Thought the Barners who didn't attend the SEMA Show this year would be interested to learn that a all stock appearing 31 RPU was front and center in the Ford booth. John LaVoy of Model A Times Magazine and VP of the Model A Foundation, had completed the build up just prior to the show opening. The goal was to reproduce a Model A using as many aftermarket parts as possible, with the exception of the front end, engine, frame and in this case wheels, which were all original.
The RPU was very well accepted by the crowd and had many people around it posing and taking pictures, this in a place where the wildest, over the top car creations abounded. Every time I came back to it people were around looking and using their cameras.
I am also a board member of MAFFI and was working on finding partners to support your new Model A Museum along with introducing a few selected manufacturers to the possibility of making parts for the Model A. Your new museum has operating expences that have to be met and partnering or gaining sponsors is a way to meet that need. I was able to make contact with several major corporations that supply products and supplies to the entire auto interest group and the responce from them was very good.
New suppliers to our Model A hobby has been lacking for our needed parts and componets, with many of the items made offshore. I selected two products to persue, ring and pinions along with a stock Model A appearing generator that houses an alternator. I provided these US manufacturers with our hobby demographics, facts and figures with the understanding that if they succeed, remember to support the Museum. We may come out of this with everything we wanted, in one case the chief of development was the individual that I met with.
Please remember to support your museum, buy a brick, join MAFFI and if possible make a donation. If you have any questions you can contact me by email, please, I am not on here very often.
Steve Ribeau
Steve
The RPU was very well accepted by the crowd and had many people around it posing and taking pictures, this in a place where the wildest, over the top car creations abounded. Every time I came back to it people were around looking and using their cameras.
I am also a board member of MAFFI and was working on finding partners to support your new Model A Museum along with introducing a few selected manufacturers to the possibility of making parts for the Model A. Your new museum has operating expences that have to be met and partnering or gaining sponsors is a way to meet that need. I was able to make contact with several major corporations that supply products and supplies to the entire auto interest group and the responce from them was very good.
New suppliers to our Model A hobby has been lacking for our needed parts and componets, with many of the items made offshore. I selected two products to persue, ring and pinions along with a stock Model A appearing generator that houses an alternator. I provided these US manufacturers with our hobby demographics, facts and figures with the understanding that if they succeed, remember to support the Museum. We may come out of this with everything we wanted, in one case the chief of development was the individual that I met with.
Please remember to support your museum, buy a brick, join MAFFI and if possible make a donation. If you have any questions you can contact me by email, please, I am not on here very often.
Steve Ribeau
Steve
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