People forget when they see 'old cars' cruising along slowly on paved streets and highways, that these cars were designed to go down dirt roads and farm tracks and through deep mud in places where there would be no assistance if you got stuck. They're not fast, but still damn capable at what they were designed for.
Actually they were fast, but I'm surprised you just have a sixth sense that they weren't by your never researched information. Make sure you tell future generations their car history. We depend on you, and do it correctly. And do keep in mind the 390 car makes in America in 1910.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar They weren't fast, even at the time there were cars that would do double the top speed of these. Top speed of a T is barely over 40mph, but it would do that regardless of conditions.
@@PiDsPagePrototypes Why, everyone makes everything to do with the 1910s and 1920s only about the Model T. It's a hog of the era, and is one of the worst looking vehicles, poorly built, and made in excess to make a message of expense via quantity over expensive quality. No one ever learns about anything else because of the Ford impression and so people mention this vehicle like it's the only one.
My grandfather drove a model T across the Ohio river. Before the river was dammed and dredged summertime usually meant low water for a month or two. It was normal from what I've been told.
Not surprising, really. Plenty of ground clearance; tall, skinny tires that cut through the water and don’t “float”; a low hp engine that happily chugs along at low rpm; and an air intake that’s much higher than most modern cars. Great to see!
Back in maybe early 1990s I encountered a group of men over several days in Death Valley who were reenactors…they were all in campaign-type gear (think WW1 uniforms with smokey bear hats), had vintage camping gear including big canvas military tents with pot belly stoves, carried water in canvas bags, and they were traversing the desert in several Model Ts…all were Fords and they had open touring cars like this, some flatbed trucks and an estate wagon too. They had numerous spare wheels (wood spokes) loaded on the trucks too. They were doing some incredible off-roading in their Ts and their camp set-ups were a marvel.
This is what a Model T does well. What modern cars do well that a T doesn’t do well is run faster than 40mph and shelter the occupants from heat and cold. I had a T in the past. It was fun, but a toy in today’s world.
And it slashes your throat when you go through the windshield, and douses you with gasoline when the fuel tank under your seat ruptures, and is dangerously difficult to drive, and can drive away on it's own if you fall out, and if it's an early model it can't stop. But hey you can take the engine out and use it as a stationary engine, that was a nice feature that saw tons of use.
@@1marcelfilms Tops and side curtains were available, so I suppose T’s were no worse for weather protection than the horse drawn vehicles that people were used to. I’ll take a modern car, thanks.
@@russetwolf13"Difficult to drive" That's because you've been sheltered with cars with power steering, automatic gearboxes, traction control, ABS and stuff like that.
For extreme winter conditions they also made tracks that could go on the drive wheels and skis for the front. They can literally go places that no modern road vehicle can. These cars were also extraordinarily affordable by average working people, by 1924 the price had gone from $800 down to $260 for a new Model T. Yes modern vehicles are awesome but almost no one appreciates the incredible capabilities of these early cars.
So my family has had a 1923 model T in the family for close to 80 years. We live on an island. Sometimes that island would get flooded at the narrow point and my dad would often go around our side of the island and pick upladies to take them across the flooded area in the model T to the store and back. It was the only vehicle tall enough to be able to go through the water without damage. He did that for quite a few years when I was a kid before they rebuilt the wall that stopped the yearly flooding.
In 1914, cars were built much higher off the ground, than today's cars, so the tailpipe would have less chance of flooding! You could get under the car, without it having to be 'jacked up!
Very good, I love it. My Grandad told me when the model T ford first came out it had a design flaw where it could not go up hills because the gravity fed fuel from the tank, the tank wasn't high up enough so when it went to drive up a hill the fuel could not get to the carburettor and would quickly stall. I don't know if this is 100% true as my grandad did sometimes like to tell a story, if you know what I mean. I did think this was possible though. Any Model T ford enthusiasts out there to verify this?
