Ford built roughly five million Model A cars between 1927 and 1931. Nearly a century later, a dedicated club in Richmond, Virginia is making sure a surviving fraction of them still see open road. Members like Dennis Stone, Stew Wolfe and Henry Nelson say the reward isn’t speed or luxury. It’s the reaction from strangers, especially kids, when that ahooga horn sounds.
For its era, the Model A was a genuine step up from the Model T. It came standard with an electric starter, four-wheel brakes, shock absorbers, a dipstick and interior gauges. Today it qualifies as bare bones driving: no radio, no air conditioning, no power brakes. Club members describe it exactly that way, and they mean it as a compliment.
Car culture runs deep here on the Suncoast. Plenty of retirees and snowbirds remember these machines from their first driver’s ed days, and local cruise-ins fill parking lots all winter long. So what’s the oldest car you have ever ridden in? Tell us on our Facebook page, and if you know a local club that deserves a spotlight, send it our way.
