Oldest car you have worked on

[Greg]

I think this will probably be the oldest car I get to work on
It is a 1929 Model A and I am doing a 4 wheel brake job and tune up on it

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[Jason White]

Wow, I haven’t had the opportunity to play around with something like that. Me personally having worked on something by myself, front drums on some type of Ford from the 60’s, I think it was a galaxy. I changed some front end parts of an old mustang from the late 60’s. Otherwise, nothing major. Pulled the wheels off of some car’s from the 50’s a few times. Nothing ever major.

[Bluesnut]

Did a tune-up once on a 1956 Ford Crown Vic but other than that everything else in that era has been mostly mid/late 60s.

I have a 1937 Harley that I tinker on quite a bit.

[Brett]

I worked on a 57 bel air once… Other than that… 68 mustang and of course all your other late model junk.

[Greg]

Sometimes working on old stuff is a nice destraction from the everyday grind. To me this s like living automotive history. I’ll tell you I can’t believe how long the castle nut and cotter pin wheel bearing retention system has been used. Here is a little peek under the hood

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[Mike]

An “updraft” carb. Wow.

Back then, it was believed that fuel vapors were lighter than air. The engineers of the day thought that using an updraft carb made starting easier.

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