Another Model A adventure starting soon

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Back in Oct-Nov 2014, I purchased a 1930 Tudor in Oregon and drove it back home to Atlanta. That trip was blogged and chronicled in several places, including an article in a summer 2015 issue of the AACA's 'Antique Automobile' magazine.

The trip was so much fun that I kept looking to do something similar again and now I will be doing so. Found a very nice 1930 Coupe on Hemmings Marketplace last week and made the deal. The car is in Connecticut and yes, I'm driving it home, this time without a chase car as this vehicle is in much better condition than was the Tudor. Rebuilt Model B engine with full-pressure oiling, FSI electronic ignition, the Lincoln drum hydraulic brake conversion, recent tires and tubes, recent correct upholstery in the cabin and rumble seat, a trunk rack, and a stone guard, plus a number of spares. The seller runs a vintage race car service and restoration shop he founded in 1978, and he assures me this car is mechanically sound and will be well-serviced before we depart.

Another fun part of the adverture is that I will be able to get directly to pick up the car almost entirely by Amtrak, at a substantial savings over flying (which I detest these days). As in my retirement I help to run a 35-acre train museum in the Atlanta area, this is right in my wheelhouse. Looks like a close friend who lives near the seller may ride along and fly back home afterwards.

The planned route is to avoid i-95 entirely, to stop off in Hershey to see the AACA Museum and the new AACA national headquarters and library, and then to make as much of the southward trip as we can via the Blue Ridge Parkway. Figuring on about four-five days travel time, depending on how much we sightsee and dawdle.

As before, I'll be posting a daily trip blog, most likely on Facebook and perhaps on my hobby website, too. And I hope to dabble with video this trip, something I didn't do at all in 2014. Likely won't try to learn to edit video on the trip so that will be posted after the trip.

Hope some of you here will be interested enough to follow along and if anyone spots me on the road, do try to say hello.