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3000 mile roadtrip.
1915 Model T Speedster. 4-cylinder engine. Stock model T's had 23 horsepower, they estimate their Speedster has 55hp. They've topped out at 70 mph and get about 16 mpg, whether or not they're pulling the teardrop.
No top, no windshield.
http://www.jessicaryanphotography.com/DigitalScrapbook/Alaska2009/Alaska2009.htm
There's a lot of detail in some of the posts, some of it mundane, but it puts you in the trip.
Click on the photos -- many of them excellent -- and they enlarge.
Needless to say, if one can pull a 450-pound teardrop with a 1915 Model T, I'm not going to fret about my Model E & teardrop.
Quote from their final blog entry:
"Anyone who doubts the future of humanity needs to take a road trip in a cool old car."
or our trip of a lifetime. We will take the ferry up to Whittier, Alaska. Then we will drive back to Seattle in our Model T Speedster that I built in High School. We are taking a primitive car with no top or windshield exposing us to all the elements. It wouldn’t be right to stay in hotels, so we decided we would camp the entire way home. We really want to “rough it.” I designed and built an aluminum teardrop trailer to tow behind the Model T that only weighs 450 pounds.
we had four years to prepare for our trip of a lifetime. We will take the ferry up to Whittier, Alaska. Then we will drive back to Seattle in our Model T Speedster that I built in High School. We are taking a primitive car with no top or windshield exposing us to all the elements. It wouldn’t be right to stay in hotels, so we decided we would camp the entire way home. We really want to “rough it.” I designed and built an aluminum teardrop trailer to tow behind the Model T that only weighs 450 pounds.
1915 Model T Speedster. 4-cylinder engine. Stock model T's had 23 horsepower, they estimate their Speedster has 55hp. They've topped out at 70 mph and get about 16 mpg, whether or not they're pulling the teardrop.
No top, no windshield.
http://www.jessicaryanphotography.com/DigitalScrapbook/Alaska2009/Alaska2009.htm
There's a lot of detail in some of the posts, some of it mundane, but it puts you in the trip.
Click on the photos -- many of them excellent -- and they enlarge.
Needless to say, if one can pull a 450-pound teardrop with a 1915 Model T, I'm not going to fret about my Model E & teardrop.
Quote from their final blog entry:
"Anyone who doubts the future of humanity needs to take a road trip in a cool old car."
or our trip of a lifetime. We will take the ferry up to Whittier, Alaska. Then we will drive back to Seattle in our Model T Speedster that I built in High School. We are taking a primitive car with no top or windshield exposing us to all the elements. It wouldn’t be right to stay in hotels, so we decided we would camp the entire way home. We really want to “rough it.” I designed and built an aluminum teardrop trailer to tow behind the Model T that only weighs 450 pounds.
we had four years to prepare for our trip of a lifetime. We will take the ferry up to Whittier, Alaska. Then we will drive back to Seattle in our Model T Speedster that I built in High School. We are taking a primitive car with no top or windshield exposing us to all the elements. It wouldn’t be right to stay in hotels, so we decided we would camp the entire way home. We really want to “rough it.” I designed and built an aluminum teardrop trailer to tow behind the Model T that only weighs 450 pounds.
