Re: RGS#1 - 1910 Ford Model T inspection car

Cool how the T hobby is carrying over into NG Diss. 35+ years ago on a tour with a cousin in his 1915 touring with Warford 3 speed, which was under, direct and over also equipped with a 3-1 ring and pinion if I recall correctly, we hit something over 50. This was on Hwy 95 S. of New Meadows, Id. A pickup was pacing us to give us the speed. We had the top down and the wind resistance unexpectedly folded the windshield back at the hinges. It was really scary to me at that speed. Later we blew a front tire also doing something close to 50 somewhere between Weiser and Emmett, Id. Hard to believe we lived to tell about it. The tire came clear off the rim and continued down the hwy ahead of us. This was a non-demountable. Clinchers are hard enough to mount flat on a floor, but on a front rim with the wheel not totally rigid due to movement at the spindle, it was a bit of a fiddle.(polite phrase for pain in a..) Luckily it was the pass. side so we weren't hanging our bums out in traffic while we fought the spare tire on. My 25 touring with a Ruckstell and standard ring and pinion would roll down the hwy around 40 which was about as fast as I wanted to drive a T. I am starting to miss owning one, but not that much. Once you rebuild one from the ground up with everything perhaps more perfect than it left the factory, then after a time you start repairing things that have started to wear for the second time it becomes less interesting. I bet the backshop men began to feel the same way as they rebuilt the same engine time and time again.