Aw hell, and I've been tryin' to get my A sedan as low as possible. Now all the cool kids are going for the super-high boy look!
YES Thanks for the new pics Flathead!!!! That is the 33/4 Tudor I was talkng about and the vintage pic is killer. I just wonder how long the wire wheels lasted with all the weight on them from the big heavy wheels?? I just may have to raise my Model A ............
http://i469.photobucket.com/albums/rr52/rgallegos88/Sunday 5 24 cruise/SundayCruisin028.jpg Hi all, I'm new here but wanted to fill in some details on the "Mailwagon" seen above. I purchased it on eBay a few years ago from a guy who had gone to Minnesota to get it. The guy he purchased it from gave him the name of the name of the farmer from whom he purchased it 20 years earlier. He said it had been used by a farmer (and he gave the name) who ran a rural mail route near Devils Lake, ND in the late '40s and early '50s. I wanted to get the car drivable once more and make it look like it might have "in the day". When I got it the back fenders as seen in the photo were in place though the right one was missing about a third of the back end. There was no top, no interior, no lights, little gl***, some body wood, complete running gear including a Model T worm drive rear end. It had a little bit of brake left on the front wheels. The first thing I did was get it started. I didn't want to spend much time bringing it back to "the look" if I couldn't drive it. Here is a link to a video of it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE_ptoCYV8c I soon added a used interior from a tudor that was becoming a hotrod. I added all the gl***, made front fenders from some heavy gauge steel which I stripped of paint and rusted with sea salt and hydrogen peroxide. I added the Model A lights with the sealed beam conversions and a school bus "STOP" light in which I added a taillight bulb. That light is mounted above the rear window where there was an outline of the original Model A taillight bracket in the body rust. The body had surface rust but there was absolutely no body rust. I had some fun with it but my wife was not real fond of it! She did let me park it in the front yard and decorate it for a Christmas display that year. The next spring, my friend, who owns the aforementioned "museum" in Galvin wanted it so I sold it to him. I drove it about 3 miles on the road from my house to his. I got up to about 35 MPH and I'm sure it would have gone faster but with almost no brakes I chickened out. To complete "the look" I had a friend paint the doors with appropriate lettering and then I aged it. I also added a rusty 1947 ND license plate! This project was a lot of fun. It was more of an art project than a car project in many ways. Here are a couple more pictures: http://www.thefreemancenter.com/1930...ord_Tudor.html PS: There are some really nice cars in the Galvin "museum". He enjoys giving tours. Attached Thumbnails
Old thread, yeah, I realize that. But it jogged a memory of a mail car I saw a couple years back. Growing up in the 60's, my parents would talk about the car with "big wheels" that the local mailman would use when the snow got too deep. I never saw it until July 4, 2008, in the 125th Jubilee parade in Glen Ullin, North Dakota.
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