1924 'T' Model Ford (Story continued)

He still cared for me in a way but now I had dirty work to do. My back was removed, along with my rear guards and a tray was erected in its place. I then carted Carcasses around an island loaded with Boxthorns and saltpans. I had punctures in all of my tubes and finally my tyres were removed and I ran around on rims.

By now my paint was worn and I had been raved by the elements and finally then taken over by young kids. They cut my running board stays and attempted to do the lowering job on me. They lost interest eventually and I just laid about in the paddock with the rest of the junk. I was nearly drowned in 1965 when the Murray flooded and after that I thought the end Has come.

But no, on the 25th February along came a bloke with an old boat trailer and loaded me on it and dragged me off to Melbourne. After I arrived in Melbourne I was completely dismantled. Some thing roughly and placed in little piles all over the place. Some parts were placed in some vile smelling molasses solution, others sand blasted, nearly all scraped, welded and pummeled before finally painted. Lots of parts were remade and replaced and finally in December 1992 my engine was restarted. The first time in twenty years.

In February 1993 I was placed on a trailer and taken to Victor Harbour where on the 28th I stood outside the Police station and was reregistered with my original number plate. 35005. Once again I was so proud.

Since then I have been taken out on some wonderful trips with friends of all shapes and sizes and really look forward to every club event. I am now over seventy years old and look forward to an easy and full life in my retirement. I often wonder what would have been my destiny Gerald had been given my mate as he was promised.

I have been on every international model T Ford rally held in Australia

The Proud owners of this Vehicle are George and Chris Schoenauer.

Thanks for the story.