Briggs body manufacturing

Hello everyone
I located an old car sitting in a friends yard and was wondering what it was I will try and get pictures of it.. but it says briggs motor manufacturing on the body tag and thats it... It's a four door rear sucicide..


any info on the briggs company would be great.

thanks again
Damen

 

they made bodies for ford maybe others also...

 

cowbay,

Briggs made bodies for the Ford Motor Company as did Murray, lots of things like parts were farmed out to other makers. A Briggs body sedan had four doors but no rear quarter winder, the Murray had the rear quarter window. The Briggs bodies are more rear then the Murray's.

Cruiser

 

briggs made bodies for ford, chrylser, packard and other independents, they were bought by chrylsler in 1948

 

There were actually 5 Fordor body style models of the Model A anyway:
28-29 leatherback 4 door sedan (60-A-B)
29-31 3 window 4 door sedan (155-165 A,B,C,D)
28-31 2 window 4 door sedan (170 A-B)
31 slant window 4 door Murray sedan (160)
29 steelback 4 door sedan (60C)


This is according to Mac's. Of course, these were just the Model A's.

 

My 48 Plymouth Woodie Wagon had a Briggs body. Nice old 2-owner car, sold it years ago to a UT Dental College student home on SPring Break, never seen it since. If anybody ever finds a Cruiser Maroon Plymouth in the Northshore area north of I-10 east of Houston, IT WAS MINE!

 

My 30 Model A Fordor has a Briggs body and also has the rear quarter window, if that helps you at all

 

Kinda sounds like a car Dillard's department stores used in an ad a few years ago.

 

Not true. Briggs Bodies also had quarter windows if it was a Model A. Murrays had them also and depending on the year, actually rolled down. Briggs made A LOT of Model A bodies. Not sure about numbers of Briggs vs. Murray, but Briggs absolutely made a Fordor that wasn't a "blind corner".

Here's a 1930 Briggs (notice the flat tops on the windows)


Here's the Briggs "blind corner" Fordor you speak of:

 

Cowboy... does the body look anything like these? Is it bigger or smaller? I believe Briggs made bodies after 1931 for various makes of cars, but not positive. Not sure when they actually started building bodies for the auto industry either. Maybe someone else can shed some light on the history of the Briggs company.

 

blind backs were only in 28/29
tk

 

Well here's a picture sorry I had you guys shooting in the dark my camera was being tempramental.....

 

Cool! ****** it up! Really hard to see what it is, but I would say a 1936 something or nother. Sorta looks like a Ford, but the windshield looks extra slanted. Maybe it's just an optical illusion.

 

Here's s 1936 Ford Fordor


Would make a cool, "gangster" kustom, if you ask me.

 

for sure non ford. looking like mopar.

 

Was the 1932 Ford 3-window coupe a Briggs or Murray body?

 

That car looks like a 35-36 Plymouth or Dodge.

 

hey guys heres some better pictures of the car...

 

Looks like a 1935 Dodge. Don't think I've ever seen a hump back Dodge sedan. Interesting find. Looks pretty solid. Drag it home man!!!! Would make a cool custom for sure...

 

Hi Pasadena,
I have a 1947 Plymouth Woodie Wagon with a Briggs Mfg Co tag, however, all Special Deluxe woodies came in “Cruiser Maroon” so that may not narrow it down. There was a special order beige option. Do you have any pics still of your woodie? (Geez, glad you’re not former U.S. Representative, Anthony Weiner).

 

Do you recall what the body tags looked like? (Pics of them??)

 

10 year and 5 month old thread. Maybe we'll find out if the OP got the car or not......

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briggs_Manufacturing_Company

 

For the Plymouth woodies, Briggs only stamped the cowl, hood and fenders. The cowl ***y was also used for the convertible. My 46 Plymouth budinesscoupe is a
Briggs total shell. Plymouth wood bodies were made by the U.S. Body & Forging Co. in Frankfort, Indiana, who built the bodies atop bare Plymouth cowl and ch***is.