Ford model T

This will make horses useless.
Inb4
>M-muh transport will be boring.
>it has to compete with steam
Get over it.

>>16081195
/o/'s opinion on a car it will never see irl much Lee's drive and couldn't afford in the first place?

Sounds about right.

>Also it's no Miata

>>16081195
Auto carriages will never work, they need too much infrastructure. It will take more than 80 years for them to become commonplace.

Oh yes, there's the fancy city people going around in their motorized carriages on their smooth paved roads like they're the kings of the world while the working man is out in the field dragging carts through the mud with the power of his own body because these sophisticated chariots can't even go down a dirt road without breaking an axle or cable or something.

>>16081195
>no radio
absolute shit

>>16081250
>complains that a state of the art vacuum tube radio isn't fitted in a affordable ecobox.

If a man goes faster than 16 miler per house, the air is sucked from his lungs.

>>16083116
Where the hell would you live that it's 16 miles between houses?

So if he goes 15 miles per house, he dies?

>>16081237
no you are thinking of the model a
model t is good off road

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>>16083116
even that is way to fast
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive_Acts#The_Locomotive_Act_1865_.28Red_Flag_Act.29

>>16083984
>Restricted to 9 feet in width.

Almost the size of an American vehicle.

>>16081250
>2.9 litre 4 seater convertible
>same weight as an original lotus elan
did everyone else just stop trying?

>>16081209
Model T's are cheap as fuck because they made a gazillion of them.

>>16083984
Imagine the SJW's they had to deal with back in those days. They lowered speed limits by 60% overnight, wtf?

>>16084134
their lowest retail while still being manufactured was 300$
inflation adjusted is bout 5000$ today

>>16084177
It would be incredible if they could still sell cars for that money. Even if they were just base, base bare minimum models.

The Gubbermint did away with that though.

>>16081195
Cars will never be this cheap again.

In the mid-to-late 20s you could get a new Model T for the equivalent of like $3000 today.

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>>16081195
lol fucking poorfags

>>16086486
>Cars will never be this cheap again.

Nor will they be such unreliable and spectacularly dangerous deathtraps. Cars back then were quite delicate and needed constant maintenance.

>>16087518
The T was anything but unreliable.

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>>16087518
The T isn't delicate, faggot. That's meme-tier steel plus they're designed for offroad use and they can even run on pure ethanol. The T is the very definition of reliability.

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>>16088124
Reliable for back then, but reliability standards have changed.

They do take serious amounts of maintenance for regular driving today. Ignition, oil (I think only half is filtered),finding tires, filters for everything, and good luck getting parts. Older model ford forums and (some) nos parts are pretty much all you're gonna find. Finding someone who has worked on them who you can ask questions of is a chore. It can be done, and with fun, but much work. After all that, they still weren't designed for the long (relatively) service intervals of today.

Pic semi related, going through this right now, is a bitch, everything needs to be rebuilt on something this old unless you get really lucky or pay a bunch of money.