watching cars like these actually get USED is exactly the reason I watch this channel. this, the old Willys, all these old cars getting used and shown off how they would be back in the day is exactly why these videos are great to watch. Museum pieces are cool, but its even cooler seeing museum pieces being used.
Exactly! Cars were built to get used, so why not use them? I get historical preservation but we really don't need a museum with 200 Model-T's sitting around, that's what we have Jay Leno for!
@@Zimon_SombieAbsolutely this, the only exception I'm willing to make are 1 off production cars or concepts/prototypes, either that or odd creations like the gold DeLoreans lol I'm all for preservation, but sometimes it's more fun to see these mechanical marvels in action
the real difference between a horse and a car is when your car just sits in the garage for three days, you don't have to feed and water the car on a regular basis
If you keep it in the garage several months without use, gaskets will dry up. Over a period of years tires will go flat and the rubber will dry. A horse can be let free and it will learn to feed itself and a human or his descendants can always recapture and tame an offspring of the original.
You still have to feed the vehicle fuel and water it with coolant. True, not when it sits for three days, though. Cool thing about the horse is it can eat and drink renewable resources.
As a Model T enthusiast (just bought my first Model T), I have loved these Model T videos! The care and attention you give this car as well as the fact you don't mollycoddle it and use it as it was meant to be used is truly wonderful. As a young man of 20 years myself, I'm also glad to see I'm not the only "youngster" trying to keep the memory of these things alive as original owners disappear.
Good to see young people enjoying the T. If you are not already, look into one of the national clubs. I belong to the MTCFI. They do a tour every year in July and it's a blast. Usually about 600 miles and around 250 cars running around some state for a week. This year was Cadillac MI, which I missed unfortunately. There was lots of off road driving apparently.
We adopted a Mustang from New Mexico 25 years ago He is now 28 years old and is now a third Granddad to all our Grandkids who I believe likes him more than their human Granddads
You know what, I totally agree with what you're doing with that old T. There's enough of them in museums and parked in collections. This one needs to be driven.
Aussie here, our wild horses are called a Brumby, we have one as a pet in the paddock. The Subaru Brat I Australia was called the Brumby after the horse.
Great video. A good quarter horse would smash the T in a drag race. They've been clocked at up to 44 mph (71 km/h). The speed limit in my inner Sydney suburb is 40 km/h.
The T is losing at least 5 of its 20 horses at that altitude, so at sea level would be faster AND the T can be made much quicker with old fashioned Hot Rodding....can a horse be Hot Rodded, lol ?!
@@arkhsm Good point about the altitude and old school hot rodding. When it comes to hot rodding horses there is a reason why race horses are drug tested 😉
I saw a race between a thoroughbred, a Stanley Steamer, Mercer Raceabout, and Detroit Electric (IIRC, some early electric). Horse wiped them all out and the look on its face as it knew it was winning was fantastic..
Best TFL channel of all of them. Love your videos, the humor and the incorporation of other topics like these non-profits. Please continue with this style. It is funny, informative and educational. Thanks guys.
This might be one of the best car and horse videos ever. I learned a lot from this and now have a far greater appreciation for horses ironically. I can totally see why people didn't immediately switch to cars.
In 1910, when my grandmother was 5 years old, a classmate, a little boy, was abducted from their school; the older boys gave chase on horses, but the kidnapper had an automobile and got away. Fun fact, this predated drivers licenses, and when she was of age, she could have been "grandfathered in" and gotten the license without a test, but she didn't feel right about it and declined. She lived to 105 and never had a drivers license.
@@waychillbro In fact in many countries like the US and Europe cars made the life of criminals fairly easy. In France massive police reforms were done at the turn of the century to better equip and arm the police to face this sudden upsurge in crime. The Bonnot gang armed themselves with rifles, automatic carbines and pistols and they simply sent in the army when they were finally cornered, they went in with rifles, machineguns, artillery and explosives to root them out. The depression became the golden era of the bankrobber, who had fast cars, high powered weapons and totally outsmarted an outdated police force. Once the FBI armed themselves in 1934 alongside police reforms, bank robbers were stopped by a hail of bullets that and the fact that the economy was turning around and people were a little less desperate.
