Bruce Carroll's Kopper Kart
Australian Street Rodding|September 2020
How an unfinished project became...
BRUCE CARROLL
Bruce Carroll's Kopper Kart

1928 Model A Ford Roadster Pickup

Bruce Caroll

East Coast Australia Hot Rod Club

McGrath’s Hill, NSW

This Ford Model A roadster pickup was purchased in 2014 as an unfinished project from Melbourne, following an eBay ad. The car had a V6 Commodore engine and a new five-speed manual gearbox and clutch set up fitted. It also had a Camira rack and pinion attached to a dropped axle. After getting the car back to Sydney, the V6/manual setup and steering system was quickly ditched in favour of more hot rod style parts in the form of a Chev V8/Auto transmission and Holden steering box configuration.

With full praise to the original builder, the original chassis is boxed with 5mm plate, beautifully TIG welded, but I then added a double K-member, trans and engine mounts, A HQ Holden steering box and associated parts. The Chassis Engineering four-inch dropped axle that the car came with remained. Also the split front wishbone set up had to go (for easier registration later), in favour of a four bar set up. The front disc hubs are VS Commodore finned calipers doing the front braking. The front chassis spreader bar is an old camshaft.

This story is from the September 2020 edition of Australian Street Rodding.

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