Northern CA to Northern Wyoming, near Yellowstone Park. Shipping quotes ranged from Heck No to $1200. Finally, Dad found a truck with a load of steel wanting to come home for the New Year's holiday. The truck showed up, a fork lift picked up our T and put it on the steel, body and parts on other pallets, strapped down and tarped. So began the journey of the T eastward.
On New Years Day 2011, it arrived in Billings, Montana. The next day, we retrieved our prize from a truck terminal in Billings. A particularly funny moment was the AS-IS WHERE IS warranty sticker on the hood. It was consigned to a California car dealer, so it had to be sold like any other used car.
Someone with a sense of humor very thoughtfully made a cover to protect the radiator. Another fork lift plopped it onto our car trailer and we headed home.
Quite a sight - the only beige Model T in the universe blasting down the Interstate in the Montana below-zero cold.
We arrived at my house in the dark, rolled it off the trailer, and there it sat. The engine/trans were so cold, and the tires so low on air, that it would not roll. It sat in my yard like a giant lawn ornament, drawing the attention of curious folks in our small Wyoming town. It had traveled so far- now how was I to get it the last few yards into my garage??
