Here’s my 1931 Ford Model A Hotrod
First, I know it’s not perfect. It’s not meant to be. It’s meant to be a bit scary…a bit loud.
I’ve always been a car guy. For years, I was all about Corvettes and early Camaros. A few years back, I fell in love with traditional hotrods, too. I decided I wanted to build a 1930 or 1931 roadster. Here’s what I wound up with. It’s an all-steel 1931 A roadster. I built it about 15 years ago. It has a California tilt, which means the body tilts downward over the frame progressively as you move from the back to the front.
The frame has been Z-ed 10 inches and there’s a 31-spline posi 9-inch Ford rear end with a four-bar suspension. There is also a small roll bar hidden under the rumble seat lid for rigidity.
The transmission is a 1965 Corvette Muncie M-21 and the engine is a rebuilt 355 (.030 350 ci) SBC with Eagle crank and rods and SpeedPro pistons. The heads are aluminum Canfield. The intake is an early Edelbrock with three 8BA Ford carbs. The valve covers are early sand-cast.
The striping was done by my buddy, Steve Fields, in Dayton, Ohio.
I have driven the car thousands and thousands of miles over the years. It was not built to be shiny and perfect, it was built to drive. I’ll never get rid of it.
