Book Description
This comprehensive and detailed guide to original factory specifications, equipment, color and trim for 1928-31 Model A automobiles is ideal for the restorer. In addition to more than forty-years of experience with the Model A Ford, author Jim Schild has gathered valuable information from owners, factory literature and judging standards to provide the definitive data for authentic restorations. Accompanying the authoritative text are 275 specially commissioned color photographs to offer the most accurate reference material available for your restoration project. Illustrations of body and trim combinations and chassis parts provide a source of the correct finishes and components found nowhere else. Includes serial numbers, paint, trim, options, technical features and more. Five million Model A’s were made and sold from 1928 through 1931, and it’s a tribute to the car that more of them are still around today than any other car of that era. This useful guide will help determine the authenticity of your prized Model A and restore it to original grandeur.


From the Publisher
• Original Ford Model A: The Restorer’s Guide augments several other popular titles by Jim Schild in MBI’s "Original" series. Schild first produced Restorer’s Model A Shop Manual for MBI in 1985 and has added to it since. • Schild has contributed widely to automotive publications as writer and photographer. He is author of nine books, five of them focusing on the Model A and restoration, and is publisher of The Auto Review.


About the Author
Jim Schild, from the Illinois side of St. Louis, spent 30 years in the U.S. Army, with service in Vietnam and in the Persian Gulf, retiring as lieutenant colonel. A lifelong car enthusiast, Schild brings a unique combination of talents to the subject – as restorer/craftsman, as writer, and as photographer. Schild has been bringing Model A’s back to life for more than 20 years.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This comprehensive and detailed guide to original factory specifications, equipment, color and trim for 1928-31 Model A automobiles is ideal for the restorer. In addition to more than forty-years of experience with the Model A Ford, author Jim Schild has gathered valuable information from owners, factory literature and judging standards to provide the definitive data for authentic restorations. Accompanying the authoritative text are 275 specially commissioned color photographs to offer the most accurate reference material available for your restoration project. Illustrations of body and trim combinations and chassis parts provide a source of the correct finishes and components found nowhere else. Includes serial numbers, paint, trim, options, technical features and more. Five million Model A's were made and sold from 1928 through 1931, and it's a tribute to the car that more of them are still around today than any other car of that era. This useful guide will help determine the authenticity of your prized Model A and restore it to original grandeur. Original Ford Model A: The Restorer's Guide augments several other popular titles by Jim Schild in MBI's "Original" series. Schild first produced Restorer's Model A Shop Manual for MBI in 1985 and has added to it since. Schild has contributed widely to automotive publications as writer and photographer. He is author of nine books, five of them focusing on the Model A and restoration, and is publisher of The Auto Review. Schild is a member of the Model A Restorer's Club, the Model A Ford Club of America, and Society of Automotive Historians, among other organizations.

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