New member, my introduction

[wallster]

Hello everyone and thank you already for all the knowledge I've taken from your posts thus far. I recently purchased my first Model A. She's a 1929 Tudor and I've named her "Pearl". When I first saw her in the previous owners garage she had a pile of boxes on the roof and one of them had a large price tag hanging along side the drip edge which gave her a striking resemblance to Minnie Pearl (from the TV show "Hee-Haw").
I bought it from a co-workers Dad who had owned it for twenty years and since I asked about it he decided to offer me the car. He was a tinkerer and not really a mechanic but he loved her and kept her in good shape. I cleaned her up, rubbed out the paint, and replaced the hood shelves and added the missing radiator splash apron. I'm now working out a few mechanical bugs but overall she's in pretty good mechanical condition. He also gave me a spare engine and transmission which he received when he purchased her. I'm not planning on restoring her from front to rear, I'd like to just keep her dignified "age spots" exposed but make her dependable and safe (maybe a few cosmetic updates). I also have a '51 Ford F1 that I've "Hot-Rodded" but I have no intention of doing that to ol' Pearl. Thank you for having me and thanks again for answering my questions without having to even ask them!

Wally