I don't know about you, but 30 mph in that first model A would scare me to death! Good stuff! Entertaining & Informative!

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi William! I know I wouldn't do it!

@williamforbes5826

9 ай бұрын

@@kensmithgallery4432 Knowing my luck, I would hit a bump or pothole that would launch me over the side! Leaving my poor passenger to wrestle control of the bucking bronco! Assuming they didn't get launched overboard also!

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

@@williamforbes5826 that's too funny!

Well, Ken, as a young guy now 65, my grandfather’s brother Mr. Gilbert de Jongh, was here in Curaçao the Ford dealer for many years. From him my grandfather bought at an age of 30 years back then his first 1930 Coupe, reason I have the very same model color totally restored and bought in 1970 in Hershey PA. During the pandemic 2020/2021, I fully restored back this vehicle and added his name on the vehicle in memory of Emilio de Jongh. Later as the family grew, he bought a phaeton. I enjoyed the contents of your today KZread, thanks my friend it’s always and we CV look ahead upon your footages and a pleasure to watch them! Best regards and god bless🙏👍🏼🤝

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi Myron! That is such a wonderful story! Thanks so much for sharing it with me! God bless to you guys too!

Very much enjoyed cheers 😊

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi Dave and welcome to the channel! Thanks so much for your comment!

Very interesting. I never would have known that.

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi and welcome to the channel! Thanks for your comment!

Great video, lots of interesting trivia.

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi and welcome to the channel! Thanks for your comment.

Do a video on the relationship between Ford Senior and his son!

@kensmithgallery4432

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion!

My grandmother worked at Cater Carburetors in quality control. She used to talk to Henry Ford on the phone. Nobody there liked him. When there was one defect, instead of getting credit for that one, like other car makers did, Ford would send the whole shipment back and he also required the crates to be a certain wood and size.

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi Brandon and welcome to the channel! Thanks for your comment!

@jamesburns2232

9 ай бұрын

He used those crates for the floorboards. They had to be certain wood and size so that they would fit without reworking. 🤠

From my perspective, the Ford company succeeded DESPITE Henry Ford, not so much because of him. I believe that Edsel was the true force behind Ford's success once the Model T started to reach its 'use by' date in the mid '20's, while Henry was the figurehead. The power behind the throne is an apt description in my view. Henry was a philandering, anti-Semite with Nazi sympathies who profited from his German factory during WW2. Edsel, in my view, was the true "Mr. Ford" from the mid/late 1920's until his passing. Long live the Model A [1928 to '31]

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi and welcome to the channel! Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

@gregwddriver

9 ай бұрын

I'm not new at this. I have national award winning Model A's, and I know Henry was a tyrant. I wish I could have a cocktail with Edsel and chat about life. He is the man from the past that I wish I could meet.

Almost everyone agrees that Henry was a hard guy to get along with. But you have to go way back to the beginning when he started working on his automobile. Imagine how difficult it was to try to raise money and materials having to present an idea to people who mostly wanted to steal it out from under you, constantly being sued and challenged by companies and people with much power. You really couldn't trust anyone with your thoughts and ideas. It's really amazing if you take everything into account that the company actually survived all these years. So you might get a basic understanding of how a person could get a little protective of something he worked at his whole life. I would imagine it would be a bit difficult to let go of control of such an empire

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi Jim and welcome to the channel. I think you brought up a great talking point! Thanks for your comments.

Ford was a genius … Genius’s are renowned for being hard to get along with… That’s part of their nature… They look at things from a vastly different perspective to normal people and this frustrates them … We should be more greatful and accepting of these people

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi and welcome to the channel! Thanks for your comment!

As BrandonLeeBrown mentioned, Ford insisted that certain parts be shipped in crates of a specific size. These were disassembled and the wood planks milled to be used in the cars. Cars then had lots of wood, beginning with the floor boards, which were actual boards.

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi and welcome to the channel. Thanks for your comment!

@ronaldfazekas6492

9 ай бұрын

The wood scraps were used by Ford to become the first charcoal briquettes--Kingsford--waste not, want not

@roykey3422

9 ай бұрын

I have also been told henry ordered bolts in a specific size box so he could turn them inside out for use as a glove box

I was recently at an event that had Model A's I found them to be rugged and kinda truck like, but the Model A is still a stunning clean comfortable automobile 2023!

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi and welcome to the channel! Thanks so much for your comment!

@henryostman5740

9 ай бұрын

with the roads or lack of in those days, cars had to rugged and truck like. Been on NJ roads lately? Things haven't changed.

In ‘65, my buddy had ‘32 Ford Model A Deuce Coupe with a flat head 8 engine. It had big racing slick tires on the rear wheels, and would spin endlessly on a rainy street. It WAS what The Beach Boys sang about in “Little Deuce Coupe”😀😃

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi Jacob and welcome to the channel! Thanks for sharing!

There once was a man and he had a wooden leg. He was too darn poor but he didn't want to beg. So he got him some spools and some old tin cans. He called it a Ford and the damn thing ran. His name was Henry Ford. 🤠

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi James and welcome to the channel! Thanks for your comment!

