Re: Staude Mak-A-Tractor

Posted by redforlife on May 16, 2023 at 00:55:28 from (174.213.208.52):

In Reply to: Staude Mak-A-Tractor posted by RedMF40 on May 15, 2023 at 13:24:11:

I guess I'm not really reading that as an
insistence, but rather a couple of
possibilities. Early on, the model T I
don't think was offered in a truck. That
would of came about in 17 or 18 I think. If
you took the trucks out of the picture,
what other options would be left? The sedan
maybe. I can't answer as to wheel base
differences. As to yes or no to that.
Wouldn't of been much difference other than
length of frame, even if so. Not sure if
that would of even applied to the
conversion. Although the tractor in the
picture looks to be short wheel based after
the conversion, if there was a short wheel
base, and it did apply to the conversion.

There were lots of conversions sold for
adapting the model T to. Even one
converting it into a snow-mobil. Front
wheels converted to sled runners, and the
rear wheels converted to a set of tracks.

The T was made pretty simple. Henry Ford
kind of needed it to be that way, so it
could be assembled in an assembly line
process. And that kind of made it a good
guiney pig for doing conversions on. At a
time before alot of other similar things
were not otherwise being made also.

For what it's worth, alot of the T cars
were converted into trucks when they became
older used vehicles. Trucks were handy, and
it was cheaper to convert one of the older
T cars than it was to buy a new truck off
of the assembly line. Having something a
little bit home made back then, wasn't much
of an issue. Not even being out on public
roadway with it.

Model T's were produced for a span of quite
a few years. More than 10, and more like
15. The car did change a little during
production. But nothing real drastic.
Another good characteristic for these
conversions that went on and were
available.

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