Just not built like they used to!!!

I don't understand videos like this (which has been on FB at least three times recently, btw).

Why doesn't the car get high-centered and spin out?

That happens every winter in front of my house. Big SUV's get hung up on the snow and sit there spinning. It has even happened to me a dozen times over my lifetime. Doesn't this happen to 1920's Dodge's and T's? Or aren't any videos of that?
 
Those skinny tires go right down to the solid ground and with the heighth of the suspension, they chug right along.
The Model "A"s were better on mud roads than the V8s.
MIKE :)
 
That explains the splash aprons.

The front splash apron keeps mud from packing into the axle space.

The engine splash aprons prevent the mud from packing into the engine space.
 
This past weekend I took the Cabriolet to a fall festival at an apple orchard. Parking for attendees was in an adjacent empty field. When I entered the young man attendant came running over quickly and was quite concerned. "Hold On sir. Let me find you some smooth terrain to put that thing on!" Are you kidding me?? We don't need no stinkin' smooth terrain! LOL
 
1. Back in the late 1950's, went deer hunting many times whereby we had to travel a mile & a half on a much traveled muddy & sloppy farm road to get to the woods.

2. Having (11) spare tires back then, put all 21" tires on my 1930 Coupe.

3. Coming back before dark at about 25 mph, on days when it rained all day, would always pass up about 10 or so unhappy hunters with their four (4) 4-wheel drive jeeps stuck in the mud with their 600-16 tires.

4. Their jeeps could not move forward or backwards while the jeep's "entire" undercarriage rested on & was dragging in the slop -- on a Model A, I had already experienced that only the slim front axle & about half of the rear axle is causing slight drag forces in the soft slop -- remainder of undercarriage was much higher in elevation.

5. As correctly mentioned in reply #4 above, the narrow 21" tires cut into the slush & hit firmer ground below.

6. Also when driving in mud, when tires begin to spin, first give it a little gas for about (2) seconds to spin faster, then up let off of the accelerator & the tires begin to grip on deceleration.

7. Repeat above step 6. every time one loses momentum & begins to spin.

8. Had a set of tire chains under the seat but did not have to use them often ...... that is on this particular road ....... but used them other times. Still have the chains.

9. Had to tell the land owner at the end of the road to get his tractor to retrieve the stuck jeeps in the dark.
 
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I knew an oldtimer that said when he was a kid that if they were at a gathering like a church picnic they would pick up a rear wheel on a T model and set it down in a watermelon rind. He said if the tire had very little tread on it that the car will not move out of it's tracks.
 
I've noticed a few commenting on how tough model A's are.
Hopefully they realize that video isn't of a model A.

Also, this video was shot as an advertisement. I'm sure that car got stuck many times and was obviously cut from the final film. In reality I don't think there was anything fun about driving a car on roads like that regardless of diameter or thickness of tire. Not to mention modern mud tires have no problem cutting through slush.
 
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