timhenderson73
1931 Ford Model A pickup hot rod
Jan's late A pickup hotrod has finally come back out of the garage with some updates. A stock un-chopped, all-original Ford steel cab appears to be deeply channeled but in fact sits on a very custom frame. The original hood and grill hide a bored and stroked flathead v8 with an Isky cam and a Moon Equipped throttle-body fuel injection disguised as a pair of Stromberg carburetors. Behind the flattie resides a Borg-Warner T10 five-speed turning a custom open driveshaft that spins the Winters quick-change rear end. The bed has been shortened and reworked to fit the custom chassis and suspension components. The trucks original bench seat recovered in white vinyl rounds out the spartan interior. The tool box in the bed holds tools and some small replacement parts. As Jan's daily driver this truck runs smooth and cool, and with the TBI and overdrive transmission gets 28mpg in highway driving while making approximately 250hp and 315 lb/ft of torque. A right proper mix of traditional looks hiding modern components, Jan's little red pickup is just about the most perfect little street rod a girl could want.
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This truck was an earlier build first seen here: flic.kr/p/qEFn8S and then again with some changes here: flic.kr/p/rKxnBH but it had been sitting around for quite a while looking badly outdated. So I thought it was time to update it a little bit as well as retrofit it to my modular chassis standard. I also made some slight changes to the chassis rear section for this rod to better accommodate and support the pickup bed. I finally acquired four slightly usable old white tires so I thought I would throw those into the mix as well on this build. The biggest challenge was fitting the full "hood" to the modular chassis, I hope it came out OK.
1931 Ford Model A pickup hot rod
Jan's late A pickup hotrod has finally come back out of the garage with some updates. A stock un-chopped, all-original Ford steel cab appears to be deeply channeled but in fact sits on a very custom frame. The original hood and grill hide a bored and stroked flathead v8 with an Isky cam and a Moon Equipped throttle-body fuel injection disguised as a pair of Stromberg carburetors. Behind the flattie resides a Borg-Warner T10 five-speed turning a custom open driveshaft that spins the Winters quick-change rear end. The bed has been shortened and reworked to fit the custom chassis and suspension components. The trucks original bench seat recovered in white vinyl rounds out the spartan interior. The tool box in the bed holds tools and some small replacement parts. As Jan's daily driver this truck runs smooth and cool, and with the TBI and overdrive transmission gets 28mpg in highway driving while making approximately 250hp and 315 lb/ft of torque. A right proper mix of traditional looks hiding modern components, Jan's little red pickup is just about the most perfect little street rod a girl could want.
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This truck was an earlier build first seen here: flic.kr/p/qEFn8S and then again with some changes here: flic.kr/p/rKxnBH but it had been sitting around for quite a while looking badly outdated. So I thought it was time to update it a little bit as well as retrofit it to my modular chassis standard. I also made some slight changes to the chassis rear section for this rod to better accommodate and support the pickup bed. I finally acquired four slightly usable old white tires so I thought I would throw those into the mix as well on this build. The biggest challenge was fitting the full "hood" to the modular chassis, I hope it came out OK.