Mystery oil pan

[Board Shortener Tom]

Anyone have a clue what this used to be part of? It's got a hand crank mounted to the front and a leather bearing on what appears to be a crank journal. Wayyyyyyy before my time. Found it in the fence row.

[Board Shortener Tom]

I'm guessing that leather "bearing " is a seal where the crankshaft stuck out into the area of the hand crank to keep the oil in the engine.  

[axial_al]

Model T Ford?

[snoshoe]

Not that I ever saw the underside but model T with planetary transmission in flywheel is my guess.

[Sledgehammer]

The outboard on Noah's Ark.....

[Cattech]

[acem]

Model T ford oil pan 3 dip #2

https://www.ebay.com/itm/296607901044

$300

[Board Shortener Tom]

Mystery solved! I checked for model T pics but didn't find one. Thanks for the info! I can't imagine driving a model T in this area during winter back then. Had to be a rugged person to do that.  

[Chester5732]

5 hours ago, Board Shortener Tom said:

Mystery solved! I checked for model T pics but didn't find one. Thanks for the info! I can't imagine driving a model T in this area during winter back then. Had to be a rugged person to do that.  

Here they parked them in the winter and put them on blocks.  Used the horses in the winter.  

[dale560]

8 hours ago, Board Shortener Tom said:

Mystery solved! I checked for model T pics but didn't find one. Thanks for the info! I can't imagine driving a model T in this area during winter back then. Had to be a rugged person to do that.  

The old guys put ski’s and tracks on model A back in the day to deliver mail up here in ND. My grandpa used to talk even in the late 40s there were very few graded roads in our area. Their car was parked 3 miles away in the winter at a neighbors farm. They took the horses and a covered sled through the trails to there. Unhooked horses pull started car if it wouldn’t start put horses in neighbors barn drove 12 miles to bigger town on graded road and did their things. Then came back and reversed the process. In the early 50s a state hiway #3 was built 1/3 mile from farmstead connecting the two bigger towns and other smaller ones.

[Rick G.]

For some strange reason, that car reminds me of Professor Fate’s car in the movie “The Great Race”. 🤪

[Board Shortener Tom]

18 hours ago, acem said:

Model T ford oil pan 3 dip #2

https://www.ebay.com/itm/296607901044

$300

The one I posted has a 4 dip pan. Supposed to be 1926-27....I would love to hear the story of how the hand crank area got bent.....hit something I'm thinking.  

[Big Bud guy]

11 hours ago, Chester5732 said:

Here they parked them in the winter and put them on blocks.  Used the horses in the winter.  

Exactly.  My great grandpa bought his first car in 1920.  Built a special shed for it for winter storage.  Blocked it up and removed the battery.  Still have the wagon skis laying in the junk around here he would use for winter 

[acem]

Dad said many people who drove those early cars were terrible drivers.  Cars had not been around long and most people were accustomed to driving a team, riding a horse, riding a bicycle or walking, not driving a car. 

Grandpa was in his 50s before he got a car and had rarely ridden in one before he bought one.  He had to learn everything.   Apparently he never learned the finer concepts of driving. He was hard footed, whether gas or brake,  Sudden turns, etc.  Dad said grandpa's driving scared him...

For your viewing pleasure.

 

[Board Shortener Tom]

3 hours ago, acem said:

Dad said many people who drove those early cars were terrible drivers.  Cars had not been around long and most people were accustomed to driving a team, riding a horse, riding a bicycle or walking, not driving a car. 

Grandpa was in his 50s before he got a car and had rarely ridden in one before he bought one.  He had to learn everything.   Apparently he never learned the finer concepts of driving. He was hard footed, whether gas or brake,  Sudden turns, etc.  Dad said grandpa's driving scared him...

For your viewing pleasure.

 

My driving resembles that of your grandpa....😅

[Rawleigh99]

My grandfather caught a sturgeon in one of his pound nets on the Rappahannock River, took it to Baltimore on the steamboat, sold it for caviar and bought a used model T that he drove home. I think it was sort of like winning the lottery back in the old days. 

I have a picture of him and his boat crew with the fish hanging up on a gin pole.  It was about 10 ft long.

[Rawleigh99]

I found that picture! It's been damaged over the years but my grandfather is the one on the right. It's hauled up on the gin pole on his boat.