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Sundayjumper wrote: Sun Dec 11, 2022 6:43 pm My wife still says she wants a Model T.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175524852824

Sundayjumper wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 11:07 am She's had a passenger ride, one of the guys in our car club has one, but yeah I'm guessing that popping to the shops in one this time of year might be significantly less fun than she thinks it is

And I'm aware of the different controls. Not sure she is.

The controls for a Model T are quite different than a modern car. They are quite simple. After all, millions of people learned to drive on a Model T, and I’ll just point those out. So, the steering wheel, at least, it acts the same as a modern wheel. You turn it to the right, the car goes to the right, to the left, so forth. These two levers that are under the steering wheel, however, are different. This one on the left is the spark advance, retard in that position, advance all the way down. On the other side we have the hand throttle. The Model T has no accelerator on the floor, instead the engine speed is controlled by this hand throttle. As you move it down, the engine goes faster and faster.

And on the floor of the Model T are three pedals which stick out. This car has only two speeds forward. To get the low speed, you step on the left-hand pedal, push it all the way down, and the car moves forward in low gear. To get high speed, you release the hand brake, and the left pedal, then you’re in high speed. So there you have it. Push down for low, lift up for high. On the right-hand side, you have a conventional brake pedal. When you want to stop, you step on it, just like in a modern car. Now, can you guess what the center pedal is for? Of course, when you want to back up, you step on the reverse pedal, and back the car goes. Now you notice that with two good feet, you can go forward or back very rapidly in sequence, something you cannot do with any modern car.

Sundayjumper wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 10:14 am E30 Touring with E36 M3 engine. Mmm.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204186567860