- This is the 72nd - Anniversary of the car show that we have held here on the weekend after Labor Day.

- My name's Peter McIntyre, and that's a 1912 McIntyre built in Auburn, Indiana.

- I've had this car for 60 years.

I bought it when I was 14 years old.

Every car has - A story - Car, - Like the best thing ever.

For some they end up here.

These are just some of the stories about those who collectively restore vehicle, giving them a renewed lease on life so that their stories can be told right here on restoration.

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- In this episode, we visit one of the longest running antique car shows in the us The old car festival in Greenfield Village, Michigan.

- Greenfield Village was just a, was a township that Henry Ford grew up in.

He lived a mile and a half, two miles from here.

So this was all part of Henry Ford's growing up.

So Henry Ford decided in the early twenties that he was going that what made America great, the innovators and inventors that made America great were disappearing and their artifacts were going away and no one was preserving them.

So he made up his mind that he would build a village like the one he grew up in with a village green, a town hall church on one end, a courthouse, a doctor's office.

And then from that village he would spread out and collect the buildings and homes and artifacts of America's greatest innovators and inventors.

And that's what how Greenfield Village came about.

He started collecting artifacts in the early 1920s.

And then he started collecting buildings right around 19 27, 19 28.

And so there, within his lifetime when he, by the time he passed away in 1947, he had collected over 70 of these buildings.

But it was all about, and I should add that this was a school, the general public wasn't even allowed in here until about 1933.

But Henry Ford started a school where the kids went through the one room schoolhouse system and he heavily believed in the one room schoolhouse and then they would break up into the various buildings to learn trades.

But about 1933 during the Great Depression, he, people started gathering around outside wondering what Mr. Ford was up to.

And he finally started letting people do tours through the village charge adults 25 since kids were free, especially school kids.

But through the years, it gradually built into the tourist attraction that it is today.

Although we still teach high school here, we still have the ninth, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade taught on site.

So it is still an educational system.

The car show that we're in today, this is the, the Country's longest running car show.

This is the 72nd anniversary of the car show that we have held here on the weekend after Labor Day every year for 72 years.

It's an amazing display of wonderful cars.

And of course everybody, we love it.

People come out in the thousands for this weekend, - Hey, boat you crossing.

See?

Now - One of the things about what Henry Ford started here that made it so great because of it opens up this opportunity for folks to bring these cherished wonderful cars and display them and drive them around where most car shows they don't get to do that.

So that's what's so important about this car show is become just a, a, it's, it's become a legacy gift.

I mean, people's families, generation after generation keep these cars and come here every year and have for years and years.

And so that's why the, it's, it's enjoyed so much and that's why people love it.

So this, that's why Greenfield Village is here, is because Henry Ford decided one that what made America great was disappearing and no one was preserving it.

And he determined that he would preserve it in this village.

And it became his refuge.

Quite frankly, in the years later, to get away from the world that he created out there, he, Henry Ford would come in here and he'd be on a tractor and plowing up a field because his life became dedicated to making the life of a farmer better than it was.

So that is the story of Greenfield Village.

- My name's Ryan Johnson.

I'm from Manchester, Michigan.

It's a 1930 standard coup model.

A Ford has a rumble seat.

Here's the interior restored original.

Not sure if that was the original color of it or not.

It was primer when we bought it, which my dad bought it in 1975.

Me and him restored it then and I redid it since it's been done since 2011.

- Ooh, man, you gotta, okay, try a couple things.

- Yeah, well my name's Peter McIntyre and that's a 1912 McIntyre built in Auburn, Indiana.

We've been out driving it.

It's a warm day and it hot soaped.

So then it's gas in the carburetor sort of boils and makes it difficult to start.

- Yeah, I'm Don Sanford from Ypsilanti and this is a 1914 Cadillac seven passenger touring car.

It's the last year for right hand drive in the Cadillac last year for a four cylinder engine until 1980.

It's got a two speed rear axle, which is the only year for that.

And it's just a nice car to drive down the road because it does have that two speed rear axle.

It'll comfortably drive at 45 miles an hour.

It's been in the family for over 40 years.

We brought it home in three pickup loads in the trailer and my uncle did most of the restoration.

I had a hand in it and we did everything but the pin striping and the leather work.

It's a fairly common engine construction.

You'd see it in a few more cars around here if they had their hoods up.

But the individual cylinders, like I said, this is the last year for that, GM had an argument with Austin about ownership of that rear axle and they lost in court.

So GM said, fine, if we can't have a two speed rear axle, we'll build power.

And the next year built to V eight.

And after that went to the 12 and the V 16.

- I am Mark Schneider with the Canadian Model T assembly team.

Today we're going to put together a 1927 Model T chassis to replicate the assembly techniques that were used in the moving assembly line at the Ford Motor Company between 1913 and onward.

- Onward.

Mark, go Fiber please.

