1100 Mile Road Trip in a Model A Ford to Old Car Festival Part 2
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- This is Part 2 of a two part video as I drove my Ford Model A from Jonesborough, Tennessee to Dearborn, Michigan to attend the 2022 Old Car Festival in Greenfield Village at the Henry Ford Museum.
Taking backroads, you will see the adventure it took to get there. The roadside breakdowns or what I like to refer to as "roadside seminars" the climbs and drives through the Appalachian Mountain in Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky, and finally, the rest of the way to get to the museum.
Part 1 link • 1100 Mile Road Trip in...
includes narration as I drove, ( and broke down) as well as music when appropriate. LOL, I know some of you might not like the music but hey, just be kind in your comments. There is never a need to be a keyboard worrier right?!?!
This video includes footage taken inside the village during the festival. It also includes images I captured as well as additional experiences on the drive back home from Michigan to Tennessee.
Okay, grab your favorite beverage, and come along for the ride. Enjoy the journey just as I did!
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My 1930 Ford Town Sedan has eyebrow fenders and still has the original interior. It's certainly worn but it still is functional. I have rebuilt the driveline, suspension, and tie rods, installed a modernized Model A motor with oversized intake valves, insert bearings, and a high compression head. I also have a lightened flywheel and V8 clutch. The car comfortably cruises at 50MPH but I've had it up to 60MPH. I have also insulated and installed sound deadener which has made the car enjoyable to be in even at 90 degrees.
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I am surprised by the amount of noise the cars make. The early days of the automobile must have been quite a change for the cities and towns every ware.
Hi Ted and welcome to the channel. They indeed make much noise!
What a pleasure to see these antiques on the road!! Wow! I love old cars. I have never had the funds or the mechanical skills to have such a hobby. I do enjoy the creativity of those who do!💕These videos have been a blessing to me. Thank you!
Hi Larry and welcome to the channel. There is nothing wrong with being an "armchair Hobbyist". Please enjoy the videos! That's why they are there!
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Lived SW of Detroit area 31 yrs, I finally get to see Greenfield village on UA-cam 😃👍, I remember riding in Dads 31 2 dr A model, I couldn’t of been much over 3 yrs of age cause all the years I was growing up a mile from the old home stead the license plate greeted me every time I pulled in the drive. 1953 date on the plate. I’ve enjoyed your experience very much !
Hey Norm! Sounds like some great memories that you have!
When I heard Wayne Carrini say” ain’t nothing sounds like a Model A starting when ya got the spark advance right (all the while he’s grinnin)
Great video. I love your creative editing and filter fades from "painting" to modern color photo. Very enjoyable.
Hi Jerry and welcome to the channel! I appreciate your kind words!
Hi Ken! My Dad's first car was a Model A. I would love to be able to show him your awesome car.
Thanks for watching!
That was sure a picturesque setting for the car event. Looked like a classic car theme park! Subscribed!
Hi and welcome to the channel. Thanks so much for tor subscribing too! I really appreciate it. It was a wonderful event and can't wait to get back there this year!
2022 was my first Old Car Festival as well. I never wanna miss it or Motor Muster ever again!
Welcome to the channel! Glad you enjoyed OCF as well as my video!
You have a really nice looking Model A! Thanks for the ride..
Thank you kindly!
Hello Ken, thoroughly enjoyable two 'roadies'..... I am always fascinated by the old cars, amazing how many have survived from all those decades ago 😮 I'm still hoping to acquire an Austin 7 Ruby saloon (sometime), bet you had a great time!! One new subscriber, keep up the good work sir!.
You don't see many old timers on our roads in the UK.
Hey Corrie! Welcome to the channel! I am glad you enjoyed the videos and thanks for subscribing to the channel!
Nice looking cars from the past, thank you for the video.
Hi ramachandran and welcome to the channel! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Excellent videos. Very good quality, enjoyed them both !
Glad you enjoyed both and welcome to the channel!
Ken, with its flat windshield my 1930 Tudor sheds water great when its coated with rain-X
Rain-X is my friend!
This festival is so cool 😎
Hi and welcome to the channel! It was an amazing festival indeed!
Wow now i know how noisy city street's were back in 1910 to 1930s some of the early 1900s automobiles had no mufflers LOL great video i love antique cars
Hi Joseph and welcome to the channel! You have an excellent observation in regards to noise. I was actually quite shocked as you were listening to all those cars go by. Just imagine what streets in cities like New York or San Francisco must have sounded like when you add street cars, trolleys, and horse drawn carriages into the mix.
