Early Model A advertisement

frank mcdaniels

frank mcdaniels

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My daughter is here for Easter and helping me post a picture.this is an early advertisement I have.you might notice there is no front bumper on this photo.i have never found an ad that doesn't show a bumper. Also no door handles and the steering wheel is red. If this works I will post photos of my old fords as soon as I take them out of storage for spring. Frank
 

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Some of the first pictures of The New Ford, especially newspaper feature, depicted the cars without bumpers.
I sometimes have wondered whether Ford initially intended the bumpers to be optional ; but bumpers were mandatory but ''extra charge'' in the US, but not with Canadian cars.
Some of the '28 '29 Model AA trucks were sold without front bumpers.
 
frank mcdaniels said:
My daughter is here for Easter and helping me post a picture.this is an early advertisement I have.you might notice there is no front bumper on this photo.i have never found an ad that doesn't show a bumper. Also no door handles and the steering wheel is red. If this works I will post photos of my old fords as soon as I take them out of storage for spring. Frank
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Frank:
What is the size of the advertisement.

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No front bumper? Why does that look familiar?
Note: Mine should be going back on this week-end
 
"Maybe" Ford figgered that with the NEW brakes, didn't need NO front bumper?? The rear bumper protected them frum Model T's with SORRY ASSED BRAKES!!
Bill W.
 
A great many of the earlier (and sometimes, later) advertizements were artist sketches, not photos. In such cases one often times finds oddities that differ from actual production models - more representative of the artist than actual factory production cars. The 'no bumpers' is just such an example. The 'French Pillar' on 4-door cars is another example.

- Doug Vieyra
 
That print is most likely one that was meant to hang in the dealerships before every dealer got a demo. There is a Ford memorabilia museum here in CT and he has one of every model for 28.
The early illustrations were often a bit different than reality.
 
frank mcdaniels said:
My daughter is here for Easter and helping me post a picture.this is an early advertisement I have.you might notice there is no front bumper on this photo.i have never found an ad that doesn't show a bumper. Also no door handles and the steering wheel is red. If this works I will post photos of my old fords as soon as I take them out of storage for spring. Frank
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If you have a small #8 in the lower right hand corner then you have what post #9 says.
I have print #7 the Coupe.

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Frank,

What you have is an original Ford Model A showroom poster from the first series of posters that Ford produced. Here it is hanging on the wall of this Ford dealership with your's next to it for comparison:

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(University of Louisville Photographic Archives)

You have a very nice poster!

Fordially,
Brad in Maryland
 
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