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Old 05-27-2025, 06:56 PM   #4
Synchro909
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Default Re: RARE 1931 Model A 3-Window

Only two days ago, I was looking at a car that does not exist, at least not according to Ford's records. It is a RHD SW Fordor. In 1930 Henry sent a shipment of cars to Australia without them having been ordered. He didn't allow for the law here being different from the US. Dealers weren't selling many cars but only when they were able to find a buyer, they would order one from Ford who would assemble one from the last shipment with several items unique to Australian assembled cars. The dealer would pay for it and move it on to their buyer. If the car wasn't ordered, the dealer didn't have to pay for it so most of the cars sat with Ford unassembled. A new 1930 Model A, according to my information could be bought in 1933. Obviously, Henry wasn't going to make that mistake again. At their Geelong assembly plant, cars were assembled as required in 1931 from those 1930 cars. There are theories about how a SW 1931 car came to be but the most favoured is that a new (American?) manager decided he would like a SW and had one unofficially assembled.
The car I saw had those unique items, is RHD and a slant windscreen.
I figure you can't get rarer than "it doesn't exist".
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