Photo: Streetside Classics
We are willing to bet Henry Ford had no idea what the cars his company made in its early years will turn into. The man was set on making money, not icons, but somehow, unwillingly perhaps, managed to set the basis of a custom industry that would feed on those incipient Blue Ovals.
If you really think about it, there’s not a single early Ford model that escaped the clutches of today’s custom industry. From the A to the T (alphabetically), and everything in between, early Fords have been chopped, raised, cut, deleted, and upgraded to such a degree and so messy the father of them all would never recognize, let alone approve of them.
Once upon a time, this was a Model A, and if one looks hard enough, traces of that could probably still be found. Back in its day (introduced in 1928), the Model A, the successor of the famous T, was quick to become a hit, selling close to 5 million units by the time it was discontinued three years later.
There’s only one A looking like this though, and chances are people will not line up to buy it; to see and marvel at it, perhaps, but not necessarily to buy it.
The ride sports open wheels on all corners, with the front ones so far away from those at the back it makes the entire thing look extremely stretched. The same feeling one gets when sizing the thing up vertically: the eyes barely start moving from the close-to-the-road chassis up to the roof when the entire adventure is over, on account of the thing's very low height, in its turn owed to the chopped cabin.
Up front, partially visible, is the engine that powers the entire thing, in this case, a 350ci (5.7-liter) topped by a four-barrel carburetor.
The build is so much on the insane side of things one might have expected a crazy asking price for it. That’s not the case, probably on account of it being on the insane side of things and all, so the sticker for it reads $36,995.
Once upon a time, this was a Model A, and if one looks hard enough, traces of that could probably still be found. Back in its day (introduced in 1928), the Model A, the successor of the famous T, was quick to become a hit, selling close to 5 million units by the time it was discontinued three years later.
There’s only one A looking like this though, and chances are people will not line up to buy it; to see and marvel at it, perhaps, but not necessarily to buy it.
The ride sports open wheels on all corners, with the front ones so far away from those at the back it makes the entire thing look extremely stretched. The same feeling one gets when sizing the thing up vertically: the eyes barely start moving from the close-to-the-road chassis up to the roof when the entire adventure is over, on account of the thing's very low height, in its turn owed to the chopped cabin.
Up front, partially visible, is the engine that powers the entire thing, in this case, a 350ci (5.7-liter) topped by a four-barrel carburetor.
The build is so much on the insane side of things one might have expected a crazy asking price for it. That’s not the case, probably on account of it being on the insane side of things and all, so the sticker for it reads $36,995.
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