Best Model T Books

mhsprecher

mhsprecher

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I just bought my first Model T. It is a project, but not an overwhelming one, hopefully. What books should I buy to help me gain an understanding and to help me get started?
 
Owners manual that covers your year. Model T Ford Service. The dealers will carry them. The Ford Service book will cover just about any service question you may have.
 
There is also a series of manuals called "Tinkering Tips" that are quite handy.
The Model T club also puts out individual manuals for different components of the car
that are helpful if you've never worked on a T before.
 
Floyd Clymer's 'FORD Owners Handbook of repair and maintenance, for models T and A [also Fordson Farm Tractor]
 
^Very true, but nothing like having a real book in hand that I can look at most anyplace! That is a cool site, been there before.
 
If you are starting a restoration project, then I would suggest some of the manuals and publications published by the MTFCA for your vehicle. I have used many of these and they are packed with valuable info. The "Model T Ford, The Car That Changed The World" by Bruce McCalley is excellent. It is a Model T bible that covers all years. If the book can't be found, I believe it is also in pdf format. Best of luck with your project.
 
It has just been a few years since I bought my first model T and the books mentioned will get you started. These two books will give you a very good "understanding".

The two books that I read the most are the pictured Model T Ford owner, Murray Fahnestock "The dean of vintage Ford experts" and the "Holy Grail" of Model T books that covers the whole assembly and build of that era, Ford Methods and the Ford Shops, Horace Arnold/Fay Faurote.

Ford Methods/Shops is a compilation from the engineering magazine company started by Arnold and unfinished in January 1915 and the finished work taken up and completed by Faurote to be published in 1919.
 

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