Cant-A-Ford US-made Model T parts?

Today's is the official start of 'Hershey', world's largest autojumble: the 2015 AACA Eastern Regional Fall Meet in Hershey, Pennsylvania. If you can't find your US parts there, then you better forget. If you want a Model T, a cheap Model T, you're here at the right spot. Well outside Model T, Model A and more, you can expect to find about anything at Hershey.

There's just one thing that has always surprised us. When you go buy new parts for your Model T an awful lot of those parts are marked with a small sticker saying 'Made in China'. It is our opinion that's something you American T-lovers can't a-ford. Forget for once the old saying a dime saved is a dime earned and bring back the Model T parts production back to Dearborn - or if you like to get things from far - bring it to Neah Bay, Washington or Brownsville, Texas. Just roll up your sleeves and make your Model T parts in the US! We would T-hink T-hat's a ma-TT-er of pride.

Learn from Ward Underwood age 12 who built his CANT-A-FORD DD (Donkey Drive) one hundred years ago. Hershey started back in 1955 and now is celebrating its 60th edition. Isn't that great timing for a T-urn around? Don't think the Chinese are out of work if you do so. They have their hands full producing Harley Davidson stuff...

(Photo Ford Times, August 1915)

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dinsdag oktober 6th, 2015

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08 October 2015, 05:36

Henry Ford was NOT the genius that all his propaganda would like you to think he was !
In 1924 He was invited to China by Sun Yatsen, who founded the Nationalist Party.
Henry Ford somewhat curtly declined via his secretary. “Thank you for the kind invitation,” his response read, but “Mr. Ford has made no plans for visiting China in the very near future.”
I'm rather glad really. Just look at what a roaring success "Fordlandia" was in the Amazon.
Ford, has badly lagged General Motors in developing its business in China, ever since.
Stuart

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07 October 2015, 11:53

By 1914 more than 70% of the workers of the Ford Motor Company consisted of Poles, Russians, Hungarians, Romanians, Italians, Greeks, Lithuanians, Ukrainians and Finns, many of whom didn't speak English at the time. The remaining 30% were of Anglo or German descent. So what is American about the T-Ford? Probably that it was made for the people by the people, wherever they came from. Among many other qualities, Henry Ford certainly was a global thinker. So probably he wouldn't mind having a Chinese contribution ...

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07 October 2015, 03:08

Is my memory failing, or didn't we say exactly the same thing, in the 50's about the Japanese flooding our markets with cheap copies of everything,
Then Later, exactly the same with Taiwanese goods ?
Only then did we start to Re-manufacture parts for our own vehicles.
So let it be with China !
Stuart

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