75 years on the job - a Ford AA Truck

The driver Carlos allowed us to take pictures and seemed to be used to the admiration we gave his vehicle. The Ford truck has been in the family for at least three generation, Carlos told us and I could sense a little pride in his voice as he spoke about the van. His grandfather already used it as a daily work machine.

Everybody knows the famous Ford T Model, the first industrial produced car in history. After the T Model and it's commercial bigger brother the TT Model became outdated and obsolete Ford created another legend - The AA series which became the first affordable small size truck in the history of transportation. The First AA Trucks war produced from 1926 until after World War II. - The Soviet Union bought a license and produced the AA Model under the name GAZ AA for long after WWII.

It was cheap reliable and simply did it's job whether as a commercial truck, small bus, ambulance or dumb truck. It help build the modern world around the globe.

The Model that does it job for Carlos and his family for about 75 years now is approximately a 1933 build. It has a 3.3 liter engine which gives the truck up to 40 horsepower at 2.200 rpm. It has already an electric starter and a four speed gear plus revers. We asked Carlos about the top speed but he just smiled: "We don't go racing with it - it does it's job. Every day. As we do." he added. And this is what it will probably do for the next three generations. Good luck!