1930 Ford Model A Coupe
Description of Vehicle = Titled and registered as a 1930 Ford.
Body: all steel body car except deck lid, which is fiberglass. Top chopped about 3.5”. Body is not channeled but rocker panels give it a bit of a channeled appearance. 1932 style grill and shell. The gas tank has been removed from the cowl. The original cowl and front quarter panels have been replaced with a 1932 5W single-piece cowl and front quarters, which include the functional cowl vent. Painted flat black with satin clear; grill shell and headlamps have no clear. Roof has been filled and has immaculate padded top. Windshield tilts out. Suicide doors with hidden hinges. Carolina Custom safety pin/bolt locks are installed low on doors. Pin striping is UV-resistant vinyl decals – remove them if you don’t like them. All glass is installed and has slight smoke tint – not film. Windows roll up and down fine. Fully boxed Model-A Frame. Drive-train: 350 Chevy small block. Casting numbers on back of block: 3970010 Application code on front of block: V0202TBG. It’s a 2-bolt main. Fully rebuilt in July 2012 with now 600+ miles since rebuild. Bored .040 over to 357 cubic inches. Bore: 4.0405; Stroke: 3.48.; 9.72:1 compression. Flat top Keith Black hypereutectic 40-over pistons. Lunati Street Master Cam, model # 07101. Lift of .477; Duration at .050 of 225 and Advertised Duration of 275. Hydraulic lifters. Comp-Cam ultra gold aluminum rocker arms. Aluminum heads. Heads were pressure tested (no issues) and bench flow tested with engine rebuild. Intake diameter: 2.02; Exhaust diameter: 1.6; Intake runner volume: 208cc. Flows at 28” H2O column: at 200 lift: intake 138 & exhaust 138; at 300 lift: intake 198 & exhaust 158; at 400 lift: intake 240 & exhaust 190; at 500 lift: intake 260 & exhaust 207. Edelbrock RPM Air Gap intake. Dual Edelbrock 500 CFM 4-barrel performer series carburetors. Correctly functioning progressive linkage. After rebuild, the carbs were dyno-tuned using an 02 sensor at exhaust, adjusting metering rods and jetting as needed and adding ½ inch of spacers between intake and carbs. Air-Fuel ratio at idle is 14.6, at part-throttle 3000 RPM is 14.2 and at WOT 5000 RPM is 13.1. Adjustable fuel pressure regulator is set at 4.75 PSI. A lot of care and expense was taken to assure this engine was not pushing too much fuel with the dual quads. Mechanical Edelbrock fuel pump. Summit timing chain. Aluminum pulleys, aluminum water pump. 180F Thermostat. 700R4 transmission with remote finned-style transmission cooler. Tranny has been serviced with new filter, fluid and gaskets for the pan, lock-up converter and gear selector. Correct linkage at carb on the TV cable. Transmission shifts up and kicks down correctly. Converter lock-up switch on dash. MSD electronic distributor and ignition. 7-Qt Milodon oil pan. Aluminum radiator. Electric fan controlled by manual switch on dash. Headers with straight side pipes; baffles are built into the extensions (still one of the loudest cars at any cruise night or show). Engine build sheet and dyno printouts included with car. Rear-end: 10-Bolt GM rear from mid-90's S-10. Open axle - non-posi. Geared 3.50. Heavy ladder bars triangulated to transmission cross member. Ladder bars are adjustable front and rear. Carrera coil overs with 3-position adjustable height mounts. Pan-hard bar. Frontend: Superbell drop & drilled i-beam axle. Posie superslide reverse-eye leaf springs. Pete & Jakes shackles. Chrome Pro-Shocks oil shocks. Pan-hard bar. Split-wishbone style radius rods. Cross-steering, power-steering. Brakes: GM drum brakes in rear – re-built in 2011. GM disk brakes in front. Dual reservoir master cylinder with fully adjustable (0 – 100%) proportioning valve on rear brake line. Lokar floor mount hand emergency brake. 10-Gallon spun aluminum gas tank in trunk, battery in trunk. Interior: red tuck & roll vinyl and red carpet, trunk fully finished to match. Black floor mats are cut-to-fit around hand brake and gear selector and rivet-secured to floor so they don’t slide around (they can be removed). Dash is from a 1953 Plymouth Cranbrook. The knobs (lights, glove-box) are all from the original Plymouth dash. Flaming river tilt column. Lokar gear shift and Lokar floor mount hand brake. Headliner, door panels, seat, carpet, trunk – all is near perfect. Gauges: Sunpro tach. The rest are Autometer, speedometer, odometer, volts, oil pressure, water temp & fuel. Fuel does not work – the fuel tank has no sending unit. All others work and they all light up with headlights. Seatbelts have airplane style chrome buckles and are secured to the floor properly with Juliano’s seat belt anchors.
Lights: '39 Ford style LED tail/brake lights. Vintique '33-34 large diameter Ford Commercial style headlights with replaceable halogen bulbs. Separate turn-signals in front. All lights work, including low and high beams, brake, tail, turn signals, dash/gauge lights and hazards. Wheels/tires: WheelSmith 15" steel smoothies - fronts 7" wide and rears 10" wide. Custom color powdercoat – candy apple red over metallic copper. Chrome beauty rings and Baby Moons. I had the wheels built-to-order by WheelSmith of Santa Ana, California. Mickey Thompson tires with near-new tread. No heat, no AC, no power-brakes, no windshield wiper, no radio, no horn. This car gets driven weekly in the spring-summer-fall. When not getting on it, the car gets 13 – 15 MPG around town and 18 – 20 on the highway. In 4th gear, it will run below 3,000 RPM until around 70 MPH. Once it’s warmed up, it runs between 180 – 190F, even in summer traffic. When not driven, the car is always in an attached garage that does not get below freezing. The tank gets stabilizer anytime it’s going to sit for more than a couple weeks. The car is very loud and very fast. Show winner - won First Place in its class in one of the larger shows in Omaha summer 2012, beating out a number of T-Buckets and other Model A's. I will include enclosed transport in Continental U.S. if purchased for full asking price. Sold as-is. No warranty of any kind stated or implied.
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