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Old 08-22-2015, 11:42 PM   #9
Tudortomnz
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Default Re: 1929 model a taxi cab

That is a rare Model A & it looks mostly correct eg. the interior & meters. It does have twin rear lamps but that photo of an era Taxi has an extra tail light, but not on the fender. If any car in that era would have got an extra lamp put on the rear [ ie. not factory], it would have been a Taxi.
I am not convinced about the story of the body never put on a chassis ; maybe more likely to have been taken off a chassis early on. You would think a Taxi would have been converted into a Fordor like did happen with at least one or two Town Cars.
Also the blurb says it is a ''Fisher'' body which is wrong. Surely they were Briggs?
An original Taxi appeared in the Restorer years ago, which ended up being used by a Gent who smoked stinky cigars & whose wife insisted on sitting in the partitioned back.
I have never seen a Taxi [ none were imported to NZ] but would love to own one like this one.
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