This is a heads up post. Its a little "antiquer" but bear with me. For all you 32 Ford fanatics there is now a book out that will help define Deuces, its not a Hot rod book but a definitive guide to history, production, parts and pieces of all versions of 1932 Fords. Dave Rehor is a long time 32 Ford enthusiast, authority and restorer, He initially compiled a 32 Ford restoration guide many years ago that contained some information critical to judging standards used by the V8 Club.. Since then Dave has undertaken the task of compiling as much information as possible and correlating it in book form to explain and define the New Ford for 1932. This publication is so large that it consists of two books totaling about 1 1/2" in thickness.. This book is to be available thru the Early Ford V8 club of America web site and possibly thru V8 vendors like myself. Dave has gone out of his way to organize and compile as much information as possible about the Deuce and produced an informative research manual for anyone owning a 32 Ford. Weather you are a Hot Rodder or Restorer there is not going to be a better source of information than this. I am posting a couple shots of the publication to help explain the scope of this project. If you like Deuces book now sets the standards for 32 information.
Gottge***...Rehor is one hell of a historian, and the little old book from '82 just did not have the size or peoduction quality to get his information out. The other guy, David Cole of "Model 18 Notes" in the V8 times, is another major '32 researcher who seems to have crawled all over every original '32 on the planet. I now have almost all of his columns piled up and xeroxed into a mountain of information. Another tool for crazed deuce junkies is Google Advanced patent searching...a pretty good sprinkling of '32 Ford stuff is thoroughly detailed in the patent listings, including bits that almost never happened like the 4-bolt distributor and the vacuum clutch that left its mysterious traces on production '32's.
"Heavy" axle ........ check 25 louver hood ....... check Okay, what else do '32 snobs talk about?! KIDDING....only funnin'.... What's the price on these ****ers?!
We meet every Friday and settle important restoration questions by fistfight. Last week's topic was whether the nuts on the muffler clamp were plain steel or S-2 finish. The plain steel dude won, but the decision was tossed on a technicality; the tire iron that settled the argument was cad plated, and everyone knows those are finished in dipped enamel!
Top Secret video of the meeting.... <object width="425" height="344"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3hQC3nkftrk&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></object>
If this is to become the standard 'frame of reference', let's hope that this has worldwide production figures, so that many of the self styled Deuce "experts" can finally learn that the US domestic production figure for each body style is not necessarily the definitive total.
The book is available on the Early Ford V8 Club site (earlyfordv8.org) for $75 plus shipping. The person responsible for the club accessories is keeping a list of people interested in a hard bound copy at a future date and undetermined price. It is my understanding that they ran 100 hardbound copies of the 1933-34 book and still have a lot of them left in case anyone is interested. Charlie Stephens
Have you seen the OLD Tony Thacker book "Deuce"? About 1985 publication, not the recent 75th anniversary one. This book has quite a bit of information on the British history, and some on other countries, including the '33-4 variants. The DeAngelis books give some space to overseas production as does "Ford in the Thirties" by Woudenberg. I'm continually chasing foreign '28-32 stuff...Danish parts book, lots of Australian/NZ/ and British stuff, and so on.
I have it, but some guy by the name of Thacker scribbled in the front of it and devalued it! Tony's original (1984) book '32 Ford - The Deuce, published in the U.K. by Osprey Publishing, ISBN 0-85045-594-4, illustrates exactly what I mean - see for example the significant number of B-400s built outside the US and the total becomes 1396 - not the 926 touted by the self styled "experts". $75.00 for the definitive reference 2 vol. tome for 1932 Fords is expensive? I reckon it's a bargain for the wealth of information it contains. It never fails to amaze me how people will waste hours and hours of time trying to find out this or that factoid, when, if they had the right books, it would be readily available and instantly accessible. A good reference library is invaluable, as anyone who has one will tell you.
There are restorers out there who work without even the parts book, owner's manual, and service bulletin...but for them, the internet is a much better source than the books; they can get 15 or 20 different answers to their questions instead of just one...
Of which all 15 may be wrong, depending on which self styled "expert" you are talking to, and then you can confidently go forth and screw it up completely....
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