We have owned #777 for a bit more than twenty years, having acquired it from a family in Dublin, NH. Our understanding is that it always has been a New Hampshire car. The car was given a freshening in the late 1970s – early 1980s and was entered into several AACA shows at that time, eventually working its way up to a Senior National First Place at Hershey in 1982. The body wood, metal, upholstery, etc. are all in excellent condition some 30 plus years on. The motor is a replacement diamond-block (casting date “D59) indicating an April (D) 5, 1939, with an age appropriate (mid-1931) engine number.
We’ve driven this car extensively, and enjoy its having been pressed into service (along with us as extras) as one of the vintage automobiles featured in the early-Thirties Depression-era film Disappearances (2006) starring Kris Kristofferson and Genevieve Bujold, and in the introductory segment to Enchanted Hills: Legacy of an Art Colony (2019), a film about the origins and character of the late nineteenth-early twentieth century Cornish Art Colony.
This is un-doctored photo of our A400 taken with dust on the car (actually cocoa powder), during the filming of “Disappearances”. Photographed on the streets of St. Johnsbury, VT on a dirt-covered street during the depiction of an early 1932 scene. Note the 1932 license plates.