Are Fenderless A sedans really traditional

we call pulling underwear up someones back or over thier head a wedgie here...........i'm not sure why though,,,,,,,,,,,Marq

 

I know you asked about A's and I've yet to see a picture. In the Hot Rod Annual of 1958 there are two pictures of Deuce sedans being dragged. One belonged to Texan Bob Carson and the other was called "The Fire Fly" driven by Bob Daniels of Marysville, Ohio. I would guess there must have been fenderless A's as well.

 

http://www.gassermadness.com/norms/Coupe-Sedan/

Lot's of pictures of coupes and sedans. Maybe not as far back as original post referred to.

 

Are fenderless A sedans traditional?

Does a bear shit in the woods?

 

Probably depends on who's tradition you're talkin' about.
I don't recall lots of sedans when I was little, but the ones I do recall really stick in my mind.
Seems to me the ones that I recall went both ways. Some with and some without.
Real little would be late '50s and early '60s. Mostly N Cal.
Probably not much help but maybe it muddies up the water a little.
Books are written about the things we want to remember the way we want to remember them. Magazine or hard bound its always been swayed a little by politics, if the guy with the camera don't like roadsters and he has a choice of coupe or roadster what do you suppose he's gonna shoot.
Sometimes he doesn't have a choice, if the guy buttering the bread either likes hoops or makes hoops what do you suppose will get featured.
Not too many books get written about the guys on the fringe.

 

It's not an A but Dean Moon and company had a fenderless deuce sedan that was voted one of the hottest rods of '51. (pg 15 Moon Equipped By David Featherston).

It's done Highboy style, and even has a pic from '50 running a 40 hood to try to get max speed.

Boones, I am reminded of a favorite Conway Twitty song...
"It's only Make Believe". We are living a time past, and as such sometimes we take "liberties" with things that may or may not have happened... just cruise over to the SASS site if you think the guys here are overboard on "tradition".

Build your car in a traditional style, and be happy, dude.
PS...Keep an eye on my condo for me (downtown Charleston) cause I have a feeling you guys are gonna get the FLA aftermath.

Jay

 

Both SCTA and Rusetta timing assciations had sedan classes in the early Fifties.

Of all the pictures i have seen of sedans on the lakes none had fenders though the majority of them were 32's

 

Grmlock, thanks for the pic..

Rocket, local weather is saying they do not expect anything but a little extra rain.. Next time town let me know...


After reading all the post I get a sense that some folks are twisted a little that I even question that the fact that Model A sedans were not done as fenderless cars. If go you missed my point of what I was asking. I was not trying to say it is not Ok to go fenderless, it just was not a common site... and I wanted to see some early pics of how they were done.

I have pretty much planned out my car in my head. sitting tall, skinny tires all the way around and a small chop.. very much like Grimlocks pic but without the nose job..

 

That is a very cool picture Grimlock posted and I believe that same car ran fenders, a shell and no chop in an earlier incarnation.

 

Will do. I wish I had a website to post the pix of this Deuce for ya. Sounds like what you are looking for.

Jay

 

Aw right, dammit!! I feel I MUST speak up for myself..

I don't give a FLYIN shit if my car is traditional, I'm just worried about droppin a tenth off my 1/4 mile et at the Drags.

Show up at the Drags next year and I'll "traditionaly" WHUP your ass.

Come and get some..-Abone.

 

AAAAAMEN!!!!!

 

I still have every hot rod magazine I have ever owned. This thread really fed my curiosity, so I looked through about 30 of my early "little books." Not only is there a total lack of fenderless sedans, there are hardly any sedans at all. These books are from the mid to late '50s. Now that I think about it, this look is a relatively new trend, but looks so retro. I love the look. A similar trend is the '35 to '38 fenderless, channelled trucks. A great retro look that I really don't remember seeing years ago, but really does it for me now.

 

So you dug up a 16 year old opinion thread?

 

But why it's not traditional. "I got a hot rod ford and a 2 dollar bill"

 

Like.

 

Sorry Mr. Perfect Hot Rodder. Took my post down so you didn't have to look at it.

 

Post was meant in jest. I drive a fenderless highboy '28 A V/8 roadsterized sport coupe and have a nailhead powered, chopped '30 A Tudor which will be fenderless project in the works. Both hotrod Fords, the 2 dollars it would depend when you talked to me.