1930 Model A Ford Wraps a Year on the Road
After a year of beneficial rumbling in a 1930 Model A Ford, Jonathan Klinger knew that his return to automotive modernity would be an aright.
He never cheated in his pledge to stick for a year with the Ford , except for the occasional business trip when he rented a car. On the first such happening, last March at Jacksonville International Airport, he rented a 4-cylinder Chevrolet Malibu , whose performance he found overpowering.
“That was the first time I’d been on the Interstate in quite some time and was in a car that is not normally thought of as a powerhouse,” Mr. Klinger said in an talk with. “Yet it felt to me like I was driving an F1 car. If anything, my experience might make me appreciate newer cars, although they insufficiency the character and personality that old cars have.”
Such brushes with modernity did not subtract from his attachment to the Model A Tudor sedan, bought last summer for $11,000, and in which he logged 16,000 miles since last trail. The blue car, with big running boards, smallish side windows and straw-yellow wheels has definitely grown on Mr. Klinger, who stored his 1993 Honda Harmony and 1999 Ford Explorer before embarking on his attempt.
