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SCOTT WILLIAMS
1930 FORD MODEL A WOODY
Photos by Leadfoot, Paul Grace and Paul MartinezSCOTT Williams runs his Swillco Speed
Shop in East Bethel, MN and built this 1930
Ford Model A Woody for the special display
honouring the 90th anniversary of the
’28-’31 Model A at the 70th annual Grand
National Roadster Show back in January.
The woody was bought with the show
deadline looming, and after seeing the car
in person, Scott immediately realised it was
nothing like thephotos or the description
he’d been given, everything needed to be
reworked except for the wood. In spite
of this, he purchased the car and dragged
it home. With time running out, the
Swillco crew went to work. With barely
11 weeks to do what appeared to amount
to nearly everything they went deep into
the teardown and made a huge list of parts