Education, please......

I see a lot of references to A coupes on '32 rails. The benefits of doing this are? '32 frame is stronger? Or? Tks..........slide

 

29's on 32 rails look better than 32's on 32 rails IMO.

Pete

 

It's mostly personal opinion,.....but first you automatically increase your wheelbase from 103" to 106", this longer wheelbase works toward a better ride, personally I don't like the look of a Model A Highboy on a A frame, and I am too tall to be comfortable to drive a Model A that is channeled. The Model A on a 32 Ford frame however gives you a great highboy look and the longer wheelbase,........... IMO



Nuff Said

 

The '32 frame rails are a work of automotive art...

Olson

 

....and compared to gennie deuce bodies, A's are cheap

 

I suspect that "back in the day" economics played some small part, but to what extent? There were $50 deuces, so why buy a deuce AND an 'A', just to make one car from two? BUT- if you were after V8 power, the deuce chassis swap may have been easier than adapting everything to the 'A' rails. And hey- there's almost no better lookin' hot rod that a '29 roadster highboy on pinched deuce rails.

 

Because chicks dig 'em like that!

 

If you've ever seen a Model A high boy on Model A rails you'll see all the parts hanging under the car. That's why Ford put splash aprons on Model A's to hide the ugly rails and everything else under the car. 32 rails were part of the finished 1932 car, nice looking and they blended in between the fenders. The 32 rails hide most of the stuff under a Model A highboy and gives it a much cleaner look. Take a look at the Mike Bishop/Vern Tardel roadster, the sidepipes hide that ugly Model A frame.

 

first off a model a on model a rails isn't a highboy.no way no how. the term came from bolting the body on top of the 32 chassie. scrap the 4 door seadan body and put on a 26 or 27 t roadster or a 28 to 31 roadster and you have an instant v-8 powered lighter weight hotrod easier than putting the v-8 in the model a frame. latter dave

 

Consider too that the '28-'29's had a lower profile and were lighter than a '32.

Woody

 

This is along the lines of what I heard and read in the late fifties early sixties. Early rodders would find a cheap or wrecked '32, any body style, strip off the body and put on a cheap, plentiful, Model A roadster or coupe body. Fairly "instant" V8 hot rod. (I'm not getting into the highboy argument though)

 

Maybe that was true at one time, but it sure isn't anymore. The current definition of a highboy is a fenderless car that has not been channeled.