Auto Obsessed here we have something very unique from what we usually have in the Auto
Obsessed Detailing Studio I really think you're going to enjoy this so stay tuned
for those that know me know I love exotic cars sports cars, high performance cars, muscle cars
horsepower, horsepower, horsepower but having said that I understand that car people enjoy
all different types of cars and it's always interesting to see the different cars that have
been a part of our world and more important being part of their excitement is something
that we've always prided ourselves in and nothing pleases me more than to see a client light up and
get blown away when we complete their car for them so when a good client called me and said
he bought a new car and would we work on it naturally said of course he then said this
isn't the usual type of car you've done for me and how about I send you a picture first so I'm like
okay and he sends the picture and here she is a 1928 Ford Model A Coupe and it
even has a rumble seat it has 40 horsepower a top speed of 65 miles an hour which to be
honest I think it'd be scarier than this at 65 than driving a supercar at 200 miles an hour
she is smelly it leaks on our pristine floors every day you need to be fully trained to be
able to start it but I tell you this car has a personality and I've grown quite fond of it
after the car spending some time at Auto Obsessed and to be honest myself becoming
just a little bit attached to it. I called the owner to ask if it'd be okay to do a
video with it and share with our audience some of the things that I think are really
cool he said yes without hesitation, and I'm pleased to be able to share the car with you
so, it's a little hard to get into there's not a lot of room I think they were a lot smaller a
hundred years ago so let's take a look at the controls you'll notice the dashboard
there's no heater, air conditioning yeah right radio nope backup camera definitely not
navigation nope it does have a key switch though
so okay let's see if we can remember all this
so the first thing we have to do is we have to turn on the fuel
okay it has some of the same pedals you'd see in a normal car obviously this is nowhere near
a current car because the current car would be a one button push start so we don't have that luxury
here almost 100 years ago this is the way it was they built almost five million of the Model A's
this particular one's a 1928 Model A Coupe so once again so let me see if I can remember all this
on the steering wheel here we have the ignition timing on this side of the steering wheel I
have the throttle and this is what we'd use to drive down the road we'd adjust that one
this is the headlights here and this is the horn button we turn on the fuel to get it started first
I'm going to pump it with some fuel put in the clutch is in the same place
make sure we're in neutral now the starter is interesting it’s doesn’t do anything so
the starter it's a little awkward it's actually behind the brake pedal
and it's just a push so we're just going to give this old baby a crank
on the right here is kind of this little stub and it's a gas pedal and that's what we'd use
to get the car moving forward and back and then afterwards we'd use the steering wheel control
so you can see she runs pretty good maybe doesn't sound the best 40 horsepower
but she cranks right up it's actually really easy to drive
the rest of the comfort features in here as I mentioned there's no heater air conditioning
the front window opens straight out so you can have air flow through here the windows roll down
the windshield wiper this one has an electric windshield wiper some of them had manual
and that was about it if it was cold so today where we are in Edmonton Alberta Canada it's -31
outside right now so a car like this you would have to have lots of blankets you would have
brought in some bricks from the stove that you would have heated up to keep some heat in here
don't ask me how you'd keep the windows clear from frosting up because obviously there is no defrost
but that's how they did it a hundred years ago and what's really cool about this is I think
about it and you can you imagine if this car had a dash cam like what stories would this car tell us
who wrote in the car what terrain it drove through where did it go what did it do how
many times you get stuck how many times it gets broken down so a lot of really cool things and
it's just kind of interesting another thing that I think would hold true is a hundred years from now
this car would still be able to operate there's nothing to it it's very simple
it would turn over just the same way it does today
so I hope you enjoyed the this segment of it we're going to take a look now at the
outside and I'll show you some of the other cool things that I think are really neat with this car
so on the front here this would have been where the crank starter went you
would have just opened up this door put the crank in here and cranked the engine over
so probably that's where the term crank the engine over came from was literally cranking the car
it probably would have been a two-person thing one person inside the car probably to control
the ignition timing and the fuel and then the poor person outside the car that had to crank it over
hopefully there was no backfires or kicked back you'd rip your shoulder off I'm sure so that this
car doesn't have that this car's has an electric starter system the headlights here are kind of
another notable thing so the headlights in this period would have been kerosene
so there was a kerosene tank inside the car
that would be kind of odd wouldn't it kind of dangerous kerosene tank inside the car would have
fed the headlights you would literally light the headlights light them up to go for a night drive
the horns here we'll show you that a little bit later that's one of my favorite things on this car
and just we'll talk a little bit about what we did to the car as well while we're here so
