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Page 56 At Wasta there used to be a hill that was noted far and wide to be a tough one for cars to get up. When the highway dept. went to work on it years later it was cut down to size and now it is nothing more than a long ascent that tourists travel at seventy per. (ok I’ll settle for 55). Pa was a little worried about the hill but we had no trouble as I remember. Sometimes with a model T, especially if the gas was low in the tank, when you came to a steep hill you might have to go up in reverse. This was because there wasn’t a gas pump to force it and in order to get the gas tank higher than the carburetor it would be necessary to back up. Transmission bands also had to be changed from time to time, and here again if the clutch band wore out you could turn around and finish going up a hill backwards. If the brake band gave out going down hill you could use the reverse for a brake. If they both wore out |