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04-06-2020, 06:09 PM | #41 |
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Re: Which Model A for a coast to coast trip?
I kinda half agree. We travel with the side curtains off.
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04-07-2020, 12:50 AM | #42 | |
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A baby, or two, in a car far less modern than a Model T can do USA coast to coast. The car below is 10hp with wooden axles and a wooden chassis. People in Model Ts and As do coast to coast and drives to Alaska every year.
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04-07-2020, 01:55 AM | #43 |
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Re: Which Model A for a coast to coast trip?
I have driven my Town Sedan almost coast to coast before but the would no longer go again. It was great fun but we were younger.
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04-07-2020, 09:07 AM | #44 | |
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Randy, not picking on you but I often hear that same mindset about Model-A guys are getting too old to go on these tours and long-distance such events, ....but then the Model-T guys (-who are the same age or older than the Model-A guys) make all of these same long distance trips at their ages. |
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04-07-2020, 10:04 AM | #45 |
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Could just be that T guys are just more adventurous in the first place, look at the car we drive. LOL
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04-07-2020, 12:52 PM | #46 |
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04-07-2020, 01:32 PM | #47 |
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Ford Model K guy (yes K) Dean Yoder does a coast to coast in terms of miles every year in his T. He has over 100,000 miles in Ts.
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It's a wonder he doesn't get ticketed for having the windshield obscured.
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If you were a police officer would you ticket him?
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04-10-2020, 10:34 AM | #50 |
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Why not? He's breaking the law by having an seriously obscured windshield. At the very least a warning ticket.
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04-10-2020, 11:50 AM | #51 |
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A lot of the members in our club that do alot of touring are going for the 4 door Town Sedans. They like the extra leg room and the open area in the rear seat. Say it's the way to go. The only draw back is there heavy so the top speed suffers. 45 Mph is a good speed. JP
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04-10-2020, 11:59 AM | #52 |
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The Restorer magazine of vol. seven issue 3, Sept.Oct. 1962 has an amazing article titled "Seven thousand miles to Prove a Point" in which over 20 model A's travel from the East Coast to the West Coast and back in one summer. Pretty amazing!
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04-10-2020, 09:01 PM | #53 |
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I have driven 30,000+ tour miles in the three Tudors I have owned and they worked well, but hands down the best tour car was our slant window Town Sedan. I did not like the look of the sidemount spares, but the trunk on the rear was GREAT.
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04-10-2020, 10:18 PM | #54 | |
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Oregon to Georgia in Oct-Nov 2014 in basically a dead-stock 1930 Tudor. No real problems. http://slotblog.net/topic/60001-trip...club-magazine/
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04-10-2020, 11:23 PM | #55 |
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We have made the trip a couple of times in our Victoria, so guess I am partial. I don't use an external trunk, everything fits inside.
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04-11-2020, 08:53 AM | #56 |
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Slotblog, I have driven one long trip, Jacksonville FL to Williamsburg MARC meet, in a completely stock Tudor. No problems, but for me the driving experience is better with HC head, overdrive or 3.54 rear axle and rear doors to facilitate loading/unloading. I like to drive 55 mph on long highway trips........to each his own......
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04-12-2020, 03:26 AM | #57 |
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I'd have to say the one in your garage 😂
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04-13-2020, 12:46 AM | #58 | |
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Okay, fair enough if you think that. More to the the point of the post, what do you think of Model T guys being able to drive their cars to the Arctic while many, if not most, Model A guys wouldn't dream of driving their cars to a neighboring state 100 miles away?
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04-13-2020, 01:56 AM | #59 |
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If you look at that picture and observe where the driver is looking, those stickers aren't in the line of sight.
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At least he is not impeding traffic like many Model-A driver's do. The second picture below is a GPS taken at the end on one of his travel days. (Note the stickers on the windshield) Dean's maximum speed would make many Model-A drivers moan to keep up. And, I guess the sticker thing is moot, because when he attended my tour, -and on several others I have been on with him, he has upgraded to the pick-up you see in this picture. I think the Touring was last used when him & George made their loop out to Kanab and back. . . |
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