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I spoke with Jim Cannon, who did some research on the status of the Standard Phaeton SIG. It turns out that the group is inactive. Is there enough interest in restarting it? There is a Facebook Phaeton group. Is that sufficient? What are people's thoughts? If there is enough interest...

Our club is thinking about having a license plate topper created with the club logo on it. At regional meets I've seen a few cars with club toppers, but when I searched the Ford Barn threads I could only find one small thread from the early V8 board that didn't help. Have any of you had...

I am in need of some help rebuilding my 7 tooth steering box. Disassembly was pretty straight forward but now I am not sure how to approach the rest of the rebuild. Looking at the pictures I bet you cannot guess what kind of lubricant was used by the previous owner. Hint, it was not oil. I...

I am trying to replace some old repro bumper clamps on my '29 with these new clamps from Snyder's. The problem is that the stud on the old clamp is 7/16" and the new clamps are 9/16". At first I thought that the old clamps were just a poor quality reproduction but since the backing plates and...

A couple of years ago I sent a letter of interest to the coordinator of the MAFCA Phaeton Special Interest group and received no reply. I've watched the website for any new information -- but to no avail. When the agenda for the 2014 National Meet was published to early subscribers they had...

Need help diagnosing a speedometer problem. Up until a couple of days ago it has been working fine and was quite accurate. Unfortunately it is now acting up, while accelerating it reads 0, as soon as you let off of the accelerator it will then spin up to the current speed. When you accelerate or...

Anyone have any instructions, tips, or tricks on lowering, raising and folding the top on an open air car? I could not find much info on doing this and after numerous attempts, one broken iron, and some chipped paint we were finally able to get the top down on the phaeton. Figured it should not...

As I have become more familiar with the Model A, I realized that my motor mount was missing a lot of its components. All it has is the yoke and some remains of some kind of a bushing. This has left the motor mount resting on the cross member leaving about 1/4" between the crankshaft and the...

I took a cursory look and couldn't find a thread that mentions this eBay sale, but I thought fellow Barner's might be interested in this. Here is a link to eBay...

We are trying to start a new club, so finances are tight right now until we can get more members. We've contacted the local universities, some civic centers and public libraries, but the cost to rent a room will quickly use up the dues gathered. We are thinking we may have to start my...

We are having problems with the distributor and spark lever on our ‘29. When trying to remove the rotor to get at the points, we accidentally pulled the distributor and shaft out of the engine. When trying to re-seat the distributor, the breaker plate popped out of its grooves. Now that the...

I've checked the new judging standards and can't find the answer -- I'm sure it's there, I just don't know where to look. Under area 2 Electrical System it says it does not include lamps or horn. I go to horn (Area 19) and it says it does not include conduit. If I go to Area 18 Lamps I can't...

I am hoping that you guys might be able to help diagnose a ticking sound in the engine of our '29 Phaeton. The engine starts fine, idles well and runs decent for the most part, however it ticks and the longer it runs the worse it performs and loses power. It started acting up and making this...

My dad and I are new to the whole Model A scene and need some help adjusting the throttle linkage on his ‘28 Phaeton. There is no response from the throttle until it is approximately half way down in its line of travel. We have to put the pedal to the metal (or wood in this case) to be able to...