I have greatly enjoyed your series on the Model T (and the Model A). I earned a few teaching awards for a presentation I developed years ago that shared the history of the Model T with students in Michigan using a Shriners parade car by dressing up as Henry Ford and doing school assemblies. I also wrote two kids books that feature the Model T. One correction from the video on a comment Kase made regarding the Model T being the first mass produced car. I guess that depends on what number you use for mass produced, but the Oldsmobile Runabout was actually mass produced prior to the Model T. Yes, the Model T did greatly surpass the Oldsmobile, but many experts agree that the Olds is considered the first mass produced car. Keep the videos coming, they are greatly entertaining!
Even Ford himself was reticent to trust the assembly line. He was afraid that increasing the cadence would result in too many dud cars and it wasn't until his Taylorist researchers figured that if you sliced every task into simple enough ones, you could crank up the cadence by a lot and still retain control over the quality. Other manufacturers were of the same mindset and figured there was a hard limit to what you could squeeze out of your labour forcen but were willing to squeeze harder than Ford did, who cleared the gap by building a bigger better factory first and then finally upped the cadence, when Ford soared past they all jumped on the bandwagon.
I'd like to see a race between a 100-year old British car and a brand new EV from Land's End to John o'Groats. There wouldn't be much in it, when you factor in 2-3 recharges along the way.
Early cars were not that different from horse drawn buggies. Few roads were adapted for cars, so they had very high ground clearance, and a suspension capable of taking bumps. They are nothing compared to more modern off road vehicles, but they could chug along on uneven terrain if needed. Once asphalted roads became common, car suspensions quickly evolved to give a more comfortable ride and the ability to go offroad or at least on dirt tracks was diminished.
(In my best Jeremy Clarkson(Hint: it's not that good)). "TODAY! A Ford trryyyyys to humiliate a horse. Hammond goes to a........." Oh man. I can't wait to see this!
Great video Tommy! Thanks for sharing and asking great questions about wild mustangs here in Colorado. Christine and I raised one that was a few weeks old. Never seen people before. We had four other horses that helped bring that little handful around. He was one of the coolest horses we had out here at the ranch. He loved it when I was doing laps out on the track. He would run like the wind chasing me around on dirt bikes. Kase, I bet that was a new look at horses from the ones you grew up with. Awesome content my friends!
Tommy looks the part of a 1920s dude with those high waisted pants and bow tie! Great episode!! And what a magnificent mustang - he earned all those wins!!
Great informative video. Thank you. As a car guy from North Texas horse country, I'm guessing that a 1/8 mile drag race would have had an equine winner.
Love it, love it, love it! Another great edition to this series. Keep up the great work, Tommy and Case, and keep bringing us Model T videos. - Wouldn't mind more videos devoted to the Model A as well ;).
If you drink too much, a horse can bring you home safely.
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Super entertaining video as usual guys. Just drop these on Sunday, it’s just more enjoyable watching it relaxed on a Sunday morning with a cup of coffee 😄
I clicked on this video just being interested in the drag race the title mentioned, and was pleasantly surprised that it was the first thing featured in the video with no other BS. Next thing I know Im 25 minutes into the video!
Such good content. idk if it's a fad or what now but I'm seeing a lot of content creators branching out and diversifying their content. I want a horse all of the sudden.
What a great Video and really cool you mixed old ( horses ) transportation and old/new ( cars ) transportation. Really awesome also for all the infos on the horses history and origins etc.
I’d really like to see a rematch against a Thoroughbred horse! They have higher top speeds than the Model T but I wonder how endurance and stamina would be.
I think another interesting race would be with the car driving on the grass, just like the horse. Since there were no paved roads back when the Model T was made, it would make some sense to do that. I think the horse would have done even better against the Model T. Good video though!
The Ford Model T was the most produced car but not the first mass produced car. The first mass produced car was the Oldsmobile Curved Dash before the Ford Motor Company was even established.
