People just love the Model A

al's28/33 said:
jb-ob I agree! I go out early weekend mornings, after 11am there are too many bicyclists and Gen-Xers who pay no attention to road signs nor have any common sense basic driving skills. I have more fun enjoying my car drives when there is less hustle and bustle. I don't care for tailgaters.
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I think you mean Gen-Zers. Gen-X is all middle aged folks now. But I get what you are saying. Sunday morning drives are nice. Hopefully it will be nice this Sunday I haven't driven any of my early Fords in weeks
 
You are a one person parade when you drive your Model A.

I have other antiques that get a lot of attention, too, but the Model A is a real crowd pleaser. What interests me is that there are a lot of serious bicyclists near me and they almost always give me a thumbs up when I meet them.
 
Well, after having said (above) that the sedans don't attract much attention, I got two thumbs up this afternoon driving my '31 Town Sedan from the shop to my house - one on each side of me (three lanes wide, I was in the middle). An aahooga got a second set of thumbs up from each driver. Must be that "almost Friday" good vibe.

JayJay
 
John Dayhuff said:
Maybe it's because it's something they don't see everyday, and also because today's cars suck?
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Man that is 100% spot-on.

You can sit and watch cars at any street today and the boredom will put you to sleep. Suvs. Crossovers. Black-white-silver gray. No colors to speak of. The cars all look the same. Somebody gets a good seller and all the others imitate it.

Subarus look like Ford Escapes. Chevy has a model looks like a Ford Taurus another Chevy model is a direct replica of the last model Ford Focus.

It used to be fun in the 60's to sit and watch the cars they looked pretty much different and they actually had colors. Not today. They suck. Usually until you see the company's logo on the front you have no clue what it is. Or really care.

Only new cars out there that are worth seeing are the Ford Mustangs and the Dodge Challengers. Everything else is throw away plastic bore-dom.
 
I am new to the Model A hobby since this past July. I own some exotic cars but they don't get the attention that the A gets. The constant thumbs up, horn honking, picture taking, and being stopped and asked questions. Just getting gas takes forever and women won't leave me alone. It is a yellow and black Huckster/woodie so it does stand out a bit.
I am a very defensive driver and one of the first things I did was to install 4-point harnesses just in case, they are a pain sometimes, have to remember to release the parking brake before I buckle up.
 
All the silver, grey, white & sand color cars make it hard to spot our '06 Mercury Grand marque hard to spot in the parking lot so we painted the top a beautiful dark electric blue. Simple to spot now & get lots of thumbs up too.
 
Yesterday (Veteran's Day) three of us went for a drive to San Francisco and across the Golden Gate bridge. We got back close to home after dark and there were two of us (both sedans) sitting at a stop light with the typical Model A marginal headlights on. Guy pulls up on the right, motions for my bride to roll down her window, and said "is there a parade? You know there's another one just like yours behind you". I told him yes I knew, no there wasn't a parade, we were just returning from a drive. He then asked what kind of car and responded with "they're beautiful".

Mid-afternoon we saw a dozen WW-II vintage fighter planes flying in formation over the bay. Not sure what they were but the sound of the rotary piston engines was distinctive. Very cool. Thank you to all who have served.

JayJay
 
What Jay Jay said in post #6. And even kids outside playing that were not even born back in the day(s). Just affirms that the design was good, and surely special. They don't do that when a Tesla drives by, a station wagon, or a Yugo.

I do not think they will ever go out of style in my lifetime.
 
I just drove my 30 deluxe coupe to the dentist office and a guy in the parking lot wanted to rent it so he could take his wife for a ride. I didn't know what to say,,,just stammered a little and said my insurance wouldn't cover that! These cars are not seen on the road that much in north Idaho so I get lots of waves and thumbs up. I generally smile, blow the horn, and whisper congratulations to the car.
 
Model A-s are the image of what antique cars should look like. They get driven a lot because they are very streetable while most antique cars just aren't. The huge production numbers plus the survivor rate is extraordinary. Try and find another manufacturers car from the same era. None survived
 
55chevr said:
Model A-s are the image of what antique cars should look like. They get driven a lot because they are very streetable while most antique cars just aren't. The huge production numbers plus the survivor rate is extraordinary. Try and find another manufacturers car from the same era. None survived
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I looked into the future to see what the cars today will look like in 90 some odd years...
 

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Nothing special about the Model A to the general public in my opinion. I’ve had several Model A Fords and my 1936 Ford Cabriolet gets just as much attention as a Model A.
 
Just recently at a stop light, the car in front of me stopped for the red light. Everyone was turning around and taking pictures of me in my 28 roadster. Even the car to the right of me, the driver was taking pictures. We almost did not make it through the light.
 
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