Ben Purkey retired as a school teacher in the PNW , and spends his time between Mexico and the PNW . About the time he started restoring a very rare early model A station wagon with a Martin-Parry aftermarket body, he started assembling this amazing website. I think about 10 years ago . Sorry I don’t really know how to post a link, but instead I am posting a screen grab. This amazing link shows just a sliver of what info Ben has accumulated and freely shared. Ben is afraid now the website is reaching its limits, and would be a real shame to lose it.
His info saved and posted is by vast majority model T ford related. The company also made bodies for other vehicles.The car Ben restored, the 1928 ford station wagon is right at the end of production, when the M-P company was then bought by General Motors, and renamed the Chevrolet Body Division. Ben’s beautiful 1928 wagon is one of 3 or 4 know survivors, and likely Ford , although having provided the vast majority of the auto platforms for most of the years of M-P offerings, dealt the death blow when they came out with their own wood bodied vehicle in December 1928, the Model A station wagon. These were the first complete factory offerings of a wood bodied vehicle. I hope you can take a minute and check out this site. Another way in is just to google Martin-Parry.com
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Re: Martin-Parry website
Here is the link
https://www.martin-parry.com/
https://www.martin-parry.com/
Respectfully Submitted,
Be_Zero_Be
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Be_Zero_Be
I drive a Model T ... Microseconds don't matter

For every Absolute Model T Fact there are at least three exceptions.
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Re: Martin-Parry website
Many thanks Bob!
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Re: Martin-Parry website
Can you do the same thing with the blue in my first post? That goes to all the beautiful surviving vehicles
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Re: Martin-Parry website
Here is the main link
1900 - 1923 https://www.martin-parry.com/Car-Resgistry1.html
1924 - 1927 https://www.martin-parry.com/car-regist ... -1927.html
1928 - 1930 https://www.martin-parry.com/car-regist ... -1930.html
other https://www.martin-parry.com/car-registry-other.html
Restoration of 1928 Martin-Parry Station Wagon https://www.martin-parry.com/restoratio ... -hack.html
Whats really neat are the Dealer Catalogs & Price lists - click on the menu bar then the drop down for year. The returned page needs to be scrolled down to see example
1900 - 1923 https://www.martin-parry.com/Car-Resgistry1.html
1924 - 1927 https://www.martin-parry.com/car-regist ... -1927.html
1928 - 1930 https://www.martin-parry.com/car-regist ... -1930.html
other https://www.martin-parry.com/car-registry-other.html
Restoration of 1928 Martin-Parry Station Wagon https://www.martin-parry.com/restoratio ... -hack.html
Whats really neat are the Dealer Catalogs & Price lists - click on the menu bar then the drop down for year. The returned page needs to be scrolled down to see example
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
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Mick Jagger
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Re: Martin-Parry website
I updated my registry with MP site. Ben added it last night. The 1st link Frank posted has my truck. The 1st photos is a slide show if you click on them. It is a great site to have when trying to figure out what body you have and details.