Brookville has new 3W photos up on their site.....

Lots of new photos

http://www.brookville-roadster.com/

is the link......
pretty cool photos .......

 

Very, very nice!! That should launch a car-building frenzy in no time.

When do we chop it?


Joel

 

I know I'm supposed to say how much I hate this thing, but wouldnt it be nice to start without a rusted up hulk just ONCE?
Everytime I look at that I think of how much time I could have saved.

 

As I was following the salt truck down the road today, I was thinking about how cool it would be to have a fibergl*** 3-window to drive year-round and not worry about washing.

Okay, that's a lie, I was actually thinking about a Model A.

 

MAN o MAN is that sweet or what.......just WAY out of my reach.

 

they look really good and the price of a clapped out real one is almost just as much.

 

I`ll take two of them! One to **** on and the other to cover it up!

 

Dude, I'm with you. Sure, original steel has a cool factor to it, but why pay 30K for one that needs half the sheelmetal replaced anyhow.....

 

I saw one in person last week. Kind of a pile of **** for the money. Roof looked kinda flat, A pillars a little weird, and the line around the windsheild (have no idea what it's called) was horribly inconsistant. But then again, it's ONLY 25 ****ing thousand. So what am i *****ing about? Oh yeah, i know the one in the pic looks great. But, i'm telling you what i saw on the customers end of the deal. The reality!

 

I think you probably saw the HotRods and Horsepower or Dearborn Deuce or whatever it is called. The Brookville one is nice.

 

I'm with you Cab on this one, I've seen Jim Inglese's HR&HP product, & think that it would be fine for a Street Rodder or Tech'r but I've also seen this products panels in person & they looked right on. I heard so many peoples opinion re:" New Tin" most good, some bad & the negative comments mostly come from the "traditionalists" who ballyhoo anything new.
Metal comes from this earth just like everything else = manmade or not. It tooks millions of years to form into iron & steel, so therefore it is already "Ol School" it's just been newly shaped.
I'm absolutely sure that Brookville will have no problem selling all that they can build & the will be a line miles long just waiting to throw down the $5k deposit.
When Kenny informed me that he was taking on such a task of making this 32 Body, I was offered a chance to own one @ like $20k or perhaps a lil under that.
Man, I really didn't have the money then & still don't have it now, But @ $24k they are still gonna be a deal for the people who can afford em. We're talking no major body work,patch panels,wood replacement, or misalignment of door gaps,lack of window frames & I could go on.
I have all kinds of different cars, mfg'd by Murray, Briggs-Budd,Wescotts & partial Brookville. I dig em all & that what this board is supposed to be about, Having fun with you ride & speaking out about enjoying it.

 

I hope these get very, very popular in the next couple of years, and that brookville saturates the market with them. Can anyone honestly say that they wouldnt like to see just as many half finished deuce three windows as half finished T-buckets in the auto-trader; for the same price?

 

I was told at the Nats in Louisville that there was 155 deposits already placed.....@ 5 grand a pop.


And 25 Grand is NOT a bad price........if you can afford one. I considered buying one....if I could not find a original one. But I would most likely buy a Wescott 3W first....for less than half the money.

 

That's over 3/4 of a million dollars.....

 

Yes, yes it is and they still haven't made a dime in PROFIT on this undertaking. If I had the money I'd own one now. We all owe these guys and other manufactures for taking a risk up fromt to produce these parts.

 

True........but I WISH Brookville would make the parts as close as possible to what Henry sold originally.....

The dash does NOT have the cigar lighter hole like a Henry dash.....



This is a original 3W dash........BUT... cut for A/C ducts ...by me....



It has a cigar lighter hole..in the upper dash rail. Brookville does not. How hard would it be for Brookville to duplicate the hole...? I know most Hambers can duplicate the opening for the cigar lighter IF they wanted too BUT.....at over $800 ........it should be there IMHO...

Just like their grill shells.......no holes on the lower area for the Hand crank and drain holes.

Do not get me wrong........I think it is great they are making parts and pieces....many old Fords will run again with the Brookville sheet metal panels and pieces.....But why NOT make them really like Henry sold them ?

 

The Brookville body sure does look pretty, but I wouldn't swap the crusty original 3w that I've been hanging onto since '82 for it. There's still something about original that just feels better. Not to mention the fact that way back I paid 1/25th of Brookville's 2005 price.

 

look at it from there sales point of view. lighter hole would look like **** in the average street rod. im sure most of there sales come from those type people.

 

Boy I hate going over and over this. When a Brookville A placed on a restored A ch***is took first place at a National Model A restorers meet being judged be the BEST A judges on the planet I say they do a damn good job of making things "like Henry did". They are in business of selling their products and when they leave out a small detail its because their clientelle didn't want it in the first placle If I'm not mistaken I think there are plans for a secondary die to stamp in the cigar lighter hole but don't quote me on that. Then you'll have to locate an origional lighter to put in the hole (they're on Ebay for about $4-$6).

