-------"nelson boys" --------Model A update -7 pix

Well we picked up a Model A last weekend and drug it home and change the wheels and tires. I have been greasing and getting everything loose for this weekend. I wanted to see if we could get the ole' gal fired up. So I pulled the head earlier in the week to find it full of a mouse nest. So clean/shopvac-ed it and soaked it in Marvel Mystery Oil and everything loosend up. So I got the wire brush on the drill and "Polished" the head while my dad "Honed" it with fine grit sand paper. We got the head back on and check the starter and it needed a little oil also, got it back installed. I borrowed a few items from my pops Model A roadster p/u and I cranked it about 4 times and "clackety/clackety/clack" it runs. So we tried it a couple more times while laughing and hooting. So we decided to take it on a cruise out of the garage. I drove her about 50 feet to the end of the driveway (no brakes) and backed it back in to the garage. My dad also drove it and backed her. We both had chicken skin on are arms after words and cracked open a "Beer" and toasted the day. Here are a few pix of the days events. Oh yea, and we started on it around 11am and she fired around 3pm.



Engine full of stuff.....




Got the Head back on with the ole' Model A book...Question: How much do you torque the heads on a Model A?


First fire and yes Rocky she did smoke from MMO on the valves......hahaha.



Me pulling her out of the garage....


The acorn's that puked out of the exhaust all over my SBC when it fired up.......hahaha.....I had to take a pix.



Smoking while backing up......


Ya' gotta drink a beer after the ole' gal comes back to life.......




Chris Nelson
Kansas

Click here for last weekend's pix........

 

I can hear Dr. Frankenstein now....."It's alive, it's alive !"

 

Great work. Amazing it would run. Cool post.

 

Chris - It just don't get any better than that, eh? Didn't even get an acorn or mouse turd in your eye? Congrats. Not a shabby A-bomb you boys have there - will you have it in the nines by MoKan???
Tell your dad HI for me,
Scotty

 

man i would have bought the beer to see that

 

"Happy Days"
Why are you and your dad grinning?

 

You guys have the luck of the Irish.......
Neat car.............

 

That's a good way to spend a Winter day. Sam

 

Looks like a good time

 

What a great way to spend a day. You and your dad working together. Then to get it fired up to. Sounds like a 12 pack day to me. I guess the mice did not like it much

 

Cool that is fired up and moved under its own power

 

Less than $200 for a complete Model A sedan, and in 4 hours it's running, you lucky son of a *****!!

 

Fix the brakes, get some headlights and drive the **** out of it!

 

To cool !! Congrats !!!

 

That's great Chris, I can't believe you guys got it running in an afternoon considering what a deal you got. That totaly Rules! They must have driven that car right to where it sat until you found it.

Gus

 

Thats GREAT Chris! Looking forward to seeing it run at the HAMB Drags this year!

 

Chris, wait 75 years and try that with one of the "JELLY BEAN" vehicles we have today! I still believe the old stuff,was simple,and at the same time tuff.Looks like you had a day to remember,but the rest of you guys beware! Theres several mice on the loose, looking for a new home!

 

Sodbuster, you torque the head to 55 foot lbs. Start at 45, then redo at 50, then finally 55. Drive it around to operating temperature then check them at 55 lbs again. There is a sequence to the torqueing. You'll need to get a Model A book with a good diagram on the sequence. Also don't use the gasket for the water filler neck, just use blue RTV silicone sealer. The torqueing with the gasket can break the ears off the filler neck. Keith

 

Great post.

 

Great! Whack it down and hit the road man! I can almost smell that oil!

 

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I laughed at first but then started thinking....could you imagine ALL the people that would love to see that....Restorers, resto-rodders and even them "rat rodders" would be stopping you all the time wanting to buy it....tell them exactly what they do not want to hear.

Tell the restorers that you gonna build a rat rod out of it the day it finally breaks down.

Tell the rat rodders that you are going to restore it the day it finally breaks down.

 

That is one of the coolest things I have ever heard/seen.

 

Yea, that is the plan. Just get it rolling and stopping and make everything "road safe" and drive the heck out of it. We were thinking about cutting the top off and making a touring out of it, maybe in the future. Kind of like that touring that was covered in old HOTROD covers, but I mentioned an idea to my dad about a "nose" with full fenders and it looks very cool.

Top? what top. It has the old plywood top that is covered in canvas and roofing tar and about 3 layers thick. It did tear a sunroof on the p***enger side after it was on the highway. But I am going to leave it just as is. I do need cut some wood for bracing in the top (it only has one), looks like I will be making a roadtrip to St.Louis where my father-in-law has a full wood shop.

Headlights? not right now. Taillights? Yes.

So the next step is Brakes and getting the radiator hooked up and getting it ***led/tagged with insurance.

Oh yea, I fired it up for the wife last night and I think I saw her grin. And then she asked if we could make it into a roadster and if it was going to Bonneville?

Chris Nelson
Kansas

 

Chris, have I mentioned that was the most obscene deal I've heard yet? Good Job. Has the belly tank been put on hold?

Farmall

 

i'm really hoping you aint gonna paint or chop that ,it wouold be so kool as is with a deep channel and maybe a zed to get her real low then go over the rust with a satin varnish.Hell yeah that would be real kool.....Marq

 

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We were thinking???

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The Nelson Boys, are thinking about cutting the roof off?

I thought that this would be automatic. I hate for you guys
to miss out the joy of driving in the rain, heat, cold and smells of the open road.

Come on Spring I'm going through withdrawals!!!!!

Looking good guys keep us posted.

Happy Trails,

Mick

 

What a great story! Just one question, what the hell is chicken skin? Is this a new type upolstry?

 

MAn that is awesome. What a great feeling. So what are yalls plans for her?

 

Chicken Skin is where get the bumps on your arms, or you can call it goose bumps.