Ford Model T - How to Start & How to Drive
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Update 10 Aug 2012:
My Model T has been fully restored, and I've just purchased a pair of carriage lights which the car was missing. Updated video to come.
Update:
"I MADE A MISTAKE!"
55psi only applies to clincher tyres on earlier Model T's. Since mine is a 1925 model and has split rims and balloon tyres, the correct tyre pressure is 35psi.
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I imported my 1925 Ford Model T from the USA, not far from Detroit, Michigan where it was built.
In this video I demonstrate the T's unusual controls and how they all work, I show you how to start a Model T, and I take you on a short drive at the end.
The Model T was manufactured between 1908 and 1927, and was know by various names including Tin Lizzie, Flivver, T‑Model Ford, or just 'T'.
The Model T set 1908 as the historic year that the automobile became popular. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to the common middle-class American; some of this was because of Ford's innovations, including assembly line production instead of individual hand crafting.
On May 26, 1927, Henry Ford watched the 15 millionth Model T Ford roll off the assembly line at his factory in Highland Park, Michigan. 
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Nice to know that 1.8 million people need help starting their 100 year old Ford.
Lol😂😂
Good one
1.9million
Darn Kids nowadays don't even know what a REAL car looks like. T-Ford was my first, and I'm still sorry that I had to sell it in the 20's .
Mister My husband built his own car from parts in junk yard bet you sure couldn’t oh and he’s now 101 years old and doing just fine 😁😇🙏gets around our home fine oh drives a T Bird now 😁bet you have a put put car enjoy 😊
Friend: “what car do you drive and what are the specs on it?”
Me: “1910 Model T 4-door, 2.9L 4cyl engine, 2spd trans, 20hp, 0-60 in 8 hours”
Squishy 0 to 60 in 8 hours lol
Don't get me wrong, but I think 0 to 60 in 8 hours, is too fast for that car.
8 hours if you even reach the downhill
My car: 1966 Alfa Romeo 8C Model Pizaa, 1.4L 1cyl engine, no gear, horse power= A 3 years old kids leg. 0-10, 2 years in downhills
Squishy u had me rolling when u said 0-60 in 8hrs 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"...then, I'm going to give it a Doug Score..."
It's a 10/10
But he's Australian, so it'll be a Bruce Score
@@jayzcoverz1809 - That's not how Doug Scores work LOL
Lmao
Doug is the type of guy to complain about the poor handling and bumpy ride of an 100 year old car
thanks my wife had difficulty starting ours now she can finally go to school by herself
Your wife is still in school? You sickfuck
A Fidelis maybe there young you sick fuck don’t jump into conclusions or they are old and re attending school idiot
shes a teacher
Everyone needs to calm down
@@afidelis7477 hahahahahahahha you're a idiot
My 95 yr old grandpa enjoyed this.
He was only 5 when it was built. But license not required...
He and my dad are about the same age. Dad restored some model T's in his day and I watched him start them. But I would have to view this video to see how. I was too young to do it then. He still has a '24 Willis Overland in the garage he restored about 30 years ago.
Well the t model was built until 1941
Z T Actually, the model T was manufactured until 1927.
@@busterthegreat1195 Replacement parts were manufactured until 1941- not everyone wanted to or could go out and buy a brand new Model A in 1928!
This 100 year old beast starts easier than my 2007 Saab...
now did you really think you would actually be able to start Saab easily!
ares9304 what kinda Saab u have?
Maybe you got a fuel injector problem? They do get clogged over use.
thats because its a saab
It still starts easier than my three years old bike lol, I dunno why is it so cold, I always have to use the choke lol
I don’t know why I’m watching how to start a model T at 3:00am
Error Error same here
Same
Chill I jus looked at the time and notixed it was 3:22 am 😭😭
Everything good happens at 3am
welcome to youtube
I don't even own a model T now, definitely never will, but I feel the need to watch this.
Luke Yeeterman I think most of us are in the same boat lol
Same
Luke Yeeterman literally nobody here does 😂😂😂
Same but its educational
I’m watching this and I’m 9 years old... so I definitely don’t own one.
You gotta wear one of those leather caps and goggles while driving this. Whenever you pass a pedestrian, just shout, "HELLO! I'm a motorist! This is my horseless carriage. Good day to you, madam!" Vroom!
... I would do that every day
lol...100 years too late on a bumper sticker idea...
Zero Horse Power!!...I'm a Motorist!!!
This knowledge will be quite useful, once I've finished my time machine.
You can get a Model T in good condition for less than $15,000 US. As classic cars go, they're fairly affordable.
Maddin1313, So you seem to be interested in time travel.
Well if you are serious about this, meet me *here* last Wednesday!
I have secured a time distortion module just before Tesla was killed. Meet me behind the 13th Blockbuster ever built, at this time now on a Friday post midnight, but no later than the first hand striking the second hour. It is imperative you bring your time machine or the module will be ineffective. Yes. Come alone. *sips tea while prepping the silencer*
Can you drop me off right around 1984ish 85ish?
