Did you ever ride in Model A Ford Rumble seat?

[oneighty]

Lois and Eunice my sisters and I did. Round trip from
Buffalo NY to Sheffield Alabama. The seats were covered in
black leather. Fumes from the exhaust wafted up into the
rumble seat and rode along with us. Dad had to stop
pretty often to patch a flat tire. He would cuss a bit. Down
in Alabama he worked a construction job at Wilson Dam.

We returned to New York the same way. It seemed to take forever
many of the roads were dirt. Every where we went there were
a lot of poor people. Back up in NY State Dad bought some property on Lake
Erie where he eventually built a house. Dad replaced the Model A
with a La Salle. He made a portable electric welder out of the Model A.
When he took the body off the old car he pushed the body off the cliff
into Lake Erie.

There is a rumor in the village about some divers finding a Model
A body out there in the lake. I know that to be true, but I am not
gonna tell any body. I remember when Eunice Lois and I rode
in the rumble seat together. Back before world war two.
Part of the memory is out there in the lake.

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[TrogL]

1. Next door neighbours had one

but I never rode in it

[Maple]

2. Yes indeed

as a kid I did.

Seemed great fun at the time...thinking back on it now...we were riding outside the car, chewing dust, and inhaling fumes.

Probably a good thing I only did it once.

[JitterbugPerfume]

3. I never rode in one but

I remember my step sister Jean riding in one

I was very jealous, but she said I was to little .

That was her excuse for everything

[trof]

4. '46 Plymouth coupe

My great uncle had one. One of the first post-war production models, I think. No rumble seat, but also no back seat.
I remember riding standing up behind the front seat which was occupied by my uncle and grandfather.

So your dad helped build Wilson Dam. I've fished Wilson Lake, part of the TVA system (as I'm sure you know). Was that construction a WPA project? Seems to me it was.

[oneighty]

5. No, Trof

Dad worked on the steam generating plant (Electric) at Wilson Dam. (Steamfitter)

We lived near Stenson's Hollow which had a waterway

connecting to Wilson Lake.

In later years I spent some time in Sheffield with my

river rat uncle. We spent A LOT of time on the tennesee river.

He was a boat builder and Hydroplane Racer, one time! But that is

another story.

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