Hot Rods &
Customs For Sale
This is where members of the Vintage Hot Rod Association can advertise their VHRA eligible cars for sale. To advertise a car, you’ll need to email us photographs, a full description, price and your contact details, all of which will be included in the advert. Ads must include a price, so no “offers”, “POA” or links to other sale or auction sites please. Cars do not need to be complete, but they do need to be together enough to show that they meet the rules for joining the club.
There’s no fee for this service and your ad will run for a month unless an extension is requested. This service is only available to VHRA members that are private sellers, not those in the motor trade. You must be a member for at least six months before you can use this service.
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If you're in the market to buy, then please direct your enquiries to the contact details in the adverts, not to the VHRA.
1936 Ford five Window Coupe
Want a fat Ford at an entry level price? Then Mark Fretwell might just be the man to contact...
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"I've had this for years and chipping away at it for what seems like forever!
Stock chassis and running gear, slightly lowered with bespoke front anti roll bar.
Tube shocks all round.
1940 Ford steering with aluminium steering wheel.
1938 engine, double D 3 speed, Red's Headers, twin 97 Stromberg carbs.
Full stainless twin pipes.
Banded rear wheels with 700x16 Firestones, fronts standard with 600x16.
Complete new floor, rear panel, inner and outer, lower repair panel repairs completed all round.
Still needs more welding but 95% of it done.
Boot lid opens upwards, needs lower section repair.
Aluminium filled roof.
1935 front end sheet metal.
Recored radiator with electric fan.
Perspex windows.
Runs and drives used at last years Pendine.
Currently going through registration process as a 1936 coupe.
Loads of other parts available, including front wings and 1936 grille, depending on sale price.
Price is £14,000
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Car is located in Essex.
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Mark Fretwell
Phone: 07946 334490
1929 Ford Model A Roadster
Pete Birtles is selling his A-V8 roadster.
"1929 Model A roadster, genuine all steel 1929 roadster & registered as such.
Powered by a 1937 21 stud flathead V8 with Denver heads, Thickston 2x2 manifold & open lakes headers.
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Standard crash box & banjo rear axle, 39/40 Ford juice brakes with wide 5’ artillery wheels and Firestones all round.
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Channeled body sitting on a partially boxed chassis with Z’d rear. Hand made Hallock style windshield, sectioned 40 Ford dash & chopped 32 grill.
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Built in California around 2006/7 from an old race car, by the Peritch brothers, fully documented on the Jalopy Journal, named Red Dot II, it was raced on the drag strips of California & taken to El Mirage, (some cool footage available on YouTube).
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Bought & imported by myself back in 2013, since raced at Pendine reaching 83mph, Race the Waves & driven across Europe.
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Drives great, corners and stays in a straight line. The engine ticks over beautifully and never goes over 180 degrees even when sat in traffic."
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£26,950
Pete Birtles
​Phone: 07939 504325
Email: pete.birtles@yahoo.co.uk
1927 Ford Model T Coupe
In a surprise move, Phil Wells has decided to sell on his well proven Model T Coupe.
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"Found something so...
1927 steel T Coupe sitting on a 1930 Model A chassis. Never been raced or rallied. Has been on a beach however.
1928/9 fenders, headlight bar and headlights with halogen conversion. Homemade aluminium 4-piece hood. 27T running boards.
Body is generally sound but was an older 'Murican restoration. Paint is therefore thick and cracking and various shades of Henry's favourite. Could do with a blow over, or not.
Custom rad to suit the T grill shell.
'32 front axle on an A wishbone, fitted with '35 rod brakes. Cast iron rear drums on a stock rear axle rebuilt by Bob, with a 3.27 ratio. Stock Model A gearbox. 19" A wheels all round with 4.50 x 19 Blockleys up front and 6.00 x 19" Michelins on the rear. High geared and pulls it easily.
2-tooth steering box.
Rotoshim shocks all round. Handles lovely.
Current engine is a ported GS block with big valves, a rather good cam (wish I had another...), Winfield head, single Stromberg on a period Burns manifold, with a Hallock style cast iron header. White metal mains and inserted B rods on a counterbalanced crank. Lightened flywheel, steel front pulley, 9" clutch.
