Crazydaddyo, Saw your roadster pickup but husky, balding guy with a beige HAMB cap. I figured you were chowing down. I stood around your roadster for a bit waiting to see if you'd show up. Dug your ride. My wife and I cruised the lineup for a couple of hours. There was a lot of neat cars out there to look at. I'll have to post some of my pictures too. Gaters (Chris)
Crazydaddyo, Saw your roadster pickup but no husky, balding guy with a beige HAMB cap. I figured you were chowing down. I stood around your roadster for a bit waiting to see if you'd show up. Dug your ride. My wife and I cruised the lineup for a couple of hours. There was a lot of neat cars out there to look at. I'll have to post some of my pictures too. Gaters (Chris)
Gaters, There were so many neat cars and people there that I spent the good part of 5 hours buzzing around and didn't get back to my car untill about 1:00 pm. Sorry I missed you. Here are some more pictures of the show: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=347654 .
also can some-one draw me (or describe) the dimensions of a Model A gearbox input shaft, incl thrust race ..... please Thanks in advance
Can someone tell me who makes this engine mount, as it doesn't look stock to me. Now be kind to me as I'm just learning, ....., if indeed it is stock
Measure a stock head at a stud boss and then measure the Winfield at a stud boss. This will tell you if the Winfield has been milled. When new the Winfield used the stock length studs . I have one that the seller said was "Cherry" had never been messed with but turned out to be .200 thinner than stock head. The part that is upsetting is that the head is or was a " crows foot"s. This particular head is relieved enough to clear 2" valves. THere is a raised pad between #1 and #2 sparkplug holes. The original compression ratio was stamped on that pad.
The mount on the front of the engine is a stock '32 Model B engine mount. Then it looks like they have used off the shelf AV8 engine mounts turned upside down and mounted to the rear of the front crossmember instead of their usual place of the side rails. The rubber donuts are stock Flatty. Very simple but very clever at the same time.
Is that aluminum? I was thinking all the "super's" were aluminum but yours looks otherwise? just paint maybe? Zach
My old Super Winfield was aluminum, they were made by Bell auto parts, 8 to 1 compression if I remember right. I've never seen a cast iron Super. Very nice.
Bought my first running Banger. Drove it home too! Well...most of the way! Shes a peach, huh? Great running motor though!
Yeah, wait 'till you see it up close! The title says "Coach", so I'm not sure what it started out as. I've been calling it a Depot Hack because it seems to fit.
Do you have a close up picture of where the windshield attaches to the cowl top sides? Is that a commercial cowl, or did it start as a roadster, or a sedan that someone cut the windsheld posts off of?
It was either a Coupe, Sedan, Closed Cab truck, etc. that someone cut up. They did a damn fine job too. They even widened the windshield frame. Plans are to go through all of the mechanicals and bring it all up to snuff. The mechanicals are actually all in pretty good shape, just a few tunes ups and adjustments. Then I will install a dropped axle and smaller front tires and drive the stupid thing. At some point, I will remove the body and use the rest to build my modified.
If you go to part it, I may need that rear passanger side fender Looks like the rear fenders are coupe, roadster or pickup.
Loogy are you sure that isn't a commercial cowl? they were the same as a roadster/toruing but had no windsheild stantion mounts. Is the dash rail roadster or closed car? Door hinges would be another item to check (stock A) Commercial cowl used roadster/touring.
Pretty darn sure it's not a Commercial cowl. I'll just let the pictures do the talking, even though they are kind of embarrassing! Dash: Door hinges:
my winfield head is cast iron. thanks to every one for the help. the head had been stashed away with some other banger speed parts by my dad. he always wanted to build a hot b motor and never got around to it.
The dash panel looks like a tudor piece. The woodwork is great - I'd probably take that off, hang it on a wall in the house and make a speedster out of the chassis and cowl
Enjoy that car for what it is, there are way too many restorations in the world. That is a 1931 style dash, and a closed car cowl that has been modified.
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