Can anyone help identify the year or model? The windshield frame is Chrysler grafted onto the Hudson cowl Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
f you can't find out on google image search, by comparing body belt lines, hinge placement and rear tail styling... I have a Hudson book here somewhere. It looks like typical 31-32 styling to me. Was it always a cabriolet/convertible w/roll up windows? By the way, a lot of early north east builds used Ford truck shells. More that most people would believe.
looking through my Hudson, Es*** & Terraplane book.. It must be 32 or 33, but the book hints that Es*** shared the same rear bodies on convertibles. One interesting thing that I never knew about: They show a 32 Es*** "roadster" that sure looks like it is a cabriolet with doors that look like they would have the room for roll-up side windows, but i can see 3 snaps right at the upper door that could hold flexible side curtains.
The Hudson was always convertible but does have roll up windows. The body behind the doors is lower to possibly Stowe a top? Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
F&J Could you elaborate on the use of the commercial ford grill? Wish I could say I was doing that on purpose but glad to hear it was an old school swap! Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
Built a frame from 2x4 stock and tapered the front like a 32 frame. Rear is z'd 4" to match the body Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
Cut the old ratty floors out and used 1" tube to creat some structor, just needs some sheet metal to finish it up Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
Yes, and also it gives a styling line, the way it drops down from the door. Most 32-ish makes of convertibles/cabriolets did drop down there. I've seen so many early rods from M*** and a few from CT etc, that used almost every year of Ford truck shells from 32 through the oval 39. There are still many survivors that have them at the M*** shows. I don't know why, as parts were not all that expensive or hard to find, back then. Wanting to be different is possible.. I bought a 50s M*** built full fender Mopar roadster over 40 years ago with a 33/34 Ford truck shell installed over a 50s? radiator. By the way, no matter what model that cabriolet is, the book says all H-E-T convs were very low production.
What you have is an ES*** body made by Hudson. I say that because seems like all Es*** have similar fire walls. Do you have a body serial number tag on the firewal l? If you have the number I can look it up. The 32 Es*** Terraplane has one cowl vent, the Es*** supper six model had two cowl vents. Your best bet for visual information is H.E.T. website. I have a 32 terraplane coupe ( pictures in my profile album) if that helps any. I do not think they made a real roadster. Roll up windows in the doors would be for a cabriolet. I have seen a cabrolet body stored in Maine. I have a friend who is pretty knowlageable about this stuff. I will try sending this thread to him and see what he thinks you have. What are those extra doors for in one of you pictures ? I know somebody who needs 29 Es*** doors. The most rare lowest production year for Es***/Terraplane was 1932. 32 and 33 Es*** where very similar. Your dash does not look like a 32 supper six or terraplane dash which I have seen before
By the way I used a choped down 35 international grill shell for mine and made my own insert, I am still under construction. Wish I had your body !!
The dash is actually Chrysler as the original was to rotted to revive. This body came out of the woods in 5 pieces. This is the result of a little time and welding! It did have a single cowl vent that we filled. It also had brackets behind the cowl to hold spare tires on both sides The doors are from that Chrysler that got sacrificed for its whim shield frame Any input as to what I should do with the dash? Was thinking of narrowing up something a little newer? Jake
i believe the WS post ID it as a 32.. a frind has a 32 Hudson coupe and it looks identical to the body line/reveal at the bottom of the WS
Yes, newer would be easier to refit to the curve at the top. If you kept buying swapmeet random early dashes around 28-32, there would be so many that the curve would not match up to the cowl....and those early flatter dashboards are a bit more difficult to recurve. late 30s or even into 40s to 50s depending on taste
That body line/ reveal was saved from the original frame at the bottom and it was blended up the post. Was trying to make it look like the frame belongs on the car Jake
For the doors I beefed up the floor structure and made a sill plate in the lower cowl. On the hi she side the door post was already pretty beefy from Hudson so I just plated it with 1/8 so I would have no sagging problems. I'll work on some pictures Jake
You did a fine job welding that body back to gether. I could visualize that dash with just a flat panel filling in the opening of what I will call a dash rail from the chrysler. Mabey with a rolled under lower edge. You can install the typical compliment of round gages like SW. How about a wood flat panel even. My coupe has a simillar A piller and visor as the sedan in post #26. The 1933 closed cars do not have the visor. One differance I see between my coupe and the cabriolet/sedan is a the very bottom of the cowl. My cowl seems to have an upward sweep where those are straight a cross. Jake did you have a gas filler door in the rear tailpan ? Did you have to form that bead at the botom of the body line and if do how did you do it ? All these Es*** of these years are simmilar but still different. Crazy stuff. Steve from Amesbury
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