Our Next Scheduled Regular Meeting Is March 6, 2012 at 7:30 pm / "Tire Kicking" begins at 6:30 pm
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"What's Shakin'"
Event | Spring 2012  
17th Annual Winter Blahs
Swap n' Sell

Coming This Spring!
The 18th Annual WINTER BLAH'S Swap N' Sell,sponsored by the Minuteman Model "A" Ford Club, Sudbury, MA, will be coming this Spring at the Maynard Elks Lodge 34 Powdermill Road (Rt. 62) Maynard, MA.  
   
   
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Let Us Know What You're Up To These Days
 
   
   
 
"If you are only using your Model A to hold up a car cover, you are missing the best part of owning one.  
   
Weekly Breakfast Group
Great Way To Start The Day!
 

Doing anything on Wednesday morning? No. Well then, you are invited to join the group for breakfast at the Big Apple Deli, 331 Boston Post Road (RT 20) in Marlborough, MA.

The food is good and there is plenty of Model A talk. We arrive about 8:00 AM and stay until when-ever.

 
   
   
   
   
2012 TOUR & MEETINGS SCHEDULE
Begin To Mark Your Calendars Now!
TOURS | UPCOMING
2012 Schedule Available Shortly
SCHEDULED EVENTS
Friday December 2 | Club Holiday Party
Time: 6:00pm / At The Marlboro Country Club
MEETINGS - MARCH
Tuesday March 6 | 7:30pm
October Club Meeting
Sudbury
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Class "A" fieds

  So, you're looking to sell that car that you just don't seem to drive anymore, or do you have a project that you need parts for? Well then, you've come to the right place! See What's For Sale
   
 

Always Something To Fix

 

We will try to provide some helpful information on the restorations and repairs . Our members contributions are welcomed, so be sure to email us. Learn more

   
 

Love Those Collectibles

 

There were so many original and aftermarket accessories, advertising, "do-dads" and more, that we would like to share some of our favorites with everyone. Learn more

   
 

Video Library

 

Thinking about doing your first Model A restoration or repair? We have an extensive library of "how-to" videos that are available to members at no charge.
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Website Updates

 

Don't have the time to look through the website to figure out what's new or changed? This section is for those of you who wish to keep up with the dynamics in "record time".
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  Send Us Your Pictures From Tours and Events Past and we'll publish them in a slidehsow
Remember When
   
 
 
SPEED WAS HIGH
 
WEATHER WAS NOT
 
TIRES WERE THIN
 
X MARKS THE SPOT
 
   
  Minuteman News | February 2012  
  Tour Planning Meeting
 
 

We are beginning to plan for the 2012 Touring Season, and would welcome any comments or suggestions on our tour program for 2011.

Please mark your calendar for Tuesday, February 21st, for our annual Tour Planning Meeting, which will be at the MCC Church Hall in Sudbury at 7:00pm.

Please let Tom Zappala know if you have any thoughts on any questions about our tour schedule - and if you rate considering attending the New England or MAFCA meets this year.

 
     
 
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ON THIS DAY: June 16, 1903
FORD MOTOR COMPANY INCORPORATED
According to Wikipedia, The Ford Motor Company was incorporated, with 12 investors owning a total of 1000 shares. Ford and Malcomson together retained 51% of the new company in exchange for their earlier investments. When the total stock ownership was tabulated, shares in the company were: Henry Ford (255 shares), Alexander Y. Malcomson (255 shares), John S. Gray (105 shares), John W. Anderson (50 shares), Horace Rackham (50 shares), Horace E. Dodge (50 shares), John F. Dodge (50 shares), Charles T. Bennett (50 shares), Vernon C. Fry (50 shares), Albert Strelow (50 shares), James Couzens (25 shares), and Charles J. Woodall (10 shares)."
 
ON THIS DAY: July 30, 1863
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
HENRY FORD

Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, was the first of William and Mary Ford's six children. He grew up on a prosperous family farm in what is today Dearborn, Michigan.
 

ON THIS DAY: November 26, 1927
FORD MODEL A AUTOMOBILE ANNOUNCED
The Ford Motor Company of Detroit, Michigan announced the introduction of the Model A, the first new Ford automobile to enter the market since the Ford Model T was first introduced in 1908. The hugely successful Ford Model T

Henry enjoyed a childhood typical of the rural nineteenth century, spending days in a one-room school and doing farm chores. At an early age, he showed an interest in mechanical things and a dislike for farm work and of course went on to fame as the greatest auto maker in the world. His son, Edsel, who was responsible for the creation of the Model A, died in 1943 at age 49. In 1947, Henry Ford died at the age of 83 at Fair Lane, his Dearborn home  

revolutionized the automobile industry, and over 15,000,000 million units of the "Tin Lizzie" were sold in its 19 years of automotive production and assembly. By 1927, the popularity of the outdated Model T was rapidly waning. Improved, but basically unchanged for its two-decade reign, it was losing ground to the more stylish and powerful motor cars offered by Ford Motor Company's competitors.

In May of 1927, Ford automobile production plants across the country closed, as the company began an intensive development of the more refined and modern Model A automobile. The vastly improved Ford Model A had elegant Lincoln automobile-like styling on a smaller scale, and used a capable 200.5-cubic-inch four-cylinder engine that produced 40 horsepower (hp). With prices starting at $460, nearly 5,000,000 Ford Model A automobiles, in several body styles and a variety of colors, rolled onto America's highways over a four-year period until production ended in early 1932.


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