Like many car collectors, Edwin Phelps manages to contain a surprising number of treasures in what, to the outside world, seems a perfectly innocuous outbuilding. And, as with some collections, many of those treasures are not quite on the road just now, they will be one day. The theme of Edwin’s collection is early Ford V8s and, while his attention is divided between his various projects, there is at least one faithful, trusty old car which Edwin knows will take him wherever he needs to go.
The 1938 Ford Model 81A Deluxe four-door sedan has been in his possession since 1998, with a brief interval from 2004 to 2006. Edwin has a peculiar knack for finding rather exotic Fords – others in his collection came from Uruguay and the former Rhodesia – and the ’38 is no exception. The right-hand drive would probably lead most to assume it
