Model A Sports Coupe Hop Up - BUILD

Sometime ago I decided that my Sports Coupe needed some careful attention ('bout the time of the engine swop/swops).

And as Gill and I are heading off to Eastern Europe next spring (2010 Pilsen Liberation festival) we needed the thrill of the journey to be backed up with the knowledge that the Coupe will get us there and back at reasonable speed - therefore we commissioned Buckland Automotive Engineering to Hop it up a bit.


My vision is to leave the car looking the same, with the option to remove the fenders and have a little more power for those long hills when we're going down the Rhine valley.


Here follows the first part of that journey - the Preparation.


As the Coupe looked when I first got it back in 2006.




As it sat a couple of weeks ago.



A glimpse of what it will look like with the fenders off. I'll be leaving the splash aprons on.



The big strip.

 

That is gonna be a DAMN Nice Hop-Up indeed and Adrian and Drew do some Fantastic work,I'll look forward to seeing the end result.

Nick.

 

looks cool, once again another great hotrod in the uk. I think i saw it at the hayride??

matt

 

Yep was at the Hayride.



Currently stripped to bare chassis and shot blasted. Should have some more progress shots later in the week.

 

Nice to see another Sport Coupe.

 

Sweet. Looks good, now I wish I had one.

 

A few more pics.

The chassis, springs and bones shot blasted, and it's all good news - no chassis cracks, damage or corrosion.

The turning point, fabrication starts soon.

 

Good news that your chassis is in such good condition should make the lads at Bucklands job a lot easier.You still going to the Drags this weekend, even without your ''A''?

Nick.

 

We'll be there tomorrow - Sunday.

 

Frame and suspension bits have come up realy nice.
Still love that rear view pic,the dogs bollocks!

 

Well, things have moved on leaps and bounds since my last post, and I'm dead chuffed with how it's turning out.

Going back to my brief on the build it was just that - brief! "I want the chassis to look like Ford could have made a Model A with a flattie 8, keep the wishbones un-split if possible, keep the original pedals and hand brake lever..."

Adrian and Drew have done the rest, I'll let the pictures do the talking.

The cross member :








The K member utilising as much of the original Ford steel as possible:



Taking shape:

 

Nice project. But... what is that neat looking build in the backgrond? I could use more pix of that one, too. Thanx, Gary

 

It's the Greg Special. Flattie 8 powered special built in the 50's was all steel having an alloy body made, chassis work and a more powerful flattie fitted at the moment.

I know its used in VSCC events over here, might be some pictures on their website http://www.vscc.co.uk/vsccweb/

 

Looks great mate, are you going to box the chassis whilst you have it blown apart?

 

Love the sport coupes, keep up the good work!

 

I love way you modded the crossmember to keep the unsplit wishbone. very cool

 

I'll second that.Great work.Keep the updates coming!

 

The cross member is hand fabbed, looks great don't it, just like it should be there.

I don't want it fully boxed, there'll be some boxing around the K member and pedals etc. Basicallly where most the flex is.

 

And me, you got one?

 

I'll third it, GREAT progress that Flathead V8 looks right at home!

Nick.

 

Looking good Mark

 

looking nice! look forward to continued updates.

-scott noteboom
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I can definitely see where you are taking this one and I am extremely excited about it. Looks awesome man!!! I can't wait to see the final result.

This is the same manner I would like to put my father In Law's '31 Chevy in. Bare bones and just right.

 

Looks great! Like that center crossmember treatment!!

 

Cheers Kelvin Hows your A going?

 

Cheers Jeffrey J, yep I'm itching to get in and drive... can't wait!

Thanks Chris, I've been following your Roadster swap from banger to 8 power - has given me inspiration for sure.

Thanks Scott, hopefully we'll have more updates towards the end of next week.

 

This is looking great! The cross and K members are neat. Well done Sir!

 

i like the way ya used the stuff ya already had and just added ...sweet

 

Nice start. Just don't see many sport coupes. I run a k member also but i realy would box the front section of that frame.

 

Can't believe I missed your build up on here!

Any new updates?