28, 29, Or Both?
Here in the frozen north, it's either work on Model A's or drink in the winter. I bought this 28-9 phaeton basket case last summer. The various body panels and doors have come from two or more different bodies, both 28 and 29. This gives me more choices as to what the finished product will become. So, should we go 28 or 29? How about a bit of both? I like the earlier back seat curtain pan, so I rivited an early pan to the second from the rear body cross member. The rear cross member appears to be original to the body sub frame, but there are NO mounting holes in the back cross member for the forged 28 tail light bracket. However, the rear fender has the three mounting holes for the tail light, so that would be the easiest way out. And on the final mismatch, you will notice on the last photo that the two passenger doors are very different in that the front is a 29 with outside door handle, but the rear has no hole for an outside handle, making it a 28 or very early 29. I originally planned to just blank out the hole in the front door for the earlier inside door handle, but this AM, I woke up with a diabolical plan. Why not leave it the way it is? One outside passenger handle and one inside passenger handle? I could say that this is a transition car. A friend of mine has a 30 town sedan with one eye brow front fender and one later style front fender. He tells people that this car was built on the day that Ford ran out of eye brow fenders. A bit of pro and con feed back from you guys would be welcome at this juncture? Go by the book, or create a conversation piece?
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