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History Interesting rare '32 body style

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by edwardlloyd, Aug 30, 2013.

  1. edwardlloyd
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    I found this picture somewhere of a European '32 Ford with a four door convertible body. Thought it would be of interest. I wonder if there are any survivors of this style. I've never seen one.
    Ed
     

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  2. Model T1
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    It don't look like that one survived either !:eek:
     
  3. alchemy
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    It's not just a regular phaeton? How can you tell any more with that picture?
     
  4. the-rodster
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    Looks like a phaeton to me.

    Rich
     
  5. Looks like a normal Phaeton to me,with the exception of the turn signals on top of the front fender. HRP

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  6. NickJT
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    ^ actually I was thinking "not so bad" considering a locomotive ran into it

    Isn't that a '32 Phaeton? Maybe rare but not unheard of.
     
  7. Speed Gems
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    Looks like it has door posts. B400 is all I can think of.:confused:
     


  8. It's a 4 door, B-400's are two doors
     
  9. edwardlloyd
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    It's not a phaeton. It has wind up windows and pillars. Front screen looks like a convertible screen not roadster. There is a post between the front and rear door.
     
  10. alchemy
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    The signal lights on top of the fender is a Euro-Ford thing. Also note the painted headlight buckets, probably also Euro-Ford.

    I can see the rolled top of the doors (roadster-style), so there isn't any roll up window in there. And the windshield frame looks like an open car, but it's been smacked forward a bit by the train. Look on the left post and you can see a chrome wingnut shining. I also can't see any post between the doors above the beltline.

    Please post a big, clear, high-res pic.

    I still vote phaeton.
     
  11. yeah,that's the way I see it also.

    As far as the lights on top of the fenders I like to think they are deer whistles,,we know the don't work with trains! :D HRP
     
  12. I'm gonna agree with edwardlloyd that this is an odd one and not just a regular phaeton. If you enlarge the pic to 200% it sure looks like there is a B pillar visable to me.
     
  13. alchemy
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    I think what you are seeing is the back edge of the front seat. When I blew it up to 400% I could definitely see the windshield was an open car frame and stanchions.
     
  14. Interesting jack in the roof line directly over the area that appears to be containing a B pillar.
     
  15. I have been a 32 guy for many years and have a extensive library on the different body styles and nothing I have read or seen mentions a sedan styled convertible.

    If indeed it is what you think it may have been a coach built body,,possibly the only one,,but I still hold to the Phaeton belief. HRP
     
  16. alchemy
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    Same jack in the roofline in HRP's photo of a phaeton. That's where the folding mechanism has a joint.
     
  17. It has a danish licenseplate. From what i can see, it reads M12.172. That means that it comes from Odense or some surrounding cities and is licened between 1930 and 1950. So its probely the original licenseplate. The hoodpanels look like it has raised louvers, like the european produced dueces. But they had suicide front doors. But they did built american bodied deuces in denmark as well.
    Where did you find the photo?
    It might be posible to find more info . I live near Odense, so ill try to find out more later. right now, i still have 10 days on the oilplatform, before i come home.
    Lars
     
  18. Scott Liggett
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    We have a winner.

    From the train engine, to the fender signal lights, to the license plate, to the unusual non- American version Phaeton body is what I was thinking. I wasn't sure.
     
  19. The37Kid
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    Four cylinder Model B PHAETON, the V8 was a bit faster and would have beat the train. Bob
     
  20. Bruce Lancaster
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    The bit about suicide doors applies only to British sedans...other bodies were regular Canadian/USA types, for production bodies. Special coachbuilt bodies on Fords were far more common in Europe than here, but I think this is a regular phaeton too.
     
  21. Ive had 2 danish-built tudors, and they where both with suicide doors.
    The bodies was fabricated in England, but they used them on danish cars, and in other european countrys as well, i believe.
    Lars
     
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  22. I am well aware of the European tudors having suicide doors,,they also built a fordor saloon sedan that the front and rear doors were suicide,,I think they
    were called a sunshine roof. HRP
     
  23. There where tudors and fordors and they both had suicide doors.
    Thats it, anything else was coach built.
    But they built american bodies, in Denmark at least. The last model 18 roadster, was built in Denmark in 1934.
    I wrote to a guy, last night, that might know more about the picture.
    So with the words of the former guvenor of California:"Ill be back"
    Lars
     
  24. I think what you are seeing is a standard phaeton with side curtains that are pushing the roof up making it only LOOK like there is a door pillar..
     
  25. Rick Sis
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    I see a seat back that aligns with the area that a B pillar would be in this camera angle. I vote standard phaeton.
     
  26. It seems Scott omitted his vast knowledge of everything deuce related in his introduction,,no wait,,he didn't do a introduction! :rolleyes: HRP
     
  27. Damn, so those Tambourines and elephants might be something else too?
     
  28. I still see a B pillar. Click for the enlarged version.

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  29. Pewsplace
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    This thread sounds like the no reveal deuce frame fisaco of a few months back. I think the author was simply pointing out his opinion of what he saw in the photo. We have several Deuce experts on this site and sooner or later we will have the answer. I am thinking it is phaeton body also.
     

  30. Although I haven't been able to find anything to prove or disprove you theory I wonder if the 32 Phaetons constructed in Denmark might have used a top support similar to that of the 36 Fords here in the states. HRP

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