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During a recent visit to the emporium I collected a plus 60 thou piston for my Model A. To some that may sound unremarkable. The fact that they haven't made these for eighty years makes it entirely remarkable ! You just dont get that anywhere else.

O Man, a Ford Model A, and O/S pistons too, Give thanxs, friend,and slaughter a lamb. One rainy night as a rocker
teenager, flicked a cigarette butt on the floor of a friend's Model A whilst cruising. Seconds later a fire ball
from the leaking gas tap under the dash. Only remorse was his lost Lucas "King of the Road headlights installed
that very day from a junk yard for a few AUSPs as car was jettisoned beside the road another teenager's folly

Does it have cast iron pistons? I think my father`s 1925 Chevrolet had them. They would be a cure for Royal Enfield piston problems these days.

Hang on chaps---------- I think it's THIS Model A that Mid-Shires is referring to -------> ------>

Oh,Mercy! You're utterly right,Alan, caught me in time before reminiscing more on Ford Model'A's. The Ford part
lists had pistons to .080 O/S, hence the error. Leon, your Chevy 490 pistons I believe were cast iron, but with
3,6875" (93.66 mm) diameter a tad too big, Countless other elementary US makes from the twenties were still mobile
around your Brisbane in my youth. By that time allmodified to 'utes' as you well recall

Hi Gordon------ well, as with me it goes with the age I suppose ??......... Never mind, here's a more pleasant "A" theme---------------> ------------>

Great rendition,Alan, Will enjoy them further when I get home tonight. Hope JD updates us on his machine