An impressive gathering of Ford Model Ts – including more than 20 different variants – took place at the picturesque town of Gerringong, about 130km south of Sydney on the NSW coast of Australia yesterday (19 January).
The local Gerringong Heritage Museum is run by the Gerringong District Historical Society, staffed by volunteers and relies on donations to keep going. Murray Alcock lives close by, and he organised a display of Ford Model Ts in the adjoining park as a fund-raiser for the museum.
He started by rounding up some of the local T owners to add to his own cars, but it then became an official club run for the Model T Club which brought more from the Sydney area.
Alcock has a fine collection of cars, and also opened his ‘shed’ to T club members and visitors, to view the amazing collection of automobilia and stationary engines, one of which would occasionally explode into life for a ‘Putt-Putt’ demonstration of single-cylinder power. Some of his Model T based and well engineered Hot Rods were on display too.
On the day twenty Model T varieties turned up, and some of those were driven (not trailered) in 30 degree temperatures, but all arrived and parked up, mostly in the shade where available, and provided a tempting spectacle for locals and tourists alike to pay their $10 and have a look around.