28-29 Model A Tudor by the Lake

As of late I have been too busy to be in the shop for any decent amount of time due to responsibilites in life. I had almost given up on anything automotive to happen on Sunday when out of the blue my cousin calls my cellular telephone. “A good friend was looking at mountain property in Eastern Washington and found a Tudor sitting on a piece of property, want to go for a ride?” Pleasantly surprised and somewhat shocked I said “I was in, come pick me up on your way out of town”. I surveyed the rest of the house inhabitants to see if anyone else wanted to go on an adventure to find some abandoned Henry Ford products. As I found out quite quickly, the only person out of the entire family who was super excited to go was my 4 year old son Hank aka “Hot Rod Hank”.

Armed with a camera, brown paper bag lunch, and lucid dreams of finding an old abandoned junkyard we were off towards Eastern Washington. The trip was uneventful as it should be. We arrived in the late afternoon and dark thunderstorm clouds started to form above us while we started searching for the hiking trail that would lead us to the Tudor. My cousin who had all the details written down made short work of finding the old jalopy. It is pretty complete sans passenger side door. For 80s years old it didn’t look half bad. We walked around it and pointed out several fun details while snapping pictures. One being that it had friction shocks on the rear frame and that there is still a good amount of interior wood attached to the body.

After looking around for more treasures in the thick woods surrounding it we gave up and walked by the Tudor one last time before heading out. My son asked me “Are we taking it home?” I just smiled and said maybe later… We plan on contacting the county or the realtor to see who the official property owner is and to see if they want us to remove that eye sore off the property for them. Stay tuned.

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