. >> so we begin gently enough in the parking lot of the tania lodge. one of the yosemite stop overs on the t tours. but the adventure lies not here but out there. on the back roads of yosemite. >> this car is 90 years old and this is original equipment. you have to keep in mind this replaced literally the horse and buggy. people went from horse and buggy to this car. so this was a big step up for folks 90 years ago. horses could pull a buggy at 10 miles per hour for a couple of hours. model t could run all day at 35 miles per hour. still the t is an automobile. a piece of machinery front with intangibles that a horse could never know. stories of the old days traveling in a t abound. the kind of tall tales that in the telling eventually evolve into history. >> one of the stories that they have is going into yosemite because the brakes not being very good. they would drag a tree down the hill to help slow them down. >> reporter: model ts gave way to the best way of traveling in yosemite running at 10 miles per hour. >> i had a friend who used to come up