Most-asked question about your Model A?

steve s

steve s

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A comment in the overdrive thread got me wondering: He said that the single most asked question he gets is, "Is it all original?"

For me, I think it's, "How fast will it go?"

Any others?

Steve
 
what is it ?? my grandmother had one just like it only green & i think it was a dodge !
what year ? you drive that everyday !!!
 
There's always the usual: How fast will it go? What kind of mileage do you get? etc.

The best comment I have frequently heard at gas stations is, "What year is that car and what color is that paint?" Once I tell them it's a Kewanee Green 1930 Model A Ford Tudor Sedan, they say, "Yeah, my granddad had one exactly like this except it was a red 1950 Buick station wagon . . . just like yours!"

I stopped for a cup of coffee one Saturday morning at McDonalds and a lady walked up to me as I was getting out of the Model A and asked, "How old is that car?" I replied, "Eighty-three" and she yelled at her husband, "Delbert! Get the camera, this car was built in 1883!"

On that same stop at Mickey D's, when I came out of the restaurant I discovered that the car wouldn't start so I opened the hood to check the fuse; a man walks up and starts talking to me while looking over my shoulder into the engine compartment and complimented me on the restoration and then remarked, "Did you do the work on this car yourself?" I replied, yes and he said, "You can sure smell that fresh paint!" I just smiled knowing that I had painted the car in 1972 (41 years ago).

Last comment - why is it so many people (particularly teenagers) seem to always ask, "What's it worth?" or "What'd you have to pay for that thing?" I have tried to be diplomatic and not shoot back with, "That's sorta personal, what did you have to pay for that pair of shoes?" Rather thought it was best just tell them, "I paid $750 for it." I then pause and add . . . "41 years ago."
 
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Not a Question - But have you heard ... My (insert relationship hear) had one just like it. After a few questions, sometimes it turns out that it might have been a "Model A." Like the one that had a radiator shell emblem that said RIO with wings (probably a RIO Flying Cloud). I always listen because they are so excited, and they want to tell you all about person and the car. Good stories. Bill
 
1. What year is it?
2. What kind of mileage does it get?
3. How old is your Model T?
4. I thought all the cars were painted black?

Ron/IA
 
When are you going to chop it?
How much for just the body?

Both questions really burn my butt as I have not intentions of chopping it and if I ever dicided to sell it, it would be with everything and not to anyone that was going to streetrod it. Rod
 
2 kids on bicycles were looking at my 29 Business Coupe when I came out of a store ,one kid asks " Did you buy that New Mister ? "
 
Can you still buy tires for it?
How fast does it go?
I thought that they didn't go over 40 MPH?
What is it worth?
Does it run? (while displayed at car shows)
Did you buy it new?
Where did you find it?
Someone must have taken good care of it.
 
1) What year is it?
2) What kind of car is that?
3) Where do you get parts
4) How much is it worth? (I hate this one.)


Some funny ones I've received.

(Before a tour, getting coffee at a Burger King Drive Through)
WINDOW PERSON: Does it run???
ME: Uh, Yeah. I drove it here
WINDOW PERSON: Wow. That's cool.

(Brought the car to show the Automotive Technical College Students)

STUDENT: Hey man. You should put a GRILL on it!
ME: What?
STUDENT: Put a GRILLLL on it!!
ME: It has a grill on it.
STUDENT: I mean put a GRRRIILLLLL on it.
ME: Like a BBQ grill?
STUDENT: Awe... Nevermind.

(Still don't understand that one.)
 
1. What year?
2. How fast?
3. What's it worth?
4. What is it?

Always strikes me as odd that the last question is usually, "What is it?"

Had a delightful conversation with an elderly lady at the market one day. She was all excited, knew it was a Model A, knew it was a Roadster and asked if I was going to be there awhile so she could go get her husband. A few minutes later she shows up with this gentleman in tow and asks him if its the same car he had when they met. He looked it all over and said, "...could be, same color and year, but mine didn't have sidemounts on it." Then he leaned over and said, "...you know, I had to sell that car to buy her wedding ring, still not sure who got the best part of that deal..." She slugged him and they both walked off arm in arm laughing.

That's what its all about.
 
"You don't actually drive it, Do You?" (Miles from home)
You don't drive it in the rain, Do You? (I live in a rain forest)
"Where did you get it?" (I usually reply "From Ford")
How Much? (This one always sets my hair on fire, and I don't know why)
Does it run? (in a parking lot, anywhere)
You can't actually drive it on the road can you?
 
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