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seat. I have a 1930 cabriolet, and this style
model is the one with roll-down windows
as opposed to the more common roadster
of only side curtains. Of course folks would
say to restore the rarer cabriolet, but you
have a “national treassure” as they’d say
on Antiques Roadshow. If you took this
to Hersheys this fall, you’d steal the whole

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Ebay Ask a Question inquiry. I went back to
your listings, and clicked your Completed
Listings. On the wooden bumper listing, I
found more photos, history, and where to
find more snaps of your amazing mail truck
cabriolet. Wow.
Your writing of this vehicle’s history is
sure commendable. You are treating it as
the special unique beast it is, and realizing
its value as what it is. To take it apart toward
a restored Model A cabriolet would be to
ruin a brilliant creation. To make it into a
hot-rodded mud monster would be an
equally sad fate for this surviving WWII vintage home warrior. To nurture it back true
to it’s 1941 state of being, should be the
only option, if one so cared to do.
In the history of America making
home-made tractors of Model T’s and A’s,
or work-horses of the engines and frames
to keep life rolling, or snowmobiles, and
mail trucks, this is a superb grand-daddy for
them all.
Another rural mail carriers US postage
stamp of this vehicle would not be out of
the realm of possibilities. As a winter mail
truck, your vehicle not only could keep the
mail going through, but could be a winter
ambulance, road opener, cattle-feeder in
blizzards, and welcome sight every snowstorm. I’m sure your mail truck has many
tales in its history.
Your astute history of the tires says
much. (Airplane bomber tires and wheels
after WWII were also surplused to many
a combine here in Kansas.) I showed a
Goodyear dealer your close-up photos, and
we agreed you might contact Goodyear
and see if they would sponsor you toward
anything with your grand beast. After all,
your vehicle made their tires useful to serious use...and they are still rolling! The fact
show! What an amazing blend on enginu- that the tread did not work will in mud, but
ity. Useful nessesity and folk art! Does it
in snow, is a saving grace plus. Your marun? The National Mud shows would beg
chine together with the Goodyear blimp,
you to display it. Hot Wheels would want
would be a sensation anywhere!
to make a toy example of it. “Don’t restore
The ingenuity and how parts were all
or touch it”, would be the advice of many,
combined, would make a vocational-agribut to preserve it. Find out all the history
culture article, and for Hemmings, too. The
on it,the maker, etc. This is THE mail truck of farm-made as opposed to factory-made, is
the American landscape.
American heartland at its best.
Big thank you for your response to my
And yet the most amazing thing about