Rare Model-A two door Phaeton seen at auction in Switzerland

While at the Kaufdorf Junkyard auction in Switzerland (where we bought 18 cars), this Model-A came up for auction. It went for around $18,000. I wasn't sure if it was a genuine Deluxe Pheaton. Now I've checked in "90 years of Ford" and it is a genuine car. 3,946 made in 1930 and 2,229 in '31. My favorite Model-A!
Ed

 

That was a good deal for someone. They go for much higher here if you can even find one.

 

The two door phaetons were technically called Deluxe Phaetons by Ford and all the four door phaetons were called Standard Phaetons. Ford never used the two door or four door designation on the phaetons.
The cars made for export had their bodies built in Canada and were shipped "knocked down" to everywhere outside the USA. These bodies, while looking identical to their US counterparts are actually completely different than the US cars. They have wood frame work throughout the body (unlike the US cars that have steel re-enforcements and the only wood is the tack strip) and some of them even have wood subrails. Building them out of wood allowed them to be easily shipped in kit form and also made them easier to ***emble by the foreign plants that did not have the facilities like those in the US. The doors are even framed in wood and have the outer skins tacked over the wood-unlike the US cars that have a welded steel inner panel. While the outer skins look just alike the US cars, there is not a single panel that interchanges with the US bodies. This also goes for the export roadsters, cabriolets and four door (standard) phaeton bodies and applies to both Model A and early V8.
The export cars (and there's alot of those here in the US-more than US built cars!!) sell for considerably less than the original US built cars. The production numbers on the export open cars was much, much higher than the production numbers on the US built open cars.
In the 1970s and 1980s alot of dealers (such as myself) were bringing open Fords (and other 1930s era cars) over from foreign countries(South America and Argentina were the most common) to the US. Some people have tried to fake these export cars to look like US cars but knowledgable people can tell the difference.

 

Edwardlloyd
I was twice this year in Swiss cementery, what´s cars did you buy? i took a bunch of pics, about 2000 and i needed more bateries, memory and time, i could give you some pics of the cars you bought. Regards