A Road Less Traveled with Restore Cars
A Road Less Traveled with Restore Cars
Restoration of Pre-WWII Senior Classic Cars. We are an auto restoration shop specializing in senior classes cars of the 1930's and older. Marque's such as Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg, Packard, Lincoln, Cadillac, Pierce Arrow, Stutz, Marmon and many others are painstakingly restored to better than new condition. Every phase of restoration is performed in our 30,000 square foot modern facility.
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Amazing vehicle! Mike from Missouri
Beautiful pickup! Mike from Missouri
Thanks for the informative video. I think anyone watching this would love to have seen more of the interior and the car running and being driven, hearing the engine start and run.
The beautiful Auburn was a surprise to see in the garage with the Cord. It's my plan in my later years to go Bankrupt buying a nice Auburn. I'm learning the Packards this decade. You have a wonderful shop -
He could've won against the hellcat with his MGB. The revised challenge: A Foot race, while PUSHING your chosen car
Twelve cylinders and uses them all,. Drivin' a Packard and havin' it all.
Beautiful truck, love old school. I just subscribed and follow for more
I owned a 1982 Volkswagen Rabbit diesel. I drag raced another VW Rabbit diesel right in the middle of downtown Philadelphia, and no one except the two of us even knew what was happening. :-)
that's a nice quality job.
a farmer friend had a vicky one day we were talking and asked what he wanted for it he said 25.00 told him we d be out that sat i happened tell a friend about it and the a.....hole went out that night and got it drove it home that was 1961 and i ve never have spoke to him since
08:40 showed it all. smooth....and 10:53, made it worth it
I'm not a mechanic or any other type of restorer. But I laud your hard work and I appreciate the videos detailing what has to be done to save these magnificent machines! Subscribed.
As a engine builder you jumped a lot all in all a good video
Well done! I hope you are passing your knowledge and skills down to someone who can carry on this beautiful work.
What does the Judging Manual say about engine color? Looks like a darker shade than what I've seen on other A's. Magnificent job on the restoration!! Do you recommend the High compression head? The Mitchell overdrive?
I copied the color out of the newest book that MARC/MAFCA put out.
Wow! That’s all I gotta say.
Would be interesting to put this engine side by side and bottom ends up with Pontiac Eight of about the same vintage for comparison- would the Pontiac crankshaft (only 5 main bearings) be more of a "wet noodle" ?
Fascinating, and very impressive!
What even more rare is a model A Hercules Pick up and huckster versions . I have a 1931 Chevrolet Hercules pickup .
Could you please turn up your microphone?
We restored a model A town sedan years ago. The paint was Rose beige, Chicle drab, with a straw stripe. It sounded bad, but it looked pretty good.
No air filter? You have to be joking.
These are such masterful works of fine machinery! I own a 1932 Series 452 v-16 4 door! Best vehicle I have ever owned! I had found it abandoned in a car collectors collection, it was actually in very god condition, just a lot of years of sitting had come about it, but I had spent over 7 years restoring it and finally I sent it off to a shop to get it a new fresh coat of black paint and the piston heads resurfaced. Of course, I drive it once every week to keep it in pristine condition.
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Amazing! You are certainly a doctor of metal crafting.
Beautiful work. That engine is amazing.
just subscribed!
At 14:00 he meant to say overhead valve, not overhead cam.
Love watching your work and info you pass on. Hope you have a son or someone to pass this knowledge to. I have a Fordor town sedan that was in the 2003 June Sanp On tool calendar., also have a 31 roster pickup with a Brookville cab and bed, that was poorly assembled. I've work in the auto industry since 1975 for new car dealerships . For the last 15yrs for USPS doing mechanical work. Keep tooling your inspirational.
Most of those older ford bodies had wooden blocks and felting for mounting ,did you make your own mounts ?
Hello Mark, I gave another you-tuber a link to your video about the Model A. The last episode where you were forming metal as the guy was struggling to make certain panels on his 1933 Buick Sedan that he is restoring. He got back to me and thanked me for your link. You may also want to take a look at him as he is quite talented and his does think outside the box plus the video is quite entertaining and funny in parts of it. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qmafraqCm9Srlrw.html Cheers.
when i compare the beauty & simplicity of that old truck to a 2022 f 150.the only conclusion i can come to is, ford has lost its mind wanting 65k for the poorest quality from ford in many decades.they shouldve never tried to make a lincon continental out of an f series.too many things that can, do & will, go wrong for a truck that built its reputation on work, NOT luxury & entertainment centers.
Thank you for the video especially the high quality commentary! If I had the funds--which I do not--I would seek out a 1947 or 1948 Cadillac limousine. For decades I have admired the body style. Are such cars attainable? What would one cost today? Is it possible to get a classic car with a modern engine? I dream. Thank you, again for the excellent video!
Grampa put his tools in the trunk, grama wasn't happy
I don't think one of those ever came out of the factory that nice. Great video. Thank you.
There is also 1 of these in the Champagne collection in Madison La
There's one of these in Rinneyville Foed model A museum in Ky
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Try a Rupes orbital buffer with their DA system. You'll throw that prehistoric rotary in the garbage. Life altering.
We have the Rupes system. I like to first knock it down with a couple passed of my prehistoric 3M compound and then the Rupes goes much faster. I hate buffing, so I like fast. By the way, The Rupes training center is here in CO. I have been buffing in the dark for years with just 1 light on an angle. When Rupes built their training center, guess what? They have a black room with lights on a 45 degree angle.