Oldsmobile was doing better than Ford who didn't trust his employees to "get it" and cranked back the assembly line. If it wasn't for some smart people working for him and pushing to go even further, Ford may well have become one of those short lived car manufacturers who couldn't compete with the better ones.
Considering that they were also competing against the bicycle at the time, that'd be another great thing to race against! And you could make it really interesting with a few amateur bike racers. If that seems interesting, I know a lot of the pros that live in Boulder. 😉
I think back in 1915, crawling under the car to open and close the fuel valve wasn't necessarily a daily occurrence. It's only necessary to close the fuel if the car isn't going to be used for a while. Some obsessive collectors will shut it off at the end of each day, but most Model T-ers will shut it off at the end of the touring season. For Dad and I, the touring season is year-round -- even in the snow (with tire chains)! -- so we usually don't bother closing it. It _is,_ however, a good idea to check the oil level with the two petcocks every 500 miles or so. I'm curious, were you guys were utilizing the Ruckstell underdrive during your drag race? Great video!
WOW when that lady started discussing the horses i completely forgot about the model t and was interested in knowing about those beautiful wild horses who knew you could adopt a wild horse hell i thought that was completely illegal
Great to see the Ford Model T on those new tires. The wooden rims look much much better too. If you could polish the brass somehow, it would be perfect! In the earlier videos I saw that the left front wheel was wobbling. Did you fix that problem in any way?
Great video and a very different experience from when I've had my T around horses. Not so much anymore, but in the past; we've had issues with encountering horses pulling carriages where I live. The Model T spooks them. Im surprised the horses in this video were so tolerant. If you think about it, the car looks like a big animal with the two big"eyes" and the spindly fenders like spider legs or something. Mine doesn't have the brass radiator, so it's all black. I just pull over and shut the car off when I see a horse drawn vehicle. One horse spooked so bad it nearly turned the carriage over! The only ones that generally don't care are the Amish. Their animals are very well trained and I guess, used to such things. There aren't many Amish in the greater Cincinnati area though.
There was a very early law that said that in all cases horses had right of way, and a car driver was forced to do everything to avoid stressing the horses, if necessary stop by the side of the road. If that wasn't enough the car had to be camouflaged or even dismantle the car if it still spooked the horses. Horses, sadly are fundamentally "flight" animals. Anything weird happening triggers the "run" response. There were many bad accidents in cities. There is famous photo of children in New York of all places playing in the streets at the turn of the century, they are standing next to a dead horse that had been shot by the police on a day or so before because it went on a rampage. And cadavers of dead animals could lay there for days until somebody arranged for it to be picked up out of their own pocket as there wasn't a sanitation service at the time.
In fairness most people didn’t train a wild horse. But even training a domesticated horse is a long process. The basics of riding you could learn in an hour but to be a proper horseman.. months, maybe yrs, depending on a lot of variables. (We had quarter horses and I’ve trained a few from foal)
Very interesting mix of car/horse. Definitely looking forward to you guys driving it more, especially in the mountains. Hope you can bring it to Moab or the CA Sierras.
Hey there guys! Loved this episode! Loved the race and loved the road testing totally appropriate for the time and era of the car! Casey where did you get the driving gloves? I want a pair they look really awesome and heavy 😊
@@appa609 Over a day you are probably right. We are evolved to chase down prey over long distances. We don't exhaust our reserves like any other animal. Good point.
Of all the types of doctors I really do think DVM is the most highly skilled. Here in Ontario Canada there is only one university that someone could attend to become a DVM . I had a family doctor that many years ago was in that school . He was not able to keep up but the prof. told him to move and become a doctor that works on humans. He did that became a surgeon and a pathologist as well as the only doctor the entire community had. He was very good . Still he told me as did a couple other medical doctors that getting into Vet school was harder then regular medical school. So I always refer to the doctor as doctor when I am at the clinic
Generally not, with the larger domestic horse population, diseases in the horse population was more prevalent and as working animals many had a rather rough time of it.
