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front wheel and tire assembly. I suspect
someone installed a liner (a section of a tire
used to reinforce a weak spot in a tire casing) inside that tire many years ago.
Amazingly, none of these four very special tires ever appeared to have sat flat during the last 79 years as too often happens
with vehicles or tractors of this age. When
that happens, the tires often develop bad
cracks, become weak in the flat spot and
then blow out later when pumped back
up. These ancient tires have some minor
flat spots on them so when I drive this car,
it does not ride very smoothly. I have never
driven this car over 10 miles and hour or so.
At that speed there is enough tire vibration
to make the front fenders flop a bit which
makes this car look like a big bird trying to
take off and fly after it had eaten too much.
The rear axle and wood spoke wheels
are from a 1919 - 1927 Model TT Ford one
ton truck. That axle assembly was installed
in order to get the higher numerical axle
ratio to handle the larger diameter tractor
tires. The front wheels are made from mid
1928 - 1929 21” Model A Ford wheels. The
outer row of spokes was long enough to
reach the dropped section on the inside
of the 24” tractor rims. The inner crossed
spokes were too short to reach the tractor
design was not self-cleaning when runThis is a very special unrestored but
ning in moist dirt so these tires were not as rims. They were completely removed and
extensively modified 1930 Model A Ford
replaced with spokes about 3” longer. All
popular with some farmers as they might
convertible coupe or cabriolet that was
otherwise have been. Goodyear had thou- welds on this conversion were done with
manufactured around June of 1930. This
an acetylene torch because electric weldcar was modified in 1936 by Roman Chupp sands of various sizes of this type of tire
ers were virtually non-existent in rural Monof Bloomfield Montana for Milton Hill, also in their warehouses in the late 1930’s and
found it hard to find homes for them. They tana back in 1936 when this conversion
of Bloomfield Montana to use to deliver
rural mail around that area. A Model T Ford eventually sold them for snow applications was done.
I have listed the mileage on this car as
such as on this car or for use on agricultural
truck rear axle with a higher reduction
being only 25,649 miles because that is
ratio than the stock Model A rear axle was equipment such as grain combines that
what is shown on the speedometer odominstalled along with four Goodyear 11-25 x were normally only used in dry weather
eter. That may be how many miles were on
24 pneumatic rear tractor tires mounted on conditions.
this car when Milton Hill bought it to have
24” tractor tire rims. These wide and tall tires
The four tires on this rig are now 79
the rural mail delivery car or snowmobile
gave this car ground clearance and helped years old so they are showing their age
but they are still in relatively good and pli- conversion done back in 1936. After the
it float over packed snow drifts or plow
Model TT Ford ton truck rear axle assembly
through loose snow.
able condition. You can still see the name
was installed, there would have been no
GOODYEAR painted white on all of them.
I believe these tires were introduced
place to drive the speedometer as there
in 1935 or 1936 and were Goodyear’s first
This may have been done at the factory
was on a stock Model A Ford car drive shaft
but I am not certain about that. There are
pneumatic farm tractor rear tires. They
had a diamond with a hole in the center
lots of checks and small cracks in them. The housing.
Please notice the 5/16” x 2” steel straps
for the tread pattern. This distinctive tread left front tire has a three inch long split in it
used to mount the backs of the rear fendand that wheel and tire assembly weighs
ers. They were torch welded to the thin
about 20 pounds more than the other
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1930 MODEL A FORD

MODIFIED RURAL DELIVERY VEHICLE

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