Lions Gate Model A Club

On Saturday October 1, the Lions Gate Model A Club visited the Port Moody Station Museum on a visit to the Teamsters Freight Transportation Museum.

Seven vintage Model A Fords stopped in for the afternoon:



The cars had wonderful details:



Is it a pheasant? Or a pigeon? Brushed and polished, this bird added prestige to this 1930s Model A.

Even the headlines were beautifully designed:



The symmetry and swoop of the door handles:



Headlight and the horn below, an unforgetable "aawoooga!"



Adding personal aspects to the hood: the Ford insignia is made of wood:



The fender is so well-polished it reflects the terror in the eyes of any squirrel about to be roadkilled:



Creative use of roadkill, a blonde racoon is reincarnated as a side mirror tassel:



The wooden rack is made to fold down to carry a trunk. The door behind the spare wheel opens to provide more seating: the "rumble seat." From the actual use of a steamer trunk as storage we have the name today: "trunk."



The "Eager Beaver":



The last car to arrive:



The Museum looked wonderful reflected off the cars:



The Venosta train car in the background pre-dates the Model A's by about 10 years. It was built in 1921:



The Lions Gate Model A Club also wrote about their visit (their page takes a long time to load), though they accidentally referred to us as the Canadian Pacific Railway Museum!

By Caelan Griffiths and Oana Capota