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One's
mind really wanders when it has nothing to do. My mind
usually races a mile a minute under ordinary
circumstances. But these weren’t. I was rushed to the
hospital a few days earlier in an ambulance and before I
knew it I was on the operating table with surgeons
opening my chest. Here I was now laying in a hospital
bed and recovering from what used to be a life
threatening operation. I was thinking a dreaming of what
I was going to do when I felt myself again as it helped
chase the discomfort away. I thought how time races by
like a blur as one gets older. About to reach my 65th
birthday in December I pondered, “Boy has life shot
by.”
So
many things yet to do – so many things I wanted to do.
One of them was that I always wanted to restore a model
T – but I never seemed to have the time.
This
time it would be different. After all, the doctors had
just restored these aging bones with a triple bypass to
make me better than new. That is what I’m going to do
for an old car I promised myself - make it better than
new. That way I could reconnect a bit of myself with the
past at the same time. Perhaps I could symbolically even
recover a bit of my youth in taking on such project.
That is where the idea began in the hospital the spring
of 2006.
After
several months of recovering my energy, I began my
quest. I started looking for a Model T to restore. This
website provides the story of bringing a 1924 Model T
back to life.It is an on going project and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I
really learned a great deal about the car and its
history. I wanted to share it with you. -- Ed
McCormick.
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