Recent content by Capt Quahog

What color shirts were those 1930 era singing German gas station guys wearing? Were the garments BROWN by any chance? Any colorful red, white and black arm bands seen? Hmmm . . . very Interesting!

Over the decades whenever an A Model Ford was acquired, at first opportunity, the Zenith would get pulled off and some other functioning carb get put on. Wasted too much time early on trying to get those design defective Zenith things to properly function and not stall on excess fuel. This...

So let me get this right. It is now a violation of some arbitrary vintage automobile info edicate to speculate and discuss tentative scenarios that may have taken place 86 years ago? A guess is not a statement of fact but an unvalided casual spectulation. Nothing is absolute with all history...

Okay . . . we already know what we don't know. What is known is that Ford "STOPPED" production of Model A vehicles at the River Rouge sometime in late 1931. Information garnered from various supposedly reliable sources over these past decades states that actual A Model regular assembly...

Thanks for the information Pluck! There was some guy on eBay last year offering a "barn find" wreck of a Model A Ford pickup truck that he advertised as being built in 1932. No VIN number was provided. Aside from that. I've not seen any other references to very late assembled A Model...

What happens on that day? Do all Model A Ford owners receive lavish gifts from anonymous but generous benefactors?

Since acquiring a late 1931 Ford sedan, have been seeking out specific information as to the highest VIN / engine serial numbered Model A Ford built and still in existence. As it turns out, from various sources arrives specific information showing the End of "final" 1931 Model A Ford...

Yes . . . when looking at the pictures awhile ago, I too noticed the rust around the ends on the front springs. Then, it was forgotten. Except for exercise runs around the residential circle, that vehicle is not actually driven much. We pulled off the rear drums and found the previous owner...

Just curious . . . Is there a way to "easily" tell if the shocks on the car are original or reproductions? The very late 31' Tudor acquired awhile ago was apparently overhauled mechanically. Mounted are four of those original looking can shaped shocks. As for ride, they seem to be pretty much...

Holy Moly! I'm thinking in my ignorance that the things are some sort of tube type shocks costing a couple of hundred bucks. Eleven-Hundred smackers! Gee whiz . . . I can take the wife into New York City and have a nice steak dinner at Sarabeth's Park Avenue for $1,100.00 (less tip). I...

Presently on our 31' Tudor, there is a matched set of SEARS-ALLSTATE zigzag pattern tires. To information, ALLSTATE stop making 19" tires like that sometime in the 1980s. So the rubber on that vehicle is at least 30 years old. Bumped into some Model T Ford lunatics who are chugging around in...

Holy Moly! Will need to check this out. Those original cat food can type shocks on that A Model Ford, though apparently rebuilt are ornamental and don't do much if anything to improve the ride. Thing is . . . How much ($$) are these "Stipe" things and how big a job to retro-fit / install them?

Hey Boston Bruce . . . ya better hustle back down into the Tremont street subway and hop a streetcar headed to Jamaica Plain. That's where dear old mom and everybody else over there believed and gave the opposite advice. She said "Always buy everything cheap, basic and inexpensive." The...

Get rid of the nine and a half pound Ford script fob giving to me by dearly departed Aunt Hortense? Never! She even carried that fob as a lucky charm when with the Marines hitting the beaches at Iwo back in 45'.

The oddball thing with our 31 Tudor is that the ignition shuts itself "OFF". Driving along . . . happy as a clam . . . and suddenly the Model A stops running . . . Blonk! As it turns out, the dash ignition switch is apparently worn, an old cheapoid junk repro and/or both.. There is not...