The reality isn't that a horse can or can't run, it's the fact that they can only run for about 1/4 of a mile (unless they are SERIOUSLY trained!) before they give out. But a car can run until it falls apart. Which, if well cared for, is a VERY LLOOOOOONNNNGG time! (Especially if it's a Model T! ;) )
Ive been Dailying my 26T to Colorado School Of Mines and back (5 mile commute) for the last week and I have no trouble keeping up with traffic at around 45mph. I have alloy pistons and wood bands but it's otherwise stock. I wonder if your T needs a little tuning because that 1/4 mile is a little slow even by T standards.
Now THIS is what I call a drag race. Much more relevant to daily life than gazillion dollar supercar drag races.
You're so right man I always struggle to choose between my horse and my 100 year old car when I wanna go fast.
This is the consumer info the modern man needs to know before purchasing a motor car
Or a couple of men in women's clothing doing the 100 meter 😂
I'm way more likly to race a T ford on a horse than a supercar... 🤠
@@CptAngelKGaminghe’s not wrong in that it’s much more relevant relative to super cars
watching cars like these actually get USED is exactly the reason I watch this channel. this, the old Willys, all these old cars getting used and shown off how they would be back in the day is exactly why these videos are great to watch. Museum pieces are cool, but its even cooler seeing museum pieces being used.
Exactly! Cars were built to get used, so why not use them? I get historical preservation but we really don't need a museum with 200 Model-T's sitting around, that's what we have Jay Leno for!
Thanks for watching!
@@Zimon_SombieAbsolutely this, the only exception I'm willing to make are 1 off production cars or concepts/prototypes, either that or odd creations like the gold DeLoreans lol
I'm all for preservation, but sometimes it's more fun to see these mechanical marvels in action
9:39 I like how the horse nodded LMAO. "Yes indeed"
Model T vs Oatsmobile. A more interesting comparison than I expected. 😂
Oatsmobile! Lol
I see what you did there...
the real difference between a horse and a car is when your car just sits in the garage for three days, you don't have to feed and water the car on a regular basis
But the horse provides free fertilizer in return!
@@matismf💀
If you keep it in the garage several months without use, gaskets will dry up. Over a period of years tires will go flat and the rubber will dry. A horse can be let free and it will learn to feed itself and a human or his descendants can always recapture and tame an offspring of the original.
if you have compatible models, horses will create their own replacements. Cars don`t call for you or give you a big hug when they missed you
You still have to feed the vehicle fuel and water it with coolant. True, not when it sits for three days, though.
Cool thing about the horse is it can eat and drink renewable resources.
Thank you guys so much for going out to my parent’s ranch my mom was so excited to have you guys out! She sent me the link as soon as it was live!
Our pleasure!
I feel like i’ve gone back in time and am watching the historical unveiling of the car
The launch control on that Mustang is amazing! 😅
It didn't even take out a crowd!! 😂
This is the drag race I never knew I wanted, but turns out it's the one I needed to see. Love it. 10/10
You guys have been so creative with the content on the Model T. This was another fantastic video. Thanks guys
Thanks so much!
That horse was having so much fun letting loose.
As a Model T enthusiast (just bought my first Model T), I have loved these Model T videos! The care and attention you give this car as well as the fact you don't mollycoddle it and use it as it was meant to be used is truly wonderful. As a young man of 20 years myself, I'm also glad to see I'm not the only "youngster" trying to keep the memory of these things alive as original owners disappear.
Good to see young people enjoying the T. If you are not already, look into one of the national clubs. I belong to the MTCFI. They do a tour every year in July and it's a blast. Usually about 600 miles and around 250 cars running around some state for a week. This year was Cadillac MI, which I missed unfortunately. There was lots of off road driving apparently.
We adopted a Mustang from New Mexico 25 years ago He is now 28 years old and is now a third Granddad to all our Grandkids who I believe likes him more than their human Granddads
I adopted a Camaro from Alaska around 17 years ago. He is now like a second father to my children. I also believe the kids like him more than me 😂
I just bought a Nordic corvette, and he just a birthed a nephew
You know what, I totally agree with what you're doing with that old T. There's enough of them in museums and parked in collections. This one needs to be driven.
