After seeing Bob Woodburn’s 1930 Model A Ford, finding adequate words to describe it is a real challenge. Odd? Offbeat? Outrageous? Weird? I’m not sure any of these terms fully do the Model A justice. Woodburn himself calls it “Big Ugly.” Local residents at the time referred to it as being the “beast” or the “tank.” Whatever the terminology, one thing is certain: This Model A excites a great deal of interest wherever it appears.
“I have over 200 vehicles in my diverse collection including some very valuable and desirable cars like my 1912 Kissel Car 6-60 semi-touring,” Bob says. “None of them come even close to getting the attention from tourists and car show participants that this mean-looking old Model A Ford does.”
“Big Ugly” is a 1930 Model A Ford Cabriolet manufactured around June 1930 and probably transported to Montana from Chicago by rail. Milton Hill of Bloomfield, Mont., the first known owner, had the car converted to a rural mail delivery snowmobile by Roman Chupp some time before 1940. Hill was the first man to use the car to deliver rural mail. In 1940, Hill died in an auto accident in Bloomfield, Neb. Subsequently, the Model A was sold to Leonard Quamman of Lindsay, Mont., in 1941. Bob Woodburn has title #254564 issued to Quamman on Oct. 22, 1941. The title has a $200 lien, which was paid off on Nov. 30, 1942.
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And, oddly, it's the first time that I've ever seen model T wheel openings fitted with correct sized wheels. :bwuhaha:
