History Barnfind: The German Deuce

It´s a Drauz body.

 

That thing looks awesome to me. I would love to have one of the European styled Ford cars. They really stand out. They were built more for style than practicability like those over here.

And yeah, that equipment placed around it would make me very nervous.

 

Yep, a Drauz body, and probably built in Colone Germany off the Kellner cabriolet patents. Drauz built many coachbuilt bodies for Ford, but also built on Adler, DKW, Fiat & some Porsche 356 convertables.

Car bodies, framed in wood and skinned in aluminum or steel, were the method of construction used by coachbuilders from the birth of the automobile up into the fifties. All steel bodies came out in the teens, but tooling costs for short run models like cabriolets & fix head coupes, and wagons were too expensive for what a vehicle could be sold for and thus were jobbed out by car factorys to independent coachbuilders like Drauz.
Drauz held the patent for the Kellner cabriolet design, purchased from Kellner when it went belly-up, and thus you see the design on everything from Bugatti to the Ford.

" All great truths begin as blasphemies ''

 

thats an awesome looking car

 

They called them a Cabrio. I'm building new fenders for this one here in South Dakota. It's a '36. The car is at a different shop.







Here one of the fenders I'm building.

Glasser Coachworks built this one. Anyone has any information or pictures on the Glasser Coachworks company I'd love to learn more.
Jeff

 

Rod & Custom did an article on the Euro 32 a few years back. Neat Coachwork!

 

Hey,

"Glasser"? Glaser coachworks of Dresden Germany was in business along time, even up to the early fifties. They built on Horch, Mercedes, Maybach & Steyr chassis, but also did bodies for the german built Chevrolet, Cadillac , Buick & Ford chassis sold in germany. During WWII, Glaser built parts for Me109s & Me262s 'till the RAF bombed the shit out of 'um, and they moved the factory to Bavaria. After the war, they bodied some Porsches. Sorry , no pictures.

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Wow.....................just wow!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Thanks!! My guess alot was lost in the war.

 

wow

 

I've seen a German Model A Tudor with custom coachwork in Altoona. Good loooking cars.

 

That's the one I've seen. Pretty sure it's a long roof, long door, short deck coupe.
Could be wrong though, only saw it a few times.

 

that dash is amazing

 

this thing looks ausome id love to have it to put around town, i lik the dual manafold

 

The last "32" was built in 1935, I think
Lars

 

I thought of that article too.
Notice that most of the shown cars has regular placed door hinges.
The european 32 body, had suicide doors. But in Denmark, and propebly in the other factories as well, they also built the american tudor body.
Lars

 

Really like the seats, very comfortable looking......

 

My French build V-8 Tudor was build in Asnieres Paris and has an 'American' body , my other French build Tudor and my Danish Tudor
have suicide doors.
In Holland i don't know but the brochures showed them with suicide doors.

 

that link will get you to the matford convertibles made between 35 and '39...

beautiful zephyr influenced cars.

http://dvole.free.fr/matford/catalc.htm

go here for detail shots of a '38..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lalogotheque/2486080738/

 

I have a 1932 cabriolet built by "Buhne" that is another coachbuilder out of Berlin.
It has an extended chassis (130" wheelbase).
4-banger car.
It`s burried in my Garage but i may take some pics later...

 

Thanks for the links. I´ve seen a Matford four door for sale recently - I couldn´t help but wonder if the back end of a 35/36 Ford coupe could be grafted on to make a roadster. I´ll keep dreaming...

 

The green one is now in England and is owned by a friend of mine...If he sees this thread, he might post some further pix.

 

Yeah, I know Keith and he sure knows his stuff but i thought he was a lurker here.
( well actually both Keiths know their Fords inside out )

 

German Coachbuilt Model A mashup by the coachbuilder Ludewig Brothers in Essen.. These are scanned from three promotional postcards that I found at a fleamarket.

 

A Cologne built Ford V8 bodied by Wendler

BTW: The 31/32 Ludewig Model A was called "Aero Cabrio"

 

flatass beautiful

 

It's beautiful and maybe the best coachbuild Model A i have ever seen

 

The Model A is neat!! The guy looks a little lonesome. I wonder about the wheels. Did the Germans start the bilit craze?

 

could work...

 

Hard to see on the pic,
but it`s a 1932 chassis with a carbroilet Body by Buhne/Berlin.
It`s missing the `32 front fenders and grill shell (i have the parts )