Just to let you know that when you time travel back in time the Earth won't be at the position which it is now, because Earth is actually moving through a direction in the universe. Don't get yourself chocked with no-air dark space. lol
Can you imagine how cool dude was rolling up in his Model T 2.0 electric start?! Bloomer dropper for sure...
Electric starter aka bloomer delete kit.
Bloomer Remover. First use of the term "pimp ride".
Bloomer
😂
Is it just me or the background music gets you pumped up to watch vintage episodes of Tom and Jerry? 😂
And donald duck episode with goofy stranded in the desert 😂
Thank you for this video. I never learned this as a kid. (Was born in 38.) I knew an old guy who started one in the high mountains of Nevada, it ran over him and went into a deep canyon. He said " the hell with it" and walked away.
rf8driver underrated comment 😂😂
Me, an American, learning how to start an American car from an Australian. I love Australians
And politely to boot...
As an American, I sometimes don’t even hear the “accent”. Some pronunciations are the same as ours. Great video.
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Sounds like a kiwi to me NZ
I love kangaroos
I love kangaroos
Wonderful. I once parked next to a guy getting out of his Ford Model T in Falmouth, Massachusetts in a supermarket parking lot. We talked for a little while (he liked my 1984 Pontiac Sunbird, this was in 2014) and as he was getting ready to go into the supermarket, I noticed that he wasn't locking his door. I asked him if he was worried about someone stealing his car. He said that there were so many things to do to start the Model T, that he never worried about anyone stealing it! He didn't have time to show me the sequence, but now I know what he was talking about, thanks to your video.
At 2:30 AM
ME : It's time to sleep now.
RUclips : wait first look at how model T engine starts
🙄😒
only 1900s kids will remember!
DanReezY no the model was readily available to buy used as late as the 1950's. .so anyone born from the 30's '-40's could have had this as their 1'st car .
Hello kids ! Oups, sorry. HELLO KIDS !!!! (do you hear me ?)
I think if a young man in high school pulled up in one of these today he would pull chicks with it although it might be the quirky ones which is nice too. Inversely if a young lady in high school pulled up in one of these today the guys with any brains would be all over that like flys on (yeah).
Ya I remember and now I'm 119 yrs old
Gaming guru your comment is probably a joke but instead of ya, a 119 year old person would most likely use yeah or yes because yes is more polite
I remember my grandmother telling us how her brother got his arm broken while starting their Model T. Now I understand how that happened. OUCH!
Always keep your thumb on top of the crank.
My great grandmother rode horses until the 40s. We were poor out here in the Midwest
My grandpa told stories from his younger days down on the farm in S. Illinois when a family felt rich owning a Model T. He said the roads were terrible, but the Model T could handle bad roads. He said it'd take them 6 hours to get to St. Louis from 120 miles away.
He also would recall seeing people walk around with their wrists and thumbs wrapped in casts - everyone knew they mishandled the crank while starting the engine or forgot to retard the spark.
@ericl8743 the 40s is roughly when my family got our first car too, we lived nearby Johnstown Pennsylvania
But how about RS or ST versions?
sorry those are pretty much a sperm in it testicle motor
Theres non
icewallow cum is there actually non there is no way there isnt
Had to preorder a ‘32 V8 Model A
Model A guy here. The model T is definitely a different breed, even compared to the Model A. Thank you for the informative video. Although I am not a model T owner, I do love everything Henry built. Enjoy the ride, and cheers from America!
The year after my grandfather returned from France after fighting in the Great War he bought a used model T. I don't know the year. He drove it regularly until 1942 when he moved to the city to help build battleships. He sold his model T to his brother in law who also bought his farm. Sometime after WWII his brother in law took out the engine and mounted it in a stationary housing and used it to power various equipment on the farm as well as a generator. He in turn sold that farm around 1965. The person who bought the farm later broke up the property into smaller parcels and when they tore down the barn they found the model T engine still mounted and recently used. The model T engine was then sold to a museum who hired a mechanic to remount it back in a restored model T car which was then driven around to give children rides from around 1970 to about 1995. Last I heard from one of my cousins is that car is in another museum somewhere on Cape Cod with the hood open to expose the engine and you can still see my grandfather's initials carved into the engine block.
Meanwhile my other grandfather also bought a used model T as his first car around 1928. He was the first in his family to own an automobile. He traded that one in around 1946 for a 1939 Ford and in 1955 traded that one in for a 1949 Ford which is the car I remember him driving when I was a little kid in the 1960's. They seemed to last a long time in those days. Around 1970 he bought his first new Ford and then bought a new Taurus I think around 1985 or so. Those were his five cars.
