If you are in the market for one of the coolest ancient cars we have ever seen, this 1923 Ford Model T is just the ticket. An exceptionally rare example of a White’s Garage snow car conversion that was available about 90 years ago, this thing has been restored, it works, and it looks like nothing else you have ever seen. The front wheels and axle can be swapped in place of the skis quickly, the rear tracks can be removed easily so in the summer you have a really neat looking tag axle Model T pickup truck to cruise in and putter down the country roads as well. Outside of the obvious skis and tracks as well as the bed, you are looking at a pretty standard issue 20hp 1923 Model T.

The story of the conversion kit is a good one, though. Virgil White of West Ossipee, New Hampshire was a successful garage owner that was the authorized Ford dealer in that part of the world during the 1920s. In 1913 he had come up with the snowmobile concept but it wasn’t until 1923 when he would actually try to make a go at marketing and selling them. The total sales number in ’23 was only 75 units but word spread and the reports we have read suggest that he churned out as many as 2,500 kits or complete cars per year for a sustained run after that. The kit could be had for $400 and the entire car could be had for $750. Obviously people living in rural areas were the primary customers and by all accounts these things worked great.

The asking price of nearly $90,000 on this example is indicative of the fact that these cars/trucks were largely used, abused, and scrapped for newer more suitable cars that didn’t have tracks of skis on them over the years. The one being sold below has been completely restored and looks as good as it did the day that Virgil White’s guys prepared it at White’s garage in 1923. Being that this is one of the true initial run cars, it has even more value.

Go ahead and try to tell us that this isn’t the neatest thing around! (Cold, slow, and uncomfortable but NEAT!)

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