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I would be interested to know the demographics of the people who post on the Model A section of the site. I know there is a group of guys who started this great hobby that are slowing down in there work. I am 36. So am I a young Model A'er or is there a huge group of teens and early 20's getting interested in the hobby. I saw a age survey done on primarily petroliana that was very interesting. Does anyone know if any such survey has been done for this site of age of members and male vs female.

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im still young 52

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34 years old here. On my fourth Model A. 10 years of enjoyment driving them, breaking them, working on them, fixing them, reading about them constantly and improving them.

It's nice to have different ones based on my mood that day! :D

I Also like Model A history during production as well as how people used them and kept them on the road through WWII.

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Been around Model A's since I was born. Was our family car growing up. I am 61. When I was born (1950) my dad bought his first "new" car. It was a used 46 Plymouth. My mom drove that car for ever. My dad drove our "second car" the Model A (it was a 30 tudor) to work every day until maybe I was 6 or 7 years old. He was a real wheeler & dealer and probably traded it for for something else . Bottom line. There was always an A in his garage to "putz" with and he passed it on to me and now I've got a couple of them as well.

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38 years old

Grew up with my 1930 model A as a kid. My grandmother bought it in the early 60s and then let my dad care for it from mid 70s until the 1990s. The A slept from the 1990s until last summer when my grandmother gave it to me. We have been having fun with it since then.

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30 yrs old. Bought myself my first A, '31 coupe, for my 30th.

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i think i can beat every one, maybe,... i'm 14 been in the A hobby since i was eight

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Yeah, you are one of those younger ones i was hoping to see.

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I got my first "A" when I was 14. I took about 50 years off, and now I'm back at 69.

And they call John ^ a "Senior Member"??:D

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I got my first Model A when I was 16 in 1940. A 29 Tudor 11 years old with 42000 miles cost $65.00. When I get old I'll let you know. I am 86 young. Tony

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I'm 56 and have a 29 roadster and a 28 open cab pickup. I took my Washington driver's test in a 30 Tudor my older brother restored in the early 70s. The 28 pickup is on the lift where I'm installing a rebuilt engine, 39 transmission, and Mitchel overdrive. The 29 is apart and nearly ready to paid Rose Beige. Spring is here, the weather has warmed up to the 70s and I'm back in the garage after a few weeks of freezing cold weather. My 63 Corvette verte is out for paint.

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Just turned 58 and been in Model A's 10 or 15 years but loved them all my life. I cut my teeth on double nickle chevys to learn mechanics.

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I am a second generation Model A family, my parents are still active in the club and so am I . My wedding had all Model A fords in it, and when my kids were born I brought my wife and kids home in my tudor. I am 45 years old and both my boys are very involved in the hobby, they are 14 and 10

mike

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!st A at 24. Have owned 51 Model A,s, in the past 42 years, Still building , restoring , raceing , & enjoying what must be the greatest hobby ever, Still meeting new folk world wide , 67 comes up at the San Diego swap , so party time, Ill shout for all those that come along to our site, ?????? Tinnies on the house.???? If customs lets us in ????Derek from Hot dry NZ.

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I bought my first Model A in 1957 and only kept it for a year. In 1968 I bought my 28 tudor and spent 2+ years restoring it. I still have that tudor plus five other As. I'm cirrently restoring a late 31 sport coupe. I'm 68 and plan to keep working on my six Model As as long as possible. GREAT to hear from young guys just starting in the hobby.

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seems i saw someone post a 'survey' here of Ford Barn recently that tallied results ... might be interesting if someone could do this for this question.

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69 going on 70.

Got my first A in 1957 for free, a four door 1930 Sedan and I put a real cast iron Winfield head on it. Carved 15 lbs. off of the flywheel. Tried every carb setup from twin Zeniths, 97s, 94s, Winfields etc. Over time I basically beat the car to death and sold it for dirt.

Next was a 1931 Pickup in 1967 for $400. It was pink top to bottom had a dropped axle and one functioning rear brake. Fixed it a lot and repainted it, even hauled rock (2/3 of a yard). Again it got beat pretty bad and sat in my back yard for twenty plus years until I turned it into a street rod woody in 1997.

Next was a 31 Tudor that cost $4000. Had it for a couple of years, to busy working for a living. Wound up trading it as part payment for a T bucket.

My current A is a 1930 Tudor that I got for free (sort of) last year. Replaced the stock motor with an H&H touring motor and lost the rear main. Rebuilt and corrected their mistakes, put in a Stipe HP 350 cam, two 94s, headers and a 27 lb. flywheel, balanced it and it is b_b_b_bad to the bone.:D

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I got into the hobby in 1961, I was 10 years old when Mom dropped me off at the Ridgefield HCCA Fall Meet. That pretty much set the course of my life, meet a lot of great people and saw great cars. I don't feel like I'm 60, but know I'll never finish the cars I have. Dad got his A around 1962 and I found the Roadster body I'm still working on a year or so later. Still have Dad's Roadster but it hasn't seen the road since 1983, no need to fight its electrical gremlins, I just like looking at it, lots of good memories.

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32 and 3rd Generation Model A Collector/Restorer. It's nice to see other people my age involved in the hobby!

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I was born near the middle of the last century. I refuse to act my age even though I often feel like like I'm twice my age.
I've been wrenching on all kinds of autos trucks and tractors most of my life. I've had the privilege of working on many great makes, including many that are no longer manufactured. I have never owned a Model A but I have turned a few nuts and bolts on some. Maybe I'll own one some day, hopefully before I can't wrench any more.

