"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
21 January 2007Of course, the warranty is upConventional wisdom, accompanied by a lot of yammering, holds that domestic automobiles are unreliable. Some of them, including one once owned by me, certainly qualify as such. Then there's this beauty, a 104-year-old Ford, believed to be the oldest blue-oval machine still in existence, which recently sold at auction for $630,000. Specs on the 1903 Ford Model A: 72-inch wheelbase, weight 1250 lb, inline-2 engine with 8 hp, 3-speed transmission. List price $750, though the optional back seat would add $100. Top speed somewhere between 30 and 45 mph. And instead of air bags, you have actual air. "Look Pa! A horseless carriage!" Posted by: Veronica at 3:58 PM on 21 January 2007There's something stuck in the swamp out in back of the family homestead in northern NY that looks similar. Not nearly as good condition though ;-> Posted by: Purple Avenger at 6:02 PM on 21 January 2007There a yard full of junkers from pre-Depression days on the northeast corner of SE 44th & Post. I doubt any of them are worth $63 as scrap. As for the airbags, I have dual airbags in my 1987 Crown Vic, but only when my wife and my mother-in-law are both in the car. *yuk,yuk,yuk* Posted by: Dan B at 7:29 PM on 21 January 2007I like my Subaru Outback Wagon, and they're know to go hundreds of thousands of miles. But 104 years... I don't think so. The Model A must have been preserved in a barn somewhere and never driven in actual traffic. Posted by: Winston at 5:49 AM on 22 January 2007At least some people, upon reading about it, wondered why it wasn't already in a museum. |