Ford Model A in San Antonio

Contents

Model A Styles

Business Coupe

Coupe

Sport Coupe

Deluxe Roadster

Slant Windshield Sedan

Phaeton

Victoria Sedan

Tudor Sedan

Convertible Sedan

Fordor Sedan

Station Wagon

Closed Cab Pickup

AA Truck

The Ford Model A in San Antonio

Ever since the first Ford Model A arrived in San Antonio during a 'blue norther' on Friday December 2, 1927, it has been very popular. The Alamo A's, formed in 1965, to celebrate this wonderful vehicle, is one of the oldest car clubs in San Antonio. Back in 1927, people in San Antonio were every bit as caught up as people around the world in the excitement surrounding the introduction of the "New Ford of 1928." No vehicle in the history of the automobile has been awaited with such anticipation as the “New Ford.” With the Ford Motor Company’s very existence on the line, would the replacement for the venerable Ford Model T be a mild upgrade or an entirely new vehicle. No one was disappointed. The "Model A Ford" proved to be a resounding success. It was handsome, strong reliable and simple. For the next four years it would be a sales leader. After that, unlike almost all of its peers, it kept going and going and going. Below you will find newspaper clippings and contemporary images plus a few snaps of Model A Fords in local and national museums.

San Antonio newspaper clippings regarding the introduction of the Ford Model A

San Antonio newspaper image of the first Ford Model A in San Antonio, Friday. Dec 2, 1927

San Antonio newspaper advert by a local auto supplier at the new of the arrival of the "New Ford."

Ford Motor Company "New Ford" advert in a San Antonio newspaper

Detail from the Ford Motor Company "New Ford" advert in a San Antonio newspaper

San Antonio newspaper article announcing the arrival of the "New Ford"

San Antonio newspaper article anticipating the popularity of the "New Ford"

San Antonio Ford delaerships announcement of the "New Ford" presentaion at the Municipal Auditorium

San Antonio newspaper advert indicating the "New Ford" would move to the Peacock Alley of the St. Antony Hotel after its three day debut at the Municipal Auditorium

San Antonio newspaper headline about the popularity of the "New Ford," Sunday Dec. 4, 1927

San Antonio article about the popularity of the "New Ford," Sunday Dec. 4, 1927

Historic images of Model A Fords and contemporary cars in San Antonio

Original Pig Stand on Broadway, San Antonio, 1927. (The current location is very close. The original location now has the IH 35 bridge over it.)

Entrance to the San Antonio Stock Show, 1928

Smith-Young Tower, now called the Tower Life building, under construction, 1928

San Antonio parking lot, 1929

Bank run panic in San Antonio at the beginning of the Great Depression, 1929

Houston Street, San Antonio, 1929

1929 San Antonio newspaper Ford Model A advert

Houston Street, San Antonio, 1930

Houston Street at St Marys Street, San Antonio, circa 1930

Houston Street, San Antonio, 1930

1931 Ford Model A at a San Antonio gas station

1931 downtown San Antonio street scene

Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, c 1931

Ford Model A delivery van at the original San Antonio Pig Stand on Fredericksburg Road

Unknown Ford Model A driver in San Antonio

Ford Model AA truck on S. Presa Street in San Antonio

Vehicle on S. Alamo Street in San Antonio, 1928

Streetcar repairs outside Jordan Ford, San Antonio

Broadway near Brackenridge Park, San Antonio

Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, circa 1930

Three brothers and two Ford Model As at Mission San Juan, San Antonio

Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, c 1935

Ford Model AA truck still chugging along Commerce Street, San Antonio, c 1940

Historic images of Model A Fords and contemporary cars in South Texas

Falstaff Beer truck in Austin, Texas

Abandoned Ford Model A in Bastrop, Texas

The Landmark Inn in Castroville, mid 1930s

Ford Model A in Comfort, Texas

Cars crossing a low water crossing near Comfort, Texas

Ford Model A near the San Antonio, Fredericksburg RR between Comfort, Texas and Fredricksburg

Tourist Camp near Corpus Christi

Ford Model A in snow in Crystal City, Texas

Del Rio street scene, circa 1930, Texas

Famous country singer Jimmie Rogers who lived in Kerrville, Texas

Ford Model TT and AA trucks at a Kerrville gas station

Laredo school boy Howard Darnell, soon to be an air force pilot in WWII, c 1940

1930s street scene, Seguin, Texas

Ford Model A ice delivery trucks, Seguin, Texas

Model A Fords in modern San Antonio and South Texas

Visit the "Tours" page for many more snaps of Ford Model As in San Antonio and surrounding towns.

