100 Year Old Car Features Your Car Doesn’t Have

[Momo_Kawashima]

"WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BE NORMAL?!"
Ford Model T: *Äƪ*

[ironbeagle]

I imagine that ground clearance was used a lot more in daily life back then thanks to less pristine roads.

[silentbuccaneer]

The horn is called a klaxon. We used one just like that every time we dove the submarine. We did have a digital one but we preferred the old klaxon like the one on your Model T.

[RandysFiftySevenChevy]

21in wheels with rubber band tires, now where have I seen that before?

[calvinevans]

My ancestors would brag about putting BOTH EARS DOWN. The equivalent of putting the pedal to the metal. Wide open throttle and max ignition advance. Lol

[Trapper]

True fact! I was at the classic car museum in Hershey, PA, two weeks ago. You can actually pay to have hands-on driver's training on how to drive several different modelsT vehicles they have at the museum. I'm totally going back there to take those classes.

[Grayfox]

A runabout. I'LL STEAL IT! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!

[gmdgamingdoost]

Model T also has crazy off-road abilities. Suspensions can flex like heavily tuned crawler Jeep

[gearsnstuff]

I've seen a T touring car with a horn mounted to the exhaust manifold, when you pull the cable for it, it pipes the exhaust through the horn and it worked like a tiny air horn. One of the coolest things I've seen on any old car

[mrmr_zoomie]

“A runabout, I’ll steal it! *NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!”*

[BOABModels]

You're right about the black myth. Apparently Henry Ford preferred painting them black though as that paint dried the quickest therefore making them the quickest to assemble.

[ElValuador]

That engine crank broke a lot of arms back in the day

[aaronmartin]

That horn sounded like a ghost choking lol

[suspense_comix]

“You can have any colour as long as it is Black.”
- Henry Ford, sometime in the 1920’s

[cellpat]

Just how Henry loved them. Basic and cheap.

[pizzlerot]

Fun fact, that version of a horn is called a "klaxon"... Or at least, that's the modern term used to describe the "ahh-ooo-gahh"-type of horn or siren. Technically, in its original usage as a brand name of horn, a Klaxon used crank-driven percussion of a diaphragm instead of air-induced vibration (think old-fashioned police or fire sirens, air raid sirens, or tornado warnings); however the sound is so distinctive that once the trademark expired, it entered the modern lexicon to describe that particular sound of siren or horn. The word has even entered many other languages (such as Japanese, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Spanish, Romanian, Czech, Indonesian, Turkish, and Korean) to describe any general car horn. The more you know!

[matt-]

You also have a rare Aermore Exhaust Whistle on that car. Can’t wait to hear it once you realize how to use it.

[willowmoon]

The good ol days when you needed to be a literal mechanic just to drive across town

[BLOXKAFELLARECORDS]

Imagine trying to escape in a hurry having to do the start up method. 😂

[EithanWinters]

"This is the reverse, and that's your break!"
Model T: "Right... Breaks..."