Afew weeks ago I went to look at some `46 parts when the seller mentioned he had his father`s old `34 roadster in one of the shipping containers we were surrounded by. His father owned it in Sydney from 1956, it was his first car. He then bought a `46 sedan letting the roadster`s rego expire in 1959. He stripped the car down to go drag racing at Castlereigh afew times and since then has been shuffled between several sheds and its final resting place half an hour up the road from me in Queensland. With my Dads help we had it home and driving around my block by the next afternoon. Everything we touched seemed to just work, the `38 flathead started first crank after we got it freed up and even idled. The brakes work good enough so it`s been down the road a couple of times. It came with a LB engine so I`ll tidy that up with an Isky cam and put it back in. I plan on lowering it, fix some wiring and the door frames/latches then just drive it as is, funky stickers and all. One of the original windscreen stanchions has been lost, also chasing usable original shocks.
Oh shit, what a find. Forgive my ignorance but I never knew the inner framing on those were wood. I’d love to see it brought back to the original picture you posted. We’ll to me it didn’t look like 90 was fast enough. How cool!!! Keep that.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/1934-ford-roadster-help-needed-with-body.314054/ The bodies on the Aussie open cars are full of wood like the early GM cars. The bodies also mount on top of the frame unlike the American bodies that fit over the frame. They use a filler panel that goes from the rocker panel to the running board to cover up the exposed frame. [from the Ford Barn]
The bodies on the Aussie open cars are full of wood like the early GM cars. The bodies also mount on top of the frame unlike the American bodies that fit over the frame. They use a filler panel that goes from the rocker panel to the running board to cover up the exposed frame. [from the Ford Barn][/QUOTE] Our Aussie ford sedans were also full of wood including a wooden floor up until 1934 .
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