[Flathead Fever]

I apologize for saying it was an A-1 when its an A-4. It's been 20-year-s since I looked at it thit close. I bought this one years-and-years ago at the LA Roadster Show. Even back then I paid around $200.00 for it The top is original and is light blue hammer toned paint. The decals are original. The flash on the camera washed out the blue color. Its bluer than it looks in the photo. The fins have been polished which I don't think they came that way. Because I've seen some NOS originals where the beehives were painted solid flat black. The fittings on this one are the original fittings that were there when I bought it. They were just threaded in about halfway. I had thought the fittings had a number on them but it was the housing think of. The brass fittings are made for flared tubing. The center hole is around an 1/8", maybe a little bigger. I'd need to check the hole with a number drill. Top and bottom fittings are the same. I'm not sure now if it should have a smaller restrictor hole? Maybe its the Ford filters I saw the small restrictor fitting on?? I'll check tonight. I have some of those filters out there somewhere?

This filter is on a roadster project I start on 15 or 20years ago. I got this far in 6-months and then I bought some more land to next to mine as was broke for awhile. Then I added on another 1200 sf to the garage and was broke for awhile. Then I started on a '34 pickup instead. The '32 roadster project has an original chassis, firewall, grille shell, radiator. Everything is early Ford except the most important pieces, the ones in red oxide primer.


I'm not sure if this filter was ever used? I had never had the top off. The filter is new inside. Its like the typical cartridge filter except it has a second layer of cloth over it. When you screw the top down the spring starts to make contact with the filter with about a 1 /4" left to go.