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rotorwrench · 04-30-2019, 05:30 PM

There are a fare amount of the first 200 early Model A cars still around. There are likely some with earlier numbers. The engines were stamped after they passed the bed in testing but the way the assembly line worked, they weren't built up in linear order. They just stamped the engine number on the frame after it was installed. Number 6 may have been followed by number 43 the way they worked things. Groups of engines were sent off to different assembly plants too.

To authenticate a number would require a better accounting or a complete unabridged register of existing model A cars and I don't think one exists. What I can say is that there is a 1 in 189 chances that it would be the oldest surviving Model A.

04-30-2019, 05:30 PM	#2
rotorwrench Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 16,440	Re: Oldest Surviving Model "A" There are a fare amount of the first 200 early Model A cars still around. There are likely some with earlier numbers. The engines were stamped after they passed the bed in testing but the way the assembly line worked, they weren't built up in linear order. They just stamped the engine number on the frame after it was installed. Number 6 may have been followed by number 43 the way they worked things. Groups of engines were sent off to different assembly plants too. To authenticate a number would require a better accounting or a complete unabridged register of existing model A cars and I don't think one exists. What I can say is that there is a 1 in 189 chances that it would be the oldest surviving Model A.