OT-Model A Ford

Back about forty years ago I started collecting Model A Ford parts some I bought and some was given to me just for hauling off by old farmers. I now have two running cars and enough parts to put one or two more together. looking for these parts I seen alot of old tractors setting in fence rows, woods, and old barns. So I decided to get into collecting old tractors back then too. I love old cars and old tractors. My guestion is does anyone know of a web site that has a good discussion board like this one. That caters just to Model A Ford cars stuff?

start here.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/

Or,
Dallas model A links

Fordbarn.com is good also.

ahooga.com

I know of a couple model A's sitting in the weeds that are up for grabs before they go for scrap. Let me know if interested. I am in central Mn.

Model A Ford Club of America
Poke here

I started scooping up Ts an As years ago. Many were made into odd-ball types of farm equipment. I just cleaned out a woods - that was formerly a field 40-50 years ago. It had five Model As - most with white pine trees growing through them. Paid $50 each. I torched them up and took out in pieces. I've also got several TT and AA heavy trucks. I've got one AA truck that's been shortened - and has a huge winch on the back made from a TT rear-end. It's a sort of home-made tow rig.

The 2nd version of the three-speed car A transmissions are getting pricey - the ones that used the single clutch on A cars. These transmissions are pretty rugged and were used in many small farm tractors. Cletrac also used them as aux. transmissions in HGs and OC3s.

I bought my first 1930 tudor sedan in 1969 in Kearny, NE when I was about 14 years old. I just drove it last Saturday with my wife and kids to a little league baseball game and they love it. I next was able to get the 1929 town sedan my mother drove to college from my grandparents farm in ne colorado. It is being restored in Elizabethton,TN at www.model-a-ford.com. Look under projects for Jerry and Debi's 1929.

I bought many old Model a's and t's in past years, but my favorite was a '29 Model A, that i bought from an elderly farmers widow.
It had sat in their barn for a long time, after her husband hung himself in the barn one morning!
Seems he'd go out, start the A, let her idle while he fed the stock, then he'd get in, and drive it to work. One morning, she noticed the car still setting in the barn, idling, and husband not in sight, so she went out, to find him hanging from the rafters!
Well, she shut it down, closed the barn doors, called the undertaker, and after they hauled his sorry corpse away, the car sat there for some 30 years, never run!
So, along comes Rusty Jones, and he bought it for $35--towed it home, installed fresh gas and water, and a battery. It started right up!
I drove it 40 miles a day to work and back, and had no trouble with it. Gave it a nice paint job, baked enamel, Washington Blue, made it look nice!
Ten years later, i sold it to a soldier friend of my Brother, who had just got out of Army and needed a car to drive home to Louisville, Ky, from Pittsburgh, Pa.! He said that old car just ran great the whole way!
Fast forward some 40-50 years---we travelled to Louisville, for our 78th. Army Division reunion, at a big hotel there. So, i looked up the soldier's name in phone book. Found it and called him! Shocked, to say the least. I asked him about my old Model A Ford. He told me he drove it all over KY, and finally sold it, to a man who has fully restored it, and evidently still has it! Yep, those cars were built to last! If this interests you, ask me about our trip to the east coast, in my Model A Ford Roadster, and other means of conveyance!

rustyj,
I would like to hear about your trip in the roadster. Liked the story about your 29. I have a 31 tudor, 31 coupe/banger hotrod set up with all prewar parts, and a 29 roasters brasket case. The first complete Model A that I bought was a 31 tudor. The man that I got it from had bought it new. It only had 31,000 miles on it when he parked it, He drove it five miles to town once a week to buy feed & grocery, But it had set outside all its life It looked rough. It was last driven in 1950 and I bought it in 1974 for $100.00 That was the best running & driving A I ever owned wish I still had it, Sold it to buy the tudor I have now.

When i bought my brand new 1949 Ford yellow convertible, i sold my 1948 Ford convertible (BIG MISTAKE!! The '49 Ford was a big piece of junk!) and took a '29 Ford Roadster in trade. It ran well, and it became my daily fun car.
That summer, 1949, my friend Bill Landis, and my brother Richard, each persuaded me to take the A and go on a trip with it! (Running board zig-zag luggage rack, and two spare tires, big floppy straw hats, tool box, suitcases, blankets, etc.)
So, on a bright Sunday morning, in July, the three of us set off in it, to tour!
We left West view, near Pittsburgh, Pa., and set off for places unknown. Our immediate destination was to visit my friend Bill Landis' Grandmother, in Meyersdale, Pa. After she recovered from surprise, we decided to go to Baltimore, Md. We didn't stay in motels. No, we'd pull off into a closed school yard, toss out the blankets and get some zeee's until morning, then go find a gas station to wash up and then find some food.
We drove down into Maryland some, then took the ferry to Dover Delaware, and up thru N.J. to near Philadelphia, where we stopped behind a gas station and camped on the grass behind it.
Next day, we decided to visit New York city, so we drove to the Holland Tunnel area. As we turned into the entrance, the muffler pipe fell off the manifold!(The goofy clamp had worked loose) And, at the same time, right there, a truck load of steel pipe rolled off a truck, blocking the street, and attracting many cops! And, a cop told us we couldn't drive thru the tunnel, making all that noise! Well, i got it wired back up, the pipe got rolled to the side, and away we went, thru the tunnel! After driving around for 10 blocks, we left there, and went up to the Poconos.
While there, it got rather late, so Bill, who was driving, found a nice grassy spot to park, and we got out the bed-rolls, and crawled in, for a nights sleep. (I must tell you, i have an artificial left foot, WW II injury, which i remove when sleeping, so i did that.) We slept for several hours, until i was shaken awake by Bill, who informed me he heard a bear!! I listened for a while, then not hearing anything, i fell back to sleep. After several more bear scares, and me reassuring Bill that he was dreaming, he suddenly jumped up, threw his blankets into the rumble seat, picked me up and i went in there, too, along with my wooden foot, Brother got stuffed into the right front, covered in blankets! Bill got in, started the engine, threw it into reverse, turned on the head-lights and----there stood the biggest BEAR i had ever seen! That bear was as surprised as we were, and the last we saw of him, he was looking mighty perplexed, seeing his meals leaving, post haste!
The rest of that night was spent in a Motel further down the mountain!
Next day, we went to Harrisburg, to visit an Army buddy, but he wasn't home. So, we went to Gettysburg, Pa., and toured the battlefield. After shocking a bunch of people with our wind-burned faces, and that old car, we got onto Rte. 30 and went home!
We had traveled 1300 miles in 4 1/2 days, saw lots of things, rode on 2 ferry boats, almost had lunch with a bear, got cursed by cabbies in Manhattan, and had one heck of a good time!
One thing i would like to say about that old car--riding along, in the rumble seat, in the cool of the evening 300 miles from home, and listening to the exhaust pipe singing its "tune", is about as fine a feeling as you could get from anything else! Brings a lump in my throat, thinking back---
After i got married and bought our home, i had to sell some of my stock of cars! A good friend bought the A, and made the body into a Hot-rod Roadster! I kept one of my Model T'ees, and kept it for many years, but its gone now, too.
Hope you enjoy this story! It is true, not made up! I have written other stories about my life, which i'd be glad to send to you, if you want them. Just send me an e-mail, and i'll send some!
Rusty Jones