Aug 7
Opinions?
I'll just leave this here.
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· Aug 7
Needs a stone guard. Maybe curb feelers. A couple tag toppers. Wolf whistle...
A lot of "A" ers like doo dads though, tbh.
· Aug 7
It really needs a plain radiator cap.😁
· Aug 7
I could maybe make an excuse for most of the accessories except for the eyebrows. Eyebrows are a crime. But are those yellow tinted wind wings?
· Aug 7
You Model A guys, help me out. I sit a Shay? If it is a true testament to the popularity of the Model Ford.
· Aug 7
Yes. Looks like this very car with some additional tarting up.
· Aug 7
I feel like the dual "ahooga" horns really bring the whole car together.
· Aug 7
There is really no excuse for the eyebrows. I might let it pass if it was a young girl who owned it and drove it and was really getting into the collectible car hobby. But if it was a guy my age, it would take quite a bit of my willpower to not let it rip and give him an hard time.
· Aug 7
John, the golden rule: "there is an a** for every seat". I'm pretty good at keeping my mouth shut (stop laughing). Any car nut is ok with me. I once spent 15 minutes talking to a guy that brought a superfly Lincoln to a cruise night about how he built the car. It was interesting.
· Aug 7
Maybe not a Shay? I'm not in on the joke here guys!!!!
This is a Shay. How do you distinguish them? Wheels?
· Aug 7
Well on this car, you can see the coil springs and brake hoses. Also no fuel filler.
· Aug 7
The Shay’s have a huge wheel center to hide the brakes. A real 28-29 wheel is 21” and they look downright spindly by comparison.
· Aug 7
Headlights are wrong, cowl lamps in the wrong spot, goofy wheels, a-arm suspension.
Shay owners think it's a Model A.
Everyone else thinks it's a replica.
· Aug 7
I had to google it. Had never heard of a Shay Model A.
· Aug 7
It's a Shay.
It looks like it crashed into a J.C. Whitney.
· Aug 7
😂 I didn't 'think you were old enough to make that reference.
· Aug 7
I hang around with a lot of old guys. 😜
I'm 48 and I'm the "young punk" in the vintage motorcycle club I belong to.
It's ok though. There's going to be a lot of really cool motorcycles for sale in a few years. 😁
· Aug 7
Shawn, the car hobby is the only place you can be 48 and looked down upon as a "baby". I remember when I was 35 going to CCCA meetings, I wasn't old enough to buy a drink.
· Aug 8
I know how that goes. I can’t go to a car show with my dad without someone assuming that my car is his. If we bring both of our cars, it really confuses people.
· Aug 8
So so so true. Back 25 years ago when I had my prewar Mercedes and I was actually showing it my dad would trailer it for me. I would take the car out of the trailer, and there might be a crowd. I would get comments all the time. A lot of "What a lucky guy you are that your dad trusts you with his car" sort of stuff. I just went along with it.
· Aug 7
Don't forget about the Glassic! There was a quite the market for these things back in the 1970s.
· Aug 7
The top on that Glassic is absolutely awful.
A friend once had something called a "MiGi".
It was a fiberglass replica MG-T series body on a VW pan.
I couldn't help but think. After you spent all the money to assemble and finish a kit car, you could have just bought a finished MG TD.
· Aug 7
Looks like the mechanism is collapsing?
· Aug 7
I feel like Jeremy Clarkson hit the nail on the head, adding candelabras to his Mitsuoka.
· Aug 7
The plate should read WWLD?
(what would Liberace drive?)
· Aug 7
Shawn back in the day the MG replicas were truly a fraction of market on a real T series. The Schtick was also they were easier to maintain with more modern VW underpinnings?!
I am a Model A guy who doesn't hate Shays - they represent a chance for someone elderly or disabled to drive a pretty good (proportionally) rendition of a 28-29 A roadster. I am generally not a replica guy though. I will say plenty of real A owners load their cars down. I need to polish my stainless steel spare tire cover now... Shhh...
· Aug 7
I don't hate the Shay, I just get disappointed when I see them for sale. The ad always says "Model A Ford for sale" when really, it's not a Model A, it's a Pinto.
My buddy once sent me a message with a picture of an Auburn 851 he saw at a car show and was super excited about. He said the owner claimed it was all original.
When I got a good look at the picture, I told him to ask the owner when Auburn started using GM steering columns and Model A wheels.
Fake is kinda lame and it's really, really lame when you try to pass it off as real.
· Aug 7
Agreed. which is why I posted the Blackhawk. It is not trying to be anything other that a custom bodied Monte Carlo.
· Aug 7
1965 to 1980 was the homage era. Many nostalgic attempts. Some were better than others. The one I would 100% take is the very first year Series V-windshield Blackhawk with the magnesium wheels. They made 25 and there might be 15 in existence.
· Aug 7
That is cool. I had to go google it.
· Aug 7
EAST COAST DAYS CAR-BUYING
Back in my salad days, I talked my Dad into going to Arlington, VA to check out the new "Cord Royale" at the Chrysler dealer 10 miles away. I thought it was the the coolest thing I had ever seen. I was 16. FB body, Chrysler 440 under the hood. Probably had a slushbox transmission instead of vacu-manual like a real Cord. It was game of my Dad to go along. His comments were the motor was shoehorned so tight into the hood changing the rear plugs would require pulling it...and that he could afford it but it meant either living in our house in McLean w/o the Cord, or all 6 of us living in the Cord in a parking lot somewhere. So -- he didn't buy it, but did buy a used 1967 AMC Ambassador wagon w/ a 290 V-8.
This is one, I think:
· Aug 7
Jeff, maybe 20 years ago my dad and traveled to Broken Arrow OK for the Glen Pray's annual cookout at the pickle factory. Glenn of course was famous for the precursor the car you posted. The Cord 8/10. 4/5 the size of a 810 Cord, get it? I might go for a early Cord 8/10 with the turbo and the stick.
Although I'm jaded from getting to spend a lot of time driving a real one.
· Aug 8
I saw one of these an a cruise night a few years ago. Looked just like a baby Cord but the proportions are off just a tiny bit. Kinda neat.
· Aug 8
Isn't there decent full size Cord replica or was at some point produced ?