Napa Skip
Senior Member
As treasurer and assistant newsletter editor (to my wife, who is the editor) of our MAFCA chapter (Napa Valley A’s) my wife and I are used to fielding phone calls from prospective members, former members, and non-members with Model A-related questions. Such was the case last week when an individual in a city about 40 miles away called to ask if someone from our car club could help a widowed friend of his establish a reasonable value for her late husband’s 1929 Model A CCPU.
Accordingly, earlier today three of us spent the morning examining the vehicle. Between us we currently own about 10 Model A’s (including a couple of pickups and several AA’s), have something like a combined 107 years as MARC/MAFCA members, and – somewhat myopically - consider that we are passingly knowledgeable about all things Model A
. So it was somewhat bruising to our collective egos when we saw the placard below – attached to the rear of the pickup bed on the driver’s side – and (besides thinking that it had something to do with gross/tare/? vehicle weights, perhaps in New York) could not come up with an explanation of what it was for.
Although the widow has not yet been able to locate the title, the pickup does have a set of matching (albeit well rusted) 1929 Florida plates (fwiw).
Does anyone know what the placard is for? It appears to read:
NYUW….2250
NYM(?)….1750
NYM(?)W….4000
Thanks in advance for whatever help anyone can give.
Accordingly, earlier today three of us spent the morning examining the vehicle. Between us we currently own about 10 Model A’s (including a couple of pickups and several AA’s), have something like a combined 107 years as MARC/MAFCA members, and – somewhat myopically - consider that we are passingly knowledgeable about all things Model A
. So it was somewhat bruising to our collective egos when we saw the placard below – attached to the rear of the pickup bed on the driver’s side – and (besides thinking that it had something to do with gross/tare/? vehicle weights, perhaps in New York) could not come up with an explanation of what it was for.Although the widow has not yet been able to locate the title, the pickup does have a set of matching (albeit well rusted) 1929 Florida plates (fwiw).
Does anyone know what the placard is for? It appears to read:
NYUW….2250
NYM(?)….1750
NYM(?)W….4000
Thanks in advance for whatever help anyone can give.
