Model A SCORE!

[FoMoCo_MoFo]

Yesterday I was sitting in the garage talking to my bro about getting screwed out of a `29 coupe deal, but telling him what I really wanted was an A sedan. About 15 min later I heard the sound of a diesel truck and seconds later a fellow mofo walks throught the door. He tells me, "I got a car out here I want you to look at, cause I dont want it". So I walk out gave him a thouseand bucks and now it's in my driveway.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v95/fomoco_mofos/30coop1.jpg

I know you smart guys have already seen that it it right hand drive. it was broght over from Bolivia about 30 years ago and has sat in a barn since then. it is all complete down to the interior and all the words on the firestones are in spanish and motor turns freely... so now I have something to do this weekend, and every other weekend for at least a year.

[2tall2beahotrodder]

Lucky Mother Fucker..

[FoMoCo_MoFo]

Why thank you lil buddy, you should see my wife!

[HOTRODPRIMER]

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Lucky Mother Fucker..

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I don't know ya,,,,,,,but I hate ya! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Looks like a nice body and a great deal,,,,wanna make a profit on it? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gifHRP

[**DONOTDELETE**]

you paid 1,000 bucks for that? that's quite a friend you got there.
I have always loved the way those look.

[RoadDevil13]

SCORE!!!! Man...what a great week for you....

Congrats

[**DONOTDELETE**]

I wouldnt even hotrod that thing. get it running and fucking drive it like that. that thing is very cool. Dont tear it apart. You can buy another body all day long for a few hundred dollars, but totally together and original.... man, dont do it. Cars like that are simply gone.


most of the time jackasses get on this board bragging about scores and it's normally a pile of shit coupe that they (or anyone else for that matter) will never finish.

this actually is a score.

[momentumfoto]

Yeah he is luckyfucker and you all should see his wife... no joke. Good job Jeff... you suck!

Now lets chop the fuck out of it! BP

[FoMoCo_MoFo]

I am gonna get it running and drive it like it is for a lil while, then I am going to do a mild chop, put the flathead in it, some juice brakes, 16" wheels and clean it up a bit more.

[truth]

right on!

[kentucky]

You suck lucky f*$&@r http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

NICE score there!

[KustomSkylark]

Are you going to keep it a right hander? I think it would be cool if you did.

[FoMoCo_MoFo]

more pix
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v95/fomoco_mofos/coop2.jpg

[FoMoCo_MoFo]

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[MBL]

That looks like Sinner's Model A. I think he paid about the same. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Tim
MBL

[FoMoCo_MoFo]

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[Gotgas]

unbelievable

I'm so jealous I could spit. Great score.

Now it's your turn to be the guy that pulls up in front of my house with a $1000 RHD Model A.

[MBL]

Wow...that really is nauseating.
Tim
MBL

[FoMoCo_MoFo]

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Are you going to keep it a right hander? I think it would be cool if you did.

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yeah I am, I have to check with the UK, NZ and Aussie HAMBERS to see what to best to use

[**DONOTDELETE**]

good lord

[Harrison]

I gave that much for a rusted out RPU. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

People always say "thery're still out there" I just wonder how many really are. I bet it would blow our minds if we knew. Ever ride down the road and just wonder "What's within a 5 mile radius of here?" If we only knew.....

Hi Gooch.

JH

[FoMoCo_MoFo]

Harrison,

the funny thing is that it was in a barn not 5 miles from my house...

my buddy who dropped it off's friend is an electrician who's grandfather broght it over from Bolivia. the old man passed away a few weeks ago and had 3 cars in the barn. the others I guess where a T and a rusted to hell 29 Coupe. both those were taken by the family, but they didnt want this one.

yeah, a BARN in Garden Grove, Orange County California...

