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Originally Posted by harryc
it used to be fun to look at the Ebay model A's for sale.......new cars popped up daily. Now the cars rarely change and it seems to be for, the most part, cars offered by dealers or hotrods----very boring. Changing times
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When I was kid in the 1960s and 1970s, we were in Model A Club. My mom was secretary. Once a year they had a progressive breakfast, going to each member's house. eggs at one house, bacon at the next... Us kids' road in the back of the Model A pickup beds or rumble seats. When they arrived at our house the Model A's lined both sides of the street, over 20-30 cars, I still go to their clubs' annual swap meet and "not one" club member brings out a car. in the town they live in??? Not one Model A for sale in the swap meet section. In the early days of the club there were guys that grew-up with old cars and wanted to relive those days. One of the guys had been Bonnie and Clyde's next-door neighbor. There were guys in the club that bought their Model A's new. Guys that had driven them over 100,000 miles on the original engine. Those guys are all gone. If you bought a '31 new you'd have to be about a 112 by now.
I go to Early Ford V8 shows here in SoCal and there is a good chance that not one stock '32-'34 Ford will show up, they have mostly been street rodded. And then we have a generation that is afraid of everything, won't attempt fix the simplest things, People send their distributers out to have points installed. They send out their carburetors to be rebuilt that are no more sophisticated than their toilet bowls which they can't fix either. It was a different world that I grew up in.