My great grandmother was the first woman in her county to have a driver's license. She had an old Maxwell which she eventually traded in for a Ford. model T and then drove that until her death in 1948. I have a photograph of her from 1920 behind the wheel of her model T. It had a back seat and some sort of third seat because there are six women very fancy dressed with parasols and big fancy hats. They had just been in the parade for the 300th anniversary of the founding of Plymouth.
The model T was integral to the history of America in the first half of the twentieth century. Everyone had one or knew someone who did and it was the first car driven by most of the first generation who drove.
great story, thank you !!
nunya biznez I've been to Cape cod but didn't see it in live near it in fact
To bad RUclips fuckt with the comment. It ends where the engine is taken out :c I can only hope the T got a turbo and some big rims XD
see if you can find "more" on the comment, click on it to see the rest of it.
nunya biznez, Thank you so much for your awesome story of your family history! :)
I heard once that when the Model T salesmen went out to these small country farm towns to sell the Model T, they'd have to teach people how to drive. And when they did, when people wanted to slow down, instead of using their break, their first instinct was to yell "Whoa there" because they were so used to using horses. Lol.
Brake.
I saw the same documentary at school 🤔
It's actually true. And it's understandable. I think it's hard driving an automatic when I'v used to a manual, always hitting the brake thinking it's a clutch when I forget myself...it'd be 100% worse for people without any prior experience in driving. It's hard to think straight in a stressful situation, as I found out when I was about 16, trying to drive a standard, and ended up futilely pressing the clutch pedal trying to stop myself while rolling faster and faster backwards down the hill. I could think enough to try and drag my foot out the door, and I recall trying to put the car into first gear and start it, but I apparently never managed to think far enough that I was actually hitting the clutch pedal, not the brake, and that's why the car wasn't stopping (it eventually ended up deep in a snowbank, back first).
Well, I'm glad you're alright and all you hit was snow. That could've been much worse.
It is kind of understandable. I've never driven a horse and buggy so it seems odd to me but when you're used to one thing and you're learning something else it can get confusing.
I seem to remember this exact description in a John Steinbeck novel. “Cannery Row” maybe
Me:
RUclips: Wanna learn how to drive a Ford Model T?
Me: Sure, why not.
Thank you for this video. I was making a 3d model of the Model T, but had difficulty understanding the pedal layout and purpose of the lever, etc. This cleared that right up and I was able to get the internal wiring modeled to boot! Cheers from Detroit.
You guys are just getting the model T? Jesus.
Rick Sanchez old time tesla😂
Retromonous yea I agree. Running over chevys and dodges. My dads got an F-250 himself
Only 1925 kids will remember 😂😂😂😂
Yeah lol
The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Man, if you were a kid in 1908 and your old man tossed you the keys before church and said "get er started for us" you better have been paying attention. What a great video this is. Always have questions about stuff like this. Got a sub.
My mother told me that her father broke his wrist on one of these things once ; promptly traded it for a electric starter !! And as a sidebar note , my father in law used to deal in antique model Ts - even had customers in Australia . Thoroughly enjoyed this , thx for posting !
I think it's interesting. Makes us appreciate what we have today even more. I did get a huge kick out of how he kept saying, "very simple, really." I thought starting it was quite complicated compared to what we have now...
Where's the aux port?
blackopsfan00 Next to the Bluetooth connection.
blackopsfan00 there is no radio cars didn't have a radio until the Early 40s
Shaquan Branch
it's a joke dude
Shaquan Branch r/wooosh
next to the crank start.
My grandmother's family home was on Bagley Ave., nearby Mr. Ford's home and workshop. As my grandmother and her brother told the story to us grandkids, my grandmother and her brothers used to hang around Mr. Ford's shop out of curiosity. One day he was out back near his shop with a new invention, the quadricycle. He offered her a ride and she took him up on it. As she told it, they went about a block and returned. Much later my father would work for "Old Man Ford". I was born in Dearborn, just a few miles from the plant that made most of the T engines. One of my uncles had a keen interest in the model T and A cars and trucks. As a young man he would correspond with Mr. Ford about various manufacturing ideas, being a rising star at the American LaFrance heavy truck plant. My uncle would restore many Model T and A cars on his farm in New York. I was lucky enough to visit for a few summers and ride in all of these glorious vehicles. My favorite was one of the oldest T trucks made and at the time in the early 1960s still did duty as a farm truck. I believe your video is one of the best I have ever seen with just the right approach to explaining the T car. I hope you still have the car and are enjoying it.
+joesphx19 That is awesome.
joesphx19 dude no one is going to read your life story on the RUclips comment section of some weird video
However I do think I am related to “old man ford”
I just did....Just saying.
Well I read it and found it very interesting as was the video, if you find it so weird then why are you even watching let alone commenting. Go away if you have nothing nice to say.
Thank you for posting this video. Just picked up a 1928 Model T at an estate sale; winched it into a trailer. Now I know how it works as I continue to get the car ready to start and drive.
