Re: Trailering the AA

Posted by Mike Flanagan on October 21, 1997 at 09:43:12

In Reply to: Trailering the AA
posted by mike j. on October 20, 1997 at 11:10:24

Mike, how did you happen to acquire the AA and go to such lengths to get it home then to think of selling. I have almost parted with a wife rather than to lose a Model A. I know what you mean about attracting attention. We haul our '31 SW Town Sedan behind the Motorhome each summer and never lack for company.

God Speed under 50.

The Model A Fool.

: Well,I made it back to Wisconsin.West bound to California I hit ice and 70mph winds in Wyoming, snow and other weather in Nebraska, otherwise westward was long but uneventfull.

: Loaded up the '28 AA on the trailer Tuesday night in the dark.Wednesday a guy drove to Sacramento from Vacaville to look at the AA.Turned out he had seen it about 10 years earlier and told me a little more info about it than what I previously knew, for instance the guy I bought it from actually did not do the restoration, turned out he bought it in the same condition it is in now minus what I've done to it.

: Anyway, Wednesday afternoon I left Sacramento and headed east.Lots of comments from various truck drivers on the CB as they passed me on I-80.Met several people who used to own or once drove an AA as I got food and coffee at truck stops.One guy from Park City Utah was standing on the shoulder of I-80 as I cleared the summit east of Salt Lake City, he was waving for me to pull over as he saw the For Sale sign in the window.We pulled off the freeway at the next offramp and spoke awhile, but no sale.

: Weather was good the entire eastbound leg, no snow or ice and little wind which was good, occaisional side gusts that blew the AA and trailer around a little but nothing too bad.

: I left I-80 and headed up hwy 151 towards Cedar Rapids and into Madison.A much nicer drive than I-80 in Illinois.Stopped in Dubuque for a McDonalds dinner and met a local who's dad has owned several AA Express trucks, he might be interested in buying it.If not then that's okay too.

: It was a good road trip, talked to several people along the way about early trucks like the guy in Cheyenne Wyoming who learned to drive in a '29AA on a farm in Kansas.I averaged about 500 miles a day both directions and had my 130 pound Chesapeake Bay Retriever in the front seat with me the whole time.The dog had associated the sound of the turn signal in my F250 as meaning we were stopping and jumped up everytime I made a lane change.

: You meet the nicest people when you have a AA truck on a trailer.Lots of smiles and waves from people.The closer to home I got the less I wanted to sell the AA.But with no place to store it out of the Wisconsin winter, and starting up back in school in January, and with working on a career change, well, whatever, if it sells it sells.Otherwise I won't mind too much keeping it.

: Sorry this got a little long.I'll check back when I can, still no e-mail.And come springtime, if you're in the Milwaukee area and see some guy driving around in a 1928 AA Express, well say hi or give me an Ooo-Gahh with your horn.

: Mike in Milwaukee (actually Hartland, but Milwaukee is on the map), and the 1928 AA R Express.


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