I was reading an old mag, i belive it was from like '63 and it mentioned and had a photo from a PA show someone winning the restored class with a 2 door touring. Ive never heard of one, and really dont understand the reason for ford to make one those years with the rise of closed cars, is it a real thing????
30-30 only. I think it is steel over wood like the Chevys of the period. Rare - Fellow antiquer has one in town that is right hand drive.
This is a real one- with a '32 Grille Shell and '37-'39 closed car windshield added. Would have the same windshield as any open '31 Ford.
Didn't some west coast city buy them for newspaper delivery or something like that? It's been so long since I read the story on them I don't remember the details very well, but they are a real animal.
Yes, they were used as newspaper delivery cars. I know a guy with a '32 Touring he has owned since 1951 when he bought it from the Los Angeles Herald. Has a 303 Olds he put in it right after he bought it.
Most of the ones I've seen as hot rods were fiberglass. Not sure who had the molds, but quite a few were produced about thirty years ago or so.
This one may be the best restored one in the country, took the photos yesterday at Hershey. Sorry the hood is open, but the owner wasn't around to close it.
Pretty sure those were from Gibbon- and they were repopped in steel too around the same time in '80s.
im pretty sure up to 27 they were called tourings and available in a 4 door and in 28 they started calling them phaetons and were available in 2 or 4 door
No, it is set in Post war American Samoa. Marine falls for a lounge singer of questionable character. The cast is Rita Hayworth, José Ferrer, Aldo Ray. It has been on TV here a couple times recently. The Model a 2-door Phaeton stood out it had a fold forward front seat.
Post that over on The Ford Barn, they have a special socal Group for them, called the 180A that was the body type Ford used.
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