Purchased a late 31' Tudor sedan last fall and it came with a radiator screen already mounted. First thing that I did upon getting the car home was to pull off the screen. Ya see . . . I don't want no stinking chrome 1970s disco era ostentatious fake junk on my A Model Ford. Blah! Blah! Blah! The mission is to have a nicely aged authentic period Ford automobile as it may have looked in the later 1930s. Love those black wall tires and black painted wheels!
Have many street scene photos in Boston and New York City taken throughout the 1920s - 1940s. During the 1930s, the streets of America and semi-civilized world were well populated with Ford Model A cars. Find it interesting as to how beat up and dented those vehicles were within a few years after rolling off the assembly line. Back in the day, non of those cars had radiator screens. Some after-market jobber probably offered and sold such things then but they never showed up on the used parts market. Also, to recollection, I can't recall seeing a modern manufacture radiator screen back in the 1960s when lots of us drove Model A Fords in regular daily service as second car transportation. Of course, parts such as used Model A radiators were cheap and plentiful back then so it wasn't given a thought.
Fast forward to year 2016! I'm thinking that with running an 85-year old automobile having an original fine condition expensive to replace radiator, then it might be wise to employ a screen for the added protection.
Like ya know . . . I'm just sayin.