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What a ray of sunshine for the hobby. Young people. That's anyone in their 50's or younger. All the clubs are worrying about the hobby dying out since so many of us are getting up in age. I'm especially excited to see people 30 or younger and then there is
John Duden. Fantastic!!!

At 74 years coming up March 8th, does anyone know someone 148 years old so I can still call my self middle age? :>) As an old friend, now gone, used to say, "I'm going to live till I die". No giving up to a few pains. I'll hang out with you kids.

What happens if something happens to me when I'm driving my Model A 2500 miles from home? Then it happens while I'm having the time of my live instead of watching TV.

Richard
Anaheim CA

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Bought my first Model A Ford at 30. Retired from a 30 year law enforcement career at 49. Current age 50 - on my 4th Model A Ford.

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I had a Model A given to me by my uncle in 1968 when I was 12.I still drive it,although it is on it's second frame and third body.55 this year.

Already did that survey
 

Results

Under 20 --- 0 (0%)
20-30 --- 6 (2%)
30-40 --- 10 (4%)
40-50 --- 32 (13%)
50-60 --- 83 (32%)
60-70 --- 93 (36%)
70-80 --- 29 (11%)
Over 80 --- 3 (1%)


Bob



Under 20 --- 0 (0%)
20-30 --- 6 (2%)
30-40 --- 10 (4%)
40-50 --- 32 (13%)
50-60 --- 83 (32%) 6
0-70 --- 93 (36%)
70-80 --- 29 (11%)
Over 80 --- 3 (1%)

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Sorry Bob, didn't mean to duplicate. I missed the first survey.

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43 here,got my 30 pickup about 10 years ago and just started the restore process! Sure is a lot if fun!

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I'll hit 75 this April. Bought my first A at age 16 in 1952. She was a '31 Tudor, black with red wheels. Thirteen years ago I purchased a early '30 Sport Coupe, chicle and copra, with straw wheels. Most importantly I belong to a great and active club, the Fox Valley Region, MARC. It has been a blast these last thirteen years.

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I am 66 and got my first Model A, a 1930 Coupe, in 1964 when I was 19. It was my first car and daily driver, and I put 30,000 miles on that car before I went in the AF in 1967. About 4 years ago, I got the bug to get another one, and this time I wanted a 4 dr and a nicely restored car, so I bought a 1930 Town Sedan that a guy had spendt 9 years restoring. It is gorgeous and very correct, but I also drive it at least 4 times a week all over S. Calif., including the 405 freeway. I have a Mitchell OD and HC head, so it is a great cruiser and I am having fun driving all over!

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How about putting the same poll on the other sites as well?

I wonder if there would be any difference....well, this poll isn't specifically about who owns and drives a Model A...it is about all of us on the barn I guess.

I wish MARC and MAFCA would have some sort of "age" poll...it would be interesting to know just how many are actually in each age group.

Pluck

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Steve, I posted it only on the Model A forum. Unless I'm wrong, you have to be looking at the model a forum to see it. That does not mean everyone who post or reads here owns and drives a model a. I think it would be interesting to see for the whole site. I agree about MAFCA and MARC.

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My grandson Andrew age 13, already did two bottom ends and one engine swap.

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I was 15 when I bought my first Model A 1929 Town Sedan, at 16 bought a 1929 CCPU. At age 17 I bought one 1929 Tudor, 1930 Tudor, and a whoopy. At 53 I boght my first AA 1929 188-A CCPU.

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69. Got my first "A" in 1962, a 1930 tudor when I was 20, then waited about a half century to get my second in 2006.

Jack

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I'm going on 64. My dad bought a 30 Sedan in 1952. My brother and I drove it to school. We had a lot of fun with it. I have been around T's also, as that is my Dad's favorite. I figure that I have four and a half years in building my 1931 Pickup. It was just a summer project, so it took me thirteen years to get it done. I would burn out then go to car shows and swap meets. This would get me started again working on it. It was a basket case when I started.

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Got my first A as a pile of 29 CCPU parts at about late teens (in the 1950's). Still have the same A but now it is a Huckster because I messed up the body in those early years. Now almost 76 I put it together again a couple years ago and added the new huckster body.

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I am 64 feel like 20 . Praise god .

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been in to old fords all my life my 1st was a 42 1956 it was a new car that was left in the barn untel the guy got home from the war WW2 he never came it had a cracked block so we junked it. just one of the uncountable that has came and went i now have 28 old fords 26 to 34 got to stop buying got to stopbuying" HELP" we wont get into the parts i have. what a sale where will be at the end of this ride

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I'll be 67 in October, had my first A (29 sport coupe, $100) in 1958.
Paul in CT

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I'm 30 now, I started when I was 18 with my 1931 Victoria.

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The average age of the people in our hobby is getting older all the time and there may not be youngsters to carry on. People tend to want the car they admired when they were younger. My first two cars were Model A's and I am only 62. Where will my car be in 20 years? What are the kids today going to want in 2031? Think they are going to want to drive a 45mph car?

The average age of Ford Barn members is interesting but it better represents the average age of old Ford owners with computers. I bet if you could get a survey of the average age of Model A owners without limiting it to those who are computer literate we would find the vast majority in the 75 to 85 bracket. I wonder what is the average MARC member age?