YES! Page's Model A Ford Garage at Haverhill, New Hampshire in the mountainous middle of nowhere. Took a couple of trips up to Page's in Haverhill, New Hampshire from the Boston area in the late 1960s. It was a long drive.
The outfit up in New Hampshire was owned and operated by old Fred Page. Fred was a former president of American Express. He retired from his main job sometime in the 1960s and went into running the Model A Ford shop full time. He was a very friendly and personable man.
Fred Page purchased parts from me a few times too. In the 1960s, we all had lots of spare Model A stuff such as good condition hoods and fenders. Fred was always on the look out to for shock absorbers and components and paid top buck. A guy that I knew from Topsfield, Massachusetts bought a restored single side mount 1931 deluxe roadster from Page's Model A garage. That was in year 1968. Fred always had a couple or more freshly redone A model roadsters in stock then with the price set at between $3,200 to $3,600. That was considered high end money back in those days as a brand new loaded Ford Galaxy rag top out the dealer's door would run those bucks or maybe less.
Thinking of Page's Garage, I just remembered a sort of related story. That same guy who bought that 1931 roadster from Fred Page in the late 1960s got into financial trouble during the early 1970s. He placed a For Sale AD in the "Antique Car" section of the Boston Sunday Globe newspaper. A tentative buyer showed up one day with a woman driving their car. The guy asked the owner, Don, if he could test drive the car around the block. As the Model A roadster was seen turning the corner for it's short run, Don noticed that the woman driver and her car had disappeared. He waited a few more minutes for the would-be buyer with his Model A Ford to return before calling the police. Though Don's roadster was on the hot sheet of car clubs throughout the eastern United States . . . the car was never seen again. Those were the days before Massachusetts had titles on old cars.
