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Art Newland

Art Newland

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Brought home a 1930 Coupe a few weeks ago, thought I would post what I'm up to with it. :)
 

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The car looks like it went through the restoration process a long time ago. It ran and drove when I picked it up, but it's needed a lot of tinkering to get it to driver status. It overall looks pretty good, getting a lot of cracks and bubbles in the paint.
 
Thanks for the welcome.:)
I plan on documenting my exploits in hope to help others with their A. I'm not looking to restore, but a "rust-oration".:D
I'm no Model A expert buy any stretch of the imagination, but a pretty good tinkerer. Any constructive criticism is welcome. Here is a video of it running just after I got it home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssIUu-Uj-F0
 
First thing I did was to get the horn working... luckily it was just a bad solder joint at the power terminal.
 

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I suggest you watch Les Andrews videos on Youtube. He covers lots of technical stuff in an easy-to-follow and thorough manner. Learned more about setting the timing in 15 minutes than my Dad had taught me in 30 years and he grew up with A`s! I have the same car in all black
 
alarot said:
I suggest you watch Les Andrews videos on Youtube. He covers lots of technical stuff in an easy-to-follow and thorough manner. Learned more about setting the timing in 15 minutes than my Dad had taught me in 30 years and he grew up with A`s! I have the same car in all black
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I've been watching a lot of Model A youtube videos, I'll be sure to check out Les' channel, thanks for the heads up.
 
Art...welcome to this fascinating and interesting hobby! You will be meeting many friendly and knowledgeable fellow A folks on The Barn.
 
Welcome. I just want to say that I'm a new be to,only been here for a few years. Let me tell a it's agreat place to be lots of knowledge. And a lots of laughs !! Your car looks great have fun.
 
Art, welcome to the Model A hobby. Depending where you live, it is kind of fun to join a local Model A club. You meet a bunch of nice people and they can help you with your A as you go along. But whatever you want to do, have fun with it.
 
It looks like a great car love the color. I am fairly new model A owner myself, the LEs Andrews books are a great source of info. I drove my car last summer and only did a few maintenance items to keep it running and repair replace what was broken.
It wasn't until this winter that i pulled the oil pan and there was a good amount of sludge that was hanging up inside the car and clogging the oil pump pickup screen, in hindsight i wish i would have done that before i did a lot of driving.
Model A's are a great car to own the car is enjoyable to work on and drive.
 
Art Newland said:
The car looks like it went through the restoration process a long time ago. It ran and drove when I picked it up, but it's needed a lot of tinkering to get it to driver status. It overall looks pretty good, getting a lot of cracks and bubbles in the paint.
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I have the same thing happening to my Coupe. At first it rattled me a bit but now I'm like oh well. It's still a Model A and I'm honored to own it.

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