The newest Model T Ford is over 90 years old. The oldest ones are over 110 years old. Think about that for a moment…Henry Ford’s machine for the masses isn’t automotive Genesis, but it is the moment where the automobile became more than a trinket for the rich. A century has passed by since then. The horse has moved from beast of burden to a specialty creature. Wagons and carts are now something you tow behind a lawn mower. Roads are somewhere between “silky smooth” and “better than nothing”, instead of being dirt tracks, cobblestones, or brick pathways. And Model Ts have gone every which way, from the bare-frame racers of the Pig N’ Ford races to the Bucket T craze and so on and so forth. But a real, unaltered, original, as stock as it could possibly be Model T? That’s a damn rare sight, indeed.
Cold War Motors has been tinkering with this beauty, which had been socked away since the 1940s in a barn. In Canada, that’s a jaw-dropper…this car not only survived time, but it also survived just about anything else Saskatchewan could throw at it over the course of time without so much as a seriously bent panel. The four-cylinder remains. The radiator remains. The need to learn how to drive the Model T as intended remains. Modification works on many levels, but seeing a vehicle a century removed from our normal still toddling around in the grass like it did back then is just too cool for words.