@@crazyburkey3677 Kits? No, most vehicles were built completely different, usually following a similar concept but very different gearing system, technology, and overall moral compass as it were. These were not infact random put together cars that everyone's brother and uncle were creating.
That was only true if you were "LOW" on fuel. As long as you had enough fuel to cover the intake line of the fuel line in the bottom of the tank, it was not a problem. Strange how stories get changed over the years. 🤪 .
They say, as a public safety message, to "never attempt to ford water that's deeper than the height of your axle"... Ofc this has like something like 30" wheels on it and a couple feet of ground clearance. If it was in production today, they'd call it a "crossover" SUV.
Correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't it have the intake+carburetor mounted in a low position? I cannot tell if the water is deep enough to reach it, and of course the model t has a lot of ground clearance, but deeper water might do it. Unless it has a snorkel 🤣
Here’s a little foot note to add to the model T in itself is an antitheft device because majority people can’t even drive the vehicle because it’s so far different from a modern vehicle.😂😂😂
I think it's all down to where the air intake is.. older cars had the air filter on top of the engine but modern cars have the air intake low down for some reason so the water doesn't have to be very deep for a modern car to injest water and hydrolock the engine.. plus there's complicated electronics that don't like water much as well
Show me ANY car built in the last thirty years that will still be running at a hundred years old! Cars are built to wear out fast! Why are there so many recalls in the auto industry? Because there's never time to do it right but there's always time to do it over!
I mean if you put it in a garage and barely drive it, a lot will still run in 100 years. EV's will easily run in 100 years. Hell with the current batteries going in them you may be lucky enough for the OEM battery to still work in 100 years.
I was referring solely to the model T, there were many other automobile companies back before the big 4, later big 3, took over the other smaller companies
crazy idea, let us build one or better still create kits to convert our cars into one - road clearance, remove electroninc, protect the ignition coil....
Old cars like that where built during a time when most roads where still dirt and didn’t have good quality so they had to make old cars as tough as possible. They don’t built cars capable of stuff like that anymore unfortunately because most roads are paved and even the dirt ones are more maintained then back in the day. I wish cars where still made to be able to withstand water like that would make flood season much easier.
@Average Reviews I wasn’t back peddling , do you work in the motor trade? It surprises me about the problems you hear about with modern cars , it does make me wonder . How an older car works so well ? Obviously not having fitted with a starter motor . But it’s still basic engineering at its best . Maybe we can agree to disagree on this subject ?
this video along with the chitty chitty bang bang theme song would be terrific!
You’re right!
Cmon, look at the lift on that thing!
Still a lot better looking than a Cybertruck, so there is that :P
When this was built 110 years ago even if you drove on the roads you were still off roading.
People forget when they see 'old cars' cruising along slowly on paved streets and highways, that these cars were designed to go down dirt roads and farm tracks and through deep mud in places where there would be no assistance if you got stuck.
They're not fast, but still damn capable at what they were designed for.
Actually they were fast, but I'm surprised you just have a sixth sense that they weren't by your never researched information. Make sure you tell future generations their car history. We depend on you, and do it correctly.
And do keep in mind the 390 car makes in America in 1910.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar They weren't fast, even at the time there were cars that would do double the top speed of these. Top speed of a T is barely over 40mph, but it would do that regardless of conditions.
@@PiDsPagePrototypes Yes but these weren't, the only thing on the road either. Remotely.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar whatever... video is about a Model T, stop trying to make the comments about anything other then a Model T.
@@PiDsPagePrototypes Why, everyone makes everything to do with the 1910s and 1920s only about the Model T. It's a hog of the era, and is one of the worst looking vehicles, poorly built, and made in excess to make a message of expense via quantity over expensive quality. No one ever learns about anything else because of the Ford impression and so people mention this vehicle like it's the only one.
