Originally Posted by
Don Shillady
This is for Dave and Bob,who are branded with FORD. Are you upset with moving the acceptance date for the NSRA events past 1948? Are you a die hard FORD enthusiast? Did you always want a RED FORD roadster (Speedster) that would attract young women and kids? Then you should have been in Ashland Va this week where there was a national meet of 1915 and earlier cars with over 40 running/driveable cars in evidence. There were a number of (very) early Ford T cars along with a REO and a Buick (pre-1915) running around town. I snapped a few pictures but these antique stockers did not really interest me until two young women rode up to a local strip mall in Ashland (the self-professed "Center of the Universe") driving a 1910 Ford T Speedster with only an oval windshield on the drivers side and no windshield on the passenger side. The "girls" are Janice and Natalie Weaver from Pinetops N.C. who have helped their Dad Johnny Weaver throughout their lives repairing and building three Model T cars, one of which is the neat 1910 T Speedster shown here, perhaps described as a GOW car? They started out restoring a 1923 Studebaker but the 1915 curtoff limited them to the speedster and a Touring T for this meet. I had no idea these cars were still streetable with most of them over 100 years old but they spent a week based here in Ashland Va traveling to local sites for a week and they were evident all over town. As I say only the 1910 speedster got my pulse racing and the others were just antiques for me but if you have an old T frame laying around with a viable title you too could build such a neat speedster! This kind of makes the old 1948 NSRA limit look "Modern"! That is my green 1998 Pontiac Sunfire parked at an angle in the second picture where I left it to snap the pictures. The girl in the passenger seat wore sunglasses as her only eye protection but i don't think they were traveling very fast.
Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/Teen Rodder