Recent content by barry022

The shop to complete the repairs on your wonderful car should be nothing less than a highly reputable organization with a proven record of having completed high-point show cars, even if it is many miles from your home.

Wow! Glad you caught that! During the Model A time period they were called emergency brakes and not parking brakes as they are called today, so it is important to make certain the emergency brake system works well.

If a fraction of the effort required to convert a Model A brake system over to hydraulic was used to instead to rebuild or adjust the existing mechanical brakes, the owner would end up with a better outcome in the long run.

It sold in that auction for $26,045. I don't think so.

The slide show adds a lot of clarity to the condition of this Model A Town Car and explains the reason it remains for sale and will continue to do until the seller realizes the market value of the vehicle is far removed from his current asking price.

All 4 years are great. Even Will Rodgers admitted he never met a Model A he didn't like.

Is this a Model A Town Car? https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2424680714469429/?ref=category_feed&referral_code=undefined

The advantage of operating internal combustion engines at an elevated temperature has been proven to reduce engine wear, but engine failure that may have been precipitated by the installation of a thermostat in a Model A engine is cause for concern as noted in this article...

Ford introducing a 1931 Model A in 1927. Just more Fake News, as if there isn't already enough out there right now to deal with.

I have no doubt the whole works can take off and go down the road, but stopping that train using Model A brakes even in good condition from a rolling speed of 50 mph is a disaster waiting to happen.

Interesting read on pits. Now I understand the reason they are no longer common as they used to be.

I'll say this about Lebarron Bonney, I purchased a complete interior kit for a 1930 Model A Ford in the late 1970s and everything about the kit was top notch. Every pleat was sewn straight and the door panels were an exact fit and the kit was easy to install. I was impressed. I don't know what...

All the vehicles referenced in this thread are delivery vehicles, but would it not be correct to state none of them are sedan deliveries?

nomadpsd, have you applied the animation feature to the solid model? If so, do you think you can make a youtube video available?

nomadpsd, did you use the Ford Engineering prints to construct the components, or did you reverse Engineer the parts by measuring them?