flashback 1929.....
 

So I'm in Tennesee this week (Chatanooga) and I hear this thing pull up at the hotel, no mistaking the sound of the 1929 Ford pulling up. Peeked out my window and saw this original bone stock Ford parked below my room. Chatted with the guy and his wife and they just drove down from Kentuckey on their way to Georgia. They are with 5 other restoration Fords that (gasp) actually drive to their get togeathers. Really great folks and some really gutsy people too. Here's a couple pics.

Those things are great. High on my list of "cars I will own in the next 10-15 yrs".

3 years shy of the flatty V8. Cool to drive the old iron but they really are crude autos...

Yep, tractors with a windshield. Cool cars.

Was the yellow one from Nashville? There is a guy here with a 928 and an old Ford like that one. I can't remember if it has red wheels or not.

its the ying to Porsche yang....Rugged simple interseting and slow. my father's retirement fun has been to drive a 31 model A around the country... From Maryland he has been as far as Nova Scotia, Green Bay, Shreevport, Georgia and aside from an alternator and electronic "points" its all stock... If your not pressed for time it can be interesting.

The key to Cross Country trips with cars like these is to prep the car, prepare for the worst and travel in packs...and map your national clubs' members along your route.

Sounds like good advice for a 944 owner.......

I had a physics professor in college with a Model T. He could turn it off and use the compression in a cylinder and start the motor with a spark. He said as long as it was only several hours and the compressed mixture has not leaked down, he did not need to use the crank.

I cannot imagine fighting traffic in one around here though.

My grandfather had a 1928 Dodge Bros. Victory Six Business Coupe. He collected cars from the 20's to the late 60's. When he passed a number of years ago, I was given the car. This car was one of the last built before Chrysler bought the company.

Its a classic.

I'll take some photos of it and post them. Below is an advertisement for a 1928 Dodge, except Grandad's had a shorter wheelbase, looked better and was a two seater.

The Dodge Bros. were suppliers of Ford. One of the few companies that Henry used. Mostly everything on the Model T was made by Ford, including the steel and glass for the cars.

After a number of years the Dodge Bros. discovered that they were making better quality components than Ford and could make more money building thier own car. So, they did. Ford sued them, but lost because there was nothing that prevented them of doing it. Thus, the beginnings of the Non-Compete Agreement.

Its slow, but challenging. It has non-sycromesh in the trans. It is literally grind'em til you find'em. One has to double clutch just to shift any gear. One must understand how it works to drive it. Cool stuff.

Cool. The ad says it has unibody construction. If true, it had to be one of the first cars to use unibody.