Good eye - out of the ten cars in there two are Model A's.arpthark wrote:
sidebar:I'm more interested in what's in front of the art! Model A?
The one in the photo is a very late 1931 indented firewall slant windshield Model A Four Door Town Sedan with the even rarer body built by Ford and not the usual suppliers of Briggs or Murray. It's painted Ford Maroon and Black with Vermillion Red wheels & pinstripe. Back then the build year was different than these days and this one was actually built in late January of 1932. Dual sidemounts and the optional rear rack with a slanted leather trunk. It also has a rare optional original high compression head. Ground up/frame off three year restoration - it's a former National MARC winner. Outside of the very limited production Town Car (1100 built over 4 years - the Rockefellers had one - their way of downsizing during the depresssion
) this was the most expensive car Ford offered in '31 The other "A" I finished a few years ago. Also a very late indented firewall it's a 1931 wide bed pickup built in Feb. of 1932. One of only 245 built with a steel top - they were the first all steel top vehicles Ford ever built. It took over a decade to do a frame off restoration as it had some unique parts. Model A's have many common parts although the 1928-29 series are different than the 30-31 period. This truck had different much narrower rear fenders and different bed box than any other production 30-31 A pickups. Unfortunately, I bought it as a complete basket case off a dairy farm in Door County, WI. Farmers being farmers back in the day and especially through the Great Depression and WWII they used whatever they could to keep farm vehicles going. Thus, when the box wore out on this one they just jury rigged another A pickup box they found. When I bought it I had no idea that it was not just another A pickup and because someone had already disassembled it there was no way of knowing that I would begin an odysessy to find both the unique box and the special rear fenders and I had done four A's before this one. It took years, but I finally found one of the original 245 boxes being used as part of a chicken coop on a farm in central Illinois. Gotta love those thrifty farmers. Longest restoration I have ever done. Let me tell you I will never forget the combined smell of caked on old cow manure, paint stripper and my sweat while stripping the frame on sawhorses on a 99 degree humid July day in my backyard!
The M Row - two Model "A's" & an MG