Thanks for the video. My dad drove one on the farm in the 1940s. The controls were basically the same as a farm tractor back then. Thanks again from the "Detroit area". Great video keep it up
Sooo, drunk driving wasn't much of a problem in those days.
No shit. Imagine any dipshit drunk being able to A. Start it, or B actually drive it with all the controls that needed to be adjusted just to get moving and stay moving lol.
You'll be sober by the time it takes to start the fucking thing, also, you'll stagger home faster than this thing drives.
Sirdiggar wouldn’t doubt it
I don't think they had cupholders then.
Drunk driving like drunk everything else was a problem (alcoholism was epic in that era!), and that car is no more complex, just different, than a manual transmission auto through the 1950s. People back then were not the scornworth helpless pampered naive silly anime-worshipping snowflake adult children of today and their normal tasks included caring for a horse and wagon (also more complex than auto ownership and as any horse owner knows requires a lot of work). The transition to automobiles was immensely popular because it made transportation SIMPLE.
Fords. 110 years old and still starts up first try like a charm
Justin LaFon stfu
What happened to modern fords 😭😭🤔🤔🤔
You mean unlike modern Ford's
While it may be true that the mighty 20hp engine usually turned over, that is if the crank did not snap your wrist. It is also true that Henry Ford did not equipt these cars with front brakes. Also Ford Motor Company paid out a sizable sum to the survivors of the easily ignited under the seat metal gas tank. The petcocks (to check the motor oil level) we're located under the car. Many a misfortunate owners legs were run over by passer by tyres. The only color was black, while the transmissions primitive operation caused the lubrication to become tainted quickly. The vehicles had a concrete stiff suspension that rode frightfully hard. The rubber sidewalls we're equally stiff and the steering required the wrist strength of an Olympic athlete. So yes, the cranky engines usually started after a few tries, bit most found horse drawn safer than horse less. Since l omitted 24 other safety issues, one can safely assume that model T we're just another highly flawed product that the corporate decievers created to make the creaters rich at the physical expense of the public.
Damian Furino Not bad for a first try
I've learned so much in a short period of time. Well done sir. If I ever come across one and someone asks " does anybody know how to start a Ford model T?", I DO!!! Thank you.
It’s honestly crazy how it’s still around ...I wish I could go back in time
Dude no Model T is complete without the classic AaaOOooGAaa horn!!
cowboy6591 I heard that in my head 😂😂😂😂 weird
Why did I make that perfect sound in my head
Ooooh... somebody stop me!
HERE IT IS : ruclips.net/video/Dqc6yRIHiW0/видео.html
im strapping one on my moped lol
I would like to personally congratulate the person who selected the music for this video...just absolutely perfect!!
Yes!
I knew a woman who was born in 1914, her first car was the family Model T which she used to drive to high school. Her dad made sure she was strong enough to repair and replace the inner tubes in the tires before he let her drive it. She remembered it quite fondly and said that the controls were closer to that of a tractor than a modern car.
USB Dock? Bluetooth? Cruise Control? Anything!
U have cruise control
Right lever man
Has engine and seat if that counts!
You have to get you a chauffeur that sings. 😉
AC, just be sure to keep the top down
That is the best tutorial I have ever seen about the Model T. I had always wanted to know how it all worked. I now know. Well done, sir. Well done.
Thank you.
Simple, cheap and reliable... The exact opposite of everything made today.
Wade Sirekis Are you serious?
@@inncc Simple in design, not necessarily in use.
Lmao, buy a Japanese car you’ll see how reliable cars these days
@@andyng1209 says a guy with a camaro name and image 😄
Tom Siem 😂😂😂LMAO
Good video mate! I always loved these old machines. Looks like she has a good home. Enjoy driving her.
I have to say, I love that you not only imported that car in Australia, but that you actually drive it.
This is the first video I've ever seen of someone hand cranking an engine PROPERLY. My grandfather always drove it into my head to never wrap your thumb around the crank handle. If it kicks back, it will break your thumb or wrist. Nice video.
...break thumb, wrist, arm, teeth or nose.
I wonder if he saw someone who was “cranky”
My Father and Grandfather sternly advised the same about never wrapping your thumb around the crank handle and using your left hand to start
If the engine has a spark retarder it will never kick back/ back fire
My grandfather oft repeated the same thing, although I was never in a position to start a Model T. When I lived in New Zealand, my only transportation was an old Yamaha 550G single-cylinder motorcycle. It had no compression-release. One day when I was visiting Auckland, it kicked back while I was kick-starting it, and threw me over the handebars. I limped for a long time, and now, decades later, my ankle is still sore. At 177 cubic inches displacement, a single cylinder in the in-line-4 Model T engine is nearly half-again bigger. I'm sure it could easily break your thumb or wrist!
Lovely car! Also I like that you are explaining it like everyone had a Ford T and you were giving instructions lol
Beautifully put mate.
