Dick & Sabina Burton

If you are not familiar with the 170-A, here is a quote from the Book “The Ford Model A “as Henry Built It” on pages 126 and 127.

“The 1929-1930 two-window standard Fordor sedan is probably the least known Model “A” body style since it was produced for a very short period.

The two-window fordor sedan was first introduced in May 1928. This was the Briggs-built body with the pebble grain Seal Brown cloth top coming down to the rear belt line. In 1929, this same body was produced with a black leather top as well as with the back quarter made of steel. The three models were identified as 60A, 60B and 60C.

Early in 1929 the slightly larger three window Fordor and the Town Sedan were introduced. This body shell featured a lot more steel in construction than did the two-window version, which used a lot of wood. At this point, Briggs was in the inconvenient position of making two different standard Fordor models. One - the three window version -- was basically made of steel and had many parts interchangeable with the Town Sedan. The other was the less attractive, basically wood constructed, two-window Fordor. Therefore, in May of 1929 Briggs proposed a change in the two-window model. Edsel Ford and members of Ford’s engineering staff were invited to visit the Briggs plant and view the new model. Immediately after the visit, Briggs sent a letter to the Ford Purchasing Department stating in part: “We also showed them (Edsel Ford and party) a two-window job of the same general dimensions as the three-window job. To enable us to put this job in the production at the same time as the three window, it would mean only a small die expense that we agree to absorb and in view of the fact that it would be longer, wider and better appearing than the two-window job that we are going into production this month, we feel that the job shown Mr. Ford would be more desirable to you.”

Several additional letters were exchanged between Ford Purchasing and Briggs in which cost and balancing out of existing leather and back orders were discussed, and finally in late July of 1929, shipments of the new two window sedan, 170-A, trimmed with brown checked body cloth, were started to the various assembly plants. No formal announcement of this model was made, and since Briggs was the only supplier, the production figures were grouped in with the previous 60B and 60C models.

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