this showed up on my facefart feed this morning . Custom coach work company who built some bodies for ford . Dang , they are fannnnnnnccccccyyyyyyy
, I was road tripping thru Utah and Colorado last week and p***ed thru the small town of Rangely, Co. and found this! Pure luck to find this little private museum. They were closed, but someone was there and let me and my son take a quick peek around. There is a lot of cool stuff here including vintage motorcycles, Cords, Fords, Cadillacs, even a very early American LaFrance monster.
About a year or so ago …. @ https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...lathead-engine-builder.1253604/#post-14353905 Jim
Brewster made fine horse drawn carriages, then built bodies for cars. They were the main coachbuilder for Rolls Royce when the Rolls factory in Springfield, M***achusetts produced ch***is and engines. That ended in 1931, so they started to make the bodies for Ford ch***is just to keep going a bit longer.
Style is subjective, and I get why some guys dig it, but yeah, I'm a hard p***. That's fugly to my eyes....
Kustomfordman : I believe that red car on the poster is the Duesenberg from the old Harrah's museum in Sparks (back in the day) that Sammy Davis owned. I also seem to remember that Brewster "did" at least one Buick, but I'm a not sure about that... Someone else may know more...
That actually looks more like a Cord to me. The L29s had the exposed front wheel drive differential carrier like the photo above shows. Or was there ever a front wheel drive Duesenberg?
It is a Cord. Bonus...its running the Woodlite headlamps. If you really want to make an odd one, put the Woodlites on the Brewster.
. Well this is weird... I attended the ABFM yesterday at VanDusen Gardens in Vancouver. I saw a Brewster but was curious as to why it would be at an All British Field Meet. Reading the signboard taught me that Brewster was the coach builder for RR America and the rest of the story. It also mentioned that in the late 1800s it won a very prestigeous prize in Paris, France for their carriage design. It is the only Ford recognized as a Cl***ic by the AACA as well. Pic to hopefully follow...
That Edvard-Munch-draws-a-'34 grille was jumping the shark for Brewster, as far as I'm concerned. I've never liked it — especially with the small-wheeled Ford ch***is. A lot of their earlier work was however brilliant:
@Ned Ludd these cars are HUUUUUGEEEEEE !!!!!! so cool , much more “ refined “ then the later one I posted .
That is correct Bob. My grandfather had two of them and I got to paint one of them in lacquer. It was my first time shooting lacquer when I was like 15. It came out nice although with lacquer you can remove a couple of sins. I remember the interior was all brocade and we had to dig up some fancy brocade material for the upholsterer. When I spoke to Mrs. Herbert Book in the 80s regarding her husband's involvement in sponsoring Indy cars in the teens she told me they had Brewster build them a body for a Twin Six Packard town car. She told me she loved it so much she had them reinstall the body on the next Packard ch***is in the early 20s. They were pretty nice cars all in all. There was a local couple who brought their Brewster Ford to old car meets for years. Pretty nice to look at.
Apologies Kustomford & ClayMart ! I missed the front drive! I just remembered the similarly painted Duesenberg of Sammy Davis that was on display at the old Harrahs... Both beautiful cars!! On a related note : Harrah had a Brewster Ford for sale(a**** other vehicles) in the outside covered area between the museum & shops in the mid '70s...
So let's take up a huge collection and get one to Ian Roussel, for his full custom remake. I can see it now... Nah! Let's not and say FUGLY!
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