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1930 Model A What A Car
A few years ago, my husband wanted to build a classic car. I told him if we were going to put that kind of money into a car, it would have to be one that we could turn a profit on if we ever sold it. Everyone at that time was going for the 1950's muscle car's. I didn't care much for those model's. I liked the earlier fords. He looked around for some time, we looked on the Internet to see what price some of the cars was going for. One day he called me at work and said I think I have found our car. I went to meet him after work at the location of the car. There it set on a trailer only a shell, it was in a thousand pieces the parts was in boxes and baskets the doors was strapped on the back of the trailer. Lord what a mess. The back fenders was full of rust. There wasn't any front finder's at all. There wasn't an engine no rear end, and it only cost $3,000. My husband had a look on his face, like I know she is going to say no. I think he was waiting for me to say are you out of your mind. He was totally shocked when I handed the man his check.

When we got the thing home I took photo's of all the boxes of parts. I wanted everyone to see what such a beautiful car looked like when we got it. We went to work, on our days off and weekends. We cleaned we primed and we spent a lot of money on replacement parts. We took out the rumble seat and made a trunk. We put in a small block Chevy engine in a Ford car. The engine took up so much space that we moved the battery to the trunk. We also took out the front fuel tank and had a fuel cell made and put it in the trunk. What time we wasn't working on the car, we was going to swap meets looking for parts. At last we had it ready to paint. Now most 1930 model A's was painted black or a dull dark green. There was no way I was going to have that car painted black. This was to be my car and nothing would do but Sandal Wood Frost Gold. We put in bucket seat's covered in a beige tweed and I did the rest of the interior in the same tweed. This had only taken us two years. It was the most beautiful car I have ever seen. By now the cost of our car was about $ 15,000. That's not counting two year's of work. But we said we couldn't count the work because we had got to spend all that time together.

There was only one thing wrong with our masterpiece. The 1930 model A seat is only 38 inches long. My husband was a big man his shoulders took up most of the room in the car. It wasn't very comfortable for us to ride in. And there wasn't any thing for us to do on weekend's. I loved that car, but I loved my husband more. I sold my beautiful car for $30,000. and got him a 1955 Chevy.

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