Zach Suhr is a humble guy with a passion for the artifacts of an earlier era.
“You probably know more about this car than I do,” he tells me. Not true. Or, if it is, it’s only because of him and a handful of other guys that I learned what I know about hot rodding’s protoplasmic era between the World Wars (see “Gow Jobs Revealed” in this issue). Among that group of teachers is the late Bruce Lancaster, a New Jersey-based librarian and hot-rod historian of the first rank who became a mentor to Zach, a resident of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and owner of both the gorgeous barn and the 1925 Ford Model T Runabout in these photos. Zach is among the next generation of enthusiasts who are keeping alive the memory of how young folks in the early ’30s had fun and went fast with old cars.
Bruce shared his knowledge frequently on the HAMB forum on the Jalopy Journal website, which is where I first crossed paths with Zach. We’re both millennials, and 20-plus years ago we’d both come to Ryan Cochran’s pillar of traditional hot
