Joyously Anticipated Pleasure Trips

Recently my Dad (aka "Bernie") gave me a Model T instruction book that originally came out in 1913. He purchased it in 1962 (a reprint) according to the receipt in the book.

It's actually more of a pamphlet but there are some classic quotes that may be of interest to the motoring ("Out of my way, I'm a motorist!) Doughtys of the 500.

Under the heading "Vigilance and Oil:"

     The liability of trouble, with the consequent marring of pleasure trips through neglect to make adjustments promptly, increases by the square of the times they are neglected.

Kind of a complicated little sentence there but personally I've never had a pleasure trip marred by anything unexpected happening with a T.

It goes on:

     If the history of all the joyously anticipated pleasure trips that have ended disastrously could be written, it would be shown that in 90 per cent of the cases the humiliation and disappointment might have been avoided by making a certain repair and adjustment, the necessity of which was known before starting, instead of trusting to luck and a crippled part.

Joyously anticipated pleasure trips…ending disastrously…humiliation and disappointment.  Let's reflect on those concepts for a moment over the past four decades of T'ing.  

Yeah, nothing comes to mind in the context of T's.  What hyperbole those old-fashioned corporate writers engaged in!  Scaring people unnecessarily just to make sure they put oil in their crankcases.

We all know that as long as you care for your T, the chances of suffering humiliation and disappointment on a T voyage are very, very…small.