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Old 04-23-2011, 03:17 PM   #1
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today on the Hallmark channel ( where I live on time warner it is 108). the Waltons are on all day (waltons marathon). love looking at all the old cars and trucks.
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Old 04-23-2011, 04:16 PM   #2
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I remember the real McCoy's who had a model A phaeton.
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I loved that '29 AA truck on the Waltons, and John-Boy's coupe...

Also loved Will Geer and Ellen Corby... reminds me of my wife & I....
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Old 04-23-2011, 06:04 PM   #4
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What body is on that AA? Did it have a particular name with the pick-up type bed?
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Old 04-23-2011, 06:28 PM   #5
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What body is on that AA? Did it have a particular name with the pick-up type bed?

I think they called it an express bed. I have one but it is pretty much rusted away. It has a flat bed and the sides are round at the bottom and then they go up for a foot or so.
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Old 04-23-2011, 06:42 PM   #6
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today on the Hallmark channel ( where I live on time warner it is 108). the Waltons are on all day (waltons marathon). love looking at all the old cars and trucks.
Love the Waltons too but if you want to see Model A's and other brands of vehicles of the 30's check out Wind at my Back. It's on INSP, (Inspirational Channel). You can see many old cars on almost every episode. I love it and watch every chance I get.
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Old 04-23-2011, 11:39 PM   #7
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I had the pleasure to work on The Walton's for many years.
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I loved watching The Waltons when i was a kid mostly for the cars. My dad used to tell me that times were ALOT harder in the 1930s than they made it look on that show, but he said it was a much simpler and happier time. Wish I had one more day with dad watching The Waltons and talking about old cars.
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Old 04-24-2011, 01:02 AM   #9
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And they sure made it look easy to fit 3 people in the Coupe. I can tell you from experience that doesn't work now-a-days lol.
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Old 04-24-2011, 02:11 AM   #10
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I know for a fact that over the last 50 years that these Model A's have shrunk. I use to get 3 in the front seat of my AA as well as my Fordor back then. Not any more, now 2 of us is a tight fit!
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I know for a fact that over the last 50 years that these Model A's have shrunk. I use to get 3 in the front seat of my AA as well as my Fordor back then. Not any more, now 2 of us is a tight fit!
That's the main reason I try to never have mine in the rain. It's shrunk enough already.
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Old 04-24-2011, 04:30 AM   #12
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I had the pleasure to work on The Walton's for many years.
Chris, you need to run that story again about the dead guy at the carnival. That was something else! It must have been almost 10 years ago when I read that on Shelly's Fordbarn.
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Old 04-24-2011, 05:40 AM   #13
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Was the coupe or the pickup painted white? That still looks weird. A's just look weird in white!
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Was the coupe or the pickup painted white? That still looks weird. A's just look weird in white!
It's John-Boy's Model A that's whitish. ('28 or '29?) I don't think it's exactly white but maybe beige or cream colored. Remember the first episode when he got it? I think it was dark green or black until he painted it. Picture I found on the 'net:


Their truck was dark green.
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Anyone know where those cars and trucks are now?
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My '28 Roadster was supposedly leased to Hollywood for a number of years by the owner before my Dad and I got it and it was on the Walton's as well as the original Bonnie and Clyde as well as a lot of other shows produced during that time frame.
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I have visited "Walton's Mountion" here in Virginy. Country store and all. A fun Model A tour. I gave somebody's relativer a ride in my Cabriolet. She loved it.
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I think they called it an express bed. I have one but it is pretty much rusted away. It has a flat bed and the sides are round at the bottom and then they go up for a foot or so.

It's been so long since I've seen the show... the truck looked like a "pick-up", but I can't remember if the express box was steel, or if it was a wooden "grain box" with flared sides ?

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All you guys are bringing back SO many memories,THANX
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Here's the only photo I could find of the truck, it's an AA express box I think.

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