First thing you see here is the vanadium frame being lowered into the chest or onto the front axle.

The four cylinder, 20 horse motor is next to come down the line.

All these various sub-components would've been made in various parts of the plant starting in 1908.

Yearly production cars were produced at the PE cat plant.

They're all hand assembled so that by 1913 they started to experiment with the moving assembly line N currents.

Here, there we, wow.

Tie here and stop.

And then the reverse.

Very - Simple.

- Hey, my name's Carrie Trel and this is a 1928 Packard.

It's a model 5 33 Roadster and it, it was restored in Burlington, Vermont.

And I got the car from there in January and I just love it.

It's a beautiful car and it's just as shiny underneath as it is on top.

The green one is mine as well.

And I got a call one night from the guy that I got the green one from and he says, I got something for you.

And next thing you know, I was on a plane to New York, my grandfather, when I was young, I remember him saying, you know those Packards, those are the best cars.

And when I started looking at old cars and decided I wanted to buy an old car, I, I started looking at Packards and it's like, wow, these cars are just so, they're just so cool.

These cost 10 times what a, what a Ford model T did back in the day.

Oh yeah.

You know, then when you open and close the doors, it's like clunk.

- My name is Ed Creighton and my wife and I own 1932 Model B Ford.

I've had this car for 55 years.

I actually bought it when I was 12.

I painted it the paint that's on the car.

I painted it when I was 14 and my wife calls it our baby.

But anyway, it's the Model B is the four cylinder.

It's basically Henry Ford's racing motor.

And later in that year they had available the first V eights that Ford put out and that was a model 18.

Why is it a model 18?

'cause it was a first eight cylinder.

So in fact if you go like first eight somewhere, that's a first V eight, you know.

But anyway, it's been fun to have.

And like I said, we've had it 55 years.

I was looking for an old car, I didn't care what it was, I just wanted an old car.

And he says, well place next door where I'm building.

They have one in the garage.

And I went over and I said, yep, that's an old car.

I looked and I paid $1,500.

Okay, this is a 32 model B motor.

What's different about it over the A is it has a fuel pump.

'cause Henry, well actually in Henry in 32, January, February, March, Henry Ford didn't really build motors 'cause he or any cars to be sold.

'cause he waiting on the V eight.

And actually the V eight was actually being designed and built right here in Dearborn Village, right down here across from the Edison laboratory.

But so he took his V eight that he's using for racing and decided, well, we'll put it in here because the dealers are really after 'em.

And they call it the Model B.

So A 32 Model B is only a force cylinder.

The V eights from, like I said, model eighteens.

But you can see it's got a, a larger intake, bigger carburetor fuel pump that has, this is the first year Henry Ford had the automatic advance for the spark.

You didn't know, you lost the levers on the things and the fact that this thing had so much torque.

Very rare did you see these.

But on a firewall right here is what they call a snubber.

The snubber, this thing has so much torque, it could twist itself out of the motor.

So they put it attached to the motor down here, up here to the firewall.

And that kept the motor where it's supposed to be.

Every car that left Henry Ford's factory, if it had Firestone tires, the balance point on a Firestone tires years ago was at the S. So the S and the stem should line up.

'cause that's the way everyone left the factory that works Firestone.

So it's just little stuff like that.

- Well, I'm Noel Harrington.

This is my wife Amy.

And we have this 1923 Franklin, which came outta Grand Rapids and we bought it five years ago.

And we went headfirst into a major restoration, which it needed.

We bought a model, a huckster from West Myrick.

And this Franklin was sitting there looking awful lonely and neglected.

It hadn't been run since 1970.

- He was in a whole lineup of cars in a, in a building.

And that characteristic, horseshoe collar stood out.

I said to Noel, I said, is that a Franklin?

And sure enough, and long story short, it did come home.

And four and a half years later we finally, we finally got it all restored.

Started out in 1902 in Syracuse, New York.

And they made cars until 1934.

They were all air cooled and they went through, started with four cylinder, went to six cylinder and then ended up, they even had what?

12?

12 cylinders?

12 cylinders at one point in time.

This is from 1923, the 10 B series.

And that's why it has that horse collar hood.

That's what they were, the shape they were using in that day.

It's a demi sedan, which is a little bit different body style.

It has removable windows that you can take out during the summer.

They were a little inconvenient because you can't really carry 'em with you.

They stack up.

So you gotta kind of decide in the day you're gonna take the car out, whether or not you're gonna have the windows in.

And if you choose wrong, you're going to get wet.

- There's no provisions for side curtains for the summer.

So you're going to get wet.

So Franklin's went out of business in 1934.

It's a lot of fun.

They stayed in business until 1975 building aircraft engines and most people that are in the airplanes will know that.

And the bell helicopter of 47 H had a Franklin engine in it, which was used in the series mash or the Korean conflict.

And the Tucker has a Franklin engine in it.