[LOST ANGEL]

That interior look's fuckin tits!! Nice catch-MIKE http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Artiki]

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Shit...SHIT...MY RETINAS....THEY'VE MELTED!!!!!!!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

It's interesting that you want to keep it RHD, we run ours LHD http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
There's a pretty cool RHD steering box you could use in your A from a Ford Transit, which is an English Ford van used by builders and plumbers etc. We're putting one in our A40 gasser, I'll take some photos of it tomorrow and post them for you if you're interested.

[1LOWCHIEF]

That interior looks better than the one in my 7 yr old late model baby toting heap o' shit!

[Slag Kustom]

great score im jealous

[PFF]

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Are you going to keep it a right hander? I think it would be cool if you did.

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yeah I am, I have to check with the UK, NZ and Aussie HAMBERS to see what to best to use

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Use a plastic body, and sell that thing to me.....

Thats the best score ever, good luck

Pete

[SamIyam]

I like the Bolivian whore house interior...
Cool score,
Sam.

[bootie]

over here they use a wealth of different steering box setups but the most common is probably from our 70's on Ford falcons if ya want i can have a look throigh some old magazines and see if i can find a swap 4 ya

[wes]

what a score...

[Dat Dirty Rat]

I must say i agree w/Gooch on this one!

Outside of putting some new shoes on it maybe?? Start driving it...thats got to be one of the best scores i've seen in a awhile!...Care to make a grand?? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Dirty

[**DONOTDELETE**]

I'm a bigger hotrodder than most and man, seriously think before you start tearing that thing apart like a speed freak. Once they come apart, its a long, long time before they go back together if ever.

you can get 2 door bodies all day long.
change the wheels and put good brakes on it and fucking enjoy it dude.

leave this girl alone.

[fab32]

That will be a super little driver with a flathead. My advice (as if you care) is to get av8's book (How To Build a Traditional Ford Hot Rod) and build a chassis like he describes, install the flathead and drive the wheels off it.

Frank

[HonkyTonker]

Shit, that is just amazing..

I need new friends. I tell my Friends what i want all the time. Sheeeit!

[Scotch]

It is SO straight...I bet that paint would buff up and look really cool....I vote hot rod the chassis but keep the cherry body as-is! The chop could still work if done carefully...and if you could preserve that headliner...man...so awesome...glad you got it first...you'll do it right!

[banzaitoyota]

DAMN!!! nice find!

[FoMoCo_MoFo]

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over here they use a wealth of different steering box setups but the most common is probably from our 70's on Ford falcons if ya want i can have a look throigh some old magazines and see if i can find a swap 4 ya

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that would be the shit. yes please!

[FoMoCo_MoFo]

Trust me guys, it wont turn into yet another rockabilly shitbox... I have hacked up without regard everything else I have owned & I'm going to leave this pretty much alone & get it on the road as is and drive it for a while...

[TheRev]

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I'm a bigger hotrodder than most and man, seriously think before you start tearing that thing apart like a speed freak. Once they come apart, its a long, long time before they go back together if ever.

you can get 2 door bodies all day long.
change the wheels and put good brakes on it and fucking enjoy it dude.

leave this girl alone.

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THE GOOCH...he doth speak the gospel!!!!!!I agree!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Fomoco, my fomoco friend,I've always been told that I have horseshoes up My BUTT,
YOU my pal have a whole freekin horse!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
(wanna make 2 grand??) http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Darwin]

Good on 'ya for not slicing it up. Excellent deal. You're one lucky cork-sucking bastich.

[FoMoCo_MoFo]

I dranied the gas tank, drained and filled all the other fluids... now I am going out to try and get some spark... wish me luck guys.. I wanna be driving it by dark.

