10:
A wheelin' & dealin' friend from Canada bought a a model TT truck in Ohio years ago and sent me to pick it up. The seller had inherited it and didnt know beans about it, including how to start it or what those 3 levers (brake, spark, throttle) and 3 pedals (hi/low, reverse, kinda brakes) did! I cranked it up and drove it around his yard for him so he could at least ride in it one time before I hauled it away.
When I got it home (Michigan) I applied for a lost title and the Michigan State Police sent a young trooper out to inspect it. He had a checklist of things it needed to have to be street legal:
Bumpers? No. Never came with them.
Windshield wipers? Kinda. It had a single, hand-crank operated blade.
Horn? Yeah, a squeeze bulb one (not original, but kinda cool).
Lights? Only when its running and the magneto is working.
Turn Signals? Ever see anybody flailing their arms around like this- up, down, straight out (Index finger quickly extended and retracted repeatedly like its ''blinking'')?
Does it run? I dutifully cranked it up and set it to idle. While he was walking around it to see how badly it smoked (not too bad!), it started crawling away from us!
Does it have an Emergency Brake? Sure- I reached through the drivers window (the drivers doors on U.S. built model Ts are non-opening) and yanked on it (again) and that slowed it down enough to satisfy Barney.
VIN Number? Its the engine number. That made it a 1920 model.
Once I told him it was ultimately heading to Canada and he'd never see it on the road around here, he passed it, and 2 weeks later a new title arrived and it was mine for a whole day.
When my Canuck buddy came to pick it up I gave him a quick lesson on planetary transmissions and sent him to the border where the gourds balked at the freshly issued title and called me to confirm his story. A month later, it was in a container on a ship in the North Atlantic and it ended up in a collector's hoard of U.S. vehicles somewhere in Scotland.
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