I thought the same, i almost went outside to start....oh wait
Looks like it would make a great 2jz swap
Was thinking a 440 big block
Flathead
No
Great video! My grand daddy had one when I was little, but he warned about me about starting it; he told me if I wasn't careful, it'd bite me, lol. Wonderful video and a wonderful piece of living history
Basically a sports tractor.
Pretty much. At least as far as the column mounted throttle lever goes. This was common on farm tractors until recently.
Steve Reach thats exactly what I thought of.. like a hydrostatic
yes it's a cart which looks like a tractor but it's actually a car and great car it is
I find it quite unfair that I have two thumbs, yet RUclips only allows me to raise one for this comment.
hehe
What if the Check Engine light comes on? Where do I plug in my laptop?
As per the user manual, the suggestion is to plug the laptop right under the rear left hand side wheel and wait untill the car wheel is right on top of the laptop.
The user manual does explain another method "...stand firm, using right arm grab the usb connection and then proceed to insert usb cable up your *******..."
Are you stupid? Check engine lights, OR laptops, did not exist in 1908, nor did cellphones, shockingly enough.. catch up with yer fuckin' history, idiot.
In the fuel tank with a match
I can't believe I have to actually say this, but he was using sarcasm. It's a literary tool. You might want to look it up sometime.
I'm AMAZED how many details there are for starting & running a Model T. My hats off for all the millions who owned & used these first cars by Ford.
Where was this video when I needed it 100 years ago.
Were in 2019, this dude in 1919.
2020 though
me series 1920 tho
2030
@@uva999 r/wooosh
I´m from Mérida Yucatán México and when I was young ( 71 yesterday ) there were many trucks of this very same model. Myself I learned to drive on a model A which my father had to sell and up to this date I miss that car, they were so cheap at the end of the 50´s, nobody wanted one. Nowadays you can not get one unless you have around 30 thousand US Dlls or more and this is if you can find one. I love them. Pancho Villa was shot dead in one of this. Thanks for this video.
Hi, if you give me some basic search criteria, i'll have a look for a Model A.
I worked as a service writer in Southern California in the mid-late 1990s. At trade shows of the time, Ford gave away copies of the owner's manual of the Model T. They were a fun read at the time (you have to lubricate the car where again, and how often?) but those OG manuals did not make clear what actually starting and running one of these involved, at all. I think the oldest car our garage ever saw was a '34 Ford. In later years, at a car show, I saw an oil-soaked all original original barn find Model T that had never been restored through the early 2000s. Amazingly, it start and ran despite who knows how many decades of countless neglect. I'm sure it bled oil freely. Thank you for making clear what start these cars actually involved, and from half the world away, much less. Your love shows and is appreciated. - Sincerely, a service writer who saw an amazingly thoroughly grenaded 1961 Studebaker pickup truck.
Welcome to another episode of :
Why is this video released in 2011 and it's only now showing up in my recomandations ?
Because ford Model T
Yes.
Because Ford Model T.
Because it came from future
My mother (born in 1914) learned to drive in one of these. She tried to explain to me how to drive the model T. Thanks to this video, I think I could get one rolling.
Tad Barnaby Say, my maternal great-grandmother was born in 1914 also! She was such a sweetheart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) A real peach! I loved her so much!
This was a great video. Its rare that I'll watch a whole video without skipping through. Great Work!
Thanks for the positive comment Stephen :)
***** Such a Great Pice of Art On Weels
Btw. Thank You Sir For Vid's
And Have A Good One;-)
I Wish I could turn buck time... and just bought brand new
Model T & Model A
***** Yeah I dont understand cars that much and I obivously dont have a Model T but I watched whole video too :D. It was awesome. Your voice is great !
Can't get over how convenient that Electric starter is!
Great job! Loved the video.
100 years from now, these kind of videos will be about cars of today.
“They actually burned fuel from fossils, and they thought it was gonna last forever”
How to drive a car
How to drive a manual transmission...... oh wait some people actually are searching for that in this year still.
back in my day, we didn't have self-driving cars, i had to drive myself to school. in the snow, in July, uphill, both ways.
and we couldn't just say "Alexa, start the car". i had to go outside and turn a key.
Cars from today would never last 100 years.
1,000,000+ ... ONE MILLION VIEWS on my First Model T Video, thankyou so much to all my subscribers and to everyone else who has viewed this video, I couldn't have foreseen this outcome, it's blown me away... Thankyou so much too all of you from the bottom of my heart :)
Thank you for this very informative video! Greetings from Indonesia.
G'day from Canada, eh.
It was a really interesting video Mitch. Thanks for sharing mate!
Simple, yet elegant engineering for the day. I want one.
Great video
Three days ago I saw a Model T on the road and wondered about this very subject. Opened a youtube browser today and saw this. Karma.
One of your audio channels is inverted though... the waveform is upside down.
I'm 41 and my father was born in 1913. He had kids late. Anyway, I've always wondered how you start a model t. Now I know. Thank you.
Your dad must have been 65/66 when you were born, respect to him don't think I'd want kids around in my retirement years.
