Of course they are slow....take off driving across an empty pasture and see how fast you can go....that's about the equivalent of what all the roads where like back then. Even if it could go that fast there wouldn't have been a road smooth enough to be able to use it. Also....trucks were only designed as fancy tractors back then....they were a working machine....no need for speed...needed low gears for power since you only had about 40hp to work with. Yes....they make all kinds of adapters to do whatever you want...but just remember...if you go to all that trouble and expense to go faster you won't really be able to use it unless you also upgrade the steering.
It doesn't have the threaded radiator and gas tank necks.its just a mutt....was kept working by replacing parts with whatever was available it seems.
Think maybe we should start a AA thread for all of us who love these big-boned girls? 1929 Marmon, show us the back of cab. If the window is high with a Ford script embossed into the metal, you've got something uncommon. Anyone here who's hotrodded these and kept the rear springs, did you bother putting on rear shocks, or is that just a waste of time?
No leftover parts yet. I haven't really gotten started yet. I just got it running so I could move it around. I have another truck I'm in the middle of at the moment. Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
According to the steering column mount it's a 1930. 31 column mount went up behind the dash rail to the cab crossmember, not to the Gas Tank. The Wizzard
Update.....this truck has been sitting on my lift for about 8 months now. I haven't had any spare time to mess with it. My 56 Caddy sprung a trans fluid leak and bled out a couple weeks ago and I needed to put it on the lift last Friday. Started up the old truck and backed it out. Figured I would put it on my trailer and haul it to my storage building for safe keeping. Then I remembered there was a swap meet on Saturday so I added a few things to the trailer and hauled it over there. Lots people were checking it out and saying how cool it was. I got bored and climbed up on the trailer and cranked it up. You would have though two naked women were fighting in the mud the way everyone came running over. Anyway....this one old man at least in his late 70s came over at least 4 times and climbed all over this thing. He finally made me a pretty good offer if I would haul it to his house.
He left me his number and told me if I still had it at the end of the day to call him and he would give me directions to his house. I called him as I was leaving and he sounded kind of excited on the phone. I pulled up in front of his house and he had 3 model As in front of the house.....a pickup, a coupe and a Tudor sedan. He never heard it run or even asked if it ran. You should have seen the smile on that guys face when I started it up and backed it off the trailer and pulled it into his driveway. Even my GF said she saw it and thought the guy was gonna have an ******. I really didn't want to sell it but at least I feel better knowing it went to a good home.
The radiator shell is a 1930 AA. You can tell from the blue emblem. The 1931 had the same radiator shell but with a stainless steel emblem. Charlie Stephens
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