Ford Model A at the Alamo, San Antonio

Model A fords on the San Antonio historic Missions cruise, 2014

Ford Model A at the Alamo, San Antonio

Model A Fords at Mission San Juan, 2014

Model A Ford at Mission Concepcion during the 2016 San Antonio historic Missions cruise

Ford Model A at Mission Espada, San Antonio,m 2014

Ford Model As at the Majestic Theater, Houston Street, San Antonio

Ford Model A outside a downtown San Antonio church

Ford Model As at Randolph AFB, Dec. 2015

Ford Model As driving through downtown San Antonio

Ford Model A in Alamo Heights

Ford Model As at the Texas Transportation Museum in San Antonio

Ford Model As at the funeral of an Alamo As member, Spring 2015

Ford Model A visiting Fort Sam Houston cemetery, 4th of July, 2015

Alamo As vehicles at a 2010 club meeting

Tom Foster's Ford Model A at the San Antonio Raceway drag strip in the late 1990s

Bob Cook's Ford Model A at the San Antonio Raceway drag strip, April 2016

At the former railroad depot in Hondo, now the Medina County museum, 1994

Ford Model A in Schulenburg, April 2016

Model A Fords with aircraft in South Texas

Ford Model A with bilane at a Confederate Air Force Show at Stinson Airfield, 1987

Ford Model A with SR71 Blackbird at Lackland AFB, San Antonio

Ford Model A at the Hondo Air Show social, 2013

Ford Model A with a biplane at the Kingsbury Aerodrome

Former club president John Blumentritt at the Alamo A's 50th Anniversary Photo Shoot, Cannon Field, San Antonio, March 2015

Alamo A's 50th Anniversary Photo Shoot, Cannon Field, San Antonio, March 2015

Former club president Dennis Harwell and wife Kim at the Alamo A's 50th Anniversary Photo Shoot, Cannon Field, San Antonio, March 2015

Ford Model A with a military liaison aircraft at Cannon Field, San Antonio

Ford Model As with a military aircraft at Cannon Field, San Antonio

Kermit Lochte's Model A coupe with a classic bi-plane in San Antonio

Model A Fords in museums and on display

Jay Peacy's "Henry Award" winning 1930 coupe in the Model A Ford mMuseum in Hickory Corner, Michigan

Ford Model A in now closed South Texas Museum of Automotive History in Rosankey

Ford Model AA at the Texas Transportation Museum in San Antonio

Ford Model A in the Shooting Star Museum Near Castroville

Ford Model AA truck on display outside the SAS shoe store in San Antonio

Model A Fords in locally filmed movies

Jackie Chan and passeneger driving a Ford Model A across a railroad bridge in the 1980 movie, "Big Brawl," filmed in San Antonio

Model A Fords during a film shoot on a very chilly San Antonio January morning

Model A Fords during a film shoot on a very chilly San Antonio January day

Color snap of Tom Foster's Model A Ford during "The Devil and Robert Johnson," an NYU student film partially filmed in downtown San Antonio

Jerry Cowan's Ford Model A in "The Devil and Robert Johnson," an NYU student film partially filmed in downtown San Antonio

Rudy Blanco's Ford Model A in "The Devil and Robert Johnson," an NYU student film partially filmed in downtown San Antonio

Ford Model A in "The Devil and Robert Johnson," an NYU student film partially filmed in downtown San Antonio

Garry Henry's Ford Model A in "The Devil and Robert Johnson," an NYU student film partially filmed in downtown San Antonio

Bill Todt's Ford Model A in "The Devil and Robert Johnson," an NYU student film partially filmed in downtown San Antonio