Aussie here, our wild horses are called a Brumby, we have one as a pet in the paddock. The Subaru Brat I Australia was called the Brumby after the horse.
I have a 1988 subaru brumby.
The boys DEFINITELY commit to these sketches!
Great video. A good quarter horse would smash the T in a drag race. They've been clocked at up to 44 mph (71 km/h). The speed limit in my inner Sydney suburb is 40 km/h.
The T is losing at least 5 of its 20 horses at that altitude, so at sea level would be faster AND the T can be made much quicker with old fashioned Hot Rodding....can a horse be Hot Rodded, lol ?!
@@arkhsm Of course a horse can be made faster, have you heard about this thing called training and if that doesnt work, doping?
@@arkhsm Good point about the altitude and old school hot rodding. When it comes to hot rodding horses there is a reason why race horses are drug tested 😉
@@arkhsmhorse loses power at altitude too though
I saw a race between a thoroughbred, a Stanley Steamer, Mercer Raceabout, and Detroit Electric (IIRC, some early electric). Horse wiped them all out and the look on its face as it knew it was winning was fantastic..
you also have to consider that the car is still running after 100 years, no horse can do that
Such a shame they can't 😢
Baby horses!😅
They don’t make em like they used to smh
The horse ca make more horse's car can't do that
@@robertstone9988exactly what I was thinking
I'm watching this as I sit in my buddy's 1929 Plymouth pickup with a 1971 Dart swap.
Best TFL channel of all of them. Love your videos, the humor and the incorporation of other topics like these non-profits. Please continue with this style. It is funny, informative and educational. Thanks guys.
Wow, thanks!
I really really really enjoy watching these videos. Way better than the new car stuff!!
This was the coolest horse video every! Next time let's get the older guys near the horses
This might be one of the best car and horse videos ever. I learned a lot from this and now have a far greater appreciation for horses ironically. I can totally see why people didn't immediately switch to cars.
Horse meets horseless carriage
In 1910, when my grandmother was 5 years old, a classmate, a little boy, was abducted from their school; the older boys gave chase on horses, but the kidnapper had an automobile and got away. Fun fact, this predated drivers licenses, and when she was of age, she could have been "grandfathered in" and gotten the license without a test, but she didn't feel right about it and declined. She lived to 105 and never had a drivers license.
Did they ever find the kid?
@@waychillbro Sadly, no. It was a one room school house, can you imagine?
@@marlinguidegun1657 Terrible. It's crazy to think about how easy it was to get away with murder back then.
@@waychillbro In fact in many countries like the US and Europe cars made the life of criminals fairly easy. In France massive police reforms were done at the turn of the century to better equip and arm the police to face this sudden upsurge in crime. The Bonnot gang armed themselves with rifles, automatic carbines and pistols and they simply sent in the army when they were finally cornered, they went in with rifles, machineguns, artillery and explosives to root them out.
The depression became the golden era of the bankrobber, who had fast cars, high powered weapons and totally outsmarted an outdated police force. Once the FBI armed themselves in 1934 alongside police reforms, bank robbers were stopped by a hail of bullets that and the fact that the economy was turning around and people were a little less desperate.
I have greatly enjoyed your series on the Model T (and the Model A). I earned a few teaching awards for a presentation I developed years ago that shared the history of the Model T with students in Michigan using a Shriners parade car by dressing up as Henry Ford and doing school assemblies. I also wrote two kids books that feature the Model T. One correction from the video on a comment Kase made regarding the Model T being the first mass produced car. I guess that depends on what number you use for mass produced, but the Oldsmobile Runabout was actually mass produced prior to the Model T. Yes, the Model T did greatly surpass the Oldsmobile, but many experts agree that the Olds is considered the first mass produced car. Keep the videos coming, they are greatly entertaining!
