Not entirely sure but I believe the business coupe(no rear seat and lack of chrome trim on the outside)was only available in the Mainline series.
Hard to tell from that angle but it looks like it might be the coupe body, looking in my Ford book it shows both a coupe and a 2-door sedan for the 52-54 cars. As noted above, the business coupe only came in the Mainline series, which didn't have the stainless side trim that car has.
It is a two door sedan.The coupe has a shorter roof and the quarter window is smaller causing it to look like the trunk is longer.This photo below is a 54 but its a coupe.
I have both a Mainline 2 door sedan and a Mainline business coupe. The green car with the scallops looks like a 2 door sedan to me. The angle of the picture is a little decieving but the roof and rear quarter window aren't small enough to be a coupe. If you could measure the length of the rear quarter window at the bottom I could check it against my two cars to be 100% sure, but I'm pretty confident that's what it is.
One thing that has become clouded over the years is the term "business coupe". The club coupe and business coupe share the same body style with the long deck and short rear side window. A true business coupe has no back seat, only a wooden flat shelf for the business mans samples and the quarter windows do not flip out like the club coupe. With no back seat they did not need to operate. The gl*** was mounted in rubber just like the WS and the back gl***. The short rear window club coupe is often referred to as a business coupe but that is not technically correct. A true business coupe is much rarer and more desirable to some of us. In 55 Ford dropped the coupe body style with the short side window. My 56 Ford pamphlet lists a business SEDAN with no back seat. It was no longer called a business coupe.
Yours is a sedan. Thread comments 4 and 8 are coupes. Comment #10 sure looks like a sedan even though it states business coupe. If you look at the picture in comment #12, notice how the rear side window of the middle car (2) is smaller than the bottom car (3).
The sedan and coupes are easy to tell the difference, as was mentioned, by the size of the rear window. Pack of yard apes in my Sedan....
Plodge, great brochure post, that tells it all, very cool!! The one I like best is the one I am viewing at the time!! Rock On~Sololobo~
Good way to tell , does the vent windows come to a point or are they flat on top ........coupes and Vickys are flat on top ...tudor sdns come to a point about 3 inches in difference in the roof line..... I have 2 vickys my freind has a tudor we measured them one day......when they were sitting side by side you could see mine looked already chopped compared to his
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