Archive for June, 2007
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Having An Old Car Makes People Want to Help You
Last week I took the radiator off my Model A Ford because the fan broke and cut a hole in the back of it. Yeah, I was pretty happy about that. I had known for a while that I needed a new ratchet nut for the crankshaft pulley on the front of the [...]
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
My First Car Show With the Model A Ford
From right to left: My family’s Model A, Devin’s A, a hot rod A, a badly done hot rod firetruck.
Today Devin came up from Bedford and we had our own little 2-car Model A parade over to the rockabilly car show on the west side of town. It was awesome. There were an [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Model A Ford by mark
Monday, June 18th, 2007
Letterman’s Stupid Human Tricks Audition
I went up to Chicago this week to audition for Stupid Human Tricks from The Late Show with David Letterman. It was surprisingly low-key. I figured that there would be at least 100 people in line, and possibly 1000, but as it turned out, there were 18 registrants. I did my marshmallow [...]
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
One Step Forward and Two Steps Back
Today Vader and I decided to go for a real drive in the Model A. The initial plan was that I was going to go pick up our friends Steve and Penny, we would all go for a drive together, and that way if the car died, they could help me push it back. [...]
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Sunday, June 10th, 2007
People Are Odd
On my way home just now there was a guy by the side of the road with a big trash bag picking up trash. I saw him stop, take a final drag on his cigarette, throw it down on the ground, and then resume picking up trash. You would think that if you were the [...]
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Thursday, June 7th, 2007
First Successful Drive in the Model A Ford
Yesterday my pal Devin came over and we spent almost the whole day working on my family’s Model A. The basic plan was that he was going to come up from Bedford to show me how to work on the brakes, and help me check them out to see if they were in good [...]
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
How to Start a Model A Ford
First of all, I am no expert… yet. I have the pleasure of getting my family’s 1930 Model A Ford Sport Coupe back in working order after it has been in storage for about 15 years. Unfortunately, I don’t remember the instruction on how to start the car that I got from my [...]
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Saturday, June 2nd, 2007
Setting the Timing on the Model A Ford
I spent some time in the garage today trying to set the timing on my family’s 1930 Model A Ford. I think it can be done with just one person, but I’m going to have to get some help. As a part of the process you have to put the crank into the [...]
