My Dad's Model A in 1941

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jeep44

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I recently found this slide of my Dad's first car in 1941 (when he was 17). Rather suprisingly, I bought the same exact model, without ever seeing this photo. Color slides from before WW2 are a bit rare, but this is still a pretty good photo. Check out all the 'custom' features, like the headlight visors, and the horseshoes on the radiator. The amber running lights are interesting,too.


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Thanks much for the post of your Dad's Ford. I rarely see things like a color slide that old of a great Model A.
 
What's rather spooky is that during all the years I was buying and restoring other types of vehicles, my Dad was always telling me to get an "A". He died in 2010, and I bought my sedan in the fall of 2011. A while back, we were going through the drawers in his dresser, and I noticed this single slide,which i just stuck in my pocket (it was labelled "Chucks first car in 41") to look at later. Not having a slide viewer, I could see that it was probably an "A", but I sent it out to a place that scans your slides, and puts them on a DVD for you. I have to say, I'm not so crazy about the color scheme. As much as I'd like to make mine look like his did, I'll probably paint it differently.
 
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