I never meet one and have only seen one picture and that was here on the Hamb........Well, I have access to a 32 ford roadster mold and I'm planing on making a roadster pick-up body. I am not planing on building a dead on, exact 100 point body........just something that looks the way I like. BUT, I would like it have nice lines and look some what like the original.......anyway I need pictures and as much information on the body as I can get......We just bought a new roadster body and the mold is being made around that. The roadster pick-up will be a one off. I don't need anyone telling me fibergl*** ****s yadda yadda............I want what I want and that's it. Thanks for the help guys..............
Not trying to push you off track, but actual '32 Ford Roadster Pickups did not share ANY sheetmetal with the p***enger car models. Body, hood grille and fenders were all commercial truck only. They looked simular, but still very different.
The 32 RPU uses the same hood and fenders as the cars as did all the 32 commercials. The grille is a commercial though. The 33-34 RPUs use the different commercial fenders, hoods and grilles.
Yeah the hood and front fenders would be the same but thats about it. The cowl, w/s post is totally different from the roadster. Brookville 32 RPU cabs are a phantom that uses the Roadster cowl and doors and is acutally a real good looking truck when done. The 32 Roadster Pickup is a rare bird and I have always though it would be cool to have an original and rod it slighty, there have been a few done.
that seems like alot of work CTfuzz!!!! i would go with the gibbon or the brookville. i do know the brookville is 8500$ big bucks. does anyone know what the gibbon is?
the gibbon is 4400$ bucks. i just gave 5 large for a model A RPU from brookville. and its real! that is steel.
Ask Denny at the Ionia Rod Shop about the quality of the Gibbon RPU body! I had 180 hours in making that thing right. One door was longer than the other, and the back of the tub was 9/16 higher on one side than the other, and on, and on, and on.There was a picture of it in last months R+C.
The headlights are different too. I have commercial painted buckets on my sport coupe and stainless car buckets on my P/U. I'm sooo confused.
Mine's a Gibbon body, built 12 years ago by **** Rodwell. I've been messing with it for the last 3. Limey's right, it is not a real quality body without a lot work, so perhaps you could modify your roadster molds to be much better. Mine uses the Gibbon body and front fenders. A custom metal bed & tailgate were made. Original rear fenders, grille shell and 32 p***enger car gas tank. **** molded a steel cowl vent into the body. If you do make your own body, pay attention to the interior space as roadster pickups don't have a lot of room. BTW, you can't buy a Gibbon body anyhoo, they are out of business as far as I know. Mick
I had a chance to look over a fresh from the factory, bare steel extended cab Brookville 32 Ford roadster the other day. A very nice unit. $8,500 seems like a lot of dinero. But from what I can tell you get a lot. When my lottery numbers come up I am getting one pronto.
I doing a 32 Brookville RP now. I bought the body flat and had a local shop ***emble it. Saved some beans by doing that. I've had a woody over that Blue pu Brizio did a few years back, and have visions of something simular.
Correctomundo HRP. I was just reflecting on the style of the 30-31 RPU built by Brizio and hoping mine would look somewhat like it although it would be a 32 RPU. You professionbal hammers are so nitpicky. K32
HRP: I am truly sorry, misspelled professional and H.A.M.B. ers in the previous post, I'll probably get ripped for that to. K32
PM hot rod pro? I think his Dad owns the nice black primer one that was in the Hop Up annual a few issues ago, and seen above at Bonneville. PS: I own a few pieces of one, but they are dis***embled and packed deep into storage.
Anybody of you Deuce guys have (accurate) production numbers on RPUs? Just curious, because the consensus seems to be that they're the rarest Deuce today. The Sedan Delivery was produced in the fewest numbers - I got my taco-stained hands on some Ford paperwork that shows 406 as the total number of Deliveries - but it seems that way less RPUs have survived. For what it's worth (and it's not much) I've seen one real '32 RPU...it was built by Bob Bauder, and in a past life it had a blown Ardun in it. They even found and chopped original RPU posts for that build...nasty.
There are 1 or 2 with gennie style bodies that show up at the LA Roadster show, but they could even be 34's I don't remember
If I remember correctly, the numbers on Ford trucks and commercials of this time period were handled by ch***is and by body separately...X number of commercial ch***is, so many closed cab bodies, this many open, this many boxes, and so many BB ch***is. The number of open bodies thus exists, but there isn't a way to tell exactly how many were ***embled as pickups and how many were on big trucks. I think Ford also used just the open truck cowl bits on ch***is sold otherwise bodyless for firetrucks and schoolbuses and such. I believe the number I have seen was on the order of 3 or 4 hundred bodies, and then WAY fewer in '33 and '34. Reallydamnscarce. Ford picked up extra room for the pickup box on the too-short '32 ch***is by making truck bodies with shorter cowl and more vertical seating and steering than p***enger bodies. The phantom type roadster based ones thus would likely be much more comfortable than the real ones, but couldn't leave room for much of a truck bed.
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