[crewcutkid]

I gotta agree with the Gooch. Give 'er a good cleaning and repaint, and a mild hotrodding with a riley head and a different wheel/tire setup (kelsey-hayes mebbe?) and mebbe a mild axle drop. I think a repaint of the original colors would be awesome. Once again, I wouldn't screw with the body. Just clean er up.
-Crew

[bootie]

unfortunately i can't find shit - i was sure i had an article on steering box swaps but from what i can see the set ups are usually XA ford Falcon steering box- using its own column or that of a mazda rx3/808, use of the rx3/808 box and column, holden hq box and column, or nissan/datsun 180b/200b box and column - pretty much over here we just make a lot of whatever fit - i've got a mazda323 in my back yard and i'm scrounging anything i can find of that - central locking/a/cond/power windows/wipers basically whatever i can bend twist or beat into shape to fit i'm gonna use - hope those combos help - other than that there is a article on a frontend swap (very brief) using the 180b steering box - (pretty much just a photo of it) looks to be sitting where the original was - i've got a few more mags around the place so i'll have a look through them but i might have better lkuck finding rocking horse shit. so just hang what ya wanta use in place check to see if it looks ok and bolt 'er up.

[BUICKS38]

OK here is my two cents. If it means anything. I think the only thing i'd change is the brakes. Mybe put some juice brakes in there and drive it the way it sits. That thing is cool the way it is. You are one lucky dog. Like i said just my two cents but don't cut it up.

[burndup]

Wanna TRIPLE your money?

I'd drive it just like it is, too, not even paint it...

'cept I'd convert it back to LHD... you know, rotate the wear in the seats and all.

[Jeff Norwell]

........ http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gifYOU HAVE EXCELLANT KARMA!!!!!!!!!.......wowee!!!!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Swedester]

don´t know if someone would call these projects a score,but it makes your imagination going anyway,and yes, keep it as it is,I actually sold a ´30 plymouth sedan last year´cause I couldn´t bring my self to cut it,so now I have a piece of shit ´32 ford instead that needs everything! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
heres the link: http://www.rufusranch.150m.com/index.html

/ Vince

[FoMoCo_MoFo]

burndup!

dont you have enough projects??? I still havent seen that girder fork on anything...

trust me you'll see me driving that thing up in your neck of the woods... unpainted and 4-bangin'

[burndup]

hah! that girder fork SCARES me... thats why it was so cheap? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif I was gonna put it on that "baby roth trike," but no... I think the next kids' BMX i find in the alley will receive that...

I have a motor and two trannys for that thing if theres trouble in what its got... CHEEP(ish) just so ya know!

later,
J

[Morrisman]

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Are you going to keep it a right hander? I think it would be cool if you did.

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yeah I am, I have to check with the UK, NZ and Aussie HAMBERS to see what to best to use

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Don't forget the Indonesian, Singaporean, Indian, Bangladeshi, Nepalese, Thai, Sri Lankan, Burmese, Hong Kong, Vietnamese, Pakistani, Malaysian, South African, Zimbabwean, Zambian and Bruneian Hambers, as they all drive on the left too http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Whaddayamean there is NO Singaporean HAMB contingent???? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

[FoMoCo_MoFo]

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I have a motor and two trannys for that thing if theres trouble in what its got... CHEEP(ish) just so ya know!

later,
J

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JAY! you RULE!!!! THANKS BRO!

[SimonSez]

Nice score !

As far as your steering goes, all of these are available right-hand drive, although some of them would take a bit of searching to find) ...

- late thirties Ford passenger
- F1 pickups
- 53-56 F100
- VW bus

There is also the HQ Holden box, which is made by GM and is similar to a Vega box. Quite popular and works well if you want cross-steer.

[FoMoCo_MoFo]

Thanks Simon! I am also going to see what the UK guys have as well. I am going over there in September so maybe I can pick something up.

[willowbilly3]

Nice score. I have noticed that people shy away from the right handers for some reason. There was a decent looking rhd A roadster on ebay last week that didn't make three grand and a touring a few weeks earlier that went for cheap. I also saw a nice rhd touring on a web classified about a month ago that was like 8 grand. I can't believe the roadster didn't make the hump when half rusted out shells are bringing more than that.
I say get it running and drive it. If you do those A brakes right and don't get in commuter traffic they are adequate, but juicers a mild drop and a warmed up B motor with inserts would br about all I would do if it was mine. I would just leave it rhd.