My grandfather drove a model T across the Ohio river. Before the river was dammed and dredged summertime usually meant low water for a month or two. It was normal from what I've been told.
they hadn't invented stalling in floods yet in 1914. They were lucky just to have working gravity and inertia on those older cars.
They don't program them like they used to
yeah stalling in floods was invented in the great war and it took some time to get to america
Talking about gravity, you’d sometimes have to back up hills to keep gas flowing to the engine.
Hahaha, ohhh god do you know nothing.
I know my dad has a hand pump on his '24 Speedster. Its just for looks, since my grandfather had an electric fuel pump installed.@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar
Not surprising, really. Plenty of ground clearance; tall, skinny tires that cut through the water and don’t “float”; a low hp engine that happily chugs along at low rpm; and an air intake that’s much higher than most modern cars. Great to see!
I was 75 when this car came out. God I feel old.
Your 184 years old I’m guessing 😂
@@thetallweatherman2246 aye 👍
@@thetallweatherman2246 I must be
Mr. Burns! I see you've discovered the TH-cam sensation! Isn't it grand?
@@aleddavies770 They say the first hundred years are the slowest. Where does the time go?
Perfect unity of function and form. Stylish and distinct yet you can rely on it for hard work
Does make you wonder how a car that’s 110 years old can do something that modern car will struggle to do . They don’t make them like this anymore.
Because that's the conditions it was made for
Proper engineering at its best
Thank god
Model T should be considered a SUV at today's view.
Airbox location, ground clearance and thin wheels.
Wow, this car is now 110 years old! And yet it looks so much better than todays cars.
Bean counters had no say back in the day 😂
Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.
Hehe, noice! Of curse the model T was partly designed with farmers in mind, 😉
Back in maybe early 1990s I encountered a group of men over several days in Death Valley who were reenactors…they were all in campaign-type gear (think WW1 uniforms with smokey bear hats), had vintage camping gear including big canvas military tents with pot belly stoves, carried water in canvas bags, and they were traversing the desert in several Model Ts…all were Fords and they had open touring cars like this, some flatbed trucks and an estate wagon too. They had numerous spare wheels (wood spokes) loaded on the trucks too. They were doing some incredible off-roading in their Ts and their camp set-ups were a marvel.
Great story ! It just shows how reliable and useful the Model T even is today with it’s reliability and ease to repair.
Still one of the best ❤
This is what a Model T does well. What modern cars do well that a T doesn’t do well is run faster than 40mph and shelter the occupants from heat and cold. I had a T in the past. It was fun, but a toy in today’s world.
And it slashes your throat when you go through the windshield, and douses you with gasoline when the fuel tank under your seat ruptures, and is dangerously difficult to drive, and can drive away on it's own if you fall out, and if it's an early model it can't stop.
But hey you can take the engine out and use it as a stationary engine, that was a nice feature that saw tons of use.
Its like a convertible but worse.
So only for nice days and around town.
@@1marcelfilms Tops and side curtains were available, so I suppose T’s were no worse for weather protection than the horse drawn vehicles that people were used to. I’ll take a modern car, thanks.
@@russetwolf13"Difficult to drive"
That's because you've been sheltered with cars with power steering, automatic gearboxes, traction control, ABS and stuff like that.
That’s why the smart ones drop in V8s, upgrade the suspension by adding disc brakes, 9 inch diffs, coil overs and shocks.
That's one beautiful little pony y'all have there 😎👍
great seeing the model t is still as versatile as ever
For extreme winter conditions they also made tracks that could go on the drive wheels and skis for the front. They can literally go places that no modern road vehicle can.
These cars were also extraordinarily affordable by average working people, by 1924 the price had gone from $800 down to $260 for a new Model T.
Yes modern vehicles are awesome but almost no one appreciates the incredible capabilities of these early cars.
1914 Model T 2WD: “no road, no problem”
2000-present ford pickups W/4WD: “this water is too high! We can only cross water that is 1 Inch deep!”
Might get water in the $5600 tail light, which is by itself an electronic communication module, that will eventually blue screen the whole truck.
