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VK6BE > CARS 30.06.08 10:39l 24 Lines 960 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: RE: BOB's Dad's Model T
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Sent: 080630/0822Z @:VK2TV.#MNC.NSW.AUS.OC #:40284 [Kempsey, QF68JX] $:A32318VK
From: VK6BE@VK2TV.#MNC.NSW.AUS.OC
To : CARS@WW
I can't remember how many versions of the Model As were produced but it
was not more than two if that. I only ever saw one version and that had
the tank in the cowl behind and above the engine. My father's Model A was
a 1928 model; then came the AA followed by the Model B. After the Model B
came the first of the V8s which was released in 1932 or 1933, not sure
which.
The American cars at that time were very popular in Australia with plenty
of Checs (remember the Grasshopper Chev??). Rugby, Dodge, Olds, aand
Plymouth were also popular, mostly if not all, four cylinders.
If you had plenty of money you might buy a Buick which had a straight 8
model. In the 1940s m father bought a second hand Marmon straight 8, a gas
guzzler if there ever was one!!
Cheers,
Bob VK6BE.
>
> I think the last few years of model A production had the gas tank
> in the cowl to get around that need for backing up hills.
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