History Two for the Street!

I am normally a coupe guy, I have an extreme aversion to roadsters and have as long as I can remember. That said I am leaning toward the roadster today. It has good lines and for some reason I am really diggin' the filled fender wells, Buck got that one right.

Funny most things I really don't care for are just appealing to me today.

 

I have always loved roadsters....they have provided a carefree and casual 'driving in the wind' aspect to the car population in the real world. When out on the modern streets, ya' just don't see very many (in my neck of the woods)...and they always provide lots of remarks and drive-by waves. They remind me of a time that was casual and open-air, hair-mussed-up and engine sounds swirling behind the car....while driving along, and a little bit of a ''wild one'' mentality just by sitting in the drivers seat. I love Coupes too of course....but, I just lean a little more sentimental and 'fun' in a roadster...."if'' it's a nice day and the sun is shining that is!!!

 

Six to one,half dozen to the other,I like them both.I always liked the coupes better in my youth,but as I get older,there is an appreciation for roadsters.If I lived on the coast,I would be swayed towards the roadster,but here in the Midwest the coupe is a little more practical.

 

I'll always take a coupe over a roadster; 45" of annual precipitation in Kentucky mandates that choice! Always, I will take a full fendered car over a fenderless example, especially dueces because the gas tank seem to just hang out in mid-air by itself. A fenderless car looks............incomplete. Besides, fenders hide lots of ugly things! The duece coupe you exampled, reminds me of Doyle Gammell's cl***ic chopped duece, one of my all time favorites!

 

A hot rodder should never have to make that choice....in fact, pickups and sedans are good too!!!

 

I am one of the luck ones that has both deuces. The roadster just has a built in fun factor about it. But since my 3 window is new to me as I have never owned a coupe before this, I built in a fun factor to it by installing a 5 speed and quick change. Brings back all the old days of drag racing feel when you fire it up.
So to me it is a toss up.......I love them both.

 

I'm standing in the coupe line too. While there's some really *****in features on the roadster, and it's reported race creds to go with it, the front of the car is a puzzler. That nerf bar mullers it up the most, and the janky lookin shocks add insult to injury. Friction shocks or the Houdaille factory units would have been better, no? It's like following a young lady with a perfect *** and legs, she turns around and has a face that would stop a charging elephant.

 

I would choose the coupe as well. Here is Wisconsin the roadster is a tough sell. I do have plans to build a roadster after I get my Model A coupe on the road. Filling the wheel wells served a purpose in '53 while racing...I'd never do it on a street car today. I think diminishes the lines of the roadster.

 

fenders and a roof for me. but the roadster would be fun.
interesting, hairpins, tube shocks nerf bars, and a crazy amount of caster on the front end of that roadster. that had to be cutting edge for 1953?

 

I have a double garage, can I have both of them ?

 

Coupes are so cool and clean looking! But now a roadster is VERY COOL and sinister looking, today being Friday the 13th I'm goin with the ROADSTER! Joe

 

Live in southeast corner of VA, should pick the coupe, but I like the roadster. If conditions were similar to LA there would only be a roadster in my garage. With all that being said I'm building a flathead powered sport coupe with roll up windows and a convertible top, best of both worlds.

 

Joe D. -- If you have a drop-top, it must be a Cabriolet. The Sport Coupes had fixed tops.

 

Sure, they had fixed tops from the factory. I suspect he's modified it. A one-piece, lift-off top could be cool.

 

Welp, I already have a coupe and my only roadster project never turned a wheel in my ownership, I gotta go with the roadster. I really enjoyed cruising Kansas City in Kevin Lee's old black roadster.

 

I prefer coupes, especially if the top has a wicked chop...too much to be practical (I don't remember seeing a practical hotrod, anyway). A chopped top can do huge favors for a car's personality, especially '33 to '36 Fords....something that you can't get with a roadster. I have a fendered '34 5-window with a 3-1/2 chop and am going to go for some more chop...the 15 oz. fuel coupe is what I'm aiming for with my top. I've always thought coupes were just more interesting.

 

I do think a '33 -'34 3-window is a better looking car than its 5-window brother....that is until the chop goes to four or more inches and is done well. It gives the 5-window a great "streamliner" look and is my favorite hotrod of all.

 

Have had both, here in Wisconsin, The coupe was a much better deal for me, ideally if I would go w/ another 32 or a 34, I would get a cabriolet, weather is a factor here, example, today, snow flurries, 38 high, frost tonite. The best solution would be both, but these days, playing w/ a 51 Merc and a 51 Buick, not sure what direction I'm heading as working on old cars is becoming more work and less fun, age is catching up w/ me. My OT Hot cars are getting more attractive and use every year.

 

Living in Miami I have to go with the coupe . Since we are two feet from the sun. I can turn on the AC and cruze. My unchopped fenderless 5 window does it for me.

 

Today if coupe weather. Tomorrow might be roadster weather.