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06-04-2021, 09:50 PM | #1 |
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Where is the Oxmobile? (custom '28 AA truck)
Found this interesting blurb on FaceBook today, so I thought it couldn't hurt to turn the FordBarn sleuths loose on this mystery:
https://mynorthwest.com/2946733/all-...u89ZM5M_KmXtqM
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06-04-2021, 10:11 PM | #2 |
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Re: Where is the Oxmobile? (custom '28 AA truck)
Another unique Model "A" let's hope someone can locate it …..
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06-04-2021, 10:13 PM | #3 |
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Re: Where is the Oxmobile? (custom '28 AA truck)
Ford Model AA Truck "Over the Old Oregon Trail". |
06-04-2021, 11:33 PM | #4 |
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Re: Where is the Oxmobile? (custom '28 AA truck)
Here is the scoop on the Oxmobile. It goes something like this:
Henry Ford presented Mr. Ezra Meeker with this Model AA Ford in 1928. It was to be Ezra's last trip across the states following the trail (for the 5th or 6th time). However Mr. Meeker took ill and passed away I think in late 1928 or early 1929 before the trip could begin. The Oxmobile, was supposedly to go to Greenfield Village to be put on display with all the other items that Henry had stashed away for his museum. That is the last time, I think, it was ever seen. A few years back I contacted the Oregon Trail Historical Association and asked this same question...What happened to the Oxmobile? Sad as it may sound...they had been looking for it themselves...No luck. There may be more to the story but that is what I know. Pluck |
06-05-2021, 10:55 PM | #5 |
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Re: Where is the Oxmobile? (custom '28 AA truck)
It’s in the carriage house at his mansion in Puyallup .
Just kidding. Nothing there but a replica conastoga. |
06-06-2021, 12:03 AM | #6 |
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Re: Where is the Oxmobile? (custom '28 AA truck)
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Looks like someone already stole the rare hubcap off of the spare wheel (compared to the original photo above) - Welcome to New York City Brad in Maryland Last edited by Brad in Germany; 06-06-2021 at 12:10 AM. |
06-06-2021, 02:00 AM | #7 |
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Re: Where is the Oxmobile? (custom '28 AA truck)
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Governor Franklin Roosevelt on horseback with five Boy Scouts´ on the start of their cross country trip. The scouts have rigged the antique wagon of pioneer writer Ezra Meeker to a truck, for the drive to the covered wagon centennial to be held at Independence Rock, Wyoming. July 49424130_1504035205.jpg Ezra Meeker, grand old man of the Northwest, as he appeared beside his motor prairie schooner, given him by Ford Motor Company, in which he will follow the old Oregon trail across the Northwest. Meeker crossed this trail as a youth in the ox-drawn covered wagons of the gold rush in '49. 49424130_d1369eb9-c355-484e-86d7-7b217d7de502.jpg It was way back in 1852 that Ezra Meeker blazed the Oregon trail across teh continent. Now, in the "covered wagon" pictured here, he is retracing his famous route. Three times Meeker has made the journey by ox team, once by automobile and once by airplane. Henry Ford donated the outfit for this journey, which the 98 year old pioneer says will be his last. Meeker is shown here as he started from New York City for a tour of New England, preceding his western journey. ezra meeker.jpg
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