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Our beloved John Adrian Kuyltjes, of Calgary, passed away on Monday, December 29, 2025 at the age of 85 years.

John is survived by his wife Joanne, married for 63 years. He is also survived by his niece Cindy Kreutzenstein (Bruce) as well as great niece Erika, and great nephew Geoff.

He will be missed by everyone who knew him.

John and Joanne joined the Stampede City Model A Ford Club in 1972 as founding members.

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With thanks to Hank Biesbroek for his suggestion, we will have a new article each month in the Script.

As the title suggests, we welcome members to email the Editor with a brief outline of their Model A related activity for that month and it will then appear in the next Script issue. Even a sentence or two will suffice!

This is a great way to encourage membership input and let others know what you have been doing in the hobby. Email your description to scmafc@telus.net and we will begin posting the replies starting in the May 2026 edition.

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In just the first two weeks after its public introduction, customers placed deposits for more than 400,000 cars.

The Model T replacement, the Model A, was produced from 1927 through 1931. During that time many famous people owned Model A’s; for example, actress Mary Pickford and her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, gangster John Dillinger, and actress Doris Day, who nicknamed her Roadster “Buttercup.”

Henry Ford gave his close friend, inventor Thomas A. Edison, the first production Model A (a 1928 Ford sedan) as a personal gift. As requested by Thomas Edison, Ford modified the Model A to a Phaeton body. Edison used the car until his death in 1931. (It’s now on display at the Model A Ford Museum in Hickory Corners, Michigan.)

Many ordinary people also bought Ford Model A’s. The general public anticipated the post-Model T vehicle with great enthusiasm, with a reported 10.5 million people coming to see it when it was introduced. Customers placed deposits for more than 400,000 cars in just the first two weeks after its public introduction. The most popular body style was the Tudor Sedan, with 1,387,270 units produced.

By February 4, 1929, one million Model A’s had been sold, and by July 24, 1929, three million units were sold by March 1930. Production at Ford Motor Company peaked in June of 1930 with 9,200 cars being produced a day. Approximately 4,858,644 Model A vehicles were built and sold during its production run.

In 1929, the Tudor Sedan was the most popular Model A body style, with 523,922 units built in the calendar year. This body style accounted for about one-third of the total Model A production across its entire run.

The big selling points for this Model T replacement were more performance, modern convenience, improved safety, and style. The Model A offered an improved engine that produced 40 horsepower — double that of the Model T. The top speed of the Model A was...

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...about 65mph, whereas the Model T's was roughly 40mph.

The Model A used conventional controls such as a three-speed sliding gear manual transmission with clutch, brake, and accelerator pedal. In contrast, the Model T used a complex system of three pedals, a hand lever, and spark/throttle controls. The hand crank was replaced by a standard electric starter like most of the competition. Hydraulic shock absorbers and a more rigid chassis provided a more comfortable ride.

The Model A's safety was improved with mechanical drum brakes on all four wheels and a shatterproof windshield. Affordability and a wide variety of available body styles from roadsters and coupes to sedans and various trucks made such high sales achievable.

In the 1950s and 1960s, my grandfather was a top salesman at a Ford dealership. Every weekend I would go with him to work at Hettche Motor Sales in Detroit Michigan. I learned all about how to sell cars. Back in the day when they were selling Model A's, sales people worked on commission. An aggressive sales person could do well.

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Ford Motor Company also sold Model A's in many countries besides the USA. Ford's international presence included assembly plants in such countries as Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, the Soviet Union, and Turkey. While successful in many areas, the Model A faced challenges in some European markets due to tax systems based on engine size.

The Model A had a short production span, but was a wildly popular vehicle.

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By Gary Callander

I've been interested in antique cars as long as I can remember, though I can't really explain why. Maybe it started when I was a little gaffer, and there was a neighbor down the street with what I think were two unrestored Model T's in the backyard. We kids would crawl all over them and pretend we were driving them. Anyways, I often drew pictures of Model T's and always enjoyed seeing antiques on the road, especially hearing the ahooga horn. When I was about ten, an unrestored Model A coupe arrived at another nearby house and I liked to stop and look at it often.

They tried to drive it once, but there was an earth-shattering ka-boom from the engine, and that was the end of it. It never ran again after that. For 2 years it sat derelict across the back alley from our house, so I asked Dad if he would be interested in buying it and to my surprise he said to go ask them. However, they weren't interested in selling.

I continued to pester Dad to get an antique car and he agreed to look elsewhere. We first looked at a Model T from an ad in the Herald, but it was a real basket case and we decided to keep looking. The next ad we responded to was for a '28 Model A Tudor. It wasn't much better than the Model T, but we were already getting impatient and so Dad bought it. I was about 12 at that time.

We joined theAPAC and soon heard about the new Stampede CityA's club. We joined a year later when I was 13 and began to make many new “A” friends. The restoration was started on the Tudor and about 6 years later it was finished. It was a good father-son project. We did almost all of it ourselves, including the bodywork and painting.

This car has served us very well and is still a reliable car with many tens of thousands of miles on it since then.

After moving out and starting my own family, the tours began to get crowded with all of us in the Tudor. I decided it was time to have a Model A of my own. Fellow club member George Edworthy had been trying to persuade me to buy his '28 sport coupe, so I took it for a test drive and decided to buy it. I've been partial to coupes ever since that one arrived in the neighborhood years before. I had fond memories of riding in George's rumble seat in the early years of belonging to the club, so there was already some sentimental attachment to this car.

My sport coupe was made onAugust 31, 1928. It appears to be a fairly low mileage car that was never fully restored, just kept running over all those years. I have decided not to give it a full restoration, but to make it a good “driver”. I have replaced the roof and headliner, rebuilt the engine, transmission and front axle, powder coated the wheels, put an original horn on, and done numerous other repairs. It is now a pretty reliable and fun-to drive car.

I have been a member of the club now for 28 years, and have held every position on the executive. forward to many more years of model “A”ing with this club.

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