I am so glad you got to make it to the Old Car Festival. We had the privilege of participating several years in our 1940 Ford Fordor, and growing up in Ann Arbor went to many of these shows growing up. What an awesome experience. Thank you so much for doing these videos. Totally blessed with your work!!!!
Hi David! Welcome to the channel! I truly enjoyed driving the car there and will become a regular attendee now! Glad you are blessed watching the videos as I am just as blessed sharing my work!
So nice to see that alot of these old cars still around.nice vid thankyou.
Hi 123windyron and welcome to the channel! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Great video Ken! Great meeting you as well!
Hey bud! It was awesome putting a face and a voice to a Social Media friend! Looking forward to next year too. Already my gears are turning on setting up some cool scenes to photograph with friends 🙂
What a wonderful variety of vintage cars. It looks like the weather was good too! Thank you for taking us along.
Hey Kenneth! The weather for the event was amazing! The drive home was wet but nothing that wasn't unbearable. There was such a vast collection of cars. There was no way to see or photograph them all.
Back in the 1980s a fellow gave me a new carb for a model a 4 cylinder sold in Atlanta from a parts store on peachtree street. Napa auto parts. I promised him that I would keep that carb until I ran across somone who had a 4 cyl a model and give it to him14years later laters Iran across a club at a restaurant out i the parking lot.I asked who had a model a that had a 4cyl…a fellow said I have one,I gave him a new carb for his car free,,,motor head guys do that kind of things for each other!!! Happy I found him after all those years!
Hi Daniel and welcome to the channel. Thanks for sharing such a wonderful story!
Finally got a chance to watch the video. More vintage metal in one place than I ever thought possible. I could spend about a week in that part of Michigan between the Old Car Festival, the Gilmore Car Museum, and the Yankee Air Museum. Glad you made it home safely.
Hey Jon! Thanks for your comment! You are absolutely correct when it comes to all that is here in such close proximity!
What a great pair of videos! Such a cool story, great job editing and putting your story together. I'm in Troy, Michigan and been going to the Old Car Festival for many years. You caught my 26 Roadster PU at 17:55. Glad you had a safe trip with out to many problems. Thanks for posting for us to enjoy!
Hi hoophil! You have a very nice 26! Glad you enjoyed the videos!
@@kensmithgallery4432 Thank you Ken!
Wow great trip good to see you drove there and back awesome
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
I know you do not do this but some of our English Model A Ford club members have had front wheel bearing failures because of them being too tight . Paul Shinn on You Tube does them too tight in my humble opinion . Over 40 years I have never ever had a failure . One member had to cut the inner race off the axle with an angle grinder . He had adjusted them prior to a club tour . I adjust so I have the barest "rock" at the rim ,I have a box of axle nuts so I choose one to get the best "negative preload " Very best regards and a Very Merry Xmas !!!
Hey John! Welcome to the page. I don't know how Paul does his. All I know is how I've always done any front wheel bearing assembly going all the way back to the mid 70's. Never had a failure from over tightening a front wheel bearing either. A very Merry Christmas to you too!
What a wonderful video, thank you for sharing your adventure.
Hi and welcome to the channel! Thanks so much for your kind words! I appreciate them!
Only just seen your most entertaining video . Your transmission does seem a tad noisy ,does it have the dreaded Chinese roller bearings in it ??? Much discussion on "Fordbarn" recently . I am in Suffolk County England my son and I have 6 model As on the road. Just love those cars !!! . Been a MAFCA member for 40 plus years .
Hey John. Welcome to the channel. It doesn't have any Chinese roller bearings in it that I am aware of. Sincxe I use a cheap cell phone for the drive portions, the car seems louder than it really is.
Congra from Brasil.
hi Greg and welcome to the channel!
Enjoyed that. I'm across the Pond in the UK and I own and regularly drive a 1932 Morris Minor two-seater. It's powered by an 847cc side-valve engine producing just 19bhp and transmits it through a 3-speed crash gearbox with 'silent third'. It should be capable of about 52mph or so, but it's much more comfortable pootling along at 40-45mph and will do so all day long. Back in June I did a long weekend (5 days) trip of 600 miles. The little (just under 10ft long) car didn't miss a single beat. Can I ask what gas/petrol you use in the A? We've just had E10 (10% ethanol content) introduced in the UK. Many say it ruins old cars. Have you any experience? Thanks.
Hi Crash Box and welcome to the channel! Sounds like you have a sweet ride! Where I live, I run 100% gasoline. However, on long trips, it is pretty hard to fine. I run what's available during those times. My car seems to run fine on just about anything.
