Car Guy Magazine Car Guy Magazine Issue 215 | Page 64

Milton’s son Lester H. Hill finished his
father Milton’s rural mail delivery contract
for the rest of the year of 1940. He then sold
this car to Leonard Quammen who used
it deliver mail in tough weather for several
more years. Leonard Quammen farmed
near Lindsay Montana that was about 30
miles away from Bloomfield Montana.
Leonard had mail routes both north and
south of Lindsay. He would deliver mail on
one route on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and deliver mail on the other route on
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
I called Ardice just a few days ago and
she told me that she found another photo
with Milton sitting in this car with the
driver’s door open and his left foot on the
running board. She promised to have here
granddaughter scan that photo and email
it to me. I received that scan a few days
ago. I had my friend enhance that photo
by removing damage from it. That photo
is shown as the third photo of this listing. A
not on the back in Lester Hill’s handwriting
indicates that this mail car was converted
in 1936.
Ardice’s brother Hal is still living and I
was able to talk with him. He remembers
spending his summers with his grandfather
Milton Hill who mentioned that this car
“came from Chicago on the train”. I can’t understand that unless Model A Ford cabriolets were not assembled in the Twin Ci