History Are Phaetons actually Traditional Hotrods??

My Dads 30-31 A Bone Two Door Phaeton, the photo with his buddies in the car was before it chopped. Dad and my uncle chopped the top, it had bigger headlights, larger wheels, Mopar grill & it was lowered. Four banger had a Cargar head, photos were taken in 1932-33 at Muroc Dry Lake.

 

Any clear shots of it showing the Mopar grill ?

 

What a great series of photos!

 

I was told this is a Mopar Grill, I'm not sure? My Uncle standing next to the car & his buddy packing some heat.

 

Those are fabulous pictures of very early hot rod history

 

WOW! That is one Great Looking Two Door Phaeton, were is the car today? Without checking I think that grille is a Studebaker item. That looks like an S in the hub cap, wheels may be Studebaker too. Bob

 

'31 Studebaker

1932 Studebaker

1932 Rockne? I'd say that's a match.

 

Yup, 32 Rockne

 

Yes! that's pretty much what mine will look like other that it will be red with black int!

 

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Coolest picture on the hamb

 

easy project

 

Bought my Phaeton in 1963 and was early hot hod, had chopped top laid back windshield 46 chevy tail lights 40 bumpers, auburn dash

 

the guy leaning on the cowl lite has a "flip phone" on his hip in every picture..
course it might be a belt buckle..

 

Yes,me! It's mostly stock,banger and stock drive train. Any questions ask away.

 

Nice Phaeton sir. ^^^^^^^

 

With the scarcity of antique bodies nowadays, anything you can build a cool car from is fair game.
will it be HAMBly? Ummmm...depends on a lot of stuff, but that's no reason not to fix this one up nice.

In case nobody mentioned it, the Phaeton might be heavier, but it won't "swap ends" nearly as easily as a roadster.

 

Strip all that rotten canvas off so you can see the car underneath and it's damn-sure better than the early DB touring car I've got!

 

Don't get caught up in all the semantics... Build what you like the way you like it!

#hotrodskickass

 

Huh? Scarcity? I don't think so. Look at how many TRoG build come together every year. These guys are all finding bodies/projects. Speaking of my area, I know of three pretty decent Model A coupe bodies for less than I paid 8 years ago all within 200 miles of me. And I'm not even plugged into the local scene like other guys. I don't know many of the Model A club folks, either. I'm sure they know a lot more of what's out there than I do.

Plus, this seems to be the year to find Model 40s.

I know of a handful of projects sitting in rafters or collecting dust in lazy folks' garages. There's still a lot of good early Ford stuff out there.

 

It's still out there, but 40 years ago there was 10x as much available.

 

PurdueSD. I love your car and I would say my car will look like your car more than any on this thread! My original post wasn't really asking what I should build with my car, I have already picked the era and style I want. I was just asking how many of the Phaetons were actually rodded back in the day because you rarely see them in the old Lakes pics and such. I know they make wicked rods now just didn't know how common they actually were in the early days of rodding. Any more old pics out there???

 

This one does it for me, all hotrod.

 

Hers a few from my pic collection. Some more traditional than others.

 

A,friend of mine's Phaeton. Stock and a beautiful design. TEB
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Too Cool!!

 

Thanks guys for the ID on the Grill.....

 

Your welcome.

 

Yeah and Mike must be up to at least 16, maybe 17 kids by now.

 

Time for a ARE SCHOOL BUSSES ACTUALLY TRADITIONAL HOTRODS?? thread for him then!