By Michelle Seeber
CNHI News Service
WOODWARD, Okla. -- “Bud” Rush no longer spends his retirement days fishing at a lake.
Emphysema has taken care of that.
But, he’s found a new hobby that he enjoys and likes to spend his time on -- a 1929 Model A Ford he purchased from a man in Enid.
“I painted it with a friend (Jim Young) and put new tires on it,” Rush said. “I’ve been working on it for about three years.”
Bud, who has been retired for about two years, recently installed an “ooga” horn on the vehicle.
“It’s just a horn the old Model A’s had,” he said. “That’s one of the pieces I bought with the car. The horn cost $380. The Model A was in pieces when I bought it.”
For a car that was in pieces, Rush has done well with rebuilding it.
“I enjoy working on it,” he said. “Sometimes, though, it gets pretty aggravating. These were made when women started driving. This one has a rumble seat. A lot of history goes into these old cars.”
He said it "looks really good" when the dust isn’t on it,” he said.
According to a Web site about 1929 Model A Fords, the Model A’s were characterized by brighter trim and body paint.
It was a successor to Henry Ford’s Model T and was often referred to as a “Baby Lincoln.”
By July 1929, there were 2 million Model A Fords. The car had been introduced only 19 months earlier, according to the website.
Michelle Seeber writes for the Woodward (Okla.) news.
