The Ford Barn

ctlikon0712 · 01-06-2013, 04:38 PM

Ive really enjoyed reading this thread. Its good to know the ladies are involved.

lance leblanc · 01-06-2013, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by P.S.

Model A windows down on a country road in the passenger's seat while your wife drives with her long hair occasionally carried by the wind, whipping you in the face. Heavenly!

P.S. you may have a missed our calling as a writer. That reads like something out of a romance novel! (not that I have ever read a romance novel).

Not the typical gangster riding the runnng board image that usally comes to mind.

Thanks for the mental image.

Richard Wilson · 01-06-2013, 08:49 PM

Back in 1992 I gave Model A driving classes for all of the ladies in my Model A club. I had just finished a restoration on a 28 roadster with rumble seat and used it. We had three women in the rumble and one in front plus me at a time, all giving encouragement to the driver. Having the extra ladies in the car provided just the right amount of peer pressure and they all did great. Lot's of fun going down the road. Some had never driven a straight drive auto before. They loved it........and me to. Twelve women drove my roadster that day. All the husbands told me I was crazy for trying to teach the ladies to drive and for using the roadster. At the next meeting I gave each lady a certificate and a Model A "drivers license".

Henry's Lady · 01-06-2013, 09:31 PM

My 1930 Cabriolet has been in my family since 1958, when my Grandmother located it in a barn. My father restored it around 1979. It took me a long time to graduate from the rumble seat to the driver's seat, but now I'm driving Suzy. Maybe someday my husband will learn how to drive her......what's to adjusting the spark advance, and learning to double clutch, after all?

Roger V · 01-06-2013, 11:00 PM

My wife has a '31 Coupe and a '31 Slantwindow TS. She drives occasionally when I am not up to it. One tour with 18 Model A's she drove 113 miles! When she was teaching and had a stack of papers to grade, she would stop at the suggestion to take the Model A out. It is in her "blood" enough that she remains the only female national president of M.A.R.C.

steve s · 01-07-2013, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by P.S.

There truly is something sexy about sitting next to your wife while she is driving your car that you worked on or restored, isn't there? Maybe it's like the primal "Man hunt and kills beast, wife prepares and cooks beast for husband" thing. It's almost as good as seeing the wife joyfully decorating the house I built for us. But better.

Model A windows down on a country road in the passenger's seat while your wife drives with her long hair occasionally carried by the wind, whipping you in the face. Heavenly!

Well, it's nice imagery, but the long hair days are gone for her and any length hair days are about gone for me! But, I did find myself sort of reflecting on and running down the inventory of every single bolt and nut I'd redone on the car; for some reason it suddenly mattered a bit more that I really had put it all back together right than it does when I'm driving it.

Here's my honey driving on the mandatory tour--my first time riding in the passenger seat since I bought the car in 1960.

Ray in La Mesa · 01-07-2013, 10:29 AM

My wife,JudyJo, has had her '31 coupe since high school (baby sitting money) and it was her only car for years to school and jobs and raising two kids. We met in '72 in the local A club when I had my '28 roadster pickup, my second A,. Our first "date" was fixing the differential in her coupe. She then inherited her mom's '31 SW and drives it too. I'm the fleet mechanic but she helps when she isn't doing other stuff. Life is GREAT when your wife loves Model A"s too.

FL&WVMIKE · 01-07-2013, 03:24 PM

Here is a photo of me letting my future wife drive my roadster, for the first time.
MIKE
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lance leblanc · 01-07-2013, 11:02 PM

Great to see all the beautiful woman in their beautiful cars. But it looks like while they may own and drive them. They dont have need to spend any of their spare time talking about their cars on this forum.

Perhaps they're watching Alabama Crimson Tide crush Notre Dame Fighting Irish on T.V.

kpreed · 01-08-2013, 09:52 AM

I own and am sole driver (as far as I know ) of my Pick-up.

01-06-2013, 04:38 PM	#21
ctlikon0712 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Cocoa, Florida Posts: 1,609	Re: Ladies in A's Ive really enjoyed reading this thread. Its good to know the ladies are involved. __________________ Wanted: Simmons Super Power Head Craig Likon 1931 150B

01-06-2013, 08:49 PM	#23
Richard Wilson Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: NC Posts: 908	Re: Ladies in A's Back in 1992 I gave Model A driving classes for all of the ladies in my Model A club. I had just finished a restoration on a 28 roadster with rumble seat and used it. We had three women in the rumble and one in front plus me at a time, all giving encouragement to the driver. Having the extra ladies in the car provided just the right amount of peer pressure and they all did great. Lot's of fun going down the road. Some had never driven a straight drive auto before. They loved it........and me to. Twelve women drove my roadster that day. All the husbands told me I was crazy for trying to teach the ladies to drive and for using the roadster. At the next meeting I gave each lady a certificate and a Model A "drivers license". Last edited by Richard Wilson; 01-06-2013 at 08:54 PM.

01-06-2013, 09:31 PM	#24
Henry's Lady Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 4	Re: Ladies in A's My 1930 Cabriolet has been in my family since 1958, when my Grandmother located it in a barn. My father restored it around 1979. It took me a long time to graduate from the rumble seat to the driver's seat, but now I'm driving Suzy. Maybe someday my husband will learn how to drive her......what's to adjusting the spark advance, and learning to double clutch, after all?

01-06-2013, 11:00 PM	#25
Roger V Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Michigan Posts: 1,593	Re: Ladies in A's My wife has a '31 Coupe and a '31 Slantwindow TS. She drives occasionally when I am not up to it. One tour with 18 Model A's she drove 113 miles! When she was teaching and had a stack of papers to grade, she would stop at the suggestion to take the Model A out. It is in her "blood" enough that she remains the only female national president of M.A.R.C.

01-07-2013, 10:29 AM	#27
Ray in La Mesa Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: La Mesa Ca Posts: 1,166	Re: Ladies in A's My wife,JudyJo, has had her '31 coupe since high school (baby sitting money) and it was her only car for years to school and jobs and raising two kids. We met in '72 in the local A club when I had my '28 roadster pickup, my second A,. Our first "date" was fixing the differential in her coupe. She then inherited her mom's '31 SW and drives it too. I'm the fleet mechanic but she helps when she isn't doing other stuff. Life is GREAT when your wife loves Model A"s too.

01-07-2013, 11:02 PM	#29
lance leblanc Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Baton Rouge LA Posts: 238	Re: Ladies in A's Great to see all the beautiful woman in their beautiful cars. But it looks like while they may own and drive them. They dont have need to spend any of their spare time talking about their cars on this forum. Perhaps they're watching Alabama Crimson Tide crush Notre Dame Fighting Irish on T.V. Last edited by lance leblanc; 01-08-2013 at 10:51 AM.