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struggle4progress

(120,666 posts) Wed Jan 15, 2025, 07:54 PM Wednesday

Taking a Model T up Pikes Peak and back down again

... At 19 miles long and 14,115 feet in elevation at the summit, Pikes Peak Highway is no trifling matter even in a modern car. So how well would a 100-year-old Ford Model T handle the challenge? ...

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Taking a Model T up Pikes Peak and back down again (Original Post) struggle4progress Wednesday OP

That was pretty cool! Emile 11 hrs ago #1

Might have been pretty gutsy if Model T brakes were as funky as I suspect struggle4progress 10 hrs ago #2

Emile

(31,410 posts)

1. That was pretty cool!

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Jan 16, 2025, 06:00 PM

11 hrs ago

struggle4progress

(120,666 posts)

2. Might have been pretty gutsy if Model T brakes were as funky as I suspect

Reply to Emile (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 16, 2025, 06:29 PM

10 hrs ago

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