How Many Model A's are left ?

[DougVieyra]

Purdy - sad to say, 'it ain't so'. Only the Ford Factory at Dearborn, Michigan made the Ford Model A.* They then shipped some units and components overseas to other Ford plants for assembly. When Dearborn stopped production in early 1932, that was the end of production. Like everywhere, foreign plants did continue to use up existing stock on hand.

*Now we can talk about Henry Ford (who was a Socialist as well as a Capitalist) giving the rights and tooling to building the Ford AA Truck in 1932, to Communist Russia, to help with one of their '5-year' plans. (see paragraph, below) And, while the Russians continued to build AA Trucks (and about 300 Model A Sedans) from 1932 through 1936, the numbers were small and do not contribute significantly to the roughly 5 Million Ford Model A /AA's produced in the U.S. Additionally, the Nazi war machine that over-ran Russia in 1941 though 1944 obliterated just about everything - including the Russian-made Ford Model AA trucks and the 300 cars made at the Gorky plant. Few (if any) have survived.

And too, later, although the Russians continued to use the Model B Ford engine in their GAZ-M1 utility vehicles (think Jeep) in 1936 through 1942, the GAZ could in no-way be thought of as a Ford Model A. GAZ = Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod , translated as, 'Gorky Automobile Plant' , started in 1932 as NAZ, a cooperative enterprise between Ford and the Soviet Union.

As to "Lots of Model A's have been built from NOS stock and reproduction parts . . ." ,
those numbers are included in the tally, and would not add to the final tally.

And too, if one were to look at the origins of a great many of today's European Model A's, it will be discovered that they were bought in the U.S. and imported to Europe AFTER WWII, mainly in the 1970's, '80's & '90's, and continues today. So their numbers would be part of the U.S. 'body count'. The horrific devastation of WWII left only an extremely small number of European-assembled Ford Model A's to be counted as 'survivors'.
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And Purdy Swoft - regarding the CIA and KGB (and Mossad) I apologize for my line in an earlier post about the Census Bureau, if it upset you. It was meant to be 'tongue-in-cheek' to help illustrate that the 'Census Bureau' post was a spoof and not an actual event.