@@dougfisher1813😂😂😂
I love it !!!
Yet it still runs. Nice.
Doing what BMW’s can’t 😂😂
Old engineering at it’s best !
So my family has had a 1923 model T in the family for close to 80 years. We live on an island. Sometimes that island would get flooded at the narrow point and my dad would often go around our side of the island and pick upladies to take them across the flooded area in the model T to the store and back. It was the only vehicle tall enough to be able to go through the water without damage. He did that for quite a few years when I was a kid before they rebuilt the wall that stopped the yearly flooding.
What a lovely story to tell ! What island was it ?
Those skinny wheels with the heavy weight of the car is almost unstoppable. Good luck starting it though.
Good work, ol' sport!
WOW 😲😲😲❤❤❤
How AWESOME is that?! Cut straight through with NO PROBLEM!! 😆🔥👍🏾😎
In 1914, cars were built much higher off the ground, than today's cars, so the tailpipe would have less
chance of flooding! You could get under the car, without it having to be 'jacked up!
He knew what he was building.
Nice
so good
Look at the ground clearance on that sucker.
Modern cars: "Oh no!!! How will i EVER get across this oversized puddle without stalling!?!?"
Model T: *Insert Dr.livesly theme here*
Very good, I love it. My Grandad told me when the model T ford first came out it had a design flaw where it could not go up hills because the gravity fed fuel from the tank, the tank wasn't high up enough so when it went to drive up a hill the fuel could not get to the carburettor and would quickly stall. I don't know if this is 100% true as my grandad did sometimes like to tell a story, if you know what I mean. I did think this was possible though. Any Model T ford enthusiasts out there to verify this?
You are correct, from what I've ever heard, they didn't have a fuel pump, and were gravity fed, so to get up hills they'd have to back up
@@crazyburkey3677 In Model Ts, the Climber company for example could go up hill normal, Franklin, Jefferson, and many many many others.
I heard they had kits, or would relocate or install an auxiliary tank@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar
@@crazyburkey3677 Kits? No, most vehicles were built completely different, usually following a similar concept but very different gearing system, technology, and overall moral compass as it were. These were not infact random put together cars that everyone's brother and uncle were creating.
That was only true if you were "LOW" on fuel. As long as you had enough fuel to cover the intake line of the fuel line in the bottom of the tank, it was not a problem.
Strange how stories get changed over the years. 🤪
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They say, as a public safety message, to "never attempt to ford water that's deeper than the height of your axle"...
Ofc this has like something like 30" wheels on it and a couple feet of ground clearance. If it was in production today, they'd call it a "crossover" SUV.
Amphibious Cars: We can drive on land and water. The f*** can your old @$$ do?
Ford Model T: Hold my beer...
Correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't it have the intake+carburetor mounted in a low position? I cannot tell if the water is deep enough to reach it, and of course the model t has a lot of ground clearance, but deeper water might do it. Unless it has a snorkel 🤣
Here’s a little foot note to add to the model T in itself is an antitheft device because majority people can’t even drive the vehicle because it’s so far different from a modern vehicle.😂😂😂
Fanbludytastic 😁
Funny, how they never marketed the “low wake” feature demonstrated here.💦
Crappy car from today: this river is preventing me from continuing!
Model T: hold my beer
Shop Dog it’s true that most big 4x4 know Chelsea Tractor and the only off roading is too the garage. 110 year old car, proper engineering
Chad Model T: We can drive in floods.
Modern cars: We are weak as hell and we can't drive through mud.
Henry Ford showed that a cheap car could be a good car as well
N i c e .
I think it's all down to where the air intake is.. older cars had the air filter on top of the engine but modern cars have the air intake low down for some reason so the water doesn't have to be very deep for a modern car to injest water and hydrolock the engine.. plus there's complicated electronics that don't like water much as well
Modern electric would burst in flames
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Just get the spokes a little wet💪
Show me ANY car built in the last thirty years that will still be running at a hundred years old! Cars are built to wear out fast! Why are there so many recalls in the auto industry? Because there's never time to do it right but there's always time to do it over!
