1929 Ford Model A Roadster. In February 1929 Ford Motor Company had sold one million Model A's. Five months later the company had sold two million. It may have seemed like everybody had a Model A and this example was purchased by Daryl Hemken because he thought it was a great way to show how people during both the Depression and World War II had to 'make do' and the Model A could handle any task you could throw its direction. This Model A roadster was purchased during the 1960s in rough condition in Alexandria, Virginia. The former owner was a painter by trade, welding brackets on the fenders of the A to hold his ladders, using a screen door hook to keep the door closed, a chain to raise the trunk and tar to seal the windshield. It remains just as he found it.