we have tour groups and interested people come through our foundry all the time, and today was enough to knock one's socks off. i get home from work and dad tells me a car club is coming out, and no less than 30 model As show up. i know it isn't a bunch of hot rods, but damn, imagine my surprise when my dad tells me to get ready to show some people around because there's a model a club coming over in 10 minutes...
You know how to really piss off a bunch of hardcore restorers? While looking at their car, start telling you buddy really loud how easy it is to make a hotrod out of these...just cut here, throw that away...gets them going every time. Brian
another group shot. again, not hot rods, but traditional none the less. gotta respect folks driving original model As a few hundred miles on a whim...
you know, it's funny, alot of these guys, i think, are pretty open to the whole hot rod thing. they noticed my pontiac doors all shaved and sitting in the shop and were pretty appreciative of it. they were gawking at the set of wide whites i have laying around too. (man, it really makes living at home bearable when your pops lets you use his foundry for your hot rod shop!) i think most of them dug what i was doing to the fat old pontiac, actually. me, i'd have a hard time taking a car as nice as one of theirs and rodding it because they were so nice, but believe me, all i could think of was the chapter of this little ford hot rods book i have that talked about early model a hot rodding and all the overhead valve setups for the bangers, stripped fenders and etc!
last one. 30-31 A roadster. all duded up withthe factory options and accessories and whatnot. i like them minus the hood with an OHV conversion or V8 of some sort, zoomies, limefires or lakes, but ya gotta respect where our shit came from!
Very cool,who knows about the hood on the coupe in the second pic??I have never seen any sides like those.
I love hot rods and customs Josh,but I'm like you, I have a lot of respect for those older gearheads that keep the original faith going and drive them everywhere even if they only get up to 55 mph! Must have been a blast seeing all that sweet tin in your lane way. Who knows!!.....maybe you planted some seeds with afew of them today....could be a future hot rodder in the crowd after checking out your poncho.....and talking about that big bad poncho, I hope I see it at Billetproof this year in Detroit ......if I remember......I promised to buy the beer if you make it up!! Thanks again for that great picture Josh.....you got the skills bro!!!
it was actually kinda bizarre seeing all those As. they kept coming and coming, and for me, it was totally unexpected. i just got off work and heard the puttering roar of 30 4 bangers coming up the hill. it was soooo bittersweet seeing that chain of As drive up, too. they went past the farm that's been in my family for 200 years, rolling through the rapidly depleting country. they looked SO RIGHT passing the farm. i have a hard time being ok with alot of crap going on in american culture today, as we all do i am sure, but as those As were making me happy, it also cut to the bone, cold like a knife blade, that we are living in 2004, and i am fairly sure that the best times in american culture have come and gone. but back to the topic, 30 model As roll up to my house with very little prior warning... possibly my biggest "HOLY FUCKING SHIT!" of the year!
cRat, Boy you said a mouthful.. I've been saying the same thing for the last few years. America has reached it's peak and we are now on the down hill slide. WE've wandered too far from our roots to regain the America our founding fathers knew and invisioned. Too bad, but we aren't the first nor I suspect the last. We've got too much and we want more and we won't be satisfied until we have everything and then nothing. I suspect that the Asian countries will be the ones to dominate us but I'm sure I'll be gone by then as will the rest of us on the HAMB. Frank
You'd be surprised how many of the Restorer's used to have hot rods, used to build them, have one next to their restored A, and how many wish they had one. As for the hood with the side doors, they are an aftermarket hood side accessory.
thats cool having all those model a's coming [ QUOTE ] I suspect that the Asian countries will be the ones to dominate us but I'm sure I'll be gone by then as will the rest of us on the HAMB. [/ QUOTE ] you that right bout the asian countries. they already dominated my city, but ill still be around (only 14)
Funny you should bring up having one next to their restored model A. My father-in-law has one of each. He's also a big Pontiac muscle car nut. Here's his street rod. And here is his restored model A. And a pic of the two together during build-up. Yes, the street rod gets driven a lot more, that's why it sits closest to the door.
There's a guy here in town with a chopped 40' ford, and his wife drives a bone stock restored 40'. Really cool.
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