@@armchairgeneralissimo he died in 91 so I never got to really know him as I grew up. I consider anyone who had a father who was alive beyond their childhood very lucky.
@@eleventeenmachine5991 That's sad I kind of feel you my parents seperated when I was 4 and the last time I saw my father was when I was 6. Not as bad as what happened with you since I really did not know my father so didn't have the heart break of him leaving.
Mitch, thanks so much for making this video. Historical videos are always interesting but they usually deal with big issues. Seeing what it took to operate a model T is something I've never seen before. It was great. Thanks again.
Ford's top electrical engineer, a guy named Kettering, had a friend who died trying to start a Model T. The engine backfired during cranking and broke his jaw, which then became infected. The infection ultimately killed the guy. Kettering then vowed to develope an electric motor that would spin an engine fast enough to start it. It had been thought previously that an electric motor with such capability would have to be as large as the engine itself, but Kettering utilized his own type of miniturization and came up with a workable starting motor for the Model A. Hats off to Henry F. AND Mr. Kettering!
Now a days people are confused at even the sight of a clutch pedal.
oddball0045 Especially some bus drivers I used to know - never bothered with the clutch at all! haha
+oddball0045
I like 4 on the floor. More control on the curves.
+oddball0045 in europe all know how to use the clutch!
This actually looks simpler than a standard transmission to be honest.
@KE5WL To push all three, you either need big feet or a big .... never mind.
What a great video! Never knew all that about the ford model T - and Im supposed to be a huge car enthusiast! lol
I rode in an early 20s Model T hard top, cant remember if it was the center door version or not, but I remember getting close to 30 or 35 mph was scary and thrilling and was probably maxed out around 35 or 40. What a fun ride. I hope these cars can stick around for another 100 plus years.
I liked this, have always been curious about this automobile. My father, born in 1903, had a model T as his first car, also true of my Uncle Carl Cullers. Thank you for sharing.
That doesn't sound right
@@JarmalK what doesnt sound right ? the 1903 ? its completely possible. I was born in 1965 and my Dad was born in 1920. He was 45 when I was born. So, a guy born in about 1945 could have a Dad born in 1900.
Mitch, I have been restoring cars (chevy's) for 40 yrs and I never knew how to start a model T. Thanks your video is SUPERB.Guess you had to hold camera upside down so I could view it right here in the states! ha!
I purchase a 24 TT about a month ago. I had a friend who has 3 Ts, educate me on driving. Your video was spot on very educational. These Ts are addicting once you learn how to drive.
Welcome aboard!
Who's watching this during quaranteen? This is one of my fauvorites RUclips videos, I think it's the third time watching it. Very well explained, well edited, etc. Thanks for this, I'd love to own a T one day. Greetings from Chile.
I'll never take the modern starter motor for granted ever again.
Yeah! *Proceeds to take every other innovation for granted.*
Mitch, I can't tell you how much i enjoyed your video. I thought after your opening sequence i almost expected a television show to start!! Exceptional. Such a simple yet elegant design and immensely reliable which is a lot more than I can say about modern cars. Keep up the good work Mitch, and thanks again.
Thanks so much for your positive comment, may I reproduce it on the website? Just need to know what city you're from if thats ok :)
***** G'day mate! I reign from NYC, USA. Actually about 35 US miles north of this great city.
***** I'm not exactly sure what you mean by reproducing it on a web site means, but it would put a lot of amateurs to shame lol
Just means, is it OK for me to publish your RUclips comment on the testimonials page on my website :)
Mitch Taylor I'd be honored my friend. yes
Very interesting and well made video!! Being a "car guy" I'm ashamed to say I didn't know just how different the Model T was to the 1950's - 70's cars I'm into. Great video!!
I got the chance to drive a model T in a parade years ago. After two hours practice I was ready to go, but have to say it was a ton of work, and thank heavens for the model A, or I'm not sure cars would have caught on😅 much easier sticking with horses. You'd finally get it up two speed, but then see a stop sign and the 8 step procedure for accelerating would now start in reverse. Lots of fun, but I wouldn't want to be in heavy traffic.
Very Nice!
I grew up with my uncle's 1915 'T' Roadster (last brass radiator year) that was basically an early hot-rod... Frontenac overhead-valve head on the engine for power, a 3-speed "brownie box" behind the transmission for speed, AND a 2-speed Ruckstell rear-end to climb the very steep San Rafael Hill. He used to claim the car could go 70 mph, but he never went over 50 because of the wooden wheels... (he had a speedometer that ran off of the right-front wheel.) Come to think of it, he had a lot of aftermarket goodies: A hand-plunger Ooga-horn, two-tone paint, the obligatory radiator cap with the thermometer in it, picnic-basket carrier on the drivers running board, and even a brilliant-sounding brass bell with a plunger on the floor right where Mitch's starter-button is.) Sighhhhhhh
Those overhead valve conversions are really rare and valuable today!
