The very very first SUV . . . .

Click on the "You Tube" full screen link to see this in large format.

i looked for the "SUV" but could not see one........ American Model T eh ?????? hahahha
"SUV" is a term we seem to have adopted from the yanks, along with many other bad habits, i don't think the word "SUV" even made it here until about 20 years ago and then our schools changed to all the strange names from them .....

Excellent vid, i would love to hire some of those guys to work for me....
Puts the wide tyres idea to rest, wonder if they were split rims on them :-)

hi salt grinder
thanks for the automotive history lesson amazing footage

have only seen snippets of it in the past it was great to see it in full sequence what an amazing production line old henry and his workers had using simple lifting and basic assembley skills that were very efficient and employed real people not robots

i had at one stage in my life for many years i had a 1928 oldsmobile tourer 6 cylinder that was purchaced new by mums father it had wooden spoke wheels 21 inchx4 and was an amazing vehicle on road and off road it was good in sand and mud and gave 20 miles per gallon

((its notable that the motor industry has now gone back to the large diameter wheels again after all these years easy rolling action and less turns per km those old engineers new more than they were given credit for))

and i have noticed that the larger wheeled new ones are getting better economy ????????

it was driven offrd by my grandfather as much as onrd as he was a gold prospector and he went bush everywhere and removed the back seat so he could use it to cart his ore some times 150km's on bush tracks and very basic outback dirt roads to the crusher
my uncle bought it off g/dad and after many years of reliable use sold it to me

i was clocked doing 90mph on one occasion in my mid 20's on a new section of sealed road in the seventy's
god that thing could go and held the road in a very stable manner
it had the same piston rings as a 1939 ford v8 but the updraft carby was a bit of a problem at times
then after keeping it for several years as my first car it started to go to pieces through continued use as a farm hack

so i sold it very cheap to my cousin who completely rebuilt it and used it for wedding hire etc then he sold it to an antique dealer in fremantle who about 12 years ago advertised it for $30,000
after grandad died we found in his old ledger where he paid 358 pounds for it brand new in 1928 which was a lot of money at that ime but he struck a rich patch which enabled him to do so
i heard its still in wa in a collection

sorry about getting a bit off T-model ford topic but its still relative history to the erra and history is created every day

those old uncomplicated engines and transmissions were better than the complicated systems we have now i would buy a new one tommorrow if they re invented them
cheers