Car of the Week: 1931 Ford Model A hot rod

here's what it originally looked like:
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and here's what they did with it:
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(of course it's a chevy engine in a FORD car ) :mad:

It was 1962 in Tucumcari New Mexico that Rod Dickinson's father let him buy an old model A.
Rod was 15 or 16 years old then.

Rod drove the car for years that way. His father opened a Western wear store and used the Model A in parades.

Rod is now 74 years old and still lives in Tucumcari. Along the way, Rod had 2 kids and one of the kids ended up with this model A; he lived in Phoenix, Arizona. Unfortunately, this son of Rod had a wreck in his family's minivan and had to sell the family's little orange model A to fund the minivan repairs. This gets us up to 2017 in Phoenix where Daniel Shircliff steps in to the picture.

read more: https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/features/car-of-the-week-1931-ford-model-a-hot-rod
also, there a YT vid of it at the drags in the article.
 
A 50's era hot rod period correct, plus a few functional and cosmetic upgrades. :thu:
 
I'd make it an EV just to hear the people bitch and moan that it HAS to burn dead dinosaurs.

One of those Heinlein books has an antique car with electric power, with an emulator & hidden speaker to provide the old-time ICE exhaust note. It'll happen pretty soon I imagine.
 
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