It's like a drug .... An expensive drug.

[Allan L]

Quite practical and useful in their day, but I was not encouraged by my father who had had some ex-WD Model Ts in 1919-25. Being an ex ASC man he was able to combine the bits to make one good one and being a cabinet maker/joiner in civilian life he built it a shooting brake body and used it as his works hack.
He was pretty scathing about its brakes (Rocky Mountain brakes hadn't appeared in the UK then) and its general performance, neither of which matter if you have 'em now as an Old Car. What I think is crucially poor about them and many subsequent Fords is the use of transverse springs without proper sideways axle location, made worse by the transverse steering drag link. As a 1908 design it was just about acceptable, but the T was in production until 1927 and the suspension system was still used 30 years later than that.

[Perseverant]

Well done! It's interesting to see the two styles together. I don't have one, but I studied bits and pieces on the US car industry at University many years ago and the Model T of course featured. It was the first car that you could get accessories for - I even discovered that, apart from some amazing tuning parts, you could buy a spittoon for them - yuck! My father remembered them well back in the twenties - quite a few small businesses in Bedfordshire ran them as vans and light trucks before of course the advent of the "Bedford Chev". A few years ago a garage near us had a late model T with painted radiator and a two door saloon body which looked pretty austere, but the garage closed and the T was snapped up by some collector.