Jorgen Knoplauch is a toolsmith by profession. As a young man he worked with Catalinas for the Danish Air Force, a job which led to his employment as a flight mechanic for SAS, Scandinavian Airlines. Since then, Jorgen has had a “high” office, fitting satellite disks for the Danish state television around the country. […]
By a lovely lake, nearby a small village called Markaryd, a village with a population of 5000 people in the southern of Sweden, is a typical Swedish house, made out of wood. What makes it different from all the rest, is the US-Postal mailbox at the gate and a weathercock made as a Model A, […]
We are visiting Anders Carlsen and his family in Vetterslev near Ringsted. Anders is employed at the State car inspection, one of the guys that all car owners fear. After reading this interview you will know, that he isn’t a monster but just an ordinary guy with a special interest, Model A Ford cars. Anders […]
“How fast will she go?” Why is this always asked? Speed is important, I guess. We are usually asked this while stopped at a traffic light and someone just wants to ask something – anything. Our answer? “We average 40 to 45 miles per hour on tours.” Of course, some cars have high compression engines […]
This is a orignal 1931 Delux Phaeton with 37K miles This is flap is attached at bottom of the window frame. It snaps to just behind the backseat to hold the window in place when the top is put down. This is to prevent the window from rubbing the back of the body. This flap […]
I wanted to find out how the engines I rebuild compare to a stock Model “A” engine. I decided that dynamometer testing would best show the improvements made to the engine. The tests were done on a Super Flow 901 Dynamometer. It is a computer machine and is calibrated on a yearly basis. Testing on […]
There was no question about it: Ford’s fabulous Model T was on the way out. Sales slipped noticeably in 1926. Price cuts, the usual medicine in such cases, had no effect. Competitive cars were getting better and cheaper all the time. Many of them were more in line with the new public taste than was […]
My earliest memories of our ‘T’ Model Ford was when my father spoke of it. I was about 7 yrs old at the time. The year was 1966. The ‘T’ was purchased brand new from Wade Motors in Hamilton, by my great grandfather in 1924. The car remained in his family until it was given […]
In 1912 two men on opposite sides on the globe set off on two of the greatest motoring journeys ever completed. Australian Francis Birtles became the first person to make a west-east crossing of the Australian continent by car; a car mostly makes of wood with a one-cylinder engine. His equally tenacious Russian contemporary Andrei […]
Pictures always make cars look great. When I bought my ‘14, I thought I was buying a ‘15 and by appearance looked quite sound and as I said to my wife, “It’s a bargain”! Lifting the bonnet to see the 1914 motor with the screw in welsh plugs I noted that all the fittings were […]