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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 1061993" data-attributes="member: 38206">On this day, 2 Dec 1927, The first Model A was unveiled on this day in 1927 in New York City’s Waldorf Hotel and in 35 other cities around&nbsp;the U.S., Canada and Europe. The car was priced affordably: the Phaeton sold for $395.00 and the Tudor Sedan for $495.00.&nbsp;The lag between cars available and orders on hand had mounted to 800,000 by the spring of 1928. Ford made almost two million Model A cars in 1929 alone. But Black Thursday came on October 24th of&nbsp;that year, ushering in the Great Depression, and from that time on it was downhill all the way. In 1931, sales dropped to 620,000 units. Production of Model A was shut down in August, and early the&nbsp;following year, the ‘new order’ took over in the form of the radically different Ford V-8. By that time, a total of well over 20 million Fords had been manufactured, and almost 5 million of these&nbsp;had been the brilliant little Model As. </blockquote>

[QUOTE="texan, post: 1061993, member: 38206"] [B]On this day, 2 Dec 1927, [/B] [B]The first Model A was unveiled on this day in 1927 in New York City’s Waldorf Hotel and in 35 other cities around the U.S., Canada and Europe. The car was priced affordably: the Phaeton sold for $395.00 and the Tudor Sedan for $495.00. The lag between cars available and orders on hand had mounted to 800,000 by the spring of 1928. Ford made almost two million Model A cars in 1929 alone. But Black Thursday came on October 24th of that year, ushering in the Great Depression, and from that time on it was downhill all the way. In 1931, sales dropped to 620,000 units. Production of Model A was shut down in August, and early the following year, the ‘new order’ took over in the form of the radically different Ford V-8. [/B][B]By that time, a total of well over 20 million Fords had been manufactured, and almost 5 million of these had been the brilliant little Model As. [/B] [/QUOTE]

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