W
hile residing in the UK, Kim Leonard has completed a hat trick of hot rod builds worthy of these pages. The ’29 Ford Model A Sport coupe you’re faced with here is the third to appear in these pages – and that qualifies him for membership of a pretty elite club in our book. The first of those features came in the September ’81 issue, with the opening paragraph concentrating on the traditional English village Kim lived in. Ironically, Clive Prew went on to infer that the closest the residents of said village would ever get to street rodding was the local Young Farmers club. Why ironically? Well, these days, for one weekend a year, that village becomes the hotbed of rodding in the UK. It’s called Old Warden… Enough about geography. The real focus of the feature was a Ford V4-powered Morris 1000 van that went by the name of Snowblind. Kim then set his heart on a ’32 roadster but that became a non-starter when he came across an unstarted Model B sedan delivery project. Running a Rover V8, the Jago-bodied Deuce appeared in the November ‘86 issue. Next on the cards was a steel coupe, a ’33 5-window to be precise. Tony Jarvis helped out by chopping the body and fabricating the rolling chassis. Kim trailered the coupe to Bruntingthorpe on one occasion and subsequently finished off the build. By then though he had relocated to Orange County, California, having taken the then unfinished project with him.
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