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03-17-2009, 12:30 PM
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Re: Who Needs A Model-A? Not Chester.
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03-17-2009, 12:33 PM
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Old School HAMBer
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Beautifull Black Hills of South Dakota
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Re: Who Needs A Model-A? Not Chester.
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03-17-2009, 12:44 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Bismarck, ND
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Re: Who Needs A Model-A? Not Chester.
Even today I don't think you need a street adress for Maxbass ND, the POP is 91.
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03-17-2009, 12:53 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Hopelessville
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Re: Who Needs A Model-A? Not Chester.
Wonder what he did? Oh yeah.....ya' got me with the last page.
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03-17-2009, 12:54 PM
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Old School HAMBer
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Re: Who Needs A Model-A? Not Chester.
All I know is that Chester better hang onto that T... the crash is coming in October and he's gonna be out of a Jay-Oh-Bee...
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03-17-2009, 01:01 PM
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Grenade Inspector
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: San Diego
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Re: Who Needs A Model-A? Not Chester.
damn I need to get my car on the road, my buddies always make that drive every year and I've haven't been there. CA to TX what a great drive in a model A or any car....
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03-17-2009, 02:12 PM
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Grenade Inspector
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Howe-Nattu Engineering, Ky.
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Re: Who Needs A Model-A? Not Chester.
I get come-ons like that every month from the local Chevy dealer. Difference is, just a few of those services cost more than a Model T cost brand new
 Maybe I'll save 'em so years from now they can get a chuckle about how easy WE had it, back in the good ol days!
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03-17-2009, 02:37 PM
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Location: Maple Ridge, BC
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Re: Who Needs A Model-A? Not Chester.
I am the Assistant Service Manager at a new car dealer. The more things change, the more they stay the same. The new models are out & do not generate the same amount of work so we need the older models coming in to maintain the same work level in the shop.
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03-17-2009, 05:35 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Michigan
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Re: Who Needs A Model-A? Not Chester.
crazy the cost of things back then, $1.00 for labor- cool post
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03-17-2009, 07:28 PM
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Old School HAMBer
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Tweed, Australia
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Re: Who Needs A Model-A? Not Chester.
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03-19-2009, 04:49 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Ryton-on-Dunsmore, UK
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Re: Who Needs A Model-A? Not Chester.
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clearing out an aunts house we found a whole bunch of papers and stuff....including an unopened letter postmarked 1929...anyway there were local papers going back to 1932....so straight to the cars for sale sect... morgan 3 wheeler for £5 model t truck £20 Humber 4 door.....luxury saloon..£35 model T 4 saloon......£15 I won't even start on the motorcycles but lets just say you don't wana know how cheap.... and the unopened letter contained the end of year (1929) magazine for Tamworth High School for Girls..and yeah I still have it!
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03-19-2009, 05:09 PM
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Location: Pennsylvania
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Re: Who Needs A Model-A? Not Chester.
$7 for 4 pistons?? Shit that won't even cover shipping today.
  That's one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. Thanks for sharing it.
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03-20-2009, 09:03 AM
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Location: Colorado
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Re: Who Needs A Model-A? Not Chester.
Cool postcard!
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03-20-2009, 09:17 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Bay City, MI
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Re: Who Needs A Model-A? Not Chester.
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A couple months later he got dusted by a guy in a speedster T and decided he needed a bit more of That. So he got out a letter to a fellow named Winfield in Southern California and in a few weeks he got back a heavy package with a head, a camshaft, and a carburetor. He installed them, tuned them up, and went hunting for the president of the local bank and that Packard coupe he was always racing around in...  -Dave
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03-20-2009, 12:23 PM
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Re: Who Needs A Model-A? Not Chester.
 what's that come out to in 2009 dollars?
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03-21-2009, 06:46 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Palm Coast Florida
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Re: Who Needs A Model-A? Not Chester.
I've seen these letters before in a book I have on restoring your Model A. Prior to the Crash they couldn't keep up with the demand for Model A's, it says, and they didn't want to lose a loyal customer or a potential profit. Ol' Henry was a sly one.
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03-22-2009, 08:56 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: aurora ohio
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Re: Who Needs A Model-A? Not Chester.
Being the owner of a 1920 Ford model T I can say without hesitation "gimmy me an A any day". Kinda reminds me of the major changes between the 54 Chevy to the 55.
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03-22-2009, 09:12 PM
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Old School HAMBer
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Aurora, ILL-Annoys (40 miles west of Chicago)
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Re: Who Needs A Model-A? Not Chester.
Spammin' me like that, you oughta be ashamed...
Neat old card and it just goes to show you direct mail marketing isn't anything new.
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Will trade upholstery work for running pre '64 truck. Mopar prefered but oddball makes OK esp. COE.
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03-22-2009, 09:16 PM
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Old School HAMBer
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Re: Who Needs A Model-A? Not Chester.
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$25.00 = $310.22 http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl is a CPI calculator.
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Will trade upholstery work for running pre '64 truck. Mopar prefered but oddball makes OK esp. COE.
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03-23-2009, 02:08 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: MINN. JUST NORTH OF TWIN CITIES
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Re: Who Needs A Model-A? Not Chester.
huh.. ?
ol Chester kept the card but not the car ... guess the stamp must have held value after all these years ..damn philatilists hoarders think of the expense to the dealership to mass mail this to all 15-20 current good FORD customers (in this town/ county)and the total MAIL delivery mileage driven to get them there.. rural routes were big then..very thought provoking .... now cut that out!
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