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02-22-2019, 09:34 AM | #1 |
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What's the latest you can remember anyone using an A?
For actual transportation and not as a collector car?
In the early 1960s, our rural mail carrier would sometimes deliver mail with one when there was snow on the roads. I was just a little kid so I don't remember what specific year or model it was. Probably had chains on it. |
02-22-2019, 09:48 AM | #2 |
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Picking up sod at HomeDepot --- often
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02-22-2019, 10:05 AM | #3 |
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Around here now not so much.
I do remember my brother's friend in the 1960s. "Scab" his nick-name. He drove a 1929 Tudor and brought me on a short "drive" as a 10 year old - and where I fell in love. Scab drove the car daily - seemingly a hand-me-down from his aunt who was elderly and no longer driving. It was in reasonably good shape. Scab had done some re-work of various components to keep it going. Joe K
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There used to be a clock repair business called The Time Shop in Zanesville OH and the guy drove a Yellow '30 coupe with Time Shop logos on it to work every day, even in the winter. He closed in the '90's and I have no idea what happened to the car.
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02-22-2019, 10:14 AM | #5 |
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In 1962 my elderly neighbor lady was still driving her Model A coupe to church, and she bought it new.
1965 my 16 year old neighbor drove his Model A daily. |
02-22-2019, 10:15 AM | #6 |
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02-22-2019, 10:21 AM | #7 |
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My friends father drove his daily in the late 40's, it was a green 2 door sedan.
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02-22-2019, 10:34 AM | #8 |
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Back in the late 1960's there was a ninety plus year old gentleman in my home town who had a 1928 tudor sedan since new, never repainted, faded slate blue color. He drove that car until he passed. I also remember that our post office got mail deliveries with a Model A mail truck.
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02-22-2019, 10:53 AM | #9 |
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Buddy of mine drove a '31 Model A coupe that his grandpa bought new or fairly new,this was when we were in high school 1961-1964. His grandpa drove it until he passed mayby late fifties,only car he had all those years. It was originally black but it was just surface rust all over,very solid just no black paint at all at 30 years old,must have set outside a lot. One time we parked downtown and when we got back someone stole the rumble seat cushions,why back then who knows? When I was about 14 years old and before my buddy got to drive it a guy stopped where he lived and offered $500 for it,we couldn't believe it and my dad couldn't either when I told him.Just 4 years later I borrowed $800 to buy a '30 roadster.
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02-22-2019, 11:02 AM | #10 |
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Guy drove one to high school as true transportation thru 1965. 1930 Tudor
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02-22-2019, 11:29 AM | #11 |
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We lived on a farm in Nebraska in 1949. My older sister and a few other farm kids were picked up every morning and transported to kindergarten in a Model A. My 1st grade teacher drove a Model A coupe,1952. Our neighbor was an electrician, used a coupe converted to pickup with a ladder rack and side storage boxes. There were several others on the farms and in town who were still driving Model As into the late fifties.
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02-22-2019, 12:27 PM | #12 |
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The last time that I remember seeing a model A used as an only car was around 1956 . there was a guy that drove a 1930 strip down model A with a home made wooden pickup bed . The guy always let his dog ride in the home made bed . I was only about 10 years old at the time . I was already fascinated with model A's .
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02-22-2019, 01:07 PM | #14 |
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In 1975 I lived in North Palm Beach Florida and was restoring my first Model A a 28 Tudor.
There was an old Black man that had a 29 Tudor in Rivera Beach . He had Pigs in his back yard and drove to every Supermarket in the area every day, getting food from the trash for his pigs. Must have done 30-40 miles every day in it . He had no upholstery on the seats just the springs and wood boxes on the running boards and in front of the rad. |
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In response to post number 13 , I will turn 73 near the end of November . What a drag it is getting old .
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I have lived in our house for 43 yrs. and one of my neighbors used his 1928 Roadster pickup For daily transportation until he passed away about 3 years ago. I miss hearing it go up and down the road every day.
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02-22-2019, 01:24 PM | #19 |
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I drove a '30 Tudor as a daily driver when I was in the Navy stationed in Newport, RI from '64 until '69.
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02-22-2019, 02:23 PM | #20 |
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Dad had two Model A Fordors, as family transport from 1957 up to 1965 ; was replaced by a '55 Studebaker. In 1968 he got a Model A to restore. Cheers. Tom
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