Well, I put a deposit down on it and my partner in the car will go get it for me early next week. Plans are 4 inch chop, 16 inch steel or wires, black walls and banger speed parts. Remove fenders and misc parts. Going to run as a banger while I get my merc built and then switch to Merc/t5/banjo with open drive and juice brakes. Can't wait to get it. A Fellow hamber will be in on the build too.
Looks like a good start, I'll be following along. Mine was a stocker too I think its the best way to go (less little trinkets to buy), drove it as is till I got all of the parts together. Finished it in 2007 and have been driving the wheels off it ever since. Good luck and have fun!
Yea it's solid as hell. Just a couple spots on the body up under the rear fenders. No biggie. 5" hair cut and tall bias plys. I think the front will have to come down but we'll see how the rubber rake looks. Then drive the shit out of it.
Yea me too. Found some 16" wires that a fellow hamber has close by. PO said the tank needs cleaned so we'll pull it and see what it looks like inside. May need kreemed. Supposedly with a coil and clean gas it will fire up. I'll go through and do all the fluid changes and check the brakes. It already has a new cap and roter, good battery and such.
Are those cowl lights rare? I see them on cars here and there. And I didn't realize it but this car has a metal roof insert that looks factory and a curved visor.
cowl lights means it's a Delux coupe. I don't know how many but any Model A isn't really "rare" I do know my '31 vin is A4646_ _ _, as in 4-MILLION 646 thousand! In 4 years of production! We can't do that now!
Ok cool. So not a big deal to remove them. Messes with the flow imo. Is the metal roof insert delux model also?
To my limited knowledge, all A's have fabric roof covers. Any metal was an afterthought, usually by somebody that didn.t want to pay for a roof job! And tons of Hot Rodders did it. I have a '30 A coupe here now with a piece of galvanized sheet steel pop riveted to the roof! It doesn't leak!
Ok. Well this one is well done. Looks original. Little beat but oh well. I'm leaving the paint as is. And yea that's unreal that they could make that many in 1930.
Man, those fenders are so nice.... You might wanna consider keeping them on. Great looking car!!! Congrats!
by the way, as these things go, probably, (yes that is how it's spelled!), the guy who put on the roof panel also curved the visor. That's not an easy thing to do. i would leave it. Ditto on maybe leaving on the fenders. They can look very cool. .
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