Ford A or AA!

 


Ford Model A Coupé — this one was for sale on Finn.no quite recently.



Ford Model A Coupe – now that right there’s a car I been thinkin’ is mighty, mighty fine for a long time. Just the other day I saw the one pictured up yonder for sale on Finn.no.

Ford Model A pickup – my daddy apparently grew up ridin’ around in one of these back in the early 1950s, ’fore his old man got himself a Morris Mini Minor panel van in ’56.

Ford Model A Snow Flyer – now this here was a Ford built tough for winter runnin’. Back in those days folks didn’t have no winter tires, so if you wanted to get anywhere once the snow came down, you’d darn well better be drivin’ a tracked rig.

Ford Model A wood-gas car – I’ve talked ’bout wood-gas rigs before, cars runnin’ on them ol’ wood-burnin’ generators. And here you can see one mighty fine vintage Ford Model A with a real classic wood-gas generator hangin’ off the back, plus one of them old-fashioned sacks of firewood sittin’ on a rack. As you can tell, this car’s clean as a whistle and kept in tip-top shape by its owner.

Ford Model A or AA truck – Daddy told me once how he got hauled up Giljajuvet toward Hunnedalen sometime early in the ’50s in one of these trucks. Back then the road there was four whole generations older than what you see today. There used to be an old bridge up there too, older than the old bridge you can see today left of the tunnel headin’ up toward Byrkjedalsvatn and Byrkjedalstunet. That bridge is long gone now – either torn down or fallen apart – but you can still see parts of the foundation.

My dad said they got carried further up Hunnedalen on the other side of where the road runs now – on the west side. A good bit of the road still runs on the west side today, but not all of it. Back then it even ran higher up the hillside.

Just imagine drivin’ an old Ford truck on roads like that. Must’ve been somethin’, right? Daddy and his two brothers even had to ride in the back, and that ol’ truck he grew up with didn’t even have a cargo box – the bed was wide open with nothin’ to hold on to. Just think ’bout that for a second.

Drive yourself a Ford Model A like a real Stavanger-born fella from the 1950s, and you’ll be king of every classic-car meet in all of Rogaland.




























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