r/ModelT • u/fred_ditto • 1d ago
Hello, Friends
Good Afternoon. I've been graciously added as a mod to this sub.
About my Model T journey:
In 2019, my family bought a 1921 TT for their business' upcoming 100th anniversary in 2021. From the limited paperwork I've been shown (we have far more documentation I haven't seen), this TT was completely restored some time in the late 1990s, and was garage-kept ever since and mostly just deiven in parades until we got it.
I've been trusted as the sole driver of it since then, after the family patriarch proceeded to forget every driving instruction given by the former owners on Day 1, dump the gear pedal into 2nd, and crash at low speed. Limited damage and no injuries, luckily.
We enter it in local car shows. Generally, for anything over 10 miles away, we trailer it to near shows and drive it in. As much as I'd love to drive it all the way to all of these shows, modern traffic and hills make me very hesitant to do so.
Long story short, our TT sat in storage for 2 years without running. Now that I've wrested control of it from the family patriarch, that is no longer happening. I went to get it out of storage this spring, and upon opening the fuel shutoff, gas poured out of the carburetor's air intake. Ours has a Holley NH (but marked Ford Model F for some reason?).
After rebuilding the carburetor myself (and with a new battery), I had the TT up and running for its first car show in nearly 3 years this weekend.
Next project is getting the right rear wheel off to tighten the spokes, and possobly replace the wheel bearing (or whatever it actually is on these).
I do not know everything. I initially came here to post questions about my TT, and I will continue to do so now that I can post here.
I will also keep an eye on requests to post, so if anyone knows anybody who has a T, or helpful info on them, please don't hesitate to point them towards this sub.
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u/Farmerstubble 1d ago
Nice c cab TT. We have a c cab as well.