Featured History 28-31 MODEL A THAT DOES IT FOR YOU! Feel free to post your Model A

My 28 and a buddies 30

 

My old coupe HAMB drags 08

 

Local car

 

Off of the internet and perfect!

 

Love everything about this!

 

Have any more info on this one? I've seen photos of it before but would love to see more of the build if possible.

 

here's some oldies from 1976 or so.. Andy's picnic and Nor Cal Early Irons at a local shopping center. these are the first car show pictures I ever took. used a 1950's Lordox Camera that belonged to my Uncle
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For me it would be the 1930-31 roadster pickup. It is, in my opinion, the only body style that looked better as a Model A than a '32. The lines of the Model A looked a lot like a roadster while the '32 looked commercial, they remind me of a WWII jeep. Photo is from a show, none of the photos I have of mine are digital.

Charlie Stephens

 

I do not but I really like it

 

Such gorgeous looking Model A's. I hesitate to show you mine. It's unique because I got it when I was 13 years old-- I'm 81 now. As kids my buddies and I chopped the top. We used hacksaws and a million blades. When there was no clearance for the hacksaw one guy would hold the blade on the inside of the car and the other on the outside and with superior coordination some cutting progress was made. My uncle Ted who worked at Standard Oil "brought over" from work some new fangled locking plyers that made the tedious cutting faster and less painful. The plyers clamped on each end of the hacksaw blade made the easier and more accurate. I think we invented the mechanical sawzall.
We didn't know what we were doing but we knew what we wanted. Our welding supplies consisted of an acetylene torch and a bunch of coat hangers. Some old dude told us that the paint on the hangers acted like flux--sounded good but we didn't even know what flux was. We welded the top back on. When we fucked up, we ground the weld down and did it again.
There was serious rust along the door bottoms and we learned from Pat Hartman, the head of the paint and body department at Calumet Auto Parts, this miracle repair technique where you would take this quarter inch galvanized mesh, stuff it in the hole in the door and slosh a two part mix of smelly putty over the screening, shape it. sand it, and you were done. It worked like a charm and it's still good today.
I drove the car for years. First as a hopped up banger and then with a 265 Chevy and then I guess I grew up and parked the car for 50 some years.
About 10 years ago I decided to get the car back on the road. I rewelded the top to keep it from falling off, new wheels and tires, finished the channel that we started, installed a hydraulic brake set up from a 39 ford, refurbished the 101 Halibrand quickchange, and installed the hottest 4 banger that ever existed. I installed a 19 degree turbo Offy hooked up to a 39 ford transmission. This was the spare engine from an Indy car I used to own. This final version of the Harry Miller designed offenhauser in race trim, injected, on alcohol, pushing 100 inches of boost produced 1100-1200 horsepower. In its current configuration, running on pump gas, blowing through webers, it's producing much less. I installed this engine in this car to piss off my elitist Indy car friends.

 

49ratfink posted this picture in his last set, baby blue Hiboy, Bill "Billy B." Burnham's car. Still around today; looking the same, yellow 32 Sedan, Gary Meadors before Goodguys. Still around today, but not the same, now a Hiboy. Orange Hiboy, I remember the car, but not who owned it. Not sure of the status of that one. All Bay area cars.

 

@HEMI32 would know.

 

I’m biased but I like this one, because I made it just the way I wanted!

 

A couple more of my current Tudor:

 

Agreed. That sedan is killer

 

In reference to these cars.
Bill Burnham old blue
Gary Meaders 32
The orange roadster was built by Tom Walsh
He had a hand in the Burnham car too

Tommy may have driven the orange one early.. Mike Christensen bought it from somebody in the Bay Area Roadsters in late 99 or 2000

Then sold it to another Bay Area guy named John Gard ...he had it several years...I believe it is still in SF area but don't know who has it...

 

Your '29 is sweet.

 

Dang!

 

This is perfect. I want more. The pipes are so beautifully done.

 

I appreciate it. Have a look at my build thread for more pictures. LT