“I came across this image of a car, which belonged to my father, Christopher, a farmer in South Africa, as he and my mother, Claire, set o on their honeymoon,” says Martin Briggs, of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. “He was quite proud of this car! ...My mother would later, regularly, complain that they had to spend their honeymoon camping, and she would say, ‘and the ground was so hard!’ I was wondering if you, or one of your readers, could identify the make and model.’”
Judging by the cowl shape and the wheel style, the phaeton is a Ford Model A. Kit Foster agreed with us, narrowing it down to a 1928-1929 Model A.…