That was an extraordinary video. You gave everyone real insight into the Model T and took the time to do the things that most people want to see. Your Model T runs fantastic, it sounds strong and smooth. You took the time to show us how to actually do everything necessary to start and drive the car without being boring. Thanks for a job well done. Oh yeah, I had to edit this post just to tell you that the music you chose really was the icing on the cake !!!!!
My grandpa told me how these things operated about 35 years ago. Cool to actually see the process now. Thanks!
Fascinating video, and very well produced. I have seen several Model T’s and always wondered how the controls worked. Thank you!
Mitch, I'm not from Australia "mate," but I sure loved your show! I am 57 now and my father was born in 1921. He would tell me that certain precautions needed to be taken while hand-cranking a Model T. Namely, that the thumb of the hand is kept next to the index finger knuckle. In other words, you would not grasp the crank handle as you would the handlebar of a motorbike or a bicycle. Failure to correctly close the thumb could result in one's inability to remove his grip from a wild-flying crank handle. He made it clear that back in those days, one could be injured while cranking an old Model T! I have a photograph of my grandfather's family seen proudly with a Model "A" Ford that he owned.
Sure took a long time to ship that car to Australia!
Greg Sines that happens when you send something to a place that doesn't exist.
Well them sailing boats took years to first of all discover the place before they could take a car there. Then no one could think of a reason why you would want a car when there was no petrol to run it on. Exactly like electric cars today. Where are we going to get all the electric from when we cannot even supply current demand? . . . . current . . . . get it? :)
And they can ship it back
Go Holden
@@crowiecrowbar1986 lol, thx to this car and the man behind it you can own your American copies
@@aharcourt3137 🙄🙄🙄
Howdy Mitch Taylor from the U.S.A.I especially enjoyed watching your video of the basics of starting and using the correct pedals.My dad owned a 1922 MODEL T FORD COUPE and my parents moved from northwest Iowa to Grand Rapids.Michigan in 1925 and in that car with all their belongings were 4 adults and my 3 brothers and sister! As you know this car was very small and with a top speed of 34 M.P.H on good roads and 653 miles my brothers may have been one of the first who asked their mom more than once."Are we there yet"
*"But how do you turn on the lights???"*
With a match.
@@John_Fx In this model t they're clearly electric bulbs.
On the battery and magneto switch. Its Dim or a separate lever thats under the choke primer.
@@Woagoo omg thank you so much. I was really curious about it since It wasn't mentioned in this video...
@@enzoperruccio No problem glad to help, however i dont know what the difference is between the 2 options because i have a 1918 with the Dim on the magneto switch, but maybe older or newer models have the separate switch.
I'm turning 18 next month, and even though I'm all for electric, I can't help but admire this piece of genius innovation. Thanks for the video.
Electric cars are not very price-friendly. Wait until 10-20 more years to get a cheap electric car
@@darnit1944 what about the model 3?
@@hayesmurphree2603 Oh wait, im living in a country where the currency is not very strong. In here, new cheap cars cost like $8000+
So a $35.000 like model 3 seems like a car for the higher class to us.
Not to mention lack of charging stations.
Go figure, In order to get the best tutorial on a car built a couple hundred miles from my home I gotta tune into someone down under :)
Thanks for sharing -- I've seen a lot of these cars at shows and have never had someone explain so much so clearly.
As a car guy myself, and seeing these at cruise ins and shows all the time, I never actually knew all the details of these model Ts. Thank you for the cool video.
Not many people would have ever known how to start one in today's age, pretty cool video. It was a privelage to own a vehicle back in early 1900s.
My mom b:1915, remember her dad having to back up hills when the gas was too low in the tank.
My mom was born 1921, and her dad had to do the same thing. One thing he did, though, and you'll probably never see it done again; when the Willamette River froze over during the winters in Portland, OR, he would remove the front tires and install sled-type runners. Then he would drive across the river without going over a bridge. My mom and her siblings would enjoy themselves driving up and down the river until it was time to go home, mother having done her shopping, and time to get dinner started. That sounded like fun in those days.
Just goes to show how gearbox oil level checking should be easier than it is today. Checking the manual transmission oil on some cars even today, you have to use the same method the Model T does for checking engine oil. If oil drips from the fill hole of your manual transmission of a modern car, it's full.
08 Mustang GT. To check the lube in a manual transmission GT you unscrew the plug and if no oil runs out, stick a finger in the hole. If it comes out wet with oil you're generally OK to go.
Very good video! When I was 14 in Jr High I had an English teacher Mr Clardy he had an old Model T one day after school he let me drive it but I'd sorta forgotten how it all worked. Thanks for posting this.
Thoroughly enjoyed the video. I always assumed that starting and driving a model T would be similar to modern cars, just with less electronics. Wow, was I wrong. I’ve just been educated. Thanks so much.
