Here’s nice little video from Car Data Video posted onYouTube on the revolutionary Model T and the assembly line it was built on. Car Data Video is itself a pretty cool site with hundreds of car videos posted.

About two years ago I was contacted by a guy named Tim Woods who was ordering some tires for a movie. He told me the storyline of the movie he was working on was about a man (Brad Pitt) born looking like an old man, that as he grew older, became younger looking. Because the movie was based over this man’s life around 80 years, there had be a wide variety of fashions, technology, cars and buildings that would change from scene to scene as history ‘took place’. Starting in the early 1900’s and ending around the 1980’s, Tim had the job of outfitting all the cars to make them period-correct. He knew the only place to go was to Coker Tire, where we provide the original tires for antique cars. From Model T’s, Model A’s, Packards and El Camino’s, Tim ordered tires & wheels that he knew would be just the ticket to make the car original.

Coker Tire is the source for your car to get the original look back to your car. We’ve helped Hollywood get the right look for their cars in movies for years, and provided people from Jay Leno to ZZ Top with the right stuff. I’ve been in the family business for almost 3 years now, but this is my first “hands on” experience where I’ve got to see my work go to a film. Pretty cool feeling knowing that I helped make that movie realistic!

-Casey

Here’s a more detailed look into the story written by a journalist in Chattanooga: (more…)