Can You Really Drive a 100-Year-Old Ford Model T In the Snow? (Part 3)

This is hilarious! Really enjoying these T videos.

Clearly another reason why automobiles are just a passing fad, and will never replace horses!

A little history lesson, One of the first "snowmobiles" created was a modified model T with tracks and skies

Man, that cold start was better than a lot of modern vehicles

"Plus my pants are falling off." "Well, that's not the car's fault."

Sandbags and chains might help, but In 1915 you could probably just take the horse instead.

“My pants are falling off” “Well, that’s not the car’s fault” I love their father/son relationship 😂

My family built a 2 bay garage in the 1910's when they got their 1914 T. One bay had a removable floor section to service the car. The other bay has a 2ftx3ft metal pan to catch the engine block water when you parked in the winter. The pan drained to the ground. They used that 1914 T to drive a pulley driven firewood sawmill and would stick a meat grinder handle into the spokes and idle as slow as possible to grind meat. Sadly the T was sold in 1915. We still have the garage.

As a fellow old dude I really felt for Roman. Got his weeks worth of exercise in 15 minutes. Be well dude

You’re right about back in the day they didn’t use antifreeze. Back in the day what they did use was a mixture of alcohol and water, depending on where they live and degree of temperature.

That's what the Model T snowmobile kit is for. Here in New England, we know better than to drive our model Ts in the snow without tracks on the back and skis in the front. Ford sold a snowmobile kit for winter driving from the factory. There were no winter tires in 1915, only snowmobile conversion kits. Many consider the Ford winter driving conversion kit to be the world's first snowmobile.

The old timers used to wind rope around the tire between the spokes. That was their “chains.”

If you read some of the old accounts of driving across the country which happened 5-7 years before this, they used rope as there were no chains. You could get a few feet anywere in those days and most farmers and ranchers had it. If I rember correctly Edsel Ford drove a brand new 1915 across the country to show it's reliability. My father drove a Model T as a kid as his dad never had a driver's license. A driver's license was fairly easy, plop a quarter on the counter even if you had to stand on your tip toes. During winter and spring they not only had ropes for chains but carried a block and tackle to winch if needed.

I have heard that back when the car was new, drivers would wrap rope around the wheel, threading it through the spokes, as DYI version of chains.

Sometime in 1915. "Grandma, get out and push"😂

LMAO! He scared the mess out of him with the horn.

Back in the day, you'd wrap clothesline around the tires through the convenient openings in the wood wheels, or you'd buy some of those new fangled things called snow chains.

The fact that the ground was not frozen was not helping you. You were basically trying to drive it in mud. Fun video. I loved it.

Two minutes of Googleing and I found an add for Weed Tire Chains from the teens or twenties. Locking differentials have also been available for the T for 100 years or more.

1916 was probably more exciting for the drive because a massive storm moved from the Pacific Ocean, flooding and breaking dams across the West, including Chula Vista, CA, Yuma, AZ, and Reno, NV, then it turned to blizzards and buried KS so the doctor almost didn't arrive in time to help my grandmother deliver my mother at their farm, in late January. My mother never drove a Model T but did knock down the farmhouse fence trying to stop the Model A in her teens. She just about couldn't reach the pedals.