Yes, sir we can speculate how Ford would have progressed if Edsel Ford indeed rose to the control of Ford, but we know this by the history. It was Edsel Ford who actually saved the company by pressing for the Model A. as GM and Chrysler were already using the model of annual design changes to increase sales and had Henry Ford not capitulated to the fact that there was a need for a new model Ford Motor Company sales would have dwindled down. Edsel Ford was a true automotive next generation who was born into the automotive industry. Of course, sadly he died at age 49 from stomach cancer. The question is what Ford Motor Company would have achieved had Edsel Ford lived to succeed his father. Thankfully Henry Ford II was brought in to run Ford Motor Company and I believe that it was the pressure that the Ford women pressured Henry Ford to succumb to their demands. Of course, their threats as stockholders to override Mr Ford may have held much sway.

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi Billy and welcome to the channel. Thanks for your comment!

Henry and Edsel reset their prototype name scheme back to Model-A in 1928 because that is when they moved their manufacturing facility from where it was to their new Dearborn plant. They saw it as a new starting point.

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi Thomas and welcome to the channel! Thanks for your comment!

I'm sure if Henry Ford had his way, and kept the "Universal Car"- the Model T, Ford would have gone under--Poor Edsel--the guy who saved Ford, was driven to an early grave by his father--It's amazing that Fords did not have hydraulic brakes until 1939!

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi Ronald and welcome to the channel! Thanks so much for your comment!

People always say how simple these cars were to work on.....Not so because the motors all had poured babbit bearings which the average guy couldn't replace....I have restored a few and it takes a machine shop to do the bearings right....

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi Vernon and welcome to the channel! Thanks for your comment!

@jimmotormedic

9 ай бұрын

That was a common engine bearing back in the day. I think Chevrolet used poured babbit well into the 1950s. I personally can't understand how an engine back in those days lasted any length of time due to the poor oils, dirt and lack of filtration. I heard stories about grandad pulling the oil pan off and removing shims to take up some clearance and quiet the lower end down. He used to say it was just a normal part of keeping your car running. When I was a kid in the 70s he was afraid to take a car out of town that had over 75 k on it!

@davids6533

9 ай бұрын

People have also used a leather strap as a bearing to get by with. I think I would have stayed with a horse until cars were much more dependable.

Had I been my current age in 1926 and in the market, I certainly would have snapped up a brand new 4 door sedan for the 2023 equivalent of $11,000. I'm a little like Henry though, I don't give up on anything just because the technology is getting long in the tooth. I drive either a 2005 Buick Century or a 2007 Grand Marquis to work in Houston every day, both great and dependable cars. As for Model T, I get it - but judging from all the other motorists around me, I'm largely alone in my opinion. Guess human nature hasn't changed.

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi Jeff and welcome to the channel! I drive a 2000 Ford Ranger 4x4 and a 2005 Dodge Sprinter Van. I'm totally fine not keeping up with the Jones. Thanks for sharing.

@robertgallagher7734

9 ай бұрын

I switch my daily driver between a rusty '67 F100 & '51 Ford 2 door sedan that is 99% stock- depending on the weather. The truck is better all around except MPG.

@jeffboyles3611

9 ай бұрын

@@robertgallagher7734 It's a running joke in my family. I told my wife that if I ever hit the lottery, she'll never see me drive anything newer than about 1950.

The name of this car should have been the model U and in 1932 the next ford would be the model V8. Ford had already made a car called the modelA many years before. I guess nobody thought "Model U" sounded good. I would have named it the road-shark.

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

That's a pretty cool name.

The classic "little deuce coupe."

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi and welcome to the channel! Thanks for your comment!

How many Fords have been built up to this day? Millions or billions?

@kensmithgallery4432

8 ай бұрын

That's a great question! I honestly don't know!

Bottom line there has not been a Henry Ford till Elon Musk came along. God love them.

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi and welcome to the channel! Thanks for your comment!

Strange why people call it a model A when Ford paper work call it a A Model seeing the Model A already existed.

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi Roy and welcome to the channel. Actually according to the MAFCA website, you can see an original owners manual (not a reproduction) calling it "Model A" right on the front cover. Thanks for your comment.

@AVB2

9 ай бұрын

Happens all the time. Super Duty is what Ford calls their late model F-250 pickup trucks, but Pontiac used the exact same name for their 421 two four barrel engine in 1962 and 1963. Rogue is another name that is reused. AMC had a Rogue in 1966 thru 1969 but now Nissan has been building a Rogue since 2013. There are undoubtedly others also.

The 1903 Ford Model A was nowhere close to the most powerful car available. Packard offered a 12 horsepower car that year, and the 1903 Winton (the first car to cross the US) had a 20 horsepower engine.

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi Ron and welcome to the channel! Thanks so much for your comment!

Actually, Ford made all his money from the Model T which enabled him to stop & retool for the Model A. He was about a year too late for the A & only made money from it in 1929. The Depression & strong competition from Chrysler [Plymouth was a very good car] & GM meant Ford lost millions late '30 to late '31. Bringing out a new car with an expensive re tooling [V8] also cost Ford dearly in 1932 & they did not really recover until after the War & the management headed by Henry Ford 2nd. If Henry had let Edsel have his way, the Model A would have been out by late '26 & V8 for '30....the Depression would have still got them. Re the wood comment, packing cases were not used in the cars. Ford had forests of quality trees in upper Michigan ; also, that is a myth they even used cases for floorboards. There is so much BS about Model A's/ old cars on the 'net. I think people prefer to believe the old tales they have been told rather than research something closer to the truth?

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi Lynda and welcome to the channel! Thanks for your comment!

I did not know how it got it's name but thanks to the marine corps I know how it got a tank full of gas😂😂

@kensmithgallery4432

9 ай бұрын

Hi and welcome to the channel! Thanks for your service!