1929 Ford Model A Sedan Gasser Rat Hot Rod 283 Chevy 6-71 Traditional Chopped on 2040-cars
Stillwater, Minnesota, United States
Vehicle Title:Clear
Engine:283
Fuel Type:gas
For Sale By:owner
Year: 1929
Mileage: 0
Make: Ford
Number of Cylinders: 8
Model: Model A
Trim: a
Drive Type: Rear
Here's a chance to get your butt into a pretty bad ass, head turning hot rod. My friend, Dylan of the band "Reckless Ones", owns this car and built it years ago. He has had the car for almost 8 years, and has decided its finally time to part with it. It has been sitting for a couple years while the band toured and he decided he just couldn't give it the time/love this car needs. It has been in multiple car magazines, coffee table book, and even a MUSIC VIDEO!
The car was built to resemble a 50's altered drag sedan, its a 29 ford model A tudor, it has been chopped 6 inches, channeled about 6. It is on a stock but modified (z'd and boxed) frame. The front end consists of a 33-36 ford axle with 40 ford wishbones, and the axle was modified to accept 1954 chevy spindles and brakes. Also on the front are 49-53 chevy rims with coker 560-15 tires (Kasler retreaded pie slit drag slicks on the rear). The rear suspension consists of a 66 olds cutlass 8.2 rear end and trailing arm type suspension with coil springs and tube shocks. The transmission is a th350 that has a stall converter and shift kit. Now the best part of the whole car, the motor, its a rebuilt 283 with forged pistons and a comp cams camshaft, later model 76 cc heads to lower the compression to a tolerable level for the blower. The heads had hardened seats and bronze liners installed. The motor was bored and completely rebuilt, crank ground, new oil pump timing chain lifters bearings rings, etc etc. The intake is an offenhauser intake modified to accept a 6-71 blower, the blower had been rebuilt for the street. To top it all off is a vintage and rare weiand 8x2 blower top with 8 holley 94 carbs(modified to fit the intake, it was intended for 97's), the car is running only 4 of the 8 carbs to alleviate some of the trouble! The car was built about 10 years ago and all mechanical aspects were new, kingpins, tie rod ends, brake lines, wheel cylinders, master cylinder etc etc. The original 283 was weak so the new motor was built 4 or so years ago and doesn't have a huge amount of miles on it (under 1000 miles). The radiator is located at the rear of this car and is a new replacement 70s gm 3 core radiator cooled with two nice large electric fans. Now i will try and describe some of the issues the car has...... it needs a higher stall converter, it has a 2000 ish stall and could use a 2700-3000 ish stall to make the car much more drive-able. It has 4 carbs, with the 4 carbs it can be finicky... the car was built when Dylan was 20 so he learned a lot so, it might not have the prettiest welds but it will hold together.A month after he finished it he took it on a 800 mile round trip and had very little problems with it. It has never had to do any major work on it to keep it on the road. After the 2 year slumber he went out charged the battery and it started up and drive it 20 miles to my house, we spend a day on it tidying some stuff up and going over the carbs to get it back up to good running condition. These things take some work, some love (all the time) but that's the cost of having such a different and special car. Care has to be taken with the cooling system to make sure there are no air pockets, he has never had any problems with it overheating except when there was an air pocket. This is an old car and drives like one. I am 6-2 and Dylan a little shorter, he fits ok but im not very comfortable in the car. It is what it is. One more thing, the car is title and registered as a 29 dodge, at the time he bought he car it was a junkyard body and hadn't had a title nor vin code for many years. He had planned to find a ford title for it but never had the time. If the car were to go overseas we could looking into finding a ford title for it but at the cost of the buyer. Note: The gauges in the firewall were just mounted but not connected The shipping costs and arrangements are all the buyers responsibility, I will be here and help with the loading etc etc but that's it. The car could be kept here for a few weeks or but any longer and we'll would have to make arrangements. When purchasing this car a $500 paypal deposit will have to be made with in 48 hours of purchase then we will arrange the rest after that.
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