The Ford Barn - Open cab Panel

The Ford Barn (https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/index.php)

- Model A (1928-31) (https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=3)

- - Open cab Panel (https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showthread.php?t=345582)

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To buy a vehicle like that today would be extremely expensive. What would it have cost when it was new?
Marty

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Very cool. It's a poor mans town car delivery.

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That is one great-looking vehicle!

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Google AI take on "Original Forest Lawn Cemetery."

Quote:

The original Forest Lawn Cemetery is located in Buffalo, New York and was established in 1849 by Charles E. Clarke. It was one of the first rural cemeteries in the United States to be professionally landscaped and designed.

Looking for "Forest Lawn Cemeteries" it appears that they were a cemetery "chain" in the Glendale, CA area. Several Forest Lawn Cemeteries are shown on "Location" -all in California.

Their Glendale Site (original and first "Forest Lawn" - and the source of Johnny Carson jokes) shown at https://forestlawn.com/locations/

Note the "Tudor" building architecture - probably the source of the original post picture.

And "Forest Lawn - CA" would have the money to purchase "designer" car bodies.

Joe K

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Even back in the Model A days, companies were still making horse-drawn carriages and custom bodies for automobiles and trucks, mostly out of wood. Look through contemporary ads from the Model T era and you'll note that they are replete with such offerings. Tons of them! And in most cases the prices seem dirt cheap by today's standards. But a dollar was worth a dollar back then - unlike today. One wonders how a company could manufacture such items, sell them at affordable prices and yet still be profitable enough to stay in business? Custom commercial bodies from the cowl back were made during the Model A era and from the ads I have seen, were not very expensive, relatively speaking. It wasn't like having a custom body built for your Duesenberg by Buehrig! I would guess that the pictured delivery body was a standard company offering, hence reasonably affordable for small businesses. Yes, such things were more common during the Model T era, but innumerable photographic evidence and surviving vehicles prove that custom (or "off the rack") type of commercial bodies were available and in wide-spread use during the Model A era, too.
Marshall

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I really like that design!!!