Last fall my wife was at a neighbors garage sale and they new we were into cars, they said another neighbors father had passed away and that they had a model A they want to sell, well one think led to another and i ended up with a pretty nice coupe body I had been collecting parts to put a blown small block chevy together for that "right" project, its a weiand intake, nos cragar magnesium 2" gilmer pullys, home made idler arm, old 2" idle pully and a modern ish snouth that my buddy shortened to line up everything. i dug thru my pile of model A frames and found one that seemed pretty decent and measure square. a few years back at carlisle swap meet i found a model A front crossmember that had been modified to accept a high arch spring like a model T or model A rear, ive spent years collecting parts for this gasser project and it all just started falling togethor i bought these small window halibrands from a buddy a while back, rear is a 57 olds, the front runners came out of an old hot rodders hay loft, i have a set of american lemans front skinnys that may end up in place of these but well see. i ended up with a old chrome 60hp tube axle and split bones off ebay 4-5 years back and were also earmarked for this project. headers are headman and valve covers are Say why and weiand units this car has always struck a liking to me heres a bunch of misc pics of it i started monkying with a stock T rear spring and narrowed up the main leaf for mock up but went to narrow, kinda a crap shoot guessing on this stuff, a while back i had ended up with a narrow T bucket model T rear spring, i took that and narrowed it up little buy little till i got it close to the right shackle angle, its still a tiny long but i want to get some more weight in it. ill try to post some updates when i get a little further on it but itll be down the road.
this thing'll be the cat's meow,...here's one from the Meltdown a couple years ago that didn't run but sure had the look..
Cool build, @titus Your scrap pile is way cooler than my primary effort project! Here's some more food for thought: https://www.hotrod.com/articles/historic-1930-ford-model-gasser-helped-establish-drag-racing-new-england/
Super cool. I'll bring my '32 to BTTF's this year and we can park next to each other. BTW, if you need a chromed, non dropped headlight bar for this project send me a PM.
The coupe at The Meltdown lat year was not The Rake, Frank Maratta's coupe was not powered by a blown SBC. The Rake resides in Higganum, Connecticut.
...here's one from last year's Meltdown,...Titus, yers would look cool with an early 50's International push truck...lol
Subscribed. I looked at the 1st post, didn't even notice who posted. Scrolled down a bit, oh, of course it's titus I said to myself. Wicked looking machine. Sent from my SM-G960W using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Yep, both of these cars are great examples of what the plans were for my coupe, ive had the plan of doing this car 3-4 years but never found a good enough body till now.
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