Glad you enjoyed it! 😀
500,000+ views on the Model T video! I blinked and missed it :) I can't thank everyone enough for all the support :) Please keep it coming, please like, subscribe and share!
Mitch Taylor today on Mighty Car Mods , we are going to swap in a Twin turbo EJ20 engine from a Subaru on to this Maaaaaaaaaad! Ford model T....
11:31 this is how the Engine Start/Stop button worked 100 years back
Well done ,very interesting, your particular car has the look of not being heavy-handed, restorativly speaking, which is refreshing.
My dad and rode in one of those when I was a boy of 7 yrs. wonderful memories. Thanks!!!
250,000 Visitors to the Model T video! I think this calls for a celebration :)
***** Almost 500k now :)
+Mitch Taylor (PremiereDirector)
433,200th viewer =)
+Robin Degen top speed? lol
+Mitch Taylor (PremiereDirector) wait the fuel tank is under the seat its a ticking time bomb I wouldn't be caught dead in that thing
+Logan Dorsey >> If you were dead, why would you care? You wouldn't even know you were caught.
Note that it really is important to put the handbrake on. If the transmission is worn, or it it's cold and the fabric clutch bands are stiff, the car will start to move forwards as soon as the engine starts up. If you start it with the car in gear, it will lunge forward and run you over as soon as the engine fires. That's one reason the handbrake and clutch are made as one unit! Of course you'd have to roll the car forward slightly with your own starting crank, since in that case the engine would be engaged to the driveshaft, but I think you wouldn't notice quick enough to prevent the engine from firing and driving itself forward.
Anyway, yes, the whole "start it up and run around and jump in before it drive too far away" technique was well known in colder climates, although most cars were put away in the barns for the winter back then, since the roads weren't plowed anyway. If you were smart you had someone crank it for you while you held a foot on the brake (which only worked on the rear wheels and were 100% mechanical, BTW). And it wasn't just people who lived in cold areas; most drivers had to deal with running around to advance the spark, because the engine would run very roughly until the spark was advanced, and would often stall if you didn't get to the lever fast enough, so you'd have to start over again!
All I can say is that although it sounds like an enormous amount of work to us now, it's still far simpler than owning and driving a team of horses (although there were those who rightly debated this, since BOTH were terrible pains). Horses have to be fed, cleaned, exercised, kept in health, stalls mucked out and cleaned. They have to be trained, and there are all sorts of personalities, some good, some bad, some lazy, some willing. To go out you have to get up and fed and brush the horses, and then put harnesses on them, which most modern people would find a baffling and frustrating job, involving dozens of strange straps and buckles and hooks. Then you've got to get them to back together to the tongue of the cart, and hitch it to them. Then while driving, you'll only go as fast as you can get them to go, and they'll only go where you can make them go...if they really want to go somewhere else, goo luck stopping them! They also get hungry and like to stop and snack on grass if you let them. They also get distracted by mares/stallions along the way, and fight with other horses. And if something startles them and they decide to run away at high speed, there is literally nothing you can do expect jump off or hold on and wait for them to stop. Carriage accidents were not rare, and were no joke. Horses also kick with deadly results, and I know a man who lost his ear to a horsebite. Once you arrive you can't just park horses beside the street and leave them for 4 hours, you need to stable and feed them, and wipe the sweat off them and cover them with blankets if it's cold (and I'll mention that there are NO heaters in horse-drawn vehicles, and you don't know cold until you've ridden 5 hours in 20deg F weather, or worse, sitting still on a moving vehicle.
I love horses, and wouldn't mind using them for transport from time to time. I think if everyone was forced to go back to carriages tomorrow, I'd be content enough. But even a Model T seems like a miracle of convenience compared to horses! Same thing with tractors and ox teams.
Thank you for the commentary. Next question, why do people think there is no God?
Kel Harper Terrific response. Thing is,if people treated horses the same way they treat cars,they would kill the horses. It has been that way for decades. Equines as you say require daily maintenance whether used or not. Vehicles nowadays require enormously less than even 15 years ago,but still. Points and condenser era vehicles benefited enormously from being tinkered with minimum every three months,and lasted longer yet if that was halved. Adjusting a distributor by ear was something older mechanics could do that I could not. Late sixties several models had ball joints without grease nipples that promptly required grease. Big flop. There were others. Each era has its own attitudes to transportation I guess.
Kel Harper Enjoyed your thoughtful insights.
Thank you for sharing. Growing up my family would visit a ranch in the middle of nowhere with a horse stable and I would always be nervous getting close to the horses because of their size and strength, even though they were used to people.
Kel Harper - you wrote more than 3 sentences. I can’t read that much
“Now starting the model T it’s fairly simple”
Me to my mom: “Ma I broke my wrist trying to start my car.”
Published in 2011. Doesn't get it recommended by RUclips's algorithm until 2020.
Great video too! I've always been told compared to a model A the model T was hard to drive. Doesn't look much more complicated, just a different set of controls.