Mail Truck with Tracks

Question to the pros: Wouldn't this be worth more as a standard running geared vehicle? Don't get me wrong, I LOVE it, but I wonder why it was restored this way. To preserve it as it was I suppose, but I seem to see a few snow converion vehicles around from time to time and they don't seem to sell well. Especially the mail trucks seem to bring quite a bit of money as a standard chassis version.....just wonderin'.
 
As this looks cool, the body is someone's own design. It is not a 'real' mail truck body, and doesn't have tremendous amount of postal hardware one should. Neat as it may be, I don't think it is a 24k vehicle.
 
The kit is actually earlier than an A. Notice the Model T front axle and wheels. Also the ski with the wooden structure is also early vintage. By Model A era the ski was an all steel design. A number of changes were also made in the drive mechanism but it's not visible in the pictures.

This is my wife with her later kit. In 1930 they added the second idler axle to spread the load over a greater area. They also added the coged tire to eliminate the problem with the tires spinning in the steel track. The tire is now available in repro from Coker. The smaller idler wheels are an option to allow the doors to open without cutting. This also has the option that lets you lower the ski or the wheel depending on road conditions.


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Reminds me of a story from my Dad. We were walking through our local mueseum and came across a model A mail truck. Dad was a mailman all his life. He looked at that A and said that was what he drove when he started at the Post Office. Hmmm I thought that was pretty cool. He then said our town only had two of them and that one was the one he drove. I think we were both very surprised to see it. Amasing!! Ron
 
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