Car Questions - F
I have a 1929 Model A Ford with a Model B engine in it. I am looking for an original ooga horn (chrome) and a distributor cap for it. Where can I find such things?
Was the rumble seat an option on the 1929 Model A Ford Sports Coupe or did all of them have the rumble seat?
Is this a fuel stick for a Model T? It is a folding wood stick bordered in brass. It measures up to 23". I believe it is to measure the amount of gas in the tank.
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I'm looking for headlights for a 1929 Ford roadster. I have a 1929 Model A Ford with a Model B engine in it. I am looking for an original ooga horn (chrome) and a distributor cap for it. Where can I find such things?Call Snyders and ask for a free catalog:
Snyders Antique Auto Parts, Inc.
12925 Woodworth Road
New Springfield, OH 44443-9753
Toll free: 1-888-262-5712
Toll free fax: 1-888-262-5713
Snyders is a very good company to deal with for all of your Model "A" parts.
Was the rumble seat an option on the 1929 Model A Ford Sports Coupe or did all of them have the rumble seat?Yes, it was an option. You could order it or you could make a rumble seat out of a standard coupe, buying the parts from your Friendly Ford Dealer.
I would like to know what was the very first car ever made and what year was it made in?The engine came before the carriage and Europe took the lead in development, probably due to the superior European highway system which offered the essential ingredient for innovative thinking.
In 1860 Etienne Lenoir, a Belgian living in Paris, patented the first commercially successful double-acting two-cycle steam-engine conversion that burned a mixture of air and coal gas but it was noisy and inefficient and met with only brief success.
In 1876, the German Nicholaus Otto, a traveling salesman and inventor, set out to improve on Lenoir's design and produced a workable four-step internal-combustion engine.
In 1885 a former Otto engineer, Gottfried Daimler and his assistant Willheim Maybach produced a gasoline-fueled Otto-cycle engine that weighed only 110 pounds and delivered 1.5 Horsepower. The Daimler Motor Syndicate was formed in England in 1893 to take advantage of Daimler patents but did not produce motor cars until 1896.
By 1891, Karl Benz of Mannheim, Germany built a four-wheeled road carriage that actually ran under its own power, propelled by an internal-combustion engine of the type first devised by Otto.
In America, Charles and Frank Duryea's first primitive car chugged across the New England landscape in 1892-3. It was the first gas automobile, a single-cylinder 4 hp engine and friction drive, to run successfully in our country.
Duryea's feat is still in dispute as there several other stories of earlier inventions on record. However, only one has strong documentation, a short-lived fringe-top gas-powered tricycle created by John W. Lambert of Ohio City, Ohio in 1891. Unfortunately, the prototype was destroyed by a fire in late 1891, ending Lambert's plans for manufacture.
Some 300 Americans tried to build or manufacture horseless carriages, most working in isolation until "The Race of the Century", a 54-mile motorcar contest held by the Chicago Times-Herald, was won by the Duryea brothers and captured the public's imagination.
The pioneering Duryea's won early but not lasting success and were out of business by the early 1900s. They sold their company stock, quarreled and went their separate ways. Frank stayed in the business until 1915 but Charles found little success on his own. Charles died in 1938 and Frank in 1967, spectators in the amazing growth of the automobile industry they helped to kick-start.
Do you know anything about a 1925 Franklin boattail? Thank you."During 1925 the design was face lifted once again and the DeCausse-styled Series 11 introduced. Cylinder capacity remained a modest 3.3 liters, but appearance was entirely changed with a 9 ft. 11 inch wheel-base and a vertical-barred 'radiator'. This revolutionary step so appalled John Wilkinson that he resigned from the company forthwith!
Some of the semi-custom body styles - especially the boat style sports coupe at $3,150 - were remarkably attractive. Subsequently some excellent and expensive custom body work was designed for Franklin by such firms as Durham, Willoughby, Holbrook, and (especially) Detrich."
Source: The New Encyclopedia of Automobiles
Contact the Franklin Club. They will be of great help.
The H. H. Franklin Club, Inc.
Cazenova College
Cazenova, NY
13035
(781) 246-1926
The Antique Automobile Club of America
www.aaca.org
Is this a fuel stick for a Model T? It is a folding wood stick bordered in brass. It measures up to 23". I believe it is to measure the amount of gas in the tank.You are correct. It was a common item used to measure fuel in the tank. It was used by all manufacturers for the "T", Chevrolet, Maxwell, etc. and by farm tractor owners.
