1929 Ford Coupe - The Eischen Factor

'any fool can cut up a car and go overboard with a concept, but it takes an artist to go the simple and understated route'
Wise words by the author of the Street Rodder article (Eric Geisert) and an ethos that builder Jeff Eischen has demonstrated time and again with his cars. For all of that understated simplicity, this car hides a ton of detail; you could spend ages just looking at the pictures in detail, let alone how long you could spend poring over this car if you were actually face to face with it.
I'm going to shut up for this one, and suggest you go here for the full details. just remember to pick your jaw up on your way out.

- Amazosan

Ray Pyle's 1929 Ford Model A Roadster - Destined To Survive

A car for the ages. Literally. a 1929 Ford Model A thats been in the same family since the late 1930's, passed through three generations, raced at SCTA events at El Mirage in the late 1940's (with a dash plaque to prove it), sat in various garages for decades on end. It's had rare period speed parts that were fitted in 'period', with more period speed equipment fitted later on in it's life. Now recommissioned for the new millennium. It's now made it's way back to the famed dry lake bed, looking like it never left. Not a famous car by any stretch of the imagination; if anything it was just another old car pounding the desert, along with many other of it's ilk. But lets not sell it short; it's a piece of history, and if it were able to talk: oh, the stories it would probably tell.
Read about the car and the people involved with it, here.

The SCTA meet in 1947 when the car ran No. 660B. Ray Pyle is behind the wheel, and Kenny Eichert (Ray's cousin)is touching the bonnet

This is Kenny Eichert in his Gaters club shirt in 1949 at age 18

Although Ray Pyle flew in several B-17s during the war, he did most of his missions in The Fox. It was named after a small pub in the village of Ridgewell, in Essex frequented by American GIs. Ray and the rest of the crew of The Fox must have been avid visitors...

1929 Ford Model A Truck - Marine Rod-ology

I love it when I come across a car that (to me) looks 'just right'. The sort of car that needs nothing, that I would jump in a drive 'as is'. It's a bonus then, when I find on said car, a detail that makes me do a double take - like a boat engine.
The all-steel Model A pick-up was a decades -long dream in the eye of Lance Sorchik, long-time illustrator for hot rod magazine, Rodders Digest. When it came time for that finely-detailed dream to became reality, A Mercruiser 3.0 litre 4-cylinder marine engine happened to find it's way between the chassis rails, hooked up to that old favourite, a Borg-Warner T5 'box.
The details on this truck delight: the suede paint, that delicious static drop, the two-tone suede paint, the simple interior, the 'police special' speedometer.
Aquaplane over to here for more details.

- Amazosan