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08-21-2017, 01:54 PM | #41 |
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Re: What do you regret?
I passed on this car in about 1972 for $1500., less engine. What was I thinking?
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08-21-2017, 02:17 PM | #42 |
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you were thinking you didnt have an extra 1500. laying around..............
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08-21-2017, 02:29 PM | #43 |
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08-21-2017, 07:46 PM | #45 |
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08-21-2017, 07:54 PM | #46 |
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08-21-2017, 08:09 PM | #47 |
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And another thing. Took my delivery over to the son-in-laws shop to get a paint job and some body work. He's a metal genius. Well that was over 10 years ago. It is primed for the most part and the body is done except for the fenders in the rear. With the Monterey auction over he says he will now have some time to get it done enough that I can sell it.
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08-21-2017, 08:25 PM | #48 |
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Re: What do you regret?
Not having Larry Shepard with me when I bought Sarah but...I didn't know Larry when I bought Sarah but since then both myself and Sarah have spent a lot of time with Larry Shepard and Sarah is in 100% better shape today than when I bought her but my bank account is a bit less paying Larry Shepard to making Sarah into that better shape. All in all though, both myself and Sarah are better off today knowing Larry Shepard.
This has been an unsolicited public service comment regarding buying a Model A without Larry Shepard by your side......it pays to have him or any other Model A mechanic there if you don't know jack shit about the mechanics of Model A Fords. Ed
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08-22-2017, 02:18 AM | #49 |
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Not buying a Ferrari GTO in 1973 for £7000
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08-22-2017, 03:46 AM | #50 |
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Re: What do you regret?
I regret not getting a model A earlier in life.
And I regret not hotrodding a model A sooner than later. Not the butchering of bodies, but making it more driveable mechanically at todays speeds. |
08-22-2017, 09:59 AM | #51 |
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I regret trading a 30 Model A roadster body and frame for a Yamaha snowmobile (used) back in early 70s. A body had no rust and extra doors. I was young and too broke to restore the A.
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08-22-2017, 10:18 AM | #52 |
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When acquiring the first Model A, I could not resist the temptation to make it "unique" by adding repro accessories and minor performance modifications, etc. After attending meets and cruise-ins, it didn't take long to realize that a straight unmodified Model A is really the most unique and I regretted making the modifications. Fortunately, what I did change was easily reversed.
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08-22-2017, 12:53 PM | #53 |
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Dumb an dumer. We all know 33- 34 of any make is big big bucks. My mother worked for a local doctor he gave her this 6,000 mile Plymouth that he drove
his German Shapards around in. Chrysler did not make station wagons. at this time. This one is not from all the bulders of that time. It is different. When the Dr died around 1965 mother found bill of sale for a 4dr 33 plymouth. I have reason to believe this was built locally could be the boat yard. So dumb ass me & my band of dummies put a coupe body on the thing. The wagon body went down back and dust to dust.. At 71yrs I have nightmares yet. worse off a releltivly new 1958 Mercury Park Lane loaded and AC IT WAS A J code == tri power 400hp and I trashed the manifold air cleaner and put a 4 barral holly on the thing. Now try and buy that setup never mind even finding a convertabal Park Lane |
08-22-2017, 01:23 PM | #54 |
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I have many regrets, but, not many concerning a Model A.
Not so much of a regret, more a brain fart. The first time I pulled the flywheel off mine for some clutch and clutch cover work, while I working and putting it back together I didn't notice the 3 punch marks on the 'wrong' [ back and front] side of the flywheel and crank flange. I just marked how the flywheel was mounted when I removed it. Apparently the flywheel had been off sometime after the engine rebuild. Later I removed it again and noticed the 3 punch marks where they shouldn't have been [ to my thinking]. The engine never vibrated very much, but, I decided to match the marks when it went back together that time [ 180º different]. It vibrates even less. I'm trying to remember how I discovered that problem. I think I had the little inspection cover off for some reason [ maybe to tighten the bearings] and noticed the punch marks on the front side of crank flange and turned the engine 180º and noticed the other punch marks. So, that took a half day to R&R everything for a try. So it was just a matter of putting it back together as it was rather than really looking it over to make sure it was right, or, wrong. |
08-22-2017, 01:54 PM | #55 |
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In 1977 I passed up a "frame-off restored" 1931 Pick Up Truck for $750. Wife objected, as she called it (attacking our meager savings account for a toy). Balls are larger today!.
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08-22-2017, 05:59 PM | #56 |
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I reqret that I didn't spend more time with my dad working on the A and T.
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08-22-2017, 06:35 PM | #57 |
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Timely thread.. and my response;
23 Aug 1969, I married the love in my life, forty-eight years in the books.! To aid in financing our new life together moving from upstate NY to NAS Cecil Field, FL.. I decided to sell my '33 3 window (sob).. '58 Pontiac V8 and automatic, everything else was original.! Bought it for $750 and sold it for $850 (sob and kick) I just think now of what it could have become.. Happy now with our '29... and the same beautiful girl I married.! |
08-22-2017, 06:39 PM | #58 |
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One regret I have is, when disassembling my car, not saving every last nut and bolt and whatever else thinking, oh that is rusty and a little bent better get new stuff! I throw NOTHING away now...even total junk, I put in a special box marked "junk."
On another note, in 1980 I had an opportunity to buy an all original 1906 Model N for $6K. It was in excellent original condition, and ran. Of course, 6 grand in 1980 was a lot of money but wow, what a find that was. Of course, the regret was that at the time I just did not have six thousand bucks. |
08-23-2017, 09:51 AM | #59 |
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Not realizing in the early 60's what parts,, etc. you could still get from Sears, Monkey Ward, Western Auto.and such. Also not buying the 6 phaetons in Dallas for $400. each in 63.
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08-23-2017, 01:10 PM | #60 |
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Buying my '29 roadster I call the "Clown Car". Hard to explain what happened, but a combination of: trust being taken advantage of, starry
eyed ignorance and more money than brains! The car has turned out to be a big lemon. A very shoddy restoration that I should have noticed before I bought it. I broke off part of an uncommon Simmons Swan Manifold trying to do something not so smart. The manifold has been repaired, but it ain't the same..... Bob-A |
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