Modern iron is akay if you like climate-controlled, creature-featured living-rooms-on-wheels. But it’s still nice to see people who would rather go topless and experience the unfettered joy of having a “roof-full” of canvas flapping in their ears.
Joel Scotland, a mechanic from Redondo Beach, California, is just that sort of person. His thing is an all-steel, ’28 Model A Ford Phaeton, and its size and scope allow the whole neighborhood to get in on some serious, hair-raising fun. Meanwhile Joel’s jewel is based on a Far Jack (or Rotund Robinson)-built chassis, featuring a set of boxed gennie rails, one of FJ’s flat front crossmembers, a dropped chrome-moly front axle, a pair of chrome-moly split wishbones, two MG lever-type front shocks, and a fully-detailed ’66 Jaguar IRS differential. Whoa power is…