@@kensmithgallery4432 Yeah, I've found that the little Morris runs absolutely fine on E10. I've done quite a few thousand miles on mostly E10 Regular with occasional fill-ups of E5 Super, which is quite a bit more expensive. Strictly speaking we no longer have 100% gas/petrol, but BP forecourts sell a gas/petrol called BP Ultimate which they say has no ethanol. Not every BP forecourt sells it though.
That was fun to watch love seeing those old model t's and few even earlier question did ford stamp bodies for other automobile mufacturers in other countries is saw a guy here on youtube restoring a 1930 citroen its looks like a ford to me
Hi and welcome to the channel! I am glad you enjoyed it. I don't know if Ford stamped other car bodies or not to be honest with you.
@@kensmithgallery4432 after posting that comment I went and looked up 1930's citroen cars and they do look like ford model early model as
Ken, great videos of the drive to the festival. I’ve been there one time, it’s on my bucket list. I did attend the Gilmore Model A weekend this year. Look at Paul Shinn’s UA-cam page on the event. I’m hopeful to have my Model A in the garage in the next few weeks, KY Ken.
Hi KYbossis and welcome to the channel! I saw Paul's video. I was at the Gilmore earlier this year already but I do want to attend Model A days there if I can tag it onto Old Car Festival. Thanks for the kind words on my videos! I appreciate it very much!
Dear Ken, thanks for your videos, I found them to be most interesting and entertaining. I also admire people like you, who, for a person like me who lives in a small island (Malta south of Sicily) in the mediterraean is big adventure. For curiositiy's sake were there any REO cars at the meeting. I am interested in REO, because my father was the sole agent in the 1930's for REO and surprisingly I still have a soft spot for that brand. Keep it up
Hi Anton! Welcome to the channel! Thanks so much for the kind words. I really appreciate them! In answer to your question, yes, I saw a REO. Just one, but then there were well over 700 cars at the event, so there might have been more.
Not much can be said Ken. Outstanding results on your trip.What a take that would be ,definitely something to consider in the future.It would be N.H. to Dearborn. 45 mph is tops in my car ,so I'm going to practice.So many cars in your video,it was terrific .How many days and where did you stay? Thanks .........What an eye you've got .THX
Hi Dean! Thanks so much for the kind words. I stayed at an AirBnB about 5 miles from there. Made it easy. I worked my way up to that drive. The key is to really go over your car and have plenty of spare parts.
Ken, estou em S Paulo, Brasil. Possui por muitos anos uma Voiturette 1929 , deixou saudades. Tenho vários catálogos dela em inglês outros em inglês, com muitas fotos. Você gostaria de ver isso. Como poderia enviar fotos para você ? Tenho 83 anos.
Hey Antonio, I'm not sure how you can send them to me via UA-cam
Does you car have an overdrive? One day when I get a model a I'm going!
Hi Alex and welcome to the channel! It does not have an overdrive. It does have a 3:54 rear end in it so that helps with the highway speeds. It also has a lightened flywheel which helps me get off the line a bit quicker.
@@kensmithgallery4432 Nice! I thought you were moving a little faster the normal. Guess that explains it! Love the car and the channel
Catálogo em inglês Ford Roadster, em português Voiturette
:-)
I would like to ask you a question I was looking to purchase a new vehicle I was looking at a 1982 Jeep CJ7 hardtop limited edition with automatic transmission and the Jeep it's just been completely restored frame off it's got straight six cylinder engine but they didn't put a fan shroud it has a new radiator it has a new clutch fan it's got a big fan that sits close to the the radiator do you think it would overheat on a long road
I honestly don't know. I don't know anything about Jeeps. There is probably several Jeep forums out there with plenty of solid advice. You might want to start there. That is what I did with the Model A.
Hello, may I ask what camera mount you use on the inside of your car to record? Thinking about doing videos with my A as well.
Hi and welcome to the channel! I use my phone to make the car videos. I put a link in the description for the mount. I have used it in all my videos.
Does anyone know what the red car at 14:36 is?? Is beautiful…
That's about a 1928 Perce Arrow Roadster from the looks of the hood ornament.. Definitely a Pierce Arrow though.
What kind of mileage do you get? Just curious 😊
I get 15 MPG gas and unlimited SPG...smiles per gallon!
you left out subtitles for part 2......why?
Hi John and welcome to the channel. I guess I just didn't feel the need to do that since I commented verbally on the back end of the video.