The Mondo Bizarro

I have this old magazine from 1919, lots of cool ads in it, I spotted this one, very strange. I'm curious I would like to see other weird things that have been done to the Automobile. Anyone got some bizarre stuff they wanna show?

 

Actually, there was an entire aftermarket dedicated to the "T", which turned them into delivery hacks, trucks, etc. I have a book called Great Automoblies of the Great Plains (or something like that) that covers a few companies that made aftermarket bodies as well as thier own autos. Kinda interesting, I would bet not much of that stuff is around anymore....

 

Another common type of T adaptation...saw one in use recently, too: Rollers and/or pulley attachment allowing rear wheel of a parked T to rotate a shaft with pulley for farm type flat belt. This allowed the T to run any of the belt driven pumps, shellers, etc. around the farm. There are whole books full of T adaptations and accessories.

 

More pics of the Pullford

 

Holy gear reduction Batman!

 

There were thousands of mods for T's. My favorites were mini-saw mills! Folks made them do everything from running well pumps to buttering their bread. Gary

 

They were certainly more clever then. Now we buy a separate machine for everything.

 

I'm thinking like 873.56:1

 

Here's one from ebay with the pullford conversion,

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Very...6997615?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item5640f52eef

 

Do you know how much it went for?

 

Buy it now was $9,900,

It didn't sale

 

9,000 seems a bit steep. Maybe to hardcore Model T collector it isn't.

 

No kidding....Do you think they flipped the rear end or left it for 3 speeds in reverse ?

 

Since the final drive gear is internal, the tractor wheel should turn in the same direction as the original rear wheels.

 

With the teeth on the inside of the gear rotation is the same not reversed.

 

100% correct ,you are....I need to quit smoking that stuff

 

or you could just pass it around,
back in the 60's I installed a 39 trans in my 46 sedan delivery rolled the rear axle in and started bolting it in when I noticed the drain plug was on top. couldn't figure that it made a difference. next morning I had to drive it to work in reverse. three speeds backward and only one forward.

 

Funny, this is how the old mans 27 roadster was set up when he found it in the 70's.