They also water cooled that - Engine.

This is the judging section.

We just finished the restoration in May and we thought for just for fun, we'd go ahead and put it through the judging for for, for its first year Plus it's 1923, it's a hundred years old.

She's celebrating a hundred years birthday this year and now she's running.

- I'm Jill Barrett from Angola, New York, just south of Buffalo, New York.

And this is a 1915 depot hi hack model T. My husband purchased it many years ago.

I can't tell you exactly how many years, but we've driven it here to Detroit twice to this actually event.

And my husband passed away three years ago.

So now my son and daughter-in-law and my daughter and her family are here with me with the Depot hack.

We have three Model Ts.

We have a coop and we have a torpedo and the depot hack.

And this is the one we drive off and it's fun.

We used to pull the toboggan on the back of this car with the children when they were young in the snows in Buffalo.

It was great and it's dependable model T's are very dependable.

5-year-old granddaughter.

When you ask her what her favorite car is, well favorite thing about this car is she will tell you it's a bouncy car.

- My name's Greg McPherson from Wheeling West Virginia.

It's a 1928 Chrysler model.

52 4 door sedan.

It's pretty much all original.

My best friend's father rebuilt it back in, I believe it was 95.

It was a complete restoration 20, 20 some years ago.

Why did I have to have this car?

Well to me that's a great honor to have something that my, somebody that I knew build it from, you know, tear down and start up.

I mean, and then just to come up here in the history.

This is, this is amazing.

You know what I mean?

- We're gonna do the balloon race, but we need another participant for our gentle here.

Oh, okay.

What?

What do you do for that one?

So you go halfway, blow up a balloon outside of the car.

Okay.

Pop the balloon, get in the car and race us.

Nice.

Alright, I think I can do it.

Alright.

Alright.

Where's coming tonight?

So we got car games.

Car games is anybody that wants to come down and race their car.

We've got all kinds of different games.

We've got the potato race game where you gotta pick up three potatoes.

We've got the balloon game where you got open up a balloon pack, blow it up, hop it, race the rest of the way.

We got the water game where you have a cup of water on a plank and try to make it there with all the water still intact.

Drag races, slow races, you name it, you got it all.

- There you go.

This is four year balloon race.

My mother got me interested in the car she used bring me down here to the village all the time.

I've had this car for 60 years.

I bought it when I was 14 years old.

There was a guy here in Durbar, Michigan that had backyard full of them and I convinced my mother to sign the title - Drivers.

Are you ready?

- So Mark Culver, this is 1910 Stanley steam car 20 horsepower model 70.

So we can cruise around, go about 35 miles before we need to get water gallon and water.

Gets one mile and runs on kerosene to heat the water.

I was beating up the boiler, it had been sitting there for a little while, so the pressure kind of dropped a little bit.

So we just put some more fuel in there, heated it up.

Now we're back up to about five 50 pressure.

It's a main car that use a lot of maintenance and so if you have a Stanley, you need to be a tinker.

So if you like to on perfect - A rematch.

- I met John at the Bowell car show up in Ontario and had to put a new distributor in my Model T and got it running again.

It's running better than ever.

And here we're down in Greenfield Village in Michigan and this has just totally blown me away.

The amount of cars here and the, the quality of the cars is just no too, like this is the official gas gauge and there were three different styles of gas gauge.

So originally mine has the oval tank and then there's the round tank and then later they have the cow tank up above the firewall.

And then this gives you your gallons here.

So we'll just checker.

So we have four gallons.

Exactly.

So we're good for about 80 miles.

- So this is an American car?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And and also the Canadian cars, they had the Robertson head screws everywhere and the horn is in the middle rather than on here.

My horn is in the middle there, but there's very few differences other than that.

But, but definitely, 'cause I don't if you know the story.

Henry Ford wanted to buy the patent on Robertson screws in the twenties because they're so much better than a slot screw.

Of course.

But he, the whoever hold the patents wouldn't sell it to him, so refused to sell it.

And I think Henry Ford offered him, you know, an astronomical amount of money.

'cause his money was no object.

But he, they still wouldn't sell.

They said no, that's a Canadian patent and we keeping it keep, yeah.

Yeah.

That's funny.

Anyway, I'll just keep going.

I'll see you later.

Take care.

- Closed captioning is provided by Senior Discovery Tours online@seniordiscoverytours.ca.

Funding for radical restoration is provided by - RakaBot sources sustainable materials to create boot racks that organize footwear while allowing drippings to go in the bowl.

Models designed for home work or recreational settings are available online@rabo.com.

Birds underwater in Crystal River, Florida supports - Radical restoration, offering guided excursions with Florida manatees, kayak rentals, scuba diving certifications, and boat tours are also available since 1993 and online@birdsunderwater.com.

- Thank you for joining us.

My name's Gary Nichols.

Until next time, may all your rides be radical.