A
MODEL A FORD REBUILD
A
1928 MODEL A FORD LEATHER BACK
BEING
REBUILT FROM THE FRAME UP
The
car is owned by Tom Sawyer from
Hixson,
Tennessee, U.S.A and the work was
done
by a shop in Maryland
| I have three 28 leatherbacks
and one 29 two door sedan. Only the one is restored at this time.
I have one leatherback in process. I am having the chassis and undercarriage parts professionally powder coated, this time instead of spray painting. I will try to e-mail you some pictures of my finished car while it was in process. I also have some interesting
pictures of my Ford radiator cosine emblem restoration being fired in the
furnace and buffed before chroming. Haywood Enamels of Australia
did the work for me at $175.00 per emblem. I have several and they
are beautiful! The 28 emblem has a lip around the edge and is different
than the 29 and 30, which are the
Each component was restored to
original without any detail left off. All
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| The copper Ford radiator
emblems were fired in a furnace to remove the old
blue cosine. Cosine is an enamel type of paint [chips] that has to be heated in a furnace to melt. The emblems were cleaned and fired again in the furnace with new blue cosine, ground or buffed down smooth, and chrome plated. Epoxy was applied to hold the round flange to the emblem, so that it |
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