A buddy of mine sent me these photos. I'm skeptical as it looks that it could have been Photoshopped. Is this a real vehicle? If so, I want one as my Winter Driver! I was wrong! Check out the link. It's for sale on Ebay! After you get done with that, check out all the really cool other stuff he has for sale. This guy has a freakin' gold mine! Ford : Model A Rural Mail Delivery Cabriolet Convertible Coupe
There have been several articles about cars like that built to deliver mail in the " Restorer " magazine from the Model A Club of America. I have seen pictures of several others but most were used up and scrapped. Just picked up a cheap Model A and modified it for snow and mud roads and drove it to death, they have good torque and the truck rear end ratios were somewhere around 7:13 so would crawl over almost anything.
He has a lot of interesting things for sale but going by the prices, as we say down South, he is "proud" of his stuff.
This is weird, beautiful and fun, in XXXL! I see the need, I get it and like it. But it beats me why they wanted to you a cabrio to drive in the snow. I would have used a Tudor and a heater. Like the one HRP posted. That auto-lite on the exhaust, is that a heater set up? I've seen something like it but homemade, over here for winter driving, and I saw a guy who had a Sears ( he claimed) cocking/own thing for exhaust.
I like it, looks like it has a Ford TT truck rear based on the wood wheels. They were worm drive and geared real low. Bob
Yes, a few of those came with my A when I got it. The manifold has fins on it, and the outer cover ducts air from the fan over the manifold through a hole cut in the firewall. There is a flap screwed on to open and close the hole.
All them I've seen yell "homemade hill billy engineering". I like the car, over here they used the snow plow to deliver stuff, and they dident look this good!
they must be smokin' some good shit up there. I don't know what justifies the asking price more, the weirdness of the car, or the book he wrote about it!
The cabrio was modified in the late 30s when it was just another second hand car. They needed a 2 door because the big rear wheels and fenders would have blocked rear doors. They could have used a 2 door sedan or coupe but I suppose the guy already had that car, or it was the first one he found for sale.
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