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Old 12th December 2016, 14:14   #16
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Old 13th December 2016, 12:44   #17
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Meanwhile during a trip to the US in mid 2014, I picked up a lot of parts for the
car and hand carried them, luckily no hassles in the customs.

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Some parts were later shipped directly to India in 2016.

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Old 13th December 2016, 13:12   #18
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Re: Restoration: 1930 Ford Model A Phaeton

Kartik,

This is just awesome. Love your eye for detail. I am pleased to see availability of all the parts and that too with Ford branding. I wish we got parts for Fiat's as well like this. Now awaiting for further progress.
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Old 27th December 2016, 13:19   #19
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The progress slowed down significantly towards the end of 2014 as we got busy with the other project and with the rally season coming,

by Mid/end 2015 significant progress on body was done, the engine was overhauled and fired , some pictures of the work in progress.

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Engine being fired

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Here are the video's of the firing of the engine and the test drive




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Old 17th January 2017, 15:42   #21
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Pictures of the progress towards the end of 2015 and early 2016
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Re: Restoration: 1930 Ford Model A Phaeton

From Early 2016 to around October 2016, work progressed very slowly,
I had by now decided to paint the car blue but was not sure about the exact shade, so we applied a coat of blue primer and then progressed to do some remaining wood work and restoring the hood among other jobs.

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I was very confused regarding the shade of blue and tried different shades

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and then though still not absolutely sure , got the car painted

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More to follow soon.....
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Old 27th January 2017, 17:51   #23
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and then though still not absolutely sure , got the car painted
The more I saw the car , the more I disliked the shade of blue , this was nowhere close to the "Andalusite Blue" which I wanted !

Meanwhile my limited edition scale model arrived

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and now I knew what we had to do so we removed the paint

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and I went to the paint shop with the scale model to get that perfect shade,

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after a few trials

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and finally re-painted

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here is the before and after shot

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Kartik, very very nice. The current color is much nice and would look the period perfect. I am more interested in the scale model . Is that a Mint model?
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Old 28th January 2017, 12:09   #25
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Kartik, very very nice. The current color is much nice and would look the period perfect. I am more interested in the scale model . Is that a Mint model?
Thank you, Yes its the Limited edition Danbury mint model, here are some pictures I saved .

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and this I captured

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Meanwhile I placed another order for many parts
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Sent stuff for Chrome plating
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Another look of the freshly painted car

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after sanding

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wings/mud guards etc were also painted

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the target in next few days is to repaint the parts of engine chassis and under body and to fit the mud guards/ wings etc.
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In The last 10 days we have made significant progress and we are nearing the end of the restoration, though I must add, as most of us know, the work on these cars never ends.

Jacked up the car and took off the tyre's off the rims

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Surprisingly the rims are in decent condition was pleasantly surprised to find what seems like original paper lining inside the rims.

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The spare wheel and the tyre (Firestone) are both in great condition, so I am going to retain this tyre and mount it on the right wing.

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The chassis, engine etc have received another coat of paint

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some parts are still under process of painting/sanding

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We have also started fitting, wings and other body parts

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This is the luggage rack that came with the car, restoring this and will add an old period luggage piece at the rear.

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more later....

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Some more progress , over the last 3 days

The instrument panel
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Hood being checked for proper fitting
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hood being prepared for painting
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Work done yesterday:

included painting the hood frame

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and fitting the radiator and the bonnet.

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Today we removed the headlamp bar and painted it, and put it back,

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the radiator stone guard was fitted ,

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and so was the spare wheel bracket,

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windshield frame got it's new glass and also fitted

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