POSTED THIS ON THE BARN & THOUGHT IT MIGHT CREATE SOME THOUGHT HERE AS WELL, ....I'LL ***UME WE ALL KNOW THE STORY HOW THE BONNIE/CLYDE DUO PERISHED IN THEIR 34 FORD SEDAN ...BUT WHAT EVER BECAME OF THEIR PREVIOUS 32 FORD B 400 ???? WAS IT A LEGALLY PURCHASED VEHICLE OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED ???? WAS IT WRECKED ?? RECOVERED ?? WHERE WAS IT LAST SEEN ??? ALWAYS WONDERED IF IT SOMEHOW MAY HAVE EVADED THE MANY HURDLES, S**** DRIVES ETC. SINCE IT'S INFAMOUS EARLY YEARS. JUST ALWAYS WONDERED .
Used as the backdrop to many of the popular photos taken by Bonnie and Clyde, it was one of the three vehicles in use by the Barrow gang during the Joplin hideout raid. It was one of 1105 B-400 convertible sedans built in 1932. The Bonnie and Clyde B-400 was registered to R.F. Rosborough of Marshall, Texas. Stolen in March 1933 and believed to have been abandoned shortly after the Ruston Caper. After the Barrow gang's Joplin escape, Detective Ed Portley began an investigation into this fancy Barrow automobile. The sheriff at Carey, Kansas answered Detective Portley's all-points bulletin stating that at around six p.m. on April 13th, while making his rounds, he spotted a dark colored mud spattered 1932 Ford turn south off of the dirt road leading from Joplin. It was traveling through Carey at a speed of 40 mph and accelerated to 60 as it headed toward Oklahoma's Cookson Hills. After Mr. Rosborough got his prize vehicle back, it had an extra 3,000 hard driven miles added to it's odometer and was minus it's tags. He then traded it in on a new 1933 V-8 Coupe. Mr. Rosborough poses with his replacement car in photo below.
The B400 was stolen and recovered before the letter to Henry Ford - they were on the run using what ever new V/8 Ford they could use until their end...the family service station in Dallas is a street over from my last shop......
great history, My buddies and I found a b-400, got it running and drove it off the farm for $80.00. I sold it because I thought it was to ugly, oops! 480
In 1973 I was offered a 1969 Daytona Charger,426,4 speed car for 1,200 bucks,young couple that had just got married and the car belonged to the bride and they wanted something easier on gas. I looked at the car,had the money and thought it was about the ugliest abortion I had ever seen,had I only had a crystal ball and known what the future would hold,I would still be old but I would have a stack of fun tickets! I still think they are ugly but darn they bring big bucks now! HRP
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