Vehicle Description
1930 Ford Hot Rod - Professionally Built by Gas Axe Garage -
Beautifully Painted by Star Customs - 390 V8 By Avenger Engines - 5
Speed Manual Transmission - 9 Rear End - Beautiful Red Paint Over
Black Interior (Please note: If you happen to be viewing this 1930
Ford Model A on a website other than our Garage Kept Motors site,
it's possible that you've only seen some of our many photographs of
the car due to third-party website limitations. To be sure you
access the more than 145 photographs, as well as a short start-up
and walk-around video, please go to our main website: Garage Kept
Motors.) Ol' Skool Rodz magazine profiled this 1930 Model A Ford
hot rod as the cover feature in their August 10, 2021 issue. Take a
look at this recent Gas Axe Garage build: a super-charged 1930 Ford
Model A. Coolness trumps all and this build has all of the
traditional cool touches. Its chopped, red-rock candy paint, black
interior, and white tires will never go out of style. The body
rides on a chassis built from pre-'57-ish parts. The front
suspension is a drilled, suicide style drop axle. The rear
suspension is '36 Ford radius rods with a spring modified into a
ladder bar. The front brakes are '39 Ford with Buick drums. The
chassis moves under the power of a supercharged '50 Cadillac 300
hooked to a Camaro T5 and Ford 9 rear end. The exhaust is built
from an old drive shaft to get that nice, beveled edge. It steers
via custom cowl steering. Finding the leverage and ratio for the
cowl steering was the most challenging part of this build. What's a
hot rod without a few fine details? The interior is covered in
diamond stitching, including the custom-built aluminum bomber seats
and trunk. Because of its big heart, the interior features a roll
cage. The dash holds a 1958 Edsel speedometer. And yes, it works!
(A copy of the cover article is included in the sale, as well as in
the accompanying photo gallery.) Offered here is this remarkable,
truly one-of-a-kind 1930 Model A Coupe hot rod. The current
odometer reading is 77,000 miles. The details of the build and the
quality of the workmanship are at the very highest levels of the
craft. The exterior red-rock candy metallic paint is flawless:
perfect gloss, and deep, reflective color across the entire body.
Ambient lighting makes the red highlights come alive. Radiator,
headlight tubs, cowl, front visor (with lightening holes), the
underbody surfaces, and all four wheels all share the same color,
and the same perfect finish. (To best assess the quality of the
paint and trim finishes, be sure to view the close-up photographs
of the car in the accompanying gallery.) Fine custom details (too
numerous to comprehensively list) include the steering mechanism,
door handles, taillights, and more add to the wow factor. Inside,
the diamond-stitched black leather upholstery on seating surfaces
and the transmission cowl is breathtaking (and it's replayed on the
trunk walls, too). Ruby-red cabin carpeting adds the exterior color
to the interior. The shifter for the 5-speed manual transmission
(wearing a Road Weasels shift knob) is floor-mounted. Stewart
Warner® engine-monitoring gauges are set in piano black with the
rotating, original, center-positioned speedometer above. As
elsewhere, custom details-like the bomber-type aluminum seats with
lightening holes-abound. The supercharged 390-cubic-inch engine (by
Avenger Engines) is fully exposed and beautifully detailed. The
three 2-barrel carburetors topping the supercharger, together with
finned valve covers, and angled, side-exiting performance exhaust
make an impressive power statement. Viewed from below, the chassis
exhibits the same high level of execution. The full-length
dual-exhaust system (cutting off from the side-exit pipes) is
particularly impressive. While the more than 145 high-definition
photographs and the short walk-around-and-startup video available
on the GarageKeptMotors website showcase this stunning '3
