The "T Fords of Texas"
San Antonio's Ford Model T club
This page hosted by the Texas Transportation Museum, San Antonio
Daniel and Mike of the "T Fords of Texas" working on TTM's 1924 TT truck
The "T Fords of Texas" is San Antonio's very own Ford Model T club. It is open to
anyone interested in these wonderful vehicles. The club holds meetings every month,
either at the beginning of a cruise or at the home of one its members. The club now has over 40 members. We take part in a large number of events, from parades, shows and what the
automobile community call cruises, where owners meet in different places and drive their vehicles. These
events usually take place in some of the most beautiful areas of Texas.
Model T related 2010 events list, with dates supplied where possible
March 6 : Medina County Cruise
March 18-19 : Chickasaw Swap Meet, Oklahoma
April ?? : Club visit to Lockhart, Texas
May 1-2 : Open invite Ford Model T Show at Texas Transportation Museum (See below for more information.)
April 23-24-25 : New Braunfels Swap Meet
June 20 : Father's day car show in Austin
July 23-24-25 : Fredericksburg swap meet
September ?? : Cruise around San Antonio's historic missions - details to be announced
October 1-2-3 : "Texas T Party, Lubbock. Annual event with up to 100 Ts, hosted by the Space City Ts
Snaps of club activities
Shooting Star Museum Bluebonnet Festival, March 2008
Sticky Wickets at Red Berry Mansion charity event, April 2008
Folklife Festival, Bulverde Public Library & New Berlin Cruise, Fall 2008
Sutherland Springs cruise and parade, October 2008
Lost Maples cruise, October 2008
Medina County Tour, March 2009
Open invite Ford Model T Show, Saturday Sunday, May 1 & 2
The club's main annual event in San Antonio is held at
the Texas Transportation Museum. In 2010 it will be held on Saturday & Sunday, May 1 & 2. (See link below.)
The 2010 event will be our fourth annual show. From small beginnings in 2007, the show attracts upwards of
forty Model Ts of all kinds, including tourers, runabouts, heavy duty trucks, ambulances, recreational
vehilces, oil tankers and, of course, race cars. We are proud once again to announce that the show and
entrance to the museum, including train rides, is FREE on both days of the show thanks to the
generous sponsorship of the Red McCombs Automotive Group. Also participating will be athletes from
San Antonio Special Olympics, who will sell refreshments at the evnt and come with us on our Model T cruise
downtown past the Alamo on Sunday morning.
Everyone with a Model T is invited to bring it to our show. We have plenty of room! There is no fee to participate.
The show attracts between five hundred to a thousand visitors who get an unrivalled opportunity to see these
wonderful machines up close and personal, not stuck behind a velvet rope at some other collections. For
a donation towards club funds several "T Fords of Texas" members also take visitors for a donationfor drive's around TTM's
forty acre site on unpaved roads, giving them the chance to experience the Model T the way folks did bacin the early
part of the 20th centrury.
For information about the 2010 San Antonio Ford Model T Show, click
•"Ford Model T Show, 2010"•
For pictures of the Ford Model T show in previous years, click
•"Model Ts @ TTM, 2007"•
•"Model Ts @ TTM, 2008"•
•"Model Ts @ TTM, 2009"•
Model T Mission Tour
Recognizing that efforts to save San Antono's other four historic missions, Concepcion, San Jose, San Juan and
Espada, began as a direct result of automobiles becoming available to transport early conservationists in the early
years of the 20th century, the "T Fords of Texas," in partnership with the National Park Service and "Los Compadres," the
volunteer group dedicated to saving these nationally significant structures and lands, inaugurated a tour around the
missions in the fall of 2009. It was a huge success! The cruise brought home that we must continue the work begun
a century ago to preserve the missions for future generations just as we Model T enthusiasts are doing everything we
can to keep our almost hundred year old vehicles going as well.
For information about the Model T Tour of San Antonio's Historic Missions, click
•"Model Ts @ the Missions"•
The "T Fords of Texas" welcomes new members
New members to the "T Fords of Texas" are always welcome. It is astonishingly inexpensive to join.
You don't have to own a Ford Model T. You just have to appreciate the vehicle that allowed the
USA and the rest of the world to leave behind the horse and buggy and get into motorized
transportation.
To contact Daniel Bratcher, the president of the "T Fords of Texas," click
"T Fords of Texas"
For a brief history of the Ford Model T, click
•"Brief History of the Model T"•
For history of the Model T in San Antonio and Central Texas, click
•"The Model T in San Antonio"•
For a registry of all the known Model Ts in San Antonio and South Central Texas, click
•"Remaining Model Ts in Central Texas"•
For Model Ts in San Antonio's Fiesta parades, click
•"FIESTA !"•
For pictures of the 2007 "Texas T Party" in Uvalde, click
•"Texas T Party, 2007"•
For pictures of Ford Model Ts in Castroville, TX, click
•"Model Ts in Castroville"•
For a Model T in Bandera, click
•"Model T in Bandera"•
For Model Ts at the Central Texas Car Museum in Rosanky, click
•"Model Ts in Rosanky, TX"•
For pictures of the rescue of a 1915 Ford Model TT truck, click
•"Rescuing a 1915 Ford Model TT truck"•
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