Convertible Sedans lets see them!!!!!

Cool! I love that car.... i got to steal those photos from you and put on Kustomrama

Do you know more about its story, I have only seen it featured in Trend Book 102 Hot Rods...

 

Very nice gentlemen...thankyou

 

Just found this on Roadsters.com
Click the photo for more (then scroll down for the 35 Ford Photos)

 

Nice! I googled the name too without finding any interesting

 

I am just wondering though how many HAMB members have one of these types of cars?

 

we finished this mild custom last year.
more here
http://www.allwayshotrods.com/fgallery/9

 

Beautiful car; on a late ch***is?? (A friend had one back in the 50's; was a kick to ride
in; no one knew what it was.......Nor was it in the condition this is!..)

 

My 1933 Pheaton I'm gonna build it some day but the wife don't really like it. So really wanted to trade it off.

 

This is one of my current projects. Started life as a 1942 Hudson Commodore sedan and was a parts car for a coupe project. It's now on it's way to be a car that Hudson didn't actually build-1942 Hudson Commodore sedan convertible. Plans are to make the conversion as 'factory' looking as possible, certainly not a 'parade car' sedan with the top hacked off . Plan to have a nice one-of-a-kind Hudson when finished.

Currently have 53 Chevy convertible vent window ***emblies installed, used '31 Chevy door hinges to move the rear door hinges to the outside like it would be from factory and reshaping the body lines to get rid of the 'top hacked off' look. Have a 62 Chevy top frame that will be plenty long but will of course have to undergo major surgery to fit the Hudson. Windshield will be chopped 3 inches and flatened for a custom header bar to mount to and will next be reinforcing the body and building the top shelf behind the rear seat. Frame will be reinforced once the body is mods are made and can remove. I have a Chevrolet 348 W engine that I may use in this car or I may try to find a Hudson flathead 308 to rod.

Pics are before and after removing the top. I need to get some updated pics of the progress since then. Using this Buick in last pic as my 'role model' for designing the body mods.

 

It was really cool to stumble across this one!

Wayne Mahaffery was in the "Pacers" car club in Portland the same time as my grandfather. Wayne built his '35 as both a show and a drag car and ran her on the local tracks here in the early '50s. It was also the first NW car to be featured in HRM. As I have been told by other surviving "Pacers" members, Wayne has sold and bought back this car 4 or 5 times and I think it has been restored more than once.

Here is a shot of the car with Mahaffery pushing her up to the line at the old Scappose Drag Strip taken by my grandpa sometime between 1951-54.

 

Nice picture MrModelT! Thanks for posting it. Do you have any other photos from your grandpa?

 

first time I saw this car was around 1976 in Lodi?? or Merced?? .. one of those shows. it was parked outside the show with several other customs. didn't really know what it was or any history on it at the time but I sure knew it was cool. still one of my favorite old customs

 

That car is KILLER

 

I would love to have that

 

My '39 Ford DeLuxe convertible sedan. This pic taken one spring day while out touring with my son and daughter-in-law near Fredericksburg, TX.

 

Nice car but that is the reason I do not run my top. It just looks bulky in the back when they are down.

 

How 'bout a '41 Chevy convertible sedan? This one I built several years ago from a '41 Town Sedan, the short coupled one with a bustle trunk. I liked it.

 

convertible SEDAN...

here's an Oldsmobile... 1941 (?)

 

...and his cousin, 1941 Chevrolet.

 

crazy.. someone is fooling people with that one..

love that 39.. wish mine were real..

brian.. I dig that..

 

Bringing this one back being there is some new ones showing up.
Mine has changed alot since I first posted this.

 

Here's a couple of rare ones...1936 Dodge Brothers.

 

31Dodger those are a thing of beauty. Thanks

 

Well I think I am goint to attemp to put the top on myself......:O as soon as my daughter lets me back in. I am also thinking about having padded running boards for it.

 

My current tub on Rik Hoving, Ray Vega Tribute.
http://public.fotki.com/Rikster/11_...cars/john-williamson-cus/john-williamson-veg/

 

Very cool!

 

I've been tracking down 1936 Ford convertible sedans for years with great help from many folks. We're trying to find out just how many convertible sedans were slantback models and how many were trunk models which succeeded them about mid-year... we think! There were 5,601 produced. So far, we've found about 185 cars. We check the body ID tag, if it has one, to help narrow the range wherein they switched over to the trunk model. The highest slantback model has a body Id tag of 68 740 2324 which indicates it was the 2,324th 1936 Ford convertible sedan built that year. The lowest trunk model is 68 740 2497. Somewhere between 2324 and 2497 they switched to the trunk model. Anybody knowing of a 1936 conv sedan can help by emailing me whatever info you have on the owner, etc to al@36fords.com. I have several pages on my website at www.36fords.com devoted to just 1936 Ford convertible sedans if you really want to look at a bunch of them.

The first car I purchased was very original and had many neat options.

The second car is a street rodded version that I bought later. It was really neat to have two of the neat old Fords but the ever expanding need for more garage space sent the original one off to a good home in Ohio.

The convertible sedans aren't quite as stylish as the cabriolets but they are a heck of allot easier to share the old experience with others by just loading them into the back seat than trying to get them in and out of a rumble seat! I did that for about a year with my 1936 Ford cabriolet before I found my first convertible sedan. I loved the cabriolet but my whole family got to enjoy the convertible sedan much more.

Convertible sedans are far more rare but to each his own. I enjoy mine.

Enjoy,
Al

 

My Old Tub on Rik Hoving
http://public.fotki.com/Rikster/11_...cars/john-williamson-cus/1940-ford-tub-john-/

 

Reviving an old thread because I want to see more of this body style.

Here's a couple more:

 

Yeah I love these things