@A Road Less Traveled with Restore Cars Ha. I was just busting your chops. I started with air rotary and 3M tan compound in a can with a paint brush at a Corvette shop in '83. It's hard, though, to get around the fact that the first pass with a Rupes blue fuzzy pad and blue compound has better DOI than 3M rotary, even through black foam and polish. Sanding to 8,000 Trizact makes it pretty easy. My 3M rep had a 12,000 Trizact he let me use and took it back after. Hopefully, they make it to market. To me, the heat of rotary pulls HS clear and causes cellulite. It's amazing how far we've come. Love the channel. All the best.
Wow, great restoration!
With all respect, transverse suspension wasn't designed to save the cost of two leaf springs; it was designed to allow for more suspension flex. The axle and radius rods form a triangular assembly that can twist at the U-joint or oil pan. Combine that with the Model T's flexible frame, and you get that 1916 T touring that got a 1,030 RTI score in Motortrend. I love your paint color, it's nice to see a Model A that looks like 1931 and not a Great Gatsby party.
Do two springs cost less than 4 springs?
@@claytoresto That's a great counter argument, so I went digging. I found list prices in the Hollander Interchange Manual (19th edition), and Whippet 96 springs listed at $7.50 and $7.30 for fronts and rears respectively, while Model A Ford fronts ad rears were $7.50 and $20.25 respectively. So, Whippet springs all around would be $29.60 compared to Ford springs all around at $27.75, but it doesn't account for the cost of wishbone, radius rods, or torque tube. It would really be fascinating to trace the Model A design process and see what design choices were dictated by longevity versus production economy.
Very well. This is why this forum is so good. Discussion. Chevrolet surpassed Ford in 1930, so I think it's a fair comparison of these 2 cars. The Whippet was way down the line in units sold. So why did Chevrolet and every other major manufacturer forgo the transverse design in favor of the longitude design? Chevrolet knew that an even better design is coil springs. In a few years they introduced it. I believe around 1934. The bottom line was the Ford design was mainly for economy, not superiority. Yes the Fords were for the masses and thus they saw plenty of country roads, but I have seen film of New York and Las Angeles in that time period, and it was not four wheeling. The Model A, and I have restored hundreds of them and love them, is a buggy compared to the classics I restore in my shop today. Unfair comparison, because they are much more expensive, but the engineers pretty much figured what was best by 1930. And none of them have transverse springs. This is also true of the engines. All the secretes were know by then, it was just a matter of how to make money using the technology.
@@claytoresto Indeed. It's fun to discuss ideas and do more research. I picked 1929 Whippet 4 because it was the same HP and wheelbase as a Model A and felt like more of an "apples to apples" comparison. Chevrolet was a 46HP six and 3.5" longer. (And then no. 3, Essex, was just a more substantial car.) Honestly, I think Ford stayed with transverse leaf suspension because Henry patented the design and had been using it since 1906. If it was his idea, it was the best and everyone else was wrong.
I like your bed wood finish choice. Most standard trucks were Rock Moss Green, so I wonder if that was the default color for the wood? Where did you score your brown fan belt?
Stunning job. All I might have spotted were the running board brackets which were dipped, thus gloss black. Could have been the lighting, and I know it's nit-picky.
I’m so glad you’re back. Your talent and videos are just excellent! Thank you
First comment - I love your vehicles, and your 'drag race' is one of my all-time favourite (note the correct spelling 😏 ) episodes on youtube. And I had to comment on "how much car do you need?" One channel I've followed entirely theough (note the incorrect spelling (fat fingers)) is the Sampson boatbuilding series; Leo Sampson is "a boatbuilder and sailor" (he says this at the beginning of most of his vid's) who is rebuilding an ancient and famous yacht Tally Ho, a Bristol Channel pilot cutter which won the Fastnet race a long time ago. He talks about this; how much of the original wood, fittings &c does he need before the result is no longer Tally Ho? The answer is, "virtually none" because he's had to totally rebuild and re-skin the ship with all-new wood, which is common with wooden ships because they rot, especially if their wood is held together with iron (he calls it iron-sickness). But at the end of the day the brand-new, brand-new-wood, brand-new-interior result is still Tally Ho, because that's what he started with. So I guess congratulations are in order - you do indeed own a Duesenberg! When do we see the rest of it?
What an amazing truck! Thoroughly enjoyed the ride. I love driving non synchronized vehicles..... as you really do need to drive them. I always leave the engine idling upshifting and give it a tiny bit of gas for down shifting when double clutching.....
Perfection.
Whether you're for Trump or against him: he divided friends, family members, states, the whole country - and that was a terrible wound that's going to take some time to heal.
This wound will never heal. There are irreconcilable differences in the basic philosophy of our ways of life. We are now and will always be forever a divided country. China is very happy at this point. And it is not any one president that did this alone, it is socialism/communism vs freedom/democracy. I hold firm my beliefs and I respect the right of everyone to choose theirs, freedom right? My show is not to influence politics but rather to entertain and escape political reality. The point I was trying to make was by talking politics with my Pinstriper friend, it shot me in the foot. It was mistake to ever enter into a political discussion. It got me nowhere.
How do you get a satin looking paint finish on the underside of the hood but beautifully gloss on the outside?
A wonderful experience. Extraordinary work. Thank you!