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I guess this listing is going viral. Yesterday morning a friend sent me the following
link to a Yahoo listing of this car:
https://autos.yahoo.com/news/
bigfoot-model-mail-truck-stuff-legends-200019446.html
This evening I did a Google search and
found the following site:
http://truckyeah.jalopnik.com/the-oralhistory-of-an-amazing-1930-ford-model-aoff-ro-1588212852
There are many interesting comments
on the above site with one exception. It is
very interesting to note how stupid some
people really are. Now I understand how
our country is in the mess it is today. Some
idiot wrote the following comment which I
find to be very offensive:
“Such a shame. How could anyone
own something so awesome and not take
care of it? Not cool. This beauty needs a
new owner, asap.”
I take this comment to imply that I do

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not take care of this car which is definitely
not the case as far as I am concerned. I
very carefully padded and wrapped the
very fragile 75 year old convertible top on
this car when I hauled it about 300 miles
from where I bought it in Havre Montana
to where I live in Bozeman Montana. I later
used an enclosed trailer to haul it to the
Model A Restorer’s Club national meet in
Merrilville Indiana and back several years
ago. I then used the same trailer to haul this
car to the car show in Billings Montana last
June and to the West Yellowstone Montana
car meet last July. This car is stored in the
safest, driest and therefore the best rental
warehouse in the Bozeman area whenever
it is not on the road in an enclosed trailer.
I rent three 20’ by 40’ units in a row there
and none of the vehicles in any of the units
have batteries hooked up in them. I don’t
store solvents or fuels there and always
drain the horrible modern day gasoline
from this car and my 1914 Model T Ford
roadster when they are stored there. I block
up the front and rear axles on this car to

preserve the tires whenever it is in storage.
If a fire breaks out in one of the neighboring units, it will have to go through another unit I rent before I can get to this car.
The interior walls of that truly exceptional
rental warehouse are not a single layer of
steel sheeting but double sheeted with
sheet rock which will help to keep any fire
from spreading very far. We have a very
dry climate here in Montana so things do
not corrode at all like they do in about 3/4
of the rest of this country. The convertible
top on this car was tattered a bit the day I
bought it as you can seen in the video of
me driving it out of the auction building
and it is in no worse condition today. I keep
a blanket on the seat cushion and backrest when I am driving it to help preserve
what is left of the very fragile original upholstery. I have to wonder what the above
mentioned wizard wou ]