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    What do I need to know about a Model A, to own one?

    I was wondering if it was Murray or Briggs, since I didn't know how to tell the difference. I'm a GM technician, so I even have access to lifts on weekends.. Old Plymouth is pretty easy other than the brakes, which are Lockheed and a nightmare to setup and get right. But the flathead 6 is very...
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    What do I need to know about a Model A, to own one?

    Paint is what I'd call usable. Interior isn't original but it's not great either.. The sticker in the windshield is marked '12 so my guess it it was bought from an estate and it probably set for a long time. Seats appear good enough that I'd just put covers on them and call it good for a...
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    What do I need to know about a Model A, to own one?

    With my '51 Plymouth, it's a challenge because parts are so few and far between. Everything you need to keep it going down the road is available but for instance, if I want overdrive, I can either switch to floor shift with a T5, or if staying original spend a whole bunch of money on an R10...
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    Spray Can Paint Job (Aerosol)

    You can but it'll cost a ton. 2K activated spray paint is the same as regular bc/cc. But you'll need both base and clear, or a single stage if you can find it... But many Model A's were painted with lacquer which really needs special consideration and preparation before any re paint
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    What do I need to know about a Model A, to own one?

    hair pin radius rods
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    What do I need to know about a Model A, to own one?

    When I was collecting parts to build a Hotrod, I did get a nice clean and straight bare frame and I bought parts off a guy to build a roller with a dropped axle and an old Chevy rear with a T spring on it. But that's as far as I got because the cost hangup of a Spirit industries body. I bought...
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    What do I need to know about a Model A, to own one?

    I'm not a collector of classic/ antique cars but I like to own one at a time. I have wanted a Model A hotrod for a long time and was in the process of collecting parts to build one, when I just decided to get my '51 Plymouth as it was nice and ran and drove and I used to have a '50 Plymouth...
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    Building a body from near scratch

    I've looked at Brookville. I would absolutely piece something together with their stuff and an original cowl, and I would actually like to, but figure the costs. $700 per door, $400 sub rails and everything adds up. I'm struggling because 45 mph may have never looked so good since potentially...
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    Building a body from near scratch

    It's a Cambridge 4dr. Factory stock exept I put a 6V alternator on it. Just a nice cool old car, nothing fancy I found a cowl/ most of what has not rotten off of a Model A near my house. He said it's pretty rotten on the bottom of the cowl, and to my Untrained to model A eye looks '28-'29...
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    Building a body from near scratch

    I started a project a couple years ago that never went anywhere past buying some old parts and an original later model A frame ( pretty clean and straight ). I ended up abandoning it to storage and just bought a '51 Plymouth to tool around in. I have the frame, and enough parts from a parted...
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