The 1932 Ford Model A Racer

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The Wheels Through Time Museum is known for its collection of rare American motorcycles, but there's more than just two-wheeled machines here. Today we talk about early American dirt track auto racing and our 1932 Ford Model A racer.
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  • @faerieSAALE
    @faerieSAALE3 жыл бұрын

    In the early 1960s, I watched an oval track speedster race car doing testing and tuning. It looked a lot like this car - just a bit bigger. It was a dark red. No chromed axles and such - just painted red and cream. It sounded so ferocious and was capable of drifting in the curves. One of the men there said it was doing over 130 mph on straightaways. When it pulled into the pit area - they opened the hood, and I was amazed by the gray engine with polished aluminum and chrome parts. They began fiddling around with a magneto. I was only 15 at the time on my bicycle with some friends. The Speedrome had opened gates to the pits and did allow the public to watch the cars on the track. The engine just fascinated me and I noticed it was a six-cylinder flathead engine. - so I asked if it was an Offenhauser. One of the men working on it looked at me and laughed. He said; Nope - it's a 1939 Studebaker truck engine that's been heavily modified. My dad had been a Studebaker owner since 1952... and I couldn't wait to tell him about this race car during supper. Later on, my father went over the river to the Speerome to look at the race car. I didn't go. But - I still can remember the incredible roaring sound it made. That day, and that car, made me want a red sports car to drive. Sometime later, in the fall of 1966, I got a Red, 1963 Austin Healey 3000 to drive that was my own car - not the family car. I was on top of the moon.

  • @robfrye4664
    @robfrye46643 жыл бұрын

    WOW! Now that little car rows my boat! Beautiful!

  • @aguyinnc2865
    @aguyinnc28653 жыл бұрын

    Saw this car run when were there last year. Simply amazing, enjoyed every minute we were there. Looking forward to returning!

  • @HighMaintenancePS
    @HighMaintenancePS3 жыл бұрын

    I want one. Two seater with a small luggage compartment so the hussy can come along. Modernised old style big 4cyl maybe mechanical fuel injection. Powerful, like what they run in speedway midget cars today but yeah looking old would be good. This thing is beautiful.

  • @juanziegler1471

    @juanziegler1471

    3 жыл бұрын

    Dames dig that shit lol

  • @MrShobar

    @MrShobar

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@juanziegler1471 "Dames". What decade are you living in?

  • @robertwells6454
    @robertwells64542 жыл бұрын

    Super cool, that overhead cam bit is really neat to see one.

  • @toddclark332
    @toddclark3324 жыл бұрын

    Thanks buddy for sharing that with us it was a really really cool episode

  • @roderickhager8154
    @roderickhager81543 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely speechless you got my donations to preserve and display these beautifully crafted machines 🗿

  • @ottokoop3184
    @ottokoop31844 жыл бұрын

    Cool car awesome history love the restoration keep up the great vids

  • @jplav2952
    @jplav29523 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely gorgeous

  • @grahamdavis289
    @grahamdavis2893 жыл бұрын

    Glad to see and hear such a great car from the past

  • @uppastdawn7627
    @uppastdawn76273 ай бұрын

    At first I thought the rockers looked like Y block. When you said there was no top end oiling, I knew they were! 😂

  • @davidwood1923
    @davidwood19232 жыл бұрын

    Pretty Amazing... Thanks for Sharing

  • @grumpyg9350
    @grumpyg93503 жыл бұрын

    Fun to watch. At one time, didn't someone add a hand pump valve train oiler for racing? 👍👍👍👍👍👏🏻🇺🇸

  • @stephenirving1737
    @stephenirving17373 жыл бұрын

    Thats a thing of beauty

  • @Knapweed
    @Knapweed3 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful restoration of a timeless classic. Sounds wonderful but it also sounds like there is a loose tappet.

  • @CharlesFlatBaby
    @CharlesFlatBaby3 жыл бұрын

    Wish it was mine. I'd be driving it thru town!

  • @carwashadamcooper1538
    @carwashadamcooper15383 жыл бұрын

    I hear a serious rod knock. Babbitt bearings do tighten up with heat but dang it hurt when you revved that motor cold.

  • @colinmunro7337

    @colinmunro7337

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was thinking there's no rod bearings on the rods!

  • @achillebelanger9866

    @achillebelanger9866

    3 жыл бұрын

    I heard it too!

  • @Mercmad
    @Mercmad3 жыл бұрын

    I'd love to see it run in the UK at Shellsey Walsh hill climb or similar,along with it's UK and Euro contemporarys .

  • @davidlambert6171
    @davidlambert61713 жыл бұрын

    Mike Wolfe bought a dirt track racer powered by a Harley knuckle head engine.

  • @sniffinclose
    @sniffinclose3 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful car! So classic and a design that just spells racing... On camera it mostly sound like a stonecrusher though. 😁

  • @hyperluminalreality1
    @hyperluminalreality13 жыл бұрын

    A 1932 Ford Model A. Now THAT is rare.

  • @gregorytimmons4777

    @gregorytimmons4777

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Sharron Clark 1928.

  • @racerj2.03
    @racerj2.033 жыл бұрын

    I built plastic models of these cars in the late 1950's! Just remembering.

