Remember that first Model A?

Got my first A in 1960. Got it at a junk yard for 60 dollars and drove it home. It was a 1929 special coupe. But I did not know that at the time. The back window was missing I though some one had removed the metal on the back.
 
My first was a 29 coupe. But that went away when I decided I needed a phaeton. Still have this one that I restored in 1965 and drove to the MAFCA National meet in 1966! I'm redoing it this winter getting ready for Loveland, CO next summer.
 

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My 1st Model A was in fact one of these:

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I was only 8 years old or so.... It only took me 42 years until I got a real one:

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Nuts and bolts sure beats the heck out of smelly glue :)

And this car will be my Son's some day...
 
My dad's first A was a 1928 Tudor AR. He bought it in 1963 for $20 when he was 12 years old, my grandpa restored it in the late 70s and we still have it today, still looking brand new.
 
Found my 1929 Canadian Roadster in a Barn in Brooklin Ontario. Past owner sold my dad his 31 Deluxe 30 years prior.

First time I saw her.
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A little clean up before she leaves the Barn
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Diamond in the rough.
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Proud Dad
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All loaded up
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Mamma is saying REALLY...
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My first 'A'...bought off the Rayl Ford used car lot in Hutchinson, KS, in 1955 for.....$65. To keep it in perspective, it was only 25 years old....would be like buying a 1990 car today. Unfortunately, I didn't keep it.....my wife and I dated in it for about 8 or 9 months and I traded it. For a '39 Ford. Didn't keep it either. Didn't we all.
 

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Bought my 28 Sport Coupe in 1985. I hope to have it painted by the spring. 30 years where did that go. Lesson learned, don't buy a car as pieces. It been a great journey looking for the missing parts. It's been a long journey looking for the missing parts!!
John Poole
 
1st A was a 29 pick-up....about a month ago...I have driven it a few times, and spent a lot more time wandering out to the garage just to check on it, you know, to make sure its not lonely...lol....I have wanted one for over 30 years and finally got one ;-)
 
My first was an AA 280A (Ambulance) in 1955 when I was 14. Bought it for $45. It only had around 15K original miles on it. Took me about a year to even get license plates for it since Arizona DMV declared it to be a commercial vehicle, and based on it's GVW was going to cost me well over $200. And that was every year! After many, many trips to the county courthouse (where the DMV was located) and installing seats in the back, I finally got a passenger title. They actually called it on the title a "Country Squire", which some of old fogies will remember as the then top of the line Ford Station Wagon. Tags were then around $15/year, much more affordable on a paper route salary.

Like so many of us, "If I only knew what I had . . . "
 
My first was a 68A cabriolet that I got in 1958 or 1959, just as I was becoming a teenager. I put hydraulic brakes on it at my father's insistence. It already had sealed beam headlights and smaller '35 ford wire wheels. It was all I drove once I got my drivers license, until I got my second Model A running. I really enjoyed regularly driving over the hill to southern Oregon, Ashland and Medford. It was reliable and more than adequate to keep up with the mostly 50 and 55 mph speed limits of the day.

I am now in the process of fully tearing it down one last time for final paint as I have been rebuilding it for the last five years. I am so lucky to have been able to keep it all these years. Still a Model A motor, hydraulic brakes, and sealed beam headlights. But I have added modern shocks, and have the fit and finish done to a much higher level than I was capable of over fifty years ago. This last year and a half, I have been driving it as I "perfected" it, and have been getting much pleasure and fond memories of my life when the same car was my only car.

Oh, the new color will be back to the original Andulasite Blue, as it was when my dad originally bought it new in late 1929. In the sixties, I had repainted it a metallic blue.
 
I bought my first one in 1971. She was a 30 Tudor Sedan. I think I paid $1,200 for it. Had to sell it in 1995. Got remarried and the house we bought didn't have enough garage space. Within 2 years I cured that problem, but the Model A was long gone. Bought my 2nd one last Aug.-1930 Coupe. Paid a whole bunch more this time.
 
1930 Tudor - was third owner. Paid $50. Sold it for $20.
Today's A is a '31 Tudor driver. Per the late Yogi Berra -- Deja vu all over again.
Quoting Smittykid "paid a bunch more this time"
 
HOTRODPRIMER said:
Yes sir,I was smart enough to keep her,married 43 years ago..[/QUOTE]

Congratulations, 43 years is a great achievement. As we say here in Oz, "she is a keeper" The biggest asset that a car enthusiast/restorer can have is an understanding partner that shares the passion. I am at 42 years married, just one behind you.
Here we are in the late 1970's with my first restoration. Not a Model A, but I have kept it. It is a fun car to drive.
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I still have my First one, a 1929 Tudor Sedan. I bought it in 1964 and my Mother told
me to never sell it as all my Father's friends were always saying I wish I still had my first
car. I'm glad she did.....
 
Bought the 29 standard coupe in 1969, drove it during college. Took me 6 months to rebuild the engine, trans, rear, brakes, add wiring, upholstery and glass. Loved crank starting it in the college parking lot. Real attention getter. Kick myself for selling it. Got a 29 AA two years later and still have it.
 
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