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General Category => Cars, Trucks, and Other Vehicles => Topic started by: Ray Dunakin on September 24, 2012, 11:41:28 AM

Title: Early tracked vehicles
Post by: Ray Dunakin on September 24, 2012, 11:41:28 AM
Here are a couple pics of a Model T with crawler tracks:

(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmailer.fsu.edu%2F%7Eakirk%2Ftanks%2FUnitedStates%2Fcargo-personnel%2Fuscpc-FordModelT-ChaseTrack.jpg&hash=f6651e38a0008a3940f57ebf85c2e695bf7682d1)

(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmailer.fsu.edu%2F%7Eakirk%2Ftanks%2FUnitedStates%2Fcargo-personnel%2Fuscpc-FordModelT-ChaseTrack-1.jpg&hash=f1ed7f56c6d7677c9c8d0fbabdfe1961948dcf28)

And here's the same track system applied to a Dodge truck:

(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmailer.fsu.edu%2F%7Eakirk%2Ftanks%2FUnitedStates%2Fcargo-personnel%2Fuscpc-DodgeUnitChaseTrack.jpg&hash=ef141efaa87428261d0655f5bd1478373ee0e1ae)


There's more stuff like this at the following site:

http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/UnitedStates/cargo-personnel/cargo-personnel.html (http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/UnitedStates/cargo-personnel/cargo-personnel.html)

Title: Re: Early tracked vehicles
Post by: Ray Dunakin on September 24, 2012, 05:00:18 PM
Here's a Model T with a different track system:

(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seriouswheels.com%2Fpics-def%2FFord-Model-T-Centennial-Converted-into-a-Snowmobile-1280x960.jpg&hash=bae61c02dcc3bb2ca0972ae976d5ecceec495f0b)

And here's a Model T mail carrier with a "halftrack" rear and skis up front:

(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vanishedamericana.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F01%2FMail-carrier-using-modified-Model-T-Ford.jpg&hash=27a82a46a4a586c3e165a288e6d872f3a9a03f3a)

Title: Re: Early tracked vehicles
Post by: Lawton Maner on September 27, 2012, 07:04:20 PM
And here is Uncle Russ' tracked wheelchair as he is hunting nit pickers.
Title: Re: Early tracked vehicles
Post by: finescalerr on September 28, 2012, 01:55:37 AM
Lawton, go stand in the corner! -- ssuR
Title: Re: Early tracked vehicles
Post by: Lawton Maner on September 28, 2012, 05:45:26 PM
Russ: I've been waiting 6 + months to drop that one on you.  ;D I'll go to a corner as soon as there is an empty one. :P
Title: Re: Early tracked vehicles
Post by: Terry Harper on November 25, 2012, 12:41:59 PM
From a 1940 Snow Bird brochure. Love the woody but... how do you open the door?  ;D

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