It
doesn't happen every day, but sometimes you just fall into something
really, really good. That's how it was with me when I was researching an
upcoming article on pre-muscle speed parts and my friend Kevin Carlson
told me about the existence of an exceedingly scarce original Roof
overhead-valve conversion for Ford Model A's. And it's what happened to
Brandon Fish of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, when he answered a
Worcester, Massachusetts, classified ad for a couple of Winfield SR
carburetors, a homemade intake and what turned out to be that rare Roof
OHV.
"I drove up, and it was a blizzard," Brandon remembers. "It took me two and a half hours to go maybe 70 miles."
Look back on this fleet-of-foot Model A from 1930.
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