Showing posts with label model T. Show all posts
Showing posts with label model T. Show all posts

Thursday, March 12, 2015

one of two known 1926 Model TT Ford Motor Home





Ford Motor Co. records indicate that only six modified chassis, such as the one used to construct this motor home, were ever built.

The framing of the superstructure was made from new Model T Ford automobile frame rails, bolted and riveted together. The rear porch pillars were driveshaft tubes from one-ton Model TT Ford trucks.

The modification of the chassis included but was not limited to a second independent non-powered axle used to create tandem rear wheels and an overall extension of the chassis by more than eight feet. The body of the motor home is thought to be a third party addition to the chassis and was not constructed by Ford.

Rhene Miller grew up on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania and made her first public appearance at the age of three when she was featured in her father's traveling medicine show. She studied music in New York City and became a "one-girl band" with the Barnum and Bailey Circus. Her life story is interesting and in a book you can read on Google

 During the Great Depression, her circus closed and she and her husband, Charles Meyer, drove their circus carriage into Smackover in 1929. This 1926-27 Ford T-Model vehicle, the forerunner of the modern-day motor home, served as living quarters to Rhene for the next fifty-five years.

In the late 1990's the motor home was removed from its swampy parking space and placed on exhibit at the Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources in Smackover.

Found on http://www.brhoward.com/model_t_motor_home.html  with more images and info from
http://www.amnr.org/goat.htm , https://www.flickr.com/photos/jannikonmcneil/4833845324/in/photostream/  , http://www.arkansas.com/cities/smackover , http://kbeau.blogspot.com/2009/04/goat-lady.html

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Model T therapy


Kathie and her late husband bought this Model T in 2007, but before they had completed it's refurbishment, he passed on. Her son and friends picked the Model T's resurrection as the way to get Kathie back in the swing of things

Full story at http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-a-ford-model-t-got-a-widow-back-on-her-feet-1424790990

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

a Model T for a maharajah




"This convertible T was built at Ford’s Worli (India) factory in the 1920s for a Maharajah to go tiger hunting. It came complete with built-in kitchen cupboard, cartridge racs (inside the doors) - and tiger stripe camouflage."

Found on http://aacalibrary.tumblr.com/

Early Model T vs LA Aqueduct