Even Ford himself was reticent to trust the assembly line. He was afraid that increasing the cadence would result in too many dud cars and it wasn't until his Taylorist researchers figured that if you sliced every task into simple enough ones, you could crank up the cadence by a lot and still retain control over the quality.
Other manufacturers were of the same mindset and figured there was a hard limit to what you could squeeze out of your labour forcen but were willing to squeeze harder than Ford did, who cleared the gap by building a bigger better factory first and then finally upped the cadence, when Ford soared past they all jumped on the bandwagon.
Even Top Gear of the good old days didn't think of this!
I'd like to see a race between a 100-year old British car and a brand new EV from Land's End to John o'Groats. There wouldn't be much in it, when you factor in 2-3 recharges along the way.
Man, such a cool car! I knew the model A was good offroad, but the model T surprised me. You guys make a great team!
Early cars were not that different from horse drawn buggies. Few roads were adapted for cars, so they had very high ground clearance, and a suspension capable of taking bumps. They are nothing compared to more modern off road vehicles, but they could chug along on uneven terrain if needed. Once asphalted roads became common, car suspensions quickly evolved to give a more comfortable ride and the ability to go offroad or at least on dirt tracks was diminished.
the one with unprepared, if the place is 1/4 mile away, it would be probably be faster to just run there.
bareback takes 5s to get ready this is like worst case scenario you don't know how to ride without tack ect
I love these series with older cars idk why but I do!!
Why am I only now getting this recommended? 😮
The thing about the Model T is that it didn't poop on the streets of New York or Denver so that was a big plus.
But now you get lead in the air, trading one health hazard for another (thankfully not anymore)
(In my best Jeremy Clarkson(Hint: it's not that good)).
"TODAY! A Ford trryyyyys to humiliate a horse. Hammond goes to a........."
Oh man. I can't wait to see this!
"tonight! Hammond rides a Mustang while James terrifies himself on a race track."
Great video Tommy! Thanks for sharing and asking great questions about wild mustangs here in Colorado. Christine and I raised one that was a few weeks old. Never seen people before. We had four other horses that helped bring that little handful around. He was one of the coolest horses we had out here at the ranch. He loved it when I was doing laps out on the track. He would run like the wind chasing me around on dirt bikes. Kase, I bet that was a new look at horses from the ones you grew up with. Awesome content my friends!
You two are funny together, a great team. Read up on the curved Dash Oldsmobile. Keep the fun coming.
I think Tommy was trying to make a joke there about 'horsepower'. The rider was having none of it! That made me laugh.
What a beautiful horse 🐎 you have there !!!❤
Thank you for educating me on the how the model T was use back in the days and the information on the Mustang and keep making more videos I enjoy it.
This was actually great
I love the pattern on Dakota's left neck, looks like some kinda sci-fi alien writing.
Tommy looks the part of a 1920s dude with those high waisted pants and bow tie! Great episode!! And what a magnificent mustang - he earned all those wins!!
Love these model t videos guy’s amazing work
So the Mustang managed to come before the Model T, AND after the Model T !!
We want to see more of Jenn!
Great informative video. Thank you.
As a car guy from North Texas horse country, I'm guessing that a 1/8 mile drag race would have had an equine winner.
This is such a great channel. It reminds me of the Sunday Morning show I watched as a kid.
I have a 1926 model t that I drive all the time I even have a you tube channel about some of my trips!
this was hilarious and fun, but why does Tommy's outfit make me think of Alex from the Clockwork Orange film 😅😂😬
This was a great episode! Thanks for the information on these wonderful animals. So fascinating.
Love it, love it, love it! Another great edition to this series. Keep up the great work, Tommy and Case, and keep bringing us Model T videos.
- Wouldn't mind more videos devoted to the Model A as well ;).
Thanks! Will do!
If you drink too much, a horse can bring you home safely.
Super entertaining video as usual guys. Just drop these on Sunday, it’s just more enjoyable watching it relaxed on a Sunday morning with a cup of coffee 😄
I clicked on this video just being interested in the drag race the title mentioned, and was pleasantly surprised that it was the first thing featured in the video with no other BS. Next thing I know Im 25 minutes into the video!
