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Anyone interested in having their model(s) of cars from teens through thirties on public display? A friend who is curator of a museum in Maine is looking for several models use in an exhibit this summer.

Various internet sites claim the film dates from 1924 or 1926.

Not Ford Project The screw drive systems were made by Armstead Snow Motors Company, not Ford. Given that the converted car in the video is a Chevrolet, not a Ford, I very strongly doubt the film was done by Ford. Rather it probably was an Armstead Snow Motors demonstration of how their system...

Point plate should rotate 20 degrees which corresponds to 40 degrees of advance due to the 2:1 ratio between crankshaft and distributor rotation.

What is "exact" timing? Within in 1 degree, .1 degree, .01 degree or ??? Any of those are closer than makes any difference in a Model A. Follow Marco's procedure or equivalent and you will be more than close enough. Use one of the point the rotor type procedures and you may or may not be close...

Adjust point gap first, then set timing. Point gap affects timing and increasing point gap advances the timing. Timing does NOT affect point gap. If you want to fine tune timing for some reason do it by changing the timing, not by fussing with point gap. By the way, a change in point gap...

Don't fuss with point gap. Set it large enough, say .022 and be done with it. If the gap is too small there is a risk that the points will arc and the ignition will not fire properly, particularly at high speeds. If the gap is too large then it's possible that the dwell (time points are closed)...

I seem to recall a discussion involving both of us and others on the Ahooga forum nine or ten years ago about the effects of adding brake equalizers to front brakes. At the time I did an analysis and determined that the brakes were more effective with the bottoms of the shoes floating rather...

I don't think the issue is where you'll be crossing the border because they don't check at the border. The issue is the requirements in the provinces you'll be driving in, and then only if you are stopped by the police, involved in an accident, etc.

Discussion is good. I just had a look at a carburetor without the added hole in bowl. There is a vent hole in the carburetor TOP near the float bracket which goes from the bowl to above the vent hole in the carburetor bottom. That area is vented to the atmosphere through the hole in the...

Edit: I was WRONG below. There was initially one vent hole for the bowl in the top, a second was added in May 1930. Read the posts below. Bill, you're correct. Your notes caused me to do a little research. According to Steve Pargeter's excellent monograph on Model A carburetors an "bowl vent...

Alternatives to a passport are an enhanced drivers license if your state issue them or a passport card. At which border crossing were you asked for proof of liability insurance? Were they unhappy with you for some other reason? I've driven across the border at various locations from...

Every Model A carburetor has the bowl vented to the atmosphere. They won't work if the vent is completely blocked. Carburetors work based on the pressure difference between the fuel in the bowl and the air going past the hole at the end of the jet.

I frequently drive from Michigan into Canada. The folks at the border have never had any interest in whether I was carrying a yellow card or not. I've never had to show one to anyone. You don't need one to cross into Canada and my guess is probably a majority of folks from the US driving their...