Four cylinder flat head, 12volt electrics when most US cars used 6. All steel; body when most were steel panel over wood frame. Brakes external contracting bands on the rear wheels only. Three speed floor change. Full floating rear axle, quite a step up from The Model T, Chev 4 or Overland 91.

A  few years ago,  had a Ford  Mod 'A".

In  late December, would take out a gallon of, "HOT", water,
(In the glass, returnable milk bottle),
Slowly pore it over the carb, (to heat the gas)
Couple of cranks, it would fire right up.

Then drove to houses, playing, 'Santa Claus'.
(Leaving it run of course, with a piece of wood behind a tire, when gas was at .30 CENTS  a gallon.)

Those skinny tires, and totally reckless driving by a 15 year old, (had a  'Farm Permit')  resulted in, "Going where No One Else has Gone Before". On the Un Plowed, Snowy roads, on Christmas Eve.

Tall, Skinny, knobby, tires BEATS,  'mean looking', wide flat tires,  ANY TIME, ANY  PLACE.

A, 'few' years later, had a, 'new', Ford 250 4WD PU.   Brother in law, was bragging about his, 'New', Ford, 4WD, Bronco. He, 'laughed' at my, PU.   I said: "Lets  Hook them up".   We did, and I Drug him ALL OVER THE YARD.  

However, a year later I found out, "I Lost", as I had to repaint the entire back of the PU, because of his tires throwing gravel at it.  LOLOLOLOO

For a bit more of this stuff, go to www.geaaonline.org Scoll to old auto movies, then scroll to Over the top, high sierras, in a 1915 Buick.

Re: Skinny Tires versus wide.

I was in Houston, walking up by the road. They do have a pretty good crown, it IS Houston and rain Needs to go on, off the road.. It started raining and a Nice van came down the road,, no one else, nothing made him swerve,, he was going down a straight stretch, not going what I would call "fast",, maybe 40 ish.. and the rear end just slid down the crown and the driver handled it, ehhh,, poorly, to be kind,, and wound it up in the ditch,,,
WIDE tires,, floating along on top of that water.. Narrower tires, probably wouldna hydroplaned like that..

Okay,, I went and watched the clip.. Thats amazing,,Funny,, when it started up an ad popped up.

Compare Ford F-150..

I laffed.. I like my old Ford,, BUT,, I know it wouldnt have taken that beating and NOT looked like it had been mangled.. That thing rolled, they ran the windows down! To save them,, The top didnt crush in,, It fired up and they drove away.. TRy that on a modern vehicle,, I Quadruple Dawg Dare ya!

That thing is awesome. Sometimes I wish I would have kept skinny tires on the old fj, but I was sold on the premise of "beefy tires have more surface area to grip when you're out crawling." I will say last time I was at coal creek in Tennessee riding fourwheels there was a Can Am (800?) with real skinny, knobby tires that was going through the roughest of stuff on the trails. He won 1st place in the mud bog races, completely destroying the competition that had regular, wider tires.