People don't understand that when those cars was new there were no flat roads. They were build to drive on what many people today calls offroad
Such good content. idk if it's a fad or what now but I'm seeing a lot of content creators branching out and diversifying their content. I want a horse all of the sudden.
Great ground clearance on the Model T! The horse also.
This has been a great series, great job! So entertaining!
What a great Video and really cool you mixed old ( horses ) transportation and old/new ( cars ) transportation. Really awesome also for all the infos on the horses history and origins etc.
Thank you for such a wonderful video! This is why I love TH-cam and love your channel! ❤
We appreciate it!
I’d really like to see a rematch against a Thoroughbred horse! They have higher top speeds than the Model T but I wonder how endurance and stamina would be.
I think another interesting race would be with the car driving on the grass, just like the horse. Since there were no paved roads back when the Model T was made, it would make some sense to do that. I think the horse would have done even better against the Model T. Good video though!
Just great. I really like how you tied the car to it's own time...some of your best work.
Glad you liked it!
James Pumphrey would be proud...
The Ford Model T was the most produced car but not the first mass produced car. The first mass produced car was the Oldsmobile Curved Dash before the Ford Motor Company was even established.
Oldsmobile was doing better than Ford who didn't trust his employees to "get it" and cranked back the assembly line. If it wasn't for some smart people working for him and pushing to go even further, Ford may well have become one of those short lived car manufacturers who couldn't compete with the better ones.
Thats near Yellow mountain is. Its where Wildfire came down from and thats the dark flat land she ran on.
Considering that they were also competing against the bicycle at the time, that'd be another great thing to race against! And you could make it really interesting with a few amateur bike racers. If that seems interesting, I know a lot of the pros that live in Boulder. 😉
I grew up around here a d graduated from berthoud high school in 2014 cool to see .y stomping grounds
I really enjoyed the video of going to the dealer for service, but this one was awesome!
wait until they take the horse to Ford and ask "do you service Mustangs?"
If you like these races, the American Heritage Museum in Stow, Ma has an annual event where they race early cars against horses and early airplanes.
I think back in 1915, crawling under the car to open and close the fuel valve wasn't necessarily a daily occurrence. It's only necessary to close the fuel if the car isn't going to be used for a while. Some obsessive collectors will shut it off at the end of each day, but most Model T-ers will shut it off at the end of the touring season. For Dad and I, the touring season is year-round -- even in the snow (with tire chains)! -- so we usually don't bother closing it. It _is,_ however, a good idea to check the oil level with the two petcocks every 500 miles or so. I'm curious, were you guys were utilizing the Ruckstell underdrive during your drag race? Great video!
WOW when that lady started discussing the horses i completely forgot about the model t and was interested in knowing about those beautiful wild horses
who knew you could adopt a wild horse hell i thought that was completely illegal
Great to see the Ford Model T on those new tires. The wooden rims look much much better too. If you could polish the brass somehow, it would be perfect! In the earlier videos I saw that the left front wheel was wobbling. Did you fix that problem in any way?
Great video and a very different experience from when I've had my T around horses. Not so much anymore, but in the past; we've had issues with encountering horses pulling carriages where I live. The Model T spooks them. Im surprised the horses in this video were so tolerant. If you think about it, the car looks like a big animal with the two big"eyes" and the spindly fenders like spider legs or something. Mine doesn't have the brass radiator, so it's all black. I just pull over and shut the car off when I see a horse drawn vehicle. One horse spooked so bad it nearly turned the carriage over! The only ones that generally don't care are the Amish. Their animals are very well trained and I guess, used to such things. There aren't many Amish in the greater Cincinnati area though.
There was a very early law that said that in all cases horses had right of way, and a car driver was forced to do everything to avoid stressing the horses, if necessary stop by the side of the road. If that wasn't enough the car had to be camouflaged or even dismantle the car if it still spooked the horses.
