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06-26-2019, 01:27 AM | #1 |
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Colonel Sanders
Colonel Sanders drove a Model A Coupe |
06-26-2019, 05:13 AM | #2 |
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Is that why so many Model As were used as chicken coops at some stage of their lives??
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06-26-2019, 06:03 AM | #3 |
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A couple of versions of his life:
https://www.damninteresting.com/colonels-of-truth/ "In 1952, Harland Sanders decided to visit Australia. Much had changed in his life after the war. Harland and Josephine had divorced after 39 years, and Sanders married his long-time employee and mistress Claudia. Governor Wetherby recommissioned him as a Kentucky Colonel in honor of his cuisine, and this time Sanders fully embraced the honorific. He began introducing himself as “Colonel Sanders,” and he started to put together his signature look, growing a salt-and-pepper goatee and wearing black frock suits with a Kentucky-style string tie. With so much changing in his life, he thought he ought to change his vocabulary to match the southern gentleman motif he was trying for, which meant the elimination of profanity. This was why he was traveling to Australia, where he hoped that a big religious conference could cure his habit. But he had a stop to make in Utah first." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...hima-bomb.html |
06-26-2019, 07:37 AM | #4 |
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Other celebrities in Model A's?
I like Walter Brennan. One report has he owned one in real life. Joe K
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That's too funny, I just saw that pic on the wall at KFC yesterday at lunch and thought it was pretty cool. Given the fact that the model A was a very popular auto, I would say there was a great chance that he did in fact drive one, however my guess is that is a publicity photo from at least the 50's, maybe even the 60's.
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06-26-2019, 07:46 AM | #6 |
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Could play likeable characters and also SOB characters and was believable in both types of roles. QUOTE=Joe K;1771479]Other celebrities in Model A's? I like Walter Brennan. One report has he owned one in real life. Joe K[/QUOTE] |
06-26-2019, 07:53 AM | #7 |
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I recognize many of the names, but a new generation would go "Robert Wadlow" and go "who?" But a new generation is challenged by a dial telephone. Joe K
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06-26-2019, 02:35 PM | #9 |
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Andy Griffith was a Model A owner as well.
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06-26-2019, 06:22 PM | #10 |
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Did anybody notice that the Walter Brennan car had later wheels on (under) it and an empty wheel well in the RH mud guard?
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06-26-2019, 06:32 PM | #11 |
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Yes he was they had a write up about him and his Model A once in The Restorer!
A picture from the 50's had one of the Rockefellers in a Model A also but I'm sure that was purely political, one of the 'hey I'm just the same as you chumps' a regular guy kinda thing. I also read once that Harlan Sanders had Tourette Syndrome where he'd start screaming out obscenities out of the clear blue, he couldn't control it!! |
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The Wing Commander at Edwards AFB was issued a government-owned Model A coupe back in the 50s. It was always passed down to the next commander with the understanding that it was his responsibility to keep it maintained. Always wondered what ever happened to it. Probably auctioned off at some point in a surplus sale. Anybody know ?
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Maybe my eyes are tricking me, do not see a tire on the drivers side front, looking under the fender through the bumper.
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06-26-2019, 11:33 PM | #16 |
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The pic of the Colonel probably from the '70's & the car does not have all the fashionable dodahs seen on Model A's nowadays.
Re the phaeton & no spare in fender, do not think the later tyres fit the well gap. Cheers. |
06-27-2019, 04:43 AM | #17 |
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Could be the phaeton still had a spare on the back plus as it is a LHD car it most likely has a spare on the left as well !!! I have 5.25/5.50 x 17 tyres on my P/U and the spare fits the fender well no problem but no room to spare so 16" would not fit .
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I'm almost sure I remember seeing a Real McCoy's show with the Mexican hired hand driving a 28 or 29 phaeton. The one shown here is a 1931 I think. Must have had to up date somewhere in the show.
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I don't know about that, you can go to YouTube and see the initial episode and they are in a 30-31....but maybe they traded backwards at some point. |
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