The late '31 Deluxe Delivery I bought in 1975...for 1800 bucks,sold it for 2500 bucks when I went in the Navy (Seabees,CM) in 1977...shrewd huh.a whole 2500 bucks for what was then a rare one..spent the next forty years wrenching on heavy equipment...fooled around with a few things in the meantime, a 41 Indian Army scout,Cletrac HG42,Volkswagens..but never got another A, never had the right mix of dough and opportunity till now,forty years later.I work with a cat who's a big Ford collector,his Dad began buying old parts (NOS) from ford dealers back in the fifties,charter member of the local model A club,dude has more **** than you can count,he told me he has over 100 Model A fenders in his Moms house's attic for crying out loud.Got to know him over the past year but never pestered him to sell anything,figured Id be the one guy who didn't douchebag him about his horde...So I' m telling about a '29 engine I picked up for a welding job I did...and low and behold he says "hey you want a steel top 31 pickup to go with it?"..I said sure,told him Id pay fair money for enough of his second rate stuff to build a banger around the 29 engine,which pulled down very clean.. So today we cut the deal on the late'31,and all the parts to build it except the engine..complete ch***is and body..for $2500 bucks..so basically I bought back in forty years later for what I cashed out at..a whole lot less,but such is life... Homeboy loves early Broncos,he set the cab and bed on a spare bronco frame he has..calls it his 'rust garden'...****s coming together slowly,probably be a month or two before everything changes hands...but hey,I've waited this long,what another month or two?
Im going to pull it completely down and plastigauge it.From the looks of it it was professionally built,amateurs don't bend cotter pins like that ... .020 over bore.. .010 under crank. Since its a babbit lower end I'm going 5.9 compression and a 3/4 cam,figure much more than that and Ill be pounding out lead.Ill fab my own manifolds,got a nice pair of old school Italian Weber ICTs and a rotary fuel pump ...12v alternator,aint decided on which distributor yet,though it will be points,Pertronix made me walk once,it wont get a second chance..the rest? tinkered on stock,right down to mechanical brakes
I plan on it,but there's a bunch to do before I fully start on it..a '57 beetle and a rigid shovelhead to sell,concrete to pour and a shanty to build.
The rear fenders may be a challenge to find as they are unique to the wide box. Look forward to the build Sent from my SGH-T399 using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
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