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It's been painful to say the least lol. This one is May '53 delivery date and it's in pretty decent shape. Granted, I don't know how bad the body actually is, but for all I can see it has good structure. I'm definitely antsy to hear it fire again, it's only been 5.5 years since it expired on me.

I'd say merely the angle because it's nothing major by any means. I guess viewing all those Instagram posts are paying off though!

Finally been able to get moving forward on the engine build. Been a long two years since the machine work was done. Now, it's clean threads, tap holes, dry fit parts, order new ones that I thought I wouldn't need (because none of us know that feeling lol) and just be happy that I'm seeing progress!

Mine is tagged May '53 with the diagonal fender and the thumbscrew battery cover. Unfortunately there was no body tag behind the seat :cry: Currently my engine is out and slowly (like December molasses) being put back together with no end in sight.

Assuming that must be a real early one?

Nice find! It really looks good from the pic, but I know it's not always the case lol.

That's a great looking A1! Welcome aboard.

Naturally, I'm booked that day, go figure. I'll honk if I'm not in my Monte, you'd be hard pressed to hear it even if it did work.

I'm going to stop and see you in September! :) I've been rolling through Atlantic the last 5 years on the River to River cruise. If I'm not tapped to lead again, I would stop in a heartbeat. The likelihood of that happening is pretty low unfortunately since I'm on the Board of Directors...

After hanging from the hoist since February, it's time to slowly start piecing it back together. And I will be the first to admit that taking it apart almost a year before reassembly isn't the brightest idea. Especially since it wasn't done in my shop, and everything got thrown into a box. I...

Funny I see this, because I just noticed last week that my front bumper is slightly off on straghtness lol. And I've had it for 3 years now!

Update: After calling around, searching ebay and CL to no avail (I had some good leads but nothing panned out) I had pretty much resigned myself to putting it on the back burner again. When I get a text from a buddy telling me there's a block not even 20 miles away in a barn. SCORE!!!! And to...

I know it used to be done on many ag implement motors, and tbh, I need to call the machine shop back to find out exactly where the crack is to determine whether or not I even want to entertain the idea of block filling.

Finally after a good two years after I pull the engine out of my A1, it went to the machine shop where all was well, or so I thought. Initially a boring was going to be the ultimate question of whether or not I had a good start to my project. It was an untouched block, never having any internal...

I wish I could get that lucky and find some numbers on mine. It appears the outer side of the hood was stripped but they left the inside alone.

Well, I haven't been on in ages, and I didn't do this today (it was a few weeks ago). But I finally got the engine off the floor of my garage and transferred to the shop for tear down. Only took 18 months...baby steps.

I did an entire brake overhaul about a year ago on my '53. Wheel cylinders, shoes, flex lines, master cylinder, shoes and hardware. I was initially going to leave the soft lines alone but noticed that there was some splitting in the hoses and figured I'm under there so I may as well replace...

49940 May '53 not that it matters at this point since it seems to be narrowed down enough now.

I posted it in there a couple nights ago. Thanks for the thought though.

If it were only that easy lol. In my OP I stated that the motor was out. Here's the story for that. Labor Day weekend I had it out and spun a bearing (in my driveway thankfully). My intent was to pull the pan and check the rods first. I thought I may as well pull the head and check the cylinders...