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Back a few years ago, when third-generation garage owner Willie Martin first expressed interest in building himself a roadster, he wasn’t exactly discouraged by friends. What Willie had in mind wouldn’t be just another roadster, but rather a close clone of the 1928 Model A that his father and grandfather raced together in the early 1940s.
As rumor of Willie’s intentions spread through his hometown of Riverside, Calif., friends began dropping off parts. In rolled a salvageable frame, then a pair of headlamps, a windshield frame, a usable steering gearbox and so on. The parts pile grew quite rapidly, but a month or so in, one key component just wasn’t materializing. Willie still needed a body.
Since the original roadster was four-cylinder “B-banger” powered, so is the clone, but that didn’t come without aggravation.
Although he could’ve had a V-8, Willie remained determined to run a B-banger as his father and grandfather had prior to World War II. This time with better parts, Willie went about building his own mill with a Scat crank, H-beam rods, CP pistons, Brierley cam and a Carl Zich-modified oil pump. To top it all off, he ordered up an overhead-valve conversion from Steve Serr’s Miller High-Speed Head Co. The same source supplied a dual-Stromberg-compatible intake manifold, a header and a transmission adapter kit. So, the much-better banger is backed by an S10-type BorgWarner T5 this time around.
read more: https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/features/car-of-the-week-1928-ford-model-a-roadster-custom