Horses, sadly are fundamentally "flight" animals. Anything weird happening triggers the "run" response. There were many bad accidents in cities. There is famous photo of children in New York of all places playing in the streets at the turn of the century, they are standing next to a dead horse that had been shot by the police on a day or so before because it went on a rampage. And cadavers of dead animals could lay there for days until somebody arranged for it to be picked up out of their own pocket as there wasn't a sanitation service at the time.
In fairness most people didn’t train a wild horse. But even training a domesticated horse is a long process.
The basics of riding you could learn in an hour but to be a proper horseman.. months, maybe yrs, depending on a lot of variables.
(We had quarter horses and I’ve trained a few from foal)
Y'know those muddy streets before pavement? A lot of the time, it wasn't because it just rained. Cars were a breath of fresh air.
The Monocle looks rad.
Classic mustang 0-60 is pretty quick tho
My worry on that unsaved road would be the durability of those wooden wheels. Great video though guys.
The race is in the last 30 seconds of the video. 30:08 your welcome for saving you a half hour of your life
Very interesting mix of car/horse. Definitely looking forward to you guys driving it more, especially in the mountains. Hope you can bring it to Moab or the CA Sierras.
Us too!
Another great video guys. Whole video looked like a lot of fun.
Love these new entertainment style TFL classic videos. Again great work!
Glad you like them!
I'd love to see what you'd do comparing this with an Oldsmobile roundabout
Hey there guys! Loved this episode! Loved the race and loved the road testing totally appropriate for the time and era of the car! Casey where did you get the driving gloves? I want a pair they look really awesome and heavy 😊
they look like Dick Van Dyke's cast-offs from "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
Have you guys still got that car!? Awesome!
Even in WW2, millions of horses were used.
...extensively by Germans, despite their claims of being superior technologicaly, among other things
Question? Is that why a drag race is a Quarter Mile? because that is how lg it takes a model T to beat a horse?
I will gamble and say the horse is faster.
About 5 miles down the road that the car is gonna pass Write on by
@@mikebelcher5111Also the car can go full trottle for the entire trip without her heart exploding (almost)
A horse can't even outrun an elite human over a day.
@@appa609 Over a day you are probably right. We are evolved to chase down prey over long distances. We don't exhaust our reserves like any other animal. Good point.
Woah, look at that brand new horse!
Of all the types of doctors I really do think DVM is the most highly skilled. Here in Ontario Canada there is only one university that someone could attend to become a DVM . I had a family doctor that many years ago was in that school . He was not able to keep up but the prof. told him to move and become a doctor that works on humans. He did that became a surgeon and a pathologist as well as the only doctor the entire community had. He was very good . Still he told me as did a couple other medical doctors that getting into Vet school was harder then regular medical school. So I always refer to the doctor as doctor when I am at the clinic
Amazing thumbnail photo for this video!
Glad you like it!
I can’t with them! Haha, the grocery shop and them driving on the MOUNTAINS 😂😂😭😭😭😭😭
But was the average horse of the laye 1800 and early 1900 the same quality of todays horses?
Generally not, with the larger domestic horse population, diseases in the horse population was more prevalent and as working animals many had a rather rough time of it.
Fantastic video, peeps!
Dis you hear about the horse that became a key maker he called his business horse locks and keys
The reality isn't that a horse can or can't run, it's the fact that they can only run for about 1/4 of a mile (unless they are SERIOUSLY trained!) before they give out.
But a car can run until it falls apart. Which, if well cared for, is a VERY LLOOOOOONNNNGG time! (Especially if it's a Model T! ;) )
Dudes, I'll take the horse. What a beautiful creature. Fantastic coloring. Is it a show horse?
I am here for this! New channel! TFL Horse Les gooooo! 😂 Jokes aside this was awesome!
Ive been Dailying my 26T to Colorado School Of Mines and back (5 mile commute) for the last week and I have no trouble keeping up with traffic at around 45mph. I have alloy pistons and wood bands but it's otherwise stock. I wonder if your T needs a little tuning because that 1/4 mile is a little slow even by T standards.
Amazing video. So unique and fun.