Most-asked question about your Model A?

[juke joint johnny]

Originally Posted by modelAtony

I live in the area that is in a high traveled area for tourists around Lafayette,la. I always have people asking me about the 31 tudor or the 29 roadster. Every saturday and sunday I have at least 10 people ask me about the car,

I'm in at the time. Resturants and swamp tours with people from Europe and Asia are the big thing and Canada every one wants to see someting CAJUN. I always talk with the people , let them take pictures and [ all you guys that are going to say ahh dont do that you will get sued, just keep quite and dont rattle my cage, cause I do it and like the enjoyment people get] I take people on a ride for about 3 miles everyone really has a great time. I have many addresses and telephone numbers from people that have ridden in my cars and they all tell me that if me and my family are in their part of the world please call ahead before we arrive and they will show us a great time. The most asked question I get is where do you find the tires ? have fun modelAtony Lafayette,la

Tony You are an Ambassador for the Model A !!!!! and Lafayette !!!

We All get asked these silly questions but if we come back with some grumpy remark !! What will people think ???

Better to make them Laugh and be friendly they will go away with happy memories and good thoughts about Old car people .

Maybe one day they will have a ModeL A . It seems like only yesterday that I was a runny nosed kid asking questions about Model A's !!
Where did those 50 years go??

John Cochran

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Originally Posted by juke joint johnny

Tony You are an Ambassador for the Model A !!!!! and Lafayette !!!

We All get asked these silly questions but if we come back with some grumpy remark !! What will people think ???

Better to make them Laugh and be friendly they will go away with happy memories and good thoughts about Old car people .

Maybe one day they will have a ModeL A . It seems like only yesterday that I was a runny nosed kid asking questions about Model A's !!
Where did those 50 years go??

John Cochran

You two are FUN Guys!
Life's too short to be GRUMPY & KRANKY
A cop threatened to give me a ticket for "HAVIN' TOO MUCH FUN" In Minerva, the Black Phantom!!! Bill W.

[Pa Joe]

There is so many answers that I didn't take the time to read them all, so this could be a repeat of someone elses experience. I was at a car cruise last year and a elderly women saw my A and asked me if I was the original owner. I thought she was putting me on, but she never smiled or laughed. I said " good Lord lady, I'm old but not that old" I got a 28 tudor

[partridgekelley]

I live in a tourist kind of town and get lots of the same questions , but I get one that I don't see listed. I have 3 labs and when I go into anyplace there is usually someone taking pictures of the truck and/or dogs in it. The question I get is "do they let me drive it" , because they take up the whole seat as soon as I get out. It kind of surprises me because my A's aren't all fixed up pretty. I drive mine nearly every day and the dogs love to ride with me. The only thing wrong is there isn't much room in a 28 closed cab pick-up for 3 dogs and an old man.

[Droobie]

I have actually been asked frequently for a ride in it or permission to take pictures with it. It has been a limousine for Prom the past two years!!!

[hotrodderhaag]

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I always get.... Does that thing actually run? Mean while I'm being Asked this in the Parking lot of Dairy Queen or something ...... The next is how fast does it go? And am I ever going to paint it..... I always respond , it's already painted and its perfect how it is . They always find that humorous , but I'm serious

[SteveB31]

Does it run, and I had one just like that, except it was red, a 4 door, a Chevy, but other then that it was just like yours......

[jkcrosson]

How fast will it go? How many miles per gallon? What year? When are you going to paint it?

[Karl]

I get all the same questions. However the funniest one I got was not on the Model A but on my 1967 Sunbeam Alpine by an apprentice mechanic. He pointed to the alternator relay control box and told me that was the computer and we could "chip it" I nicely informed him of his error and pointed out that a computer in 1967 was not much smaller than the car ! He then proceeded to argue with me that no car could run without a computer!! Karl

[mebeached]

Does anyone know where to get the metal header panel cover for the 1930 ford cabriolet. checked most parts books.

[Chuck Sea/Tac]

I have had bullet hole decals on my Tudor for ten years. Many times older people will reach out and touch them to see if they are real A lot of people ask if they are real, to which I reply"Yeh, I live in a tough neighborhood!" It always gets a laugh. The other comment I get is"Wow, just like Bonnie and Clyde's car!"

[BarracudaBoy]

Hey! Your door isn't closed! (have to explain that the door overlaps the body)

[Richard Wilson]

Not most asked but most unusual.....A grinning 90 something year old woman asked "Do you know what we used to do in that when I was a girl?" while pointing to the rumble seat. Club had taken our Model A's to a nursing home for an afternoon with the residents.

[jkeesey]

I always get "does it run?" No... I pushed it here.

[1931 flamingo]

I go to many cruises and shows, about 2 yrs ago my brother (who doesn't like him either) got me a nice bumper sticker that's in the back window
Obama...Impeach Him There's also a hammer/sickle on the sticker.
Everyone that sees it wants to know where to get one or gives me a thumbs up if I'm sitting near the car. Have only had one middle aged woman who didn't like it.

Paul in CT

[Pete]

I have my hubs set up so I can run stock wheels or my aluminum hot rod wheels but run the aluminum ones for everything but parades.
Consequently the car has a hot rod look on the outside so obviously the first question is, "How fast"?
I refer them to the dash plaque from the SCTA that says, 153.7 mph. (Not "A" engine)
(Actually the car went 163.9 with a different body)
(It would do 93 with the "B" engine, the current 2 door body and geared for hill climbing.)
Anyway, then the conversation starts and sometimes it develops to a long lasting friendship. You meet some of the neatest people in supermarket parking lots.

[Dave in MN]

1) What year is it?
2) How fast will it go?
3) Really?
4) Do you drive it alot...how many miles a year?
5) Really?
6) How many miles per gallon?

[Rex_A_Lott]

I've had most of these at one time or another, also. But my favorite one will probably always be:
" Poppa can we drive your old truck to get ice cream?"

[Chris in WNC]

here's something I occasionally display on our Coupe at car shows. most of you can figure out what the questions are


ANSWERS TO YOUR MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

1) Coker Tire in Chattanooga
2) Haven’t checked. the average Model A approximates 18 mpg.
3) Whatever a willing buyer will pay. Interested?
4) I’d leave it home before I’d put it on a trailer.
5) Stock except for the Mitchell overdrive.
6) Nope. I’m just going to maintain it as it is.
7) FordBarn Model A online classified ads.
8) Reproduction parts dealers, swap meets & the internet.
9) 50-55 mph all day long.
10) No, your grandfather’s was a Dodge and it was green.