I mean if you put it in a garage and barely drive it, a lot will still run in 100 years.
EV's will easily run in 100 years. Hell with the current batteries going in them you may be lucky enough for the OEM battery to still work in 100 years.
@@silvy7394 That's not really how that works.
I was referring solely to the model T, there were many other automobile companies back before the big 4, later big 3, took over the other smaller companies
Now THATS a Boat car.
crazy idea, let us build one or better still create kits to convert our cars into one - road clearance, remove electroninc, protect the ignition coil....
And now you see the real reason people referred to them as "Fords". 😈
Well, it made whatbit was built for. Roads in America in 1914 were more mediocre than today 😂😂😂
a modern car would be destroyed
Cars now:
Cars then:
Someone help I can’t think of a clever comment
Now let me see how many SUVs can do that... or even stock off-roaders. 😂😉
Badass.
Try that in a EV
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When those cars were new streets were even worse than this
We could use those in Queensland at the moment 😉🤣🤣🤣
The Ford can ford. Imagine that.
Take that Elon !
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He'll make it to the front line eventually...
The original Jeep.
Well, don't have to worry about the floors rusting....
Modern cars: Waaah a rat chewed my wire-insulation made of rat food so now the transmission doesn't work!
Old cars:
Even though it performed quite well compared to a present day car, that's still abuse to that poor vintage thing.
I’d rather use it and have fun rather than leaving it to gain dust in a garage.
No joke! Can't take it with you, so enjoy that claptrap simplicity now!
Is that really good for the wooden wheels?
Next up - the BMW
Water gets into the bearings and drive train, there will be issues later.
That's not the first time that car has been on a flooded road.
A Ford fording, as it were 😂
Rollin on a river
Got to light up the kerosene lights.
Old cars like that where built during a time when most roads where still dirt and didn’t have good quality so they had to make old cars as tough as possible. They don’t built cars capable of stuff like that anymore unfortunately because most roads are paved and even the dirt ones are more maintained then back in the day. I wish cars where still made to be able to withstand water like that would make flood season much easier.
They can do better than stupid new cars!
They Really Don't Make Them Like They Used To?!
Y pensar que un auto actual le cuesta ir por agua
Ford Ranger
Legit
I have 1 word. Give.
Back when cars were made to LAST...Not these overpriced but cheaply made garbage we call cars nowadays.
Paved road.
8 inches of stagnate water.
a modern car would get stuck there as water hits those useless electronics
Model Ts just do not care about anything
Since roads were non existent, or poor at best, it was designed to go anywhere, try that with a modern car 😂😂
Thats a digger car man.
Simple do better.....
All the comments: Modern cars can’t do this!
Modern Cars: Drive 150,000 miles at 5x the MPG at 3X the speed….with AC
True, except for 5x mpg; a T averaged around 30mpg, which isn’t awful even these days.
Say the same thing in 100+ years you stupid fucking idiot. How did you ignore that CRUCIAL feature.
Volkswagen polo
Bro forded a ford in a Ford
@Average Reviews I wasn’t back peddling , do you work in the motor trade? It surprises me about the problems you hear about with modern cars , it does make me wonder . How an older car works so well ? Obviously not having fitted with a starter motor . But it’s still basic engineering at its best . Maybe we can agree to disagree on this subject ?
Hurts to watch
Why ?
@@thetallweatherman2246 I just couldn't risk it in such a classic, she's beautiful
It looks well looked after. so if an issue arises, I'm sure the driver will get it fixed.
tesla model s in flood: car catches on fire and explodes
model t ford in flood: flood catches on fire and explodes
Bla bla it has enough highe suspension and it barely touche the water...
Doing that to a valuable antique is a sin.
POSI