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[Jetronic]

Originally Posted By: bubbatime
Look up the steam powered car on youtube that Jay Leno owns and drives around. Takes like an hour or so to heat up before you can even start driving it.

steam powered cars were fast for their day though. And quiet. Like a Laferrari...

 

[A_Harman]

He burned his eyebrows off trying to light the burner on a steam car in one of the videos.

 

[A_Harman]

Originally Posted By: buck91
Pretty neat. But what type of payload and towing can the "T" handle?

Some people converted Model T's to pull plows...

It was versatile. Just not very fast.

 

[Pop_Rivit]

Originally Posted By: Kruse
Originally Posted By: skyactiv
They don't build them like they use to, thank god.


Several years before he died, Paul Harvey reported on a test that the army did with the latest Humvee. (Okay, Paul Harvey liked to stretch the truth and reported only what he wanted to report. But in this case....) The Humvee had to climb a mountain of rough terrain and it was a timed event. After the Humvee was finished, they timed a stock Model T doing the same obstacle course. The Model T had a much better time.


Was that the one owned by Gary Le Fever in 2007 in Indiana? If so, it wasn't a "stock" model T, it was highly modified with a 100HP engine (compared to the original 20HP engine) and a number of other modifications. Most of it's advantages had to do with weight per unit of power during the hill climb, and a fairly short distance.