Old race cars are fascinating objects. By modern standards, this thing is slightly less evolved than your garden tractor, but in 1928 this racer may as well have been the bleeding edge of technological sophistication. The engine sports a Frontenac OHV head conversion. Why is that cool? We dig it because Frontenac was the company owned and operated by Louis Chevrolet and his brother to sell hot rod parts for Ford engines! Any car with an external hand brake is awesome to us.

To clarify, it isn’t just the head that is a Frontenac piece. The entire car is basically built from the Frontenac catalog. Like a modern day Jeg’s or Summit, Louis Chevrolet and his brother were a one stop shop for guys looking to built a speedy Model T or like this car, to build a full blown race car. The seller believes everything from the steering wheel to the original Dayton wire wheels on the corners of the car came from the Frontenac catalog.

This is not a replica or recreation. This is a real, intact car from 1928 which is pretty amazing. Racing a car like this in the late 1920s was a great way to be maimed or killed and a large percentage of racers from this era, all the way through the 1950s did meet that fate. Racing was a rich man’s game until this point in time. Yes, a guy would need a decent job, but a “normal” person could get an old Model T, blow it apart, scour the Frontenac catalog and end up with a machine to compete at the local fairgrounds on the weekend.

This car may be slow as molases, but it is cool as hell in our book!

Fronty Powered 1928 Ford Race Car