Editing Ford Model T (section)

==Car clubs==
[[File:1919 Ford Model T Pickup.JPG|thumb|1919 Model T stakebed]]
Today, four main clubs exist to support the preservation and restoration of these cars: the Model&nbsp;T Ford Club International,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.modelt.org/ |title=The Model&nbsp;T Ford Club International |publisher=Modelt.org |access-date=2013-06-02}}</ref> the Model T Ford Club of America<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtfca.com |title=Model&nbsp;T Ford Club of America |publisher=Mtfca.com |access-date=2013-06-02}}</ref> and the combined clubs of Australia. With many chapters of clubs around the world, the Model&nbsp;T Ford Club of Victoria<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.modeltfordclubvic.org.au |title=Model&nbsp;T Ford Club of Victoria |publisher=Modeltfordclubvic.org.au |access-date=2013-06-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604062202/http://www.modeltfordclubvic.org.au/ |archive-date=2013-06-04}}</ref> has a membership with a considerable number of uniquely Australian cars. (Australia produced its own car bodies, and therefore many differences occurred between the Australian bodied tourers<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.modeltcentral.com/Model-T-Ford-Australian-tourers.html |title=Model&nbsp;T Ford Australian Tourers |publisher=Model&nbsp;T Central |access-date=2013-06-02}}</ref> and the US/Canadian cars.) In the UK, the Model&nbsp;T Ford Register of Great Britain celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2010. Many steel Model&nbsp;T parts are still manufactured today, and even [[Glass-reinforced plastic|fiberglass]] replicas of their distinctive bodies are produced, which are popular for [[T-bucket]] style [[hot rod]]s (as immortalized in the [[Jan and Dean]] [[surf music]] song "Bucket T", which was later recorded by [[The Who]]).{{Citation needed|date=September 2014}} In 1949, more than twenty years after the end of production, 200,000 Model Ts were registered in the United States.{{Sfn|Sedgwick|1972|pp=50–51}} In 2008, it was estimated that about 50,000 to 60,000 Ford Model Ts remain roadworthy.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dvZjf-4qbeAC&pg=PA188 |page=188 |title=Ford Model T: The Car that Put the World on Wheels |first=Lindsay |last=Brooke |publisher=MBI Publishing Company |year=2008 |isbn=9780760327289 }}{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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