!!! THAT was funny, Joel!
Hi, All!
Just a little update on my "one-man" multiple 1/24 Ford Model A MARATHON...
Yesterday evening, I purchased another FRANKLIN MINT 1930 Ford Model A Tudor, on Ebay. $46.00 and change, including Tax and Shipping...
Before I go on, let me just say that I always do, and always have, capitalized model manufacturers' company names- Just one of my foibles, that's all, so please don't heckle me about it. This is just one reason why I no longer contribute my inflated two-cents-worth on ARMORAMA, anymore...
This car ("Kewanee Green & Elkpointe Green"- HA!!!) has some serious issues; ALL of the "Window Glass" and Headlight Lenses have "yellowed", (with age, perhaps..?), and my seller informed me before my buying it, that "something isn't quite right in the Front End". Also the "Military-style Windshield Visor", (actual, ORIGINAL Ford nomenclature), is missing. My guess is that this model car was probably dropped sometime in its short "lifetime". Everything else seems to be there and the rest of the car seems to be in good shape. No "paint rash" or "MIA" components, judging from the seller's photos. The Wheels/Tires seem to be "straight", leading me to believe that there is nothing "amiss" as far as bent Axles, broken Springs, bent Radius Rods or anything else of that nature is concerned...
It doesn't matter that much to me anyway, because I had already decided to buy this model as a "sacrificial-lamb", i.e, "a parts car", before I even made the seller my "offer".
In case any of you who are tuning in to my "Model A Mania", I thought I would also try to be informative, for those that may be wondering about the differences between the FRANKLIN MINT and DANBURY MINT 1/24 Model As.
Part I
The cars are very similar in content, except for a few details- The biggest differences are, of course, the Bodies-
I will be using the ORIGINAL Ford Motor Company nomenclature and Body Style designators in my descriptions of these various Bodies, so here we go...
("Upper Body" (colors), (sometimes referred to as the "Secondary Color") will refer to all Body-panels ABOVE the Belt Line; "Lower Body" (colors) will refer, obviously, to all Body-panels BELOW the Belt-line. "Quarter Panels" refer to the Body-area ABOVE and AFT of the Rear Fenders, but DO NOT refer to the "Roof Back", "Roof Quarters", and/or "Back", which extended from the Roof, down to the Belt Line, at the REAR of the Body AND down to the Rear Splash Pan between the Rear Fenders...). Yes, it can be confusing; don't blame me- Blame old Henry!
Again, I must stress that much of what I will be discussing here, is/was Ford Motor Company's method of describing their Body Styling, and the various parts of Ford Cars' Body-panels...)
FRANKLIN MINT decided to model two different color-schemed versions of their 1930 Tudor, Body Style 55-B, (Supposedly, Kewanee Green Lower body & Elkpointe Green Upper Body with the Standard Black Fenders, and the "Limited Edition" with Lombard Blue Lower Body & Black Upper Body, with the Standard Black Fenders- More about this, in Part II...), while DANBURY MINT chose to model their 1931 Roadsters, Body Style 40-A, which were sold in THREE different color combinations, quite a few years prior to the FRANKLIN MINT 1930 Tudor being released. Just for the record, ALL DANBURY Model As are 1931 model-year vehicles.
(Yes, Virginia, there ARE a few differences between the 1930/1931 Model As...)
Shortly following their Roadster, DANBURY released several more Model A models, essentially based on their Roadster model's Chassis. These were, their Closed Cab Pickup, Body Style 82-B, their Panel Delivery, (Coca-Cola Delivery) Body Style 85-B, their U.S. Mail Delivery Truck (custom-built on modified 82-B Pickup Bodies/Chassis, to government specs, on the 1:1 vehicles), and a few color-and-vendor variations of their Panel Delivery, such as their Hershey's Chocolate, Morton's Salt, Texaco Oils and Fuels, Campbell's Soups, and a special "Limited-Release" version of their Good Humor Ice Cream Truck; this model had a Body all its own, of which the 1:1 version was a custom-built "Open Cab" Pickup, with a shortened Panel Delivery "Freezer Box", AFT of the Drivers' Compartment- This was NOT an official Ford Body, hence no "Style-designator"...
And now, I'm tired and going to bed. "Part II", tomorrow...