new to the owner, so the owner just bought the car and it came virtually directly here he wanted
the car to kind of be spruced up a little bit it wasn't very good shape was restored likely many
years ago so there's certain things we can't do to the car to do radical improvements like we do to a
more modern car or more of a pristine restored car for example but we did a full decontamination wash
you know went through everything did the engine bay did the wheels as much as the suspension
that we could polish some of the chrome polish the headlights we did a light paint correction on the
paint to take away some of the light scratches and swirls to give it a more deeper black
finished it in Swissvax OBSSSSD to give it a beautiful gloss make it really slippery
and easy to maintain so hopefully the owner will spend less time maintaining and more
time driving we'll just come around the side here and check some of the other things out
so here we have what I think is kind of cool they're a 21-inch wheel and if we think about that
this car is almost 100 years old it took us almost 100 years to put 21-inch wheels on our modern
cars so they did that back in the 20s I would assume more to get over the rough terrain that
they would have drove on the engine bay here so it has two sides so the hood you basically
there's two there's kind of spring-loaded clamps here you open it up fold it over onto itself
and then we have a very simplistic engine bay very simple so it would have been easy to keep it
running and keep it maintained it has an original engine in it it's a flathead Ford four-cylinder
the distributor is sitting up here and what's kind of neat is these spark plug wires are just
pieces of copper connecting to each plug so once again very simplistic not a lot going on here
very easily accessible both sides open and
I can imagine there would have been a lot of wrenches in its day turning this engine
so, let's go around still
here we got the running boards and to me when I see these running boards first thing comes
to my mind is hang on to them with a tommy gun no that you shouldn't do that but anyways beautiful
running boards a little bit of aluminum there to step on these side deflectors the owner said that
they came with the car but this particular there's some acid etching a little diagram here some wheat
and I guess that was a five dollar option at the time has a sun visor has the vinyl roof
so we did a few things for the owner did some shampooing of all the fabrics the door panels the
headliner the back parcel area the vinyl cleaned and protected the vinyl cleaned the rubber mat so
there's a lot of grime actually there's a lot of dust and debris in here so we cleaned that all up
made it more presentable so it came out very well polished some of the aluminum parts one thing I
thought was kind of neat is the door latch to open the door so this basically most of the old
cars had a kind of a pull up lever to unlock the door this one here you push you pull it up
so to close the door you would naturally want to grab that but it has this little indentation here
this little tab and you pull on that to close the door so that's kind of a neat little thing
we're looking up some parts for the car on the other side and just when I was on the site for
some parts I found out that this here is a glove pocket which is kind of neat to put your gloves in
coming around to the back of the car so we did clean up the white walls quite a bit so
the old white walls you had to scrub them really good to get them nice and white they definitely
weren't that white cleaned up the spoke wheels so one of the things at the back of the car one
of my favorite things is the rumble seat so we showed that earlier in the beginning clip
but to me this is one of the coolest things about the car so you open it up to get into it there's a
pad here and a pad here and you basic aluminum pad and you stand on the bumper and you stand
on this pad it's got some grips on there so you don't slip and then stand on the seat and get in
and I was thinking earlier today as I mentioned we're in Edmonton Alberta Canada it's -31 right
now I couldn't imagine what it would be like to go about your day jump in the back of this
and in -31 with obviously no heater in the car but also being completely open
it would be a real treat in the summertime on a nice sunny day I'm sure the kids loved it one of
the things I know for me my father's really into classic cars he's a fanatic on the 1957 Chevy's
he's got a number of those and through my younger years we do all the car shows and swap meets and I
would see some of these cars and always say dad you know we should get one of these cars of the
rumble seat but he wasn't really into the into the 20’s 30’s cars he was he's more into the 50’s but
maybe that's one of the reasons I like this car so much but the rumble seat I think is one of the
big features on this car but with a rumble seat you'll notice we have no trunk there's no place
to put anything on the inside of the car there's nothing there's a kerosene tank gas tank in the
front so there's no room for anything so where do you put your luggage so this here is a foldable
luggage tray so basically you just unclip the clips fold it down you put your trunk or your
suitcases or whatever it was the boxes or bags or whatever you had you put them on the back of
the car fold this down tie it up on the hooks there and away you went when you're done with
it just neatly flipped back up and a couple levers here to make sure that it clicked
back in and didn't fall down and kind of some really neat features on this car so
it's kind of neat some of the things that we don't see anymore pretty cool to share that
with you I really want to thank Mike for allowing me to share this car with you I really appreciate
the opportunity and I hope you enjoy this as much as I have don't forget to subscribe to
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