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My 50 year Model A adventure – Part 11 From 1977 through 1983 I went without a Model A…. Just one year into our marriage, December 1983 to be exact, my wonderful wife Claire bought me the third Model A of my dreams…. A 1931 Slant Windshield Cabriolet (68C)! We named her Mollie’O after...

My 50 year Model A adventure – Part 10 Well I had the second Model A of my dreams, a 1929 Roadster, unrestored original condition purchased from the original owner in my hometown. The car had a lot of character and personality just the way it sat. I even got a pile of registration tags and the...

My 50 year Model A adventure – Part 9 (continued from Part 7)…. As mentioned in Part 7, I had a lapse of common sense and inadvertently sold the Cabriolet I had so desperately desired. The Cabriolet was the “the one that got away” or actually, “the first one that got away”….. Fast forward a...

My 50 year Model A adventure – Part 8…. (Flash back to Spring / Summer 1974) I left a small but important part of my story out…. These events were coincident with Part 1. Shortly after I acquired my first Model A Coupe I saw a 1929 Roadster sitting in front of Tommy Lavezzo’s house, I really...

My 50 year Model A adventure – Part 7…. So my Cabriolet dreams were in the rear view mirror, I was kicking myself. I informed Tom and I think he breathed a sigh of relief. I hadn’t given up on my Model A dream but knew I would need to expand my search to include other, less rare body styles...

My 50 year Model A adventure – Part 6…. The next part of the story happened in the fall or early winter of 1974. For some reason there was a significant delay in Tom starting work on the Cabriolet. Weeks stretched into months and at some point I got frustrated, looking back, and in Tom’s...

My 50 year Model A adventure – Part 5…. With the Model A I wanted so badly sitting safely in my garage albeit mostly in pieces I was satisfied that I had what I wanted…. Only problem, how do I finish it. Another trips to Mal’s in Martinez. Mal told me of a young guy by the name of Tom. He was...

My 50 year Model A adventure – Part 4…. Sometime in late 1974 or early 75 I wandered in to Mal’s admiring his collection of cars, mostly Model A’s and in particular the Bronson Yellow (or actually Cigarette Crème in 1929) Cabriolet that I coveted. Mal mentioned that there was a Cabriolet...

My 50 year Model A adventure – Part 3…. Well it turned out finding a Cabriolet just wasn’t that easy…. Oh I found a few in Hemmings, they were already restored, too expensive and too many States away. I ended up finding some pieces and parts, basically a rusty cowl section and rear quarter...

My 50 year Model A adventure – Part 2…. Well, I had made up my mind I had to have a Cabriolet but in order to get one I needed money, which of course meant I would have to sell my Coupe. Oh well, I hadn’t really owned it long enough to become attached to it so I posted an ad in the San...

Good morning all, my name is John Bailey and although I’ve been a member of the Ford Barn community for a number of years this is my first post. I finally retired at 72 years old almost two years ago. I decided I would reach out to some of the Ford Barn experts and found that I need to do some...