Old Cars Weekly – 29 August 2019

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Young Gun Gone

‘Old School’

I

have grown up around Model T,

Model A and Early V-8 Fords my

whole life. As a kid, I progressed

from Legos, bicycles, motorbikes

and fi nally to cars. My fi rst restora-

tion project was a 1931 Ford Model

A wide-bed pickup that my dad and I re-

stored from the ground up. We started

when I was a freshman in high school

and fi nished in February 2016, when I

was a junior.

This 1932 Ford project started by ac-

cident. I’ve always loved the look of a

1932 Ford fi ve-window coupe and men-

tioned to my dad that someday I’d like

to build one. Once my Model A pickup

was completed, we were between differ-

ent restorations on a few of his cars. We

attended a swap meet in Lincoln, Neb.,

in March 2016 where I spotted a mint

1932 Ford grille insert for sale. I took

my dad over to look at it and we bought

it, not knowing that it would be the fi rst

part of the car. A month later, an auction

ad appeared in Old Cars Weekly adver-

tising a 1932 Ford frame in Wahoo, Neb.

My dad and I saw the ad, and he said that

if I wanted to build a ’32, we could get

that frame and start on one. How could I

refuse? We attended that sale and bought

the frame. Immediately, we had it sand-

Reader Story

1932 Ford project began with a grille insert

BY DAVID WACKER, JR.

David Wacker, Jr. poses with the

1932 Ford that he built in just two

years.