RECENTLY I WAS perusing old-car classified ads online, thinking of possibly buying a Ford Model A, when I suddenly realized that on some websites, hot-rod Model A’s outnumbered stock examples to a depressingly large degree. It occurred to me that at the rate hot rodders are mutilating Model A’s, there may come a time when bonestock examples become extinct. While I realize there are still thousands of unmodified A’s out there, the possibility does
