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Old 12-22-2016, 08:24 AM   #41
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I believe my favorite would be when I think I really got the itch to have an " A " . When I was three years old , my dad moved up here to Michigan , from Alabama looking for work , 68 years ago , and after finding a good job he sent for the rest of the family . We met him at the railroad depot where he picked us up in his "A" that for some reason was missing the rear window . To this day I'm reminded by my sister's how I embarrassed the family by sticking my head out the window and yelling " hello " to everyone we passed , [ this was our first car , so it was a real treat for me ] . All those years since , I always had had a soft spot for the " A 's " .
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Old 12-22-2016, 10:12 AM   #42
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My "greatest moment" was & is the 30 years my wife & I have been enjoying our two Model A's together with one highlight being reaching the top of Pike's Peak, colorado.
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Old 12-22-2016, 10:54 AM   #43
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In September 1928 Dad traded in his 1926 Model T Sedan on a 1928 Model A Fordor. I was a youngster and fell in love with the Model A immediately. I rode with him standing up holding onto the dash rail and did not sit in the passenger front seat. My most memorable experience in that car was in the 1928-29 winter when a major snowstorm blocked U S Route 6 in my town and Dad simply turned onto the parallel railroad tracks after the train went by and we bumped along the rails 3 miles to a cross road. Dad was a physician responding to an emergency and I was with him. Because of that 28 Fordor, which Dad traded for a 1933 Ford in 1933, I got my first Model A in 1937, before I was old enough to be legally licensed. I have had many adventures of my own too numerous to outline here.
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Old 12-22-2016, 11:04 AM   #44
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More like "most memorable" moment. I had been drinking with some friends and went home late in the evening, but knew I needed to clear my head - and drain the bladder - so I headed to the nearby park and decided a drive my '29 A coupe around the circular lagoon would be a good idea. No other cars, and no streetlights, so I put the throttle just above idle, stepped out onto the running board, unzipped and solved the problem, holding onto the steering wheel through the window with one hand. I opened the door, climbed back in and circled the lagoon about three or four more times, then drove home. I am older, wiser and adamantly against driving if I've had even one beer nowadays, but laugh to myself every time I think of that foolish episode.
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Old 12-22-2016, 11:05 AM   #45
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My greatest moment was one week after my son (who pulled it down our driveway with a rope around his waist) and I dragged my '30 Sport Coupe home from my next door neighbors garage. It had been her fathers and had been sitting there from before she was born. After one week (actually one days work) my 78 year old father (who had a '29 Cabriolet in High school and was a mechanic all his life), my son and I, put in a new battery, plugs, coil and changed the oil. We got the the ground to the distributor plate fixed and started her up. As we had poured oil into the cylinders the week before, the look on elation on my fathers face when she fired up and the entire car disappeared an a cloud of smoke was something I will never forget. By the end of that day I drove my mother and father and then my neighbor up and down my driveway. My father is now 96 and mother at 93 still enjoy seeing it whenever I take it to their house. It took the three of us 8 years, working just one day a week, to change her from the before picture to the after.
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Old 12-22-2016, 11:53 AM   #46
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There are actually two for me.

The first was when I bought my 1929 Standard Coupe in 1966. I had been after this car for two years when I first saw it (I was 14 at the time). I asked him several times if he wanted to sell it but I always got the same old answer a lot of us have heard before..."Nope...going to restore it one of these days" he would always tell me. Well, about once a month I would stop by and talk to him and look at that coupe. So one day in September 1966 I stoped by and I guess he was getting tired of me so he asked me if I still wanted to buy it. "Yes" I said. He said to me that I could have it on one condition and that I was to restore it and not turn it into a hotrod. Well I told him that is what I wanted to do so it was settled. I bought the coupe (he also threw in a 1929 Closed Cab Pickup) for $250.00. I couldn't get them home fast enough. They sat for about 10 years or so while I was in California but when I returned home in 1977 I restored the coupe. By 1980 it was finished. I called my friend for whom I had bought it from and told him that I had something that he might would like to see. When I drove up to his house with it and when he saw it, I will never ever forget the smile he had on his face...a grin from ear to ear! I took him for a ride and did he ever enjoy it.

The second was when I was in Chico, California in 1982. I was at a local car wash cleaning up the coupe when this little old lady came walking by. She was looking it over real good and asking all sorts of questions. She asked me if it had a rumble seat. I said yes and she wanted to look at it. She told me in these words "Young man, when I was young, that was the place to be on a date, oh the fun I had back there" as she was smiling. I said to her "I bet you really had some fun". She said "You bet I did" still smiling.