  • @rexjolles
    @rexjolles3 жыл бұрын

    Lucky.

  • @TheBigjrbbbr
    @TheBigjrbbbr3 жыл бұрын

    You have too many favorites

  • @kirkjohnson9353
    @kirkjohnson93533 жыл бұрын

    It would make a nice daily driver.

  • @faerieSAALE
    @faerieSAALE3 жыл бұрын

    Would have sounded like a beast with the Offenhauser engine! Too bad that has been taken out and the model A Ford engine installed in its place.

  • @ronitsingh85
    @ronitsingh853 жыл бұрын

    Now this Dude just goes right for the money - opens the hood and starts that baby right up!

  • @nashvilleslim
    @nashvilleslim3 жыл бұрын

    Call me crazy but I think they fire it up on a regular basis. I'm totally jealous, Beautiful car.

  • @dannynichols8778
    @dannynichols87783 жыл бұрын

    Where are you at ? I would like to see your place

  • @MoeLarrycurly1
    @MoeLarrycurly14 жыл бұрын

    Hell ya !!!!!! 🖖🏽

  • @241cars
    @241cars3 жыл бұрын

    sounds like it has rod knock...

  • @davidhaxton5050
    @davidhaxton50503 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for correcting the engine type, but why have your title say 1932 model A, 32's were never model A's ????

  • @Wooley689

    @Wooley689

    3 жыл бұрын

    Probably because the engine is Model A

  • @gregorytimmons4777

    @gregorytimmons4777

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Sharron Clark About 15 years if the model T. began around 1910 or so. Model A began in 1928. Typically what you refer to is a "23 T Bucket Roadster."

  • @Mercmad

    @Mercmad

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's a model B engine. 4 cyl 32 Fords were known as B 4 s and the 8 cylinders as V8's. The next was the 1933-34 C engine . The B4 has a seperate crank case /bell housing .As a kid we called all 32 Fords B4's because they were the most common.

  • @oskawurmli9600

    @oskawurmli9600

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sharron Clark the model a began production in 1928, they changed the body style in 1930. They then finished production in 1931, it was then followed by the ford model b (4 banger) and model 18 (flathead v8)

  • @jameshickman5299
    @jameshickman52993 жыл бұрын

    Nice looking car, though the rear tires look awful wide.

  • @dwightbrown2808
    @dwightbrown28083 жыл бұрын

    Where is Dale?? Is he OK?

  • @scootergeorge9576
    @scootergeorge95763 жыл бұрын

    Is that a Model B? 1931 was the last year for the A. 2:00 yep...

  • @fearthelamb8084
    @fearthelamb80843 жыл бұрын

    So the french press was not pumping enough coffee through the system. Like a typical monday morning.

  • @fastinradfordable

    @fastinradfordable

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wow that’s some crazy shit. And your still here to talk about it!

  • @Wooley689
    @Wooley6893 жыл бұрын

    I spent around twenty minutes looking it over when there. Did not have the pleasure of seeing it run though.

  • @timtaylor4122
    @timtaylor41223 жыл бұрын

    No pesky valve covers needed back then.

  • @shawnbottom4769
    @shawnbottom47693 жыл бұрын

    To my ears all that rattle is piston slap, at least I sure hope it is.

  • @garychandler4296

    @garychandler4296

    3 жыл бұрын

    No, I'd hope it was a loose body panel, easy to fix!

  • @Infernostar18
    @Infernostar183 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like something in the body is rattling like a mother fkr.

  • @MrShobar
    @MrShobar3 жыл бұрын

    The engine has blow-by from worn rings. Plainly evident when it is started.

  • @whalesong999

    @whalesong999

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, noted that, wondered who else might have. Also, if my discernment is on track, sounded like some piston slap in there as well.

  • @neilperry2224
    @neilperry22244 жыл бұрын

    Pity the camera man moved away from the as it was getting going. Might need a better time spending on what's being displayed. But otherwise a good camera man.

  • @servicarrider

    @servicarrider

    3 жыл бұрын

    I can sleep tonight knowing that you approve.

  • @Everetttango1
    @Everetttango13 жыл бұрын

    Those tires are not period correct- they’re from the 1960s

  • @donaldanderson1798
    @donaldanderson17983 жыл бұрын

    I really appreciate all the videos but our buddy goin uha uha all the time makes me crazy . Does it bother anyone else .

  • @Timman57
    @Timman573 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately she sounds a bit noisy! Maybe time for a refresh?

  • @daryllect6659
    @daryllect66593 жыл бұрын

    The 1932 Ford was *NOT* a Model A!

  • @whalesong999

    @whalesong999

    3 жыл бұрын

    I thought I heard him say Model "B".. .

  • @daryllect6659

    @daryllect6659

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@whalesong999 Read the title again- *The 1932 Ford Model A Racer*

  • @whalesong999

    @whalesong999

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@daryllect6659 Well, that is confusing. I passed over the video title - didn't register - but his commentary says it's a model B at about the 2:00 point though he started out saying it was an A model. I guess we both have pertinent points.

  • @peejay6855
    @peejay68552 жыл бұрын

    Sorry but this video is all about you and the engine.... not about the car. There isn't even a shot of the entire car in this video. You obviously like to be in the spotlight . Next time try showing the car more. Thats why we're here.

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