hey guys, I've been trying to track down the history of my 1932 ford since i got it in 1994. I got the original ***le from maryland in 1960 as a "homebuilt" I don't have the ***le in front of me so I can't give the gentlemans name who built it but I do know that he had p***ed away shortly after I purchased the car. (I had bought it from a 3rd-4th party down the line) I tracked the car to it's orignal owner and had spoken to his widow who said she had no information or pictures of the car. Here is what I know about it. it was originally a 32 sport coupe with the top of the doors and the windshield posts cut off of it. there was exhaust tubing welded to the tops of the doors and package tray area and the doors were welded/screwed shut. there was what I believe to be chromed 1932 pickup windshield bolted to the cowl with some chromed steel 1"x1/4" flat stock. it had a plywood floor that may or may not have been done in 1960 it was channeled over what seemed to be model A rails with the floor being adhered to the body via fibergl*** in places. there was a remote trunk release, stainless full width gauge panel insert with a green line speedo. it had a flat steel firewall with dual chromed master cylinders with swing pedals bolted to it. most of the bodwork is done in lead and there is a single 22 cal. bullet hole filled with lead in the RR quarter reveal. cowl vent was leaded shut car appeared to be painted either red or black throughout most of it's history (few different coats of each. one red was a fine metalic. wheel wells were lightly torched to clear the axle. appears to have had an antenna attached to the drivers side of the cowl as there are two holes drilled there to attach one. when I bought the car it came with a 32 frame but it was obvious that this was not the frame the car was on. I did track down another previous owner from around 1980 and he had said he just did enough work to drive the car for a year and sold it. (this would be the idiot that cut a hole in the gage panel for a tape deck!) here is a pic of the car after I put it back on top of 32 rails but before I made some new windshield posts for it. it's now pretty much a 1932 ford cabrioadster. door tops are opened but the tubing is left in place.
anyone know if there are any older maryland members around? anyone have any pics of east coast drags from the early 60's? this is a fairly unique car (how many 1932 sport coupes were made) and out of those how many had their posts cut and their doors welded shut?
hey jon, it was originally a sport coupe. looking at the 1/2" of windshield post that was left on the car I was able to see that the windshield reveal is in the correct position for a sport coupe and not a 5 window or cabriolet. I don't remember the difference in the reveal off the top of my head but I found it after pouring through one of tim's history of ford books about a year after I got it. BTW I went and found the ***le last night (it had been about 6 years since I looked at it) and apparently I was mistaken about the builder's name being the one on the ***le. the guy who had it in the 80's had transferred it to his name. I had gotten the name of the original builder from him and never put it with the ***le . The ***le was out of Deleware, but I'm pretty sure the car was built in maryland.
Here is mine. With only 2911 made they aren't belly ****ons. I thought for a while that mine was the only "old style" SC but I've seen others now with more on the way. "cool older guy" don't you really mean a fat old fart? A cabriolet wouldn't need to have the doors cut off.
nice, just need some bias plys on there LOL never call the older guys "old farts" you never know what kind of cool speed equipment they may have hidden away. the whole, The toes you step on today may belong to the *** you kiss tomorrow deal... When I first looked at the car I just ***umed it was a 5 window that was rolled until I did a little research. As far as cutting the doors, you wouldn't think they would have to cut the windshield either. they cut the door right down to about 1" above the main door reveal all the way around. they also cut the inner door panel off about a foot down.
Oh... I built it with bias plys. The radials were just a concession to real life driving. Its been parked for a couple years now.
how could you park that beauty and not drive it! there better be something in need of fixing? you wouldn't have any close up shots of the windshield post area would you? I had to make my own with a sheet metal break and a piece of pipe to bend it around to get the curve right. ended up close enough but I'd love to see your posts better
well, I came across a pic that looks very similar to my car today. A race car out of kansas that was run in 1948. the details are almost identical to mine. I gues it is possible that it could have made it's way to the east coast over the next 10 years between the time the picture was taken and the car was ***led in 1960
I'm sure you know the W/S frame is the same as the cabriolet and the B400. The posts should be the same as a coupe or sedan except at the very top. There is a wooden header at the top that forms the shape of the top. If you need any detail shots of specific areas, let me know.
A B400 and a sport coupe has the same windshield but a cabriolet windshild is the only 32 ford that the windshield does not fold out > The windshield in a cabriolet bolts in from the back.danny
hey guys, dragging up an old post. finally scanned in some of the pics I had of the 32. I'm the one who put the posts back on it, so if anyone recognizes the car from the maryland/delaware area let me know.
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