Does your snowmobile have a cabin and room for passengers and luggage? It’s a 1928 Ford Model A 2 door in snowmobile configuration for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is a v...
Images via OldCarBrochures.com Around 1966, my wife Doris, our daughter Annette, our son Dewayne and I went to see the movie The Great Race , starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Natalie Wood. The ...
The Revelator needs a new engine. This is how it’s being done economically. Photo by Dan Beaudry, others by David Conwill and as credited how-to (hou-tü) adj. giving practical instruction and advice ...
1931 Ford Model A Panel (top); 1933 International D1 Pickup (bottom). Images by the author. It’s hard not to mention the state of the economy when referencing the early Thirties. The obvious lack of ...
Hot-rodded 1931 Ford Model A pickup for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Offered here is a late 1931 (indented firewall), Model A hot rod pickup truck. This all-steel Model A inco...
This year marks the centennial of Checker Taxi — the cab company, not the manufacturing company. It’s a little confusing, but the Internet Checker Taxicab Archive lays out the history of how Checker ...
This Winfield intake, Cyclone adapter (to install a Stromberg), and RayDay cylinder head were removed from a Model A in 1956. Images courtesy Evan Bailly and as noted. We are suckers for vintage spee...
Stationary single-cylinder engine at work. Photo By Michael Lamm. Too many people have no compassion for engines. I used to have a neighbor who’d get in his truck in the morning, shove the accelerato...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Up until 2001, nobody had driven a nitro-powered vehicle over the dais at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. It took Art Chrisman, reunited with the 1931 Ford Model...
Sixties-built 1929 Ford Model A hot rod for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Built between 1960-1965 for street and strip racing, from a rust free, genuine Henry Ford Tudor Sedan ...
From the seller’s description: For Sale: 1931 Model A Ford, Station Wagon. This is an excellent running, non-indented firewall wagon built in March of 1931. A former National Model A Ford Club of Ame...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, except where noted. Dual superchargers. Dual headlamps. Dual slicks. The car that Jim Street showed for a few years and then hid away for decades seemed to have dual e...
The fuel gauge on my Ford A/B speedster is from a World War II P-51-B Mustang fighter plane. Unfortunately, it stopped working just in time for the car’s maiden run. When you’re building cars—especia...
Ford Model K at the Piquette Plant. Photo courtesy Ford Piquette Avenue Plant on Facebook. Best known as the birthplace of the Ford Model T, the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit also served as t...
In 1960, Don Wagers wooed his girlfriend, Shirley Maxwell, in his Cadillac V-16-powered 1929 Ford roadster. He cut 10 inches out of the frame and six inches out of the doors to accommodate the humong...
Fifties-era East Coast hot rodded 1928 Ford Model A for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: East Coast Hot Rodding legend, the late Mr. Fred Steele, founder of the Ty-Rods Car Club a...
Andrew Rosen’s 1932 Auburn Speedster. Images by Hemmings Staff and courtesy Richard Skeuse It’s mid-June already and that means that the New Jersey rendition of The Race of Gentlemen has come and gon...
Deuce-framed, Brookville-bodied 1931 Ford Model A roadster pickup for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Quality-built old school hot rod. Runs, and drives great, Very dependable. I...
Pretty much every event in the 20th century can be linked to an automobile of some sort. Take, for instance, the 1930 Studebaker recently displayed at a car show in India: It carries its “killer” rep...
Photos courtesy Gary Bricken. Sure, Ford’s Model A – like the Model T before it – assumed many different roles, whether it be racer, fire truck, or killer hot rod roadster. But even dedicated Model A...
Granddad’s 1920 Model T C-Cab. Photo courtesy David Lowry. My late grandfather was a Ford man for as long as I can remember, and even before that. He had a laundry business in Pasadena, California, a...
Jeremiah Thomas’s 1929 Ford A/V8 is a veritable oldtimer in the East Coast traditional rodding scene. Photos by the author. You’ve probably seen this ’29 Ford roadster with the Ford V-8 logo stencile...
Matt Kutz’s Kammback phaeton speedster cuts a dashing figure in spectator parking at The Race of Gentlemen. Photos by the author. We spotted Miss Fire here as she wheeled into the impromptu Friday ni...
True, this 1928 Ford Model A party truck for sale on Hemmings.com is less collector car than it is a fun and innovative business idea (and, given the timespan of Prohibition, rather anachronistic), b...
Photos by the author. Ten years, eight months and three days ago, on October 14, 2004 (but who’s counting?), Bob Keefler, known around these parts as the man to contact if you need some quality rust,...