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Old 12-22-2016, 01:32 PM   #47
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My happy time was two years ago when I drove the Alcan from Anchorage to Dixon, Illinois with my son in Jewely, my '30 Tudor.
He had never driven an A so he got used to the clutch pretty quick. Very humbling.
We stopped at Chisolm, MN to visit the widow of the former owner of the car. Rather emotional as it had been 20 years since she'd seen it. I hadn't made any changes to the car other than tires and brakes).
When we arrived in Illinois the local paper interviewed us and put us on page one.
A great father/son experience as well as the A.
Only one flat tire, on arrival in the driveway. It knew it was done!
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Old 12-22-2016, 01:44 PM   #48
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Around 1960, the neighbor had a 29 coupe as his work car. Our dog had developed a habit of sleeping in the shade on the passenger side running board. One day the neighbor fired up the "A" and took off before the dog could get off and there he stayed put until the neighbor arrived at his job 5 miles away and discovered the stowaway. He worked in a burger joint and let the dog graze on leftovers from the restaurant all day. By afternoon, we were worried about the dog's whereabouts and I was sent to look for him. We were finally relieved to see him arrive home at the end of the day, riding on the front seat of the coupe with what appeared to be an ear to ear grin.
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Old 12-22-2016, 02:36 PM   #49
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Around 1960, the neighbor had a 29 coupe as his work car. Our dog had developed a habit of sleeping in the shade on the passenger side running board. One day the neighbor fired up the "A" and took off before the dog could get off and there he stayed put until the neighbor arrived at his job 5 miles away and discovered the stowaway. He worked in a burger joint and let the dog graze on leftovers from the restaurant all day. By afternoon, we were worried about the dog's whereabouts and I was sent to look for him. We were finally relieved to see him arrive home at the end of the day, riding on the front seat of the coupe with what appeared to be an ear to ear grin.
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Old 12-22-2016, 02:42 PM   #50
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Going-to-the-Sun Road scenic drive in Glacier National Park, Montana with the top down in our Phaeton. It is difficult to describe the natural beauty.
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Old 12-22-2016, 02:55 PM   #51
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Here is my wife and I on our wedding day in my 1931 Victoria, for a Christmas Card photo and on an overnight road trip to St. Genevieve, MO.
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Old 12-22-2016, 04:24 PM   #52
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So far... When my Grandpa sat next to me (2 years ago, helps to be young) and told me all his dating tricks from the Model A. Kinda freaked me out thinking he used them on Grandma but I got over it.

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Old 12-22-2016, 05:10 PM   #53
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Some great stories here. Some memorable ones for me:

First ride in an "A" around age 13, restored '31 roadster in W-blue that friends were working on, rumble seat ride, I was hooked...

Same car, a few years later, dad and I were into antique cars by then and stored one at my grandmother's place. She got a ride in the A roadster - it was a big highlight for her and very nostalgic.

In 2001, I finally bought a '30 tudor, older restoration. A neighbor and I got it running in an afternoon and drove it around the neighborhood. First A I ever drove.

Most recently, we bought a '30 roadster that we use a lot, and are having a lot of fun with that car. I need to be sure to give a kid a ride in the rumble seat this season!!

oh, my friend still has the '31 - in the family for 45 years or so now!
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Old 12-22-2016, 07:50 PM   #54
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Only had my 30 four door for less than 2 years.
My wife and I were on our way back home from the national meet in Toledo Ohio (1500 mile round trip)
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" If anything ever happened to you, I'm keeping this car"
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Old 12-22-2016, 07:54 PM   #55
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Too new of an owner but that first drive was scary and amazing to think how old a car I was in and driving...
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Old 12-22-2016, 08:23 PM   #56
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Seeing my 16 year old son, Riley, drive my 1931 phaeton on the New England meet tour through the north shore of Long Island. The smile on his face was worth a million dollars.
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Old 12-22-2016, 09:32 PM   #57
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Driving my 1930 Cabriolet (that I prepared myself) across the finish line in Mexico City, Mexico at the end of the 1995 Great North American Race.

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Old 12-23-2016, 10:08 AM   #58
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The 28 roadster pick up I now own was bought new by my grampa. He owned an apple orchard and I can remember my brothers and I taking turns when I was around 10 hauling apples up to the bank barn and unloading them..We always talk about it whenever we have a family reunion I make sure and drive it to the reunion.
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