Survivor Unrestored 1929 Ford Model A Sedan

[Model A Canuck]

This is the way i like to see them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqMjeTQTMXc

[Gary WA]

Originally Posted by Model A Canuck

This is the way i like to see them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqMjeTQTMXc

Thanks for the video!!

[Synchro909]

I like em that way too.

[Hitman]

I can't see anything, we restrict YouTube because of the kids. I always ask for additional info since the title says very little, and a link to an offsite location is of little use as I'm already on a special interest forum.

Some will say it's my loss, and that's okay. I'm not missing out on anything I can't see. If you can't sell me in the title of a picture, it's not worth going around some web restrictions. If the OP can't put in extra effort, why should I?

The deluxe pickup thread was a great example, way more detail in that thread than the YouTube link.

[Marshall V. Daut]

Not to steal the thunder away from this outstanding survivor story- maybe just a slight detour? - but those interested in seeing Model A survivors might enjoy this story I wrote for "The Restorer" in 1999 about a 16,000 mile late 1928 Business Coupe. The owner has since passed away and his daughter sold the car locally. It was offered to me initially, but I had too many cars at the time and my wife was not real receptive to adding another one, even rare as this one is. BIG mistake on my part! So much for listening to one's wife.
Marshall

[ModelA29]

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Originally Posted by Marshall V. Daut

...... those interested in seeing Model A survivors might enjoy this story I wrote for "The Restorer" in 1999 about a 16,000 mile late 1928 Business Coupe. .....

The real advantage to these cars is the insight they offer to the judging standards. Which part design was used at this point in production, etc. How was it assembled? Little details that have been lost - or destroyed over the years.

The Ford Rotunda fire, which occurred on November 9, 1962, destroyed not only the building itself but also a significant collection of Ford Model A records and other historical artifacts that were on display

[P.S.]

Originally Posted by Marshall V. Daut

Not to steal the thunder away from this outstanding survivor story- maybe just a slight detour? - but those interested in seeing Model A survivors might enjoy this story I wrote for "The Restorer" in 1999 about a 16,000 mile late 1928 Business Coupe.

That was a welcome and worthwhile "detour"! I remember that story well. Good work.

[Jeff/Illinois]

Marshall I knew Norm, and knew about his car it had a really neat history as you relayed in that article! I bought parts from him, and he fixed a speedometer off of our '29 Tudor for me once and charged me little of nothing. He was a great guy and a very honest man


His Sport Coupe was the oft-talked about in old car circles the 'Owned by a little old school teacher who bought it new and never drove it only on Sunday to church' story only this one was true! She took the light rail interurban street cars down town Davenport to shop!


Thanks for that memory!

[Marshall V. Daut]

I met Norm on the day that I bought my first Model in 1966. It was a 1931 Standard Coupe with 16" wheels, which ignorant as I was then about Model A's, I knew weren't right. I didn't like the looks of them anyway. The high school senior selling it had a 1930 Coupe in similar condition except it had the correct 19" wire wheels. But I liked the '31 better for some reason. If he would swap wheels and tires, I told him, I'd buy the 1931 Coupe. He did and I did.
Anyhooo, driving my new toy around that day with a classmate whose family owned two Model A's, the left rear tire blew out. The spare tire - of course - was flat. My friend told me about Norm and that he could probably sell me a replacement inner tube and tire. We drove my mother's car across town to Norm's Antique Auto Supply and there I met Norm. He sold me another 19" wheel with a good tire already mounted on it for $15. That was my first purchase from Norm, the first of many over the next almost 50 years.
Yup, they don't make 'em like Norm anymore. A walking encyclopedia of automotive history. He could identify any antique car just from a grainy old photo. And his radiator cap and shell emblem collection was second to none. Scattered with the four winds after his death.
Marshall

[Jeff/Illinois]

Yes Norm was!! Absolutely!

I was thinking about that speedo repair that was in about 1972. I was going to the Univ. of Black Hawk about then , of course broke as a joke, and he only charged me 5 bucks and it worked perfectly ever after!

He was the mover and shaker in the Mississippi Valley Antique Auto Club a group that belonged to the AACA. They're probably not even around anymore...

Later.

[Marshall V. Daut]

Yes, Jeff. You have identified the animal!
M.