With over a million dollars for the dies to create the '32 roadster and a whole lot more to do this one don't you think it kind silly to be bickering over details like this. NO one is ever going to build one of these and enter it as a RESTORED '32 3w. Of course when YOU do YOUR '32 3w I'm certain you'll include the cigar lighter detail. That and the fact you'll probably be selling them for something like $7-800 dollars (that's what they sold for new) should put the last nail in the coffin of Brookville Roadster. I'm going down to see Ray and Kenny in a few weeks. I find it only fair top warn them of the impending doom.
The fact that they took the prototype pieces and put them on the origional '32 that Ray has owned for about a hundred years (and they fit like a glove) shouldn't hold any water when faced with the threat of a couple of HAMBr's getting serious about mounting a challenge to their WEAK effort.

Frank

 

Frank's the toughest old dude I know.

 

Surely any company that is prepared to put up the time and money to make these bodies deserves all of our accolades. This can only further hot rodding world wide.

 

That really looks OEM in quality to me.....And Bodyshop time at the price its at nowadays would cost a lot too-to resurect an old rough one.

I have had one guy ask me about doing the chop on his,and they havent even got it home yet. [it's serial#40]

 

I'd buy one in a heartbeat if I had the $$$. I wonder if the would take a ragtop shoebox in trade?

 

This just shows that they can do it.... why not do it NOW for the 3W ?

Cool......a option.....like the cowl vent, that's what I would like to see......It is my ONLY complaint. I know the Brookville 32 Roadsters did NOT have cowl vents or the roll around the rear p***enger area........BUT some customers wanted them so they added them in later production ....

WHY not ?? They did the Model A ... and WON..

.......again Frank....you are correct.. and they are over 70 years old .....



Calm down Frank...... We are both in the same book, just on a slightly different page.

I started this thread to show the progess that Brookville has made....towards getting the 3W to the market. I think it is great......and ten times better than the Dearborn body.......I have a friend who has a deposit down with Brookville .....for over a year and has the 32 ch***is done.....just waiting for the body to be delivered.

I just wished that they did the little things.........now, before production, that they did for the Model A and then for the 32 Roadsters......after production started...I know they are capable.......very cabable.

 

OK Randy. You knew I couldn't stay away from this post. My hat's off to Brookville for going the extra mile for the rodding community. Steel is real, even if'n it's new. I'd rather have a new steel car than a new 'gl*** car any day. And $25k is not a bad price when you take into account the outrageous amount of $$$ it takes to bring an original back to life. Hell, even a new Wescott 'gl*** body is $18k! I'm very blessed to have found an original. And I don't care how much it costs to bring it back from the grave. That said, I have to admit if I were to build another one, I'd go Brookville. I'll tell you that (without braggin') I have almost $50k invested in the body alone on this build,(that includes the purchase price) and it's not painted yet. (It gets painted next week). Bringin' one back takes cubic dollars and I won't do this again. But you have to understand I've decided to paint the coupe a perfect BLACK! So it takes alot more time and money. I won't ever build another car this nice again, but I just wanted one like this before I leave this planet.

 

I did not start this thread to be a blood letting or a whizzing contest...... and IF that is what it looks like......that WAS NOT my intentions....I did it to showcase the effort of Brookville and HOW CLOSE they are to being in production..... That said ...MY Hat's OFF to them too......

I know you have a ton of $$$ in your original body......but it will be nice....
Black does COST EXTRA.....

Mine will also be BLACK.......with fenders and all the extra pieces ( frame horn covers, splash apron, hood and such ) and I am DEEP .......in it too..... but not as deep as you are...

I considered buying a Brookville 3W body.........but they were NOT even close to production when I found my original and I plan on riding before my Brookville order could be filled.

.

 

Yeah they are nice but not original. Repros stink

 

While we're at it, what are steel '32 Vicky bodies bringing these days?

 

I hear what you are saying
Elmo Rodge & I saw a body on EGay, One of his friends stepped up & paid $8500.00 Large sight unseen. It was hacked/chopped already & looked to be about as thin as a potato chip. On the the way home thtop tore so bad I just couldn't believe it....
Long story short, It eneded up in Rudy's hands & has since either been fixed or it's on it way. It probably needed 30% of Brookvilles help. not to mention the labor. @ this time Brookville was selling them @ $20k... Event though it is not a gennie "Murray Built Tin-not Henry".I'd still have no problem with it being a Brookville. @ least I know that the sheet metal wouldn't be work hardened & cracks/tears wouldn't make themselves known for @ least 60 more years.
You said it-almost $50k invested so far, I think that'd I be happy with 1/2 that out and having a done deal in a few months.

 

i agree dearborn deuce is ROUGH around the edges.RAY CHARLES could see the difference between them.

-DANNY