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Old 10-29-2020, 07:05 PM   #37
Gene F
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Default Re: What is a "reasonable" speed in a Model A for one to get "reasonable" engine life

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Originally Posted by Curt phillips View Post
Just purchased a 29 Tudor & have never drove or rode in a model A !
What a experience, steers ok stops good runs great. Got up to 55 twice
On a long empty road and it would go faster. I wouldn’t do that again after
Telling a guy that has a model A about doing that & he said if ya hit a big
Enough hole in the road ya might have to choose if ya going with the frame
Or the body! What gets me is how many cars will pull out in front or me in
Just the 2 months I been driving it! 40 to 45 max for me.
Curt, you are correct.. My wife sometimes drive our streetrod, and she notices the same thing. People think that they don't want to "get caught behind that old car". In the case of the streetrod, what they don't understand is that old car can often move faster than they can.
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