Model A commercial vehicles picture thread!!

spdway1 said:
Sorry for the stupid question...What is a Donovan engine and Ryan overdrive?
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Ryan made overdrives for Model A's that are a square box mounted to the differential. I do not know the exact dates they were made, but probably around the 70's.

Donovan Engineering makes aluminum A blocks with 5 main bearings, machined to use chevy pistons, lifters, bearings. They call it the Model D 100 hp, with modifications up to 180hp. They are very expensive.

http://www.donovanengineering.com/Blocks/ModelDBlock.html
 
Here are some where the commercial vehicle isn't the center of attention in the image. These images also show non-Ford trucks and vehicles and allows a chance to compare them side by side.

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-Tim
 
our ELLIOT MUSIUM just started getting their model A comercial collection yesterday, ther are 57 vehicles in the collection. was donated from donnely collection. is in STUART,FL i think the musium opens in march...
 
boo said:
our ELLIOT MUSIUM just started getting their model A comercial collection yesterday, ther are 57 vehicles in the collection. was donated from donnely collection. is in STUART,FL i think the musium opens in march...
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Hi Boo, I sent you a private message.
-Tim
 
This is my friends AA that won the MARC of Excellence :)
 

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Those poor firemen had no top either, I guess the general thinking of the day was that a rain storm would eventually put out a fire should a house burn down during the winter months.

Anyone ever seen a Model "AA" armored truck ?????
 
Over on the H.A.M.B. user Froghawk posted these great images of his Great Uncle with their 82-A truck. His great uncle was a Ford Tri-Motor pilot and used the truck as a support vehicle.

Be sure to check out the original post for more of the history and pictures....

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-Tim
 
Here are two really cool shots of a '31 Widebed Pickup from Montana.

Note the emergency light on the headlight bar and the siren mounted on the roof.

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I've attached two much larger resolutions here if someone wishes to download and check out the details.
-Tim
 

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I posted this picture a month ago showing a 1931 AA Ambulance at the Hoover Dam site.



I recently found the image below showing an injured person being loaded into the back of what could very well be the same vehicle.

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Found it on a completely different website about the Hoover dam project so it was a random find. I like those!
-Tim
 
Well, this thread has hit over 60,000 views so why not post a pretty cool picture to celebrate?

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On the left is a very rare Special Delivery parked next to a Panel Delivery. The cars say "Holcomb Candy Co." with Jacksonville Texas written on them. They are parked in front of the store bearing the same name.

-Tim
 
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