1928 Ford Model A Sedan- Drag it til the wheels fall off…

Yup. Amazes me how eager a lot of people are to cut corners on it tbh, for the sake of 20-30 quid for an entire cars worth. I guess people were so used to it being too cheap for too long.

another small issue sorted. I was getting some scrubbage on the rear tyres. Only on the torque side when I floored it.






The gap was pretty tight tbh. This was with 30mm spacers.



Options for thicker ones were 35mm or 50mm. The latter would look excessive so I went with the 35 and hopefully it’s enough.


I can get a finger down there now, but havet yet driven it in anger to gauge the result.

Most excellent!

lol at the MUFF plate - need to think up some ROFL jokes...

One question, do you have a plan for the roof, in particular the parts above the doors?

Everybody loves a bit of muff 😬

The door top roof sections will go back on at some point. I have them both although one has a terrible gasless mig attempt at repair on the swage-




But, I picked this up at the northern swapmeet for a whole 5 quid. It’s for a coupe (even though seller said it was for a sedan…) so the profile is wrong but it’s rust free and the swage section can be swapped over with some surgery, and for that money it’s easier than making tooling.




Part of the reason I’ve not fitted them yet is it makes bashing and bending bits to adjust the door gaps harder with them in the way. Once the body has fully settled, the doors have all 3 hinges on, and I’ve repaired the latches fully I’ll get em back on.

thats come a long way since the fire tried to claim it, its defined itself as a hot rod! love it. am rather partial to the honda hrv in 3 door form too, quite handy things! bit hard to find now in good nick for decent money tho. back to the A, what did we actually get the Y block in? or was it mainly trucks and A series big vans?

When you do, please video it (with sound)

Ages since I updated this, but it still works and I still use it when the weather allows, which has seemed quite infrequent this year tbh.







Lat weekend I sat around waiting all morning for it to stop raining, then drove up to sturgate airfield, only about 12 miles from me, to get those runs I didn’t get last year. The previous two meets this year were both rained off so I was expecting it to be rammed, but it was fairly quiet tbh. Weather was touch and go which effected it I guess, and I did get drizzled on a bit, but I also got to give it a good thrashing.

I downloaded a gps timing app before I did, one that gets good reviews for its accuracy.

Signed on, lined up and waiting to go.


First run. Dry, track still pretty clean.
Thems respectable numbers tbh!

I struggled a lot with lack of traction, I was wheelspinning most of the 8th.

A few more runs-


Run 2 it was drizzling. It affected traction some more, but also visibility. I really couldn’t see where the flags were!

Run 3 it had dried up again and I think was probably my best as I was super slick on the changes but it didn’t record for some reason.

Run 4 was drizzling again and I was also experimenting with gear changes. I held second high instead of changing to 3rd to use the torque lower down the rev range, which I didn’t think works quite a well as I’m approaching the rev limit of this engine doing so.

Run 5 i fluffed a gear change.

Run 6 didn’t record as my wheel fell off after I’d crossed the line and it threw my phone out the holder 🤣

Turns out 90 year old wheels have issues with the abuse I dish out.
It probably wasn’t the outright power, I mean 275ish hp is certainly a lot more than 1935 dodge wheels were even intended to handle, but I think it was more the 40mph+ second gear power slides and donuts that pulled all 5 still done up wheel nuts straight through the face of the wheel. Oops.

This was after the organiser had got me a trolley jack and the biggest washer they had from the aircraft stores.


I limped it off the runway and borrowed a big hammer off scmick, to make it a bit more wheel shaped again, then drove it 1/2 a mile up the road following a local farmer (who was racing his grass track car there) for some more ‘farmer spec’ washers.


That was good enough to limp it home, albeit with a very wobbly wheel.

Good job I have a spare-


Only first gear skids for this one though, I know the limits now 😂

I broke the rear body mount when the rear body rail hit the floor, it’s just torn the rivets out so that’s an easy fix. It’s also grazed the bottom of the door, but it’s better to have stories about how the bottom of the door got scraped than how I spent a whole day polishing it 😉

It really must get a huge amount of attention as it looks totally nuts.......
I esp like the way it appears "broken" at the bulkhead.
Such a cool machine.