Or, could be supplied with a rebuilt B engine fitted with a 14.9 head."
Car is located in Norfolk.
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Price is £17,500 as is or £15k with the B engine. Or offers. Or not for sale if the thing I've found doesn't happen!
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Phil Wells
Phone: 07861 294633
Email: hotrodfil@gmail.com
The Amarena Ford
Karl Thorne is selling his lovely custom '46. Ford, we'll let him tell you all about it...
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"Late 1946 Ford Deluxe Tudor Sedan V8 – done as a hopped up, traditional period mild custom.
Solid original rust free survivor car imported from Texas by me in 2014 (just two previous owners).
Driven by original owner as stock until 1982 then garaged on blocks, mechanically recommissioned after his passing (around 2011).
It retains its original stock 3 speed transmission and running gear and has a drop axle up front with reversed eye springs front and rear. Rolling on the original 16" wheels with Whitewall Firestones with Carrillo Customs Beanie caps.
Since bringing it over it's had a full engine rebuild on the original flathead by Jim Turnbull at Royal Kustoms (and so obviously runs as sweet as a nut).
Specs include…
Later 8ba insert bearing crank, Schneider 254F Cam, Isky Springs, Johnson's adjustable lifters, Edelbrock Block Letter Heads, Edelbrock Slingshot Manifold, 2 x Stromberg 97 Carbs, Stromberg e-Fire
Adam Blackbourne at Down to Earth rewired the whole car, retaining it as 6 volt (easy to upgrade to 12v if desired). Runs with a modern 6v red top Optima battery with a second linked to it, so you're never without a spare – both new.
All metal work and styling was untaken my Marco 'Juarez' Warren including…
Fabricating and fitting twin exhaust system (with Smithy Mufflers). Nosed and decked. Louvered hood with modified side trim. Rear license plate relocated to rear bumper with bar added between over riders (to mirror front). Grill 'eagle' bar removed and mounting bar remoulded. Relocation of parking lights. NOS '41 Packard tail lights fitted. Gravel guards removed from rear fenders. Steel (repop) fender skirts added.
The car was painted last year by Simon Ridge at Wheelworks in Poole, in a deep period style Amarena Cherry / Burgundy. The paint has a great tonal range depending on lighting conditions.
Inside, the car has a complete period custom tuck and roll interior with proper stuffed pleats done in genuine USA Naugahyde vinyl in Cabernet and Cream. The floor wears Heritage Traditional English wool carpet in Claret with Naugahyde trim. It retains its original cloth headliner.
I have had the car MOT'd every couple of years, with the last one being last May, it's always passed with no advisorys.
Additional notes, I ran the car at Pendine multiple times (including driving the 580 mile round trip) before retiring it and progressing the custom side of things. It has also been included as part of Miles Shelock's The Leadroom pop-ups on a couple of occasions."
Car is located near Hastings, East Sussex.
Price is £32,500 ONO
Karl Thorne
Phone: 07733266051
Email: studio@karlthorne.com
1922 Ford Model T
1922 Ford Model T / Bobtail T single seater special.
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Built from Ford Model T and A parts including a period Gemsa competition T engine used in the USA for dirt track and sprint racing.
Imported into UK 2004. Competition modifications by then owner/driver Peter Stevens in 2005, raced and used at VHRA events by Peter Stevens and Seb Stapleton.
1922 Model T Chassis.
Ford Model T 2897cc Gemsa engine.
Ford Model T gearbox modified for competition with additional hand levers and pedals.
Later Ford front and rear axles with rod brakes to rear.
Great fun and very competitive, accepted for VHRA events. Run at VHRA Pendine Sands and Prescott. Also eligible for VSCC events with class wins ranging from Curborough, Shelsley Walsh, Prescott, Goodwood Sprint and Sywell Pistons and Props.
Very competitive when driven by the right people. Unfortunately I just cannot get on with the Model T gearbox!
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Now being sold at £12,500, or exchange/part exchange for some something unusual and interesting, ideally a VHRA eligible project to replace the Model T.
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Car is located in Silverstone, Northamptonshire.
Ron Dowle
Phone: 07858 503688
Email: rondowle@yahoo.com
