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rotorwrench · 05-29-2019, 01:09 PM

Somewhere along the line, the term began to take on more meaning than I think it originally had. I always figured that the term was "As Released" which would indicate production of the original design before changes were made. Design was in flux at nearly all points of production in the model A era. There was some talk at one time about the first 200 cars but they may have run the first 200 in a very short period of time before making a lot of the changes to fix warranty concerns that were constantly popping up. Once production cranked up, they would have produced 200 cars well before lunch time on any given day.

Most folks just refer to it now as the "Early Production" or E28 that refers to those cars produced in the early model year of 1928 which also includes the cars produced in late 1927 that have so many early characteristics.

05-29-2019, 01:09 PM	#8
rotorwrench Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 16,425	Re: So what is an AR? Somewhere along the line, the term began to take on more meaning than I think it originally had. I always figured that the term was "As Released" which would indicate production of the original design before changes were made. Design was in flux at nearly all points of production in the model A era. There was some talk at one time about the first 200 cars but they may have run the first 200 in a very short period of time before making a lot of the changes to fix warranty concerns that were constantly popping up. Once production cranked up, they would have produced 200 cars well before lunch time on any given day. Most folks just refer to it now as the "Early Production" or E28 that refers to those cars produced in the early model year of 1928 which also includes the cars produced in late 1927 that have so many early characteristics.