HQentity wrote:Hello all!
Interestingly, the steering wheel has most of the engine controls, including a choke of sorts, and very interestingly, a timing adjustment. I'm guessing this is before distributors had self-advancing timing. Can you imagine racing one of these?!
My '21 Model T Ford has both a spark advance/retard lever and the throttle lever on the steering column and isn't all that hard to master. But with gears selected by pedals (no gear lever) and a manually operated rich/lean mixture rod under the dash, then it makes the whole driving experience almost unpleasant. Oh, and no indicators either (nor a brake light). So you can imagine that there's quite a lot going on when driving a T.
I'm presently building a 1915 T Ford Speedster and to overcome some of the difficulties, I've installed a distributor with centrifugal spark advance, a set and forget Stromberg OF carb and a foot throttle. There's not much I can do about the planetary/epicyclic gearbox with its pedals though.
The pics show my '21 Tourer, a chart for beginners and another pic of a
Speedster looking close to how mine should look when finished.
I hope with the changes I've made to it the
Speedster will be much more fun to drive.
Cheers,
Rob
