Large Scale/G-Gauge model railroaders - ICM announces a 1/24 Model A Standard Phaeton American Passenger Car, Model: 24051.
Well shucks. I don’t do larghe scale model railroading. But since a number of these ended up in the UK I could see one parked next to a Spitfire.
I have a feeling it won’t be an easy weekend build like an old AMT kit from Hobby Lobby.
I couldn’t justify spending more than a weekend putting together an AMC Gremlin.
This kit comes with the soft top folded down,
ICM 24050 is the one with the soft top folded up.
Up or down, up or down, choices choices all the time
A Model A in the UK next to Spitfire should probably be right hand drive,
in the UK they don’t drive on the right side of the road
Thats right we drive on the correct side of the road LOL
Ford produced cars with both left and right hand drive. Obviously many sold in the UK were RHD. Many US servicemen have shipped LHD cars to the UK as well. Given how involved the process was, I doubt any of them bothered to change their cars to RHD. In the case of the Ford Phaeton, it even involved a right hand fuel tank, in addition to hand brake lever, etc.
Besides, changing it over to RHD reduces its coolness factior, so there’s really no reason to.
In spite of what some knuckleheads on my team claimed, driving RHD takes no additional skill. You can do it right away. We had RHD Mitsubishis and Hiluxes.They were lazy and didn’t want to drive them no matter what. I found it easy. They tried to say left hand stick shift was easier for me because I’m left handed. How ridiculous is that?
In my experience the most difficult/dangerous part of RHD-driving is when leaving a parking area, way too easy to slide over to the right side of the driveway after backing out or when being alone on the road.
Otherwise just follow the surrounding traffic.
I had an automatic but stick shift shouldn’t be too hard to relearn with the left hand.
I have vintage British and Japanese motorcycles that have gear change on opposite sides. The left side / right side thing never causes me problems but the shift pattern sometimes does . My Nortons have gearboxes that are up for first and the Japanese gearboxes are down for first .
Suicide shift from .50 charging handle assembly:
Foot clutch of my own design - foot peg from flash bang grenade, toe piece is an M4 muzzle.
Most people who would want to steal this bike wouldn’t even know how to ride it.
Pretty sure the fuel tank spanned the width of the car with the filler cap central and in front of the windshield. You actual sat with the fuel tank above your knees/feet.
And I am reasonably comfortable with the accuracy of my own post. 
It’s actually a 1930/31 model. The shape of the windshield pillar blending into the scuttle denotes this year. The 28/29 version had the pillar continue all the way down to floorboard level. It’s a nice model with good detail.
28/29 Model A’s also had a more squat radiator shell and front fenders that followed the radius of the wheel/ tire more closely. 30/31 front fenders were more “swooped “
@18bravo @PeteB
You are both correct.
Fuel tank spans the whole width.
Fuel tank has a RHD and LHD version.
Steering column, fuel line and some other thingamajig has
mounting fixtures on the tank and they are on the left or right side
depending on RHD vs LHD
Also , 28/29 wheels were 21” , 30/31 were 19 “
