A really cool story of one man and his Model A...

[cjshaker]

If you've got 6 minutes to kill, this is a really neat story of a man and his Model A. A pretty amazing car at that, and a story that no amount of money could replace.
Get a load of the trailer that he hauled at the 5:20 mark!! He said he modified the original engine, and I believe it, to haul that thing!

https://youtu.be/gP1zmCkUkpA

[Heo]

  That is a big trailer behind anything. interesting to know
what he did to the engine. I installed a Head for running
on woodgas that the Germans made during WW2 that is said to give 8-1 comp
ratio and a Model B carburator it realy woke the engine upp
Strangely the idle got incredibly smoth compared to stock with that
head

[cjshaker]

I could see how more compression would make it idle smoother; a more powerful power stroke would tend to do that, especially given the stock 6:1 compression. What always amazes me about those engines was how long they would last, and how hard you could work them...with NO pressurized oiling system. I've seen them idle down to about 3-400 rpm and still run smoothly.

Has Ollie been working on that C cab?

[Heo]

Yes and the head have a different chamber that give The engine some
kind of close to a squish area .

I actually talked to Ollie yesterday he had bought a sandblasted painted
frame with papers for less than  the cost of sandblasting
so now he have a complete chassie  so he had started mocking things up

[Heo]

This is my Model A with the German head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFSGSL3Nrmc
 

[cjshaker]

That's cheating

[Heo]

Hey that's not cheating its just a 4 cylinder Ford engine
That car was built in Finland by a company that restore
high end sportscar and so on. I think it was former World
Rally champion Juha kankkonen that owned it
http://www.mat.fi/projects/68
I like how they cast Aluminium Artillery "wooden" wheels
and woodgrained them