Projects 30 Dodge Roadster? Cheap + cool = YOINK!

I'm sure this fella would approve and more than likely get a kick out of your
"one piece at a time" motif...

 

my friends have a 27 chrysler looks alot like that, i bet yours is a 29 or so

 

It is not a coupe. It is a roadster. The top tack rail has holes for evenly spaced "lift-a-dot" top snaps. There was a cast iron square block right at the front notch of that rail. That block had a threaded stud for the roadster top irons.

It likely is a 29-30 Chrysler due to the golf door. Look at maybe models 66, 70,

 

I have the windshield cowl for a 1931 chrysler and that body line is jusy like the one I have, plus the pointing detail in the other cowl you showed is chrysler of that vintage and the cowl light location is right. Rob

 

Thanks a lot guys! The board is not updating my replies and notifications for the last week so I didn't notice you had replied. I really appreciate this info.

Now...what to do with it? If any of you guys want it let me know.

 

Thanks for the heads up tylerae40, have made my introductions on the new members page bit. Sorry not up with all this internet stuff, so had to get a friend to help on that one.

Not wanting to disagree F&J but the quarters are off a coupe, the holes around the tulip panel are to screw the wood to that the roof section nails to.
On a roadster the roof Pin come out in the middle of the swage, and the snaps for the roof were in the middle of the swage aswell. Hopefull I can attatch a old photo of my roadsters back, that should show how the roadsters were. I will also try to put on a pic of a coupe. On the coupe you can see where the roof comes down to the quarters, there is a what looks like a swage line, that is infact a 1/2 round length of br*** that is screwed through and leaded in, to hide where the roof is nailed down.

32ford5. hope these photo's help you in your identification of your 1/4's

 

'29 Chrysler looks likely to me this one is on wwwcarnut.com. Has a golf door too.
Scotty.

 

It is a roadster. The coupe has much longer doors, so that lower part of the quarter by the sill is shorter on a coupe. (the part below, and forward of the golf door)

Do some pic comparisons to see how much length difference there is there by the lower body detail "bead".

I owned a 29 Desoto roadster for 27 years, and a 30 Desoto roadster for 10 years.

Do some closeup looks at the pic I put up before to see the exact hole spacing pattern for the roadster top snaps. And the notch at the top front of the quarter is definately for the square iron bracket to hold the roadster top ***'y. That iron bracket has tabs on the backside hanging down, to attach to the body wood.

Also, The coupe body is wider than a roadster at the front seat area(b-pillar).

 

...also, one easy way to tell... look for holes in the panel right in front of the rumble seat. There will be holes for the "top rest brackets" on a roadster. You can see those brackets on the pic of that carnut 29 Chry.



Edit: On that deck panel in front of the rumble lid... A rumble seat coupe has a much shorter panel there because the coupe rear roof is longer. So a coupe deck panel does not have enough room for those top rest brackets. A business coupe has a much bigger lid, so the back deck panel is even shorter than a rumble coupe panel.

If there are holes for 4 brackets (8 holes total) the year would be up to 1930. On a 31 Ply roadster I had, there were only the 2 outer top rests, so there would be only 4 holes total. I also had a 29 Ply roadster in pieces; that 29 still had 4 top rest brackets. I never owned a Chrysler roadster, but I would think the amount of top rests would be the same, year for year.

 

Thanks for the info guys. I won't be restoring it so it's not so important to identify it exactly but I think we're close enough. Not sure what I'm going to do with it but I'm guessing that a cowl and doors aren't going to be found anytime soon so I think it's going to be used on some kind of roadster hybrid. Maybe some model A stuff might match? I don;t know. Maybe I can make something novel out of it like a BBQ? Or maybe I'll just hang it from the roof and have people ask me what it is.

What would you all do with it?

 

I'm glad Mopar started to stamp EVERYTHING in later years...my head hurts now.

 

Not at all!