Hot Rods Deuce trunk or rumble seat?

Got to looking at my 32-5w and was wondering which it came with. Hopefully I took enough pics to know. I'm thinking rumble seat.
Is the big hole for a rubber stopper?is one of the little holes for trunk hinge?

This is the one that makes me think rumble seat because of the way it curves in more at the bottom.

Here is a shot of the inside of the trunk, don't know if it is original to the car. It's going to be a trunk when I get done with it, but I would kind of like to know. Thanks

 

Same as my trunk model.

 

Yours looks like a trunk car. The deck curve is the same on both.

 

Thanks guys, guess it's a trunk model. Anyone know what differences there would be if it were a rumble seat?

 

we'll I have a foreign 36 Nash rumble seat car and it has slides cut in the side panels...don't know if Ford had the same or not?

 

I had the same metal lid, I made it into a rumble seat. The corner rubber stop supports suggest a rumble seat set up.
Do Scoupe

 

I doubt that lid is original to your car...it is a trunk lid not a rumble lid as the rumble lid hinge holes are not drilled.

The hinges are available. They consist of a cast plate with 3 threaded holes which mate to the holes at the top corners of the deck opening mounting inside the quarter. 2 slot-head flathead tapered screws screw in from the outside and fill the end holes while securing the hinge plate. The hinge pin is a threaded hex head bolt with the end machined to form the pin which extends out into the lid.

 

Both trunk and rumble cars have the corner brace at the top. When used as a trunk there are no rubber bumpers used at the top. All the pieces you need to put the bottom together are available from the aftermarket. The small hole at the top corners are for the hinge plates.

 

The three holes tell me this body had a trunk lid.

 

Yes, that corner brace is the same on trunk or rumble lid models. On a rumble seat car there would be a bumper there. On a trunk model there is no bumper there, it's on the bottom corner brace. Bob Drake sells them. The 3 holes in the body rail are for the hinge pin and adjuster screws. Drakes has these also.

The rain gutter is the same on both styles.

 

Here's a pic of the standard five window / roadster rumble setup. The same basic deck lid fit both models but the hinge pivot (those triangle legs) were slightly different, supposedly because a slight difference in the location of that vertical leg (missing in your pictures) that the rumble lid pivots on. I'm using a five window pivot in a roadster which is why I had to add those brackets to get the rubber bumpers to line up.
The trunk lid cars had a big drip pan that ran across the top of the tail pan to catch runoff from the deck lid which seems to be missing in your pics so that would probably make it a rumble seat car.

 

When I put my '32 roadster together 40 years ago I changed to a rumble seat. If I did it again I would leave it a trunk. Not much use out of the rumble seat and having a trunk is nice. Not to mention the cost.

Charlie Stephens

 

Thanks for all the info guys. Like I said I will be making this a trunk, but it's always nice to know.

 

My original rumble lid roadster has 3 holes drilled and located there but mine has smaller holes on either side of the larger center hole which I believe is the pivot hole. Yours seem to be modified over the years.Posibly for larger mounting hardware. I bought the reproduction trunk hinges but never converted it. Since you have a choice, do a trunk. The very few good times that having friends in the rumbleseat as you ride around will quickly be out weighed by the PITA of loading and unloading the rumbleseat. It's probably a real PITA with rear fenders? I'm only 5'8" and fat so that may be a contributing factor.

 

The rumble seats were fun, I had one in a modelA. Almost lost 2 buddies when we were bouncing about in the boonies.Also with todays crazy traffic I wouldnt want anyone riding there. Trunks are useful.

 

Both my 32's have the rumble seat.

But I wish they were trunk models.

I have fenders on both my DEUCES so it is even more difficult to use the rumble seat as a trunk ( like Tommy said ). I am 6 foot 2 inches so it may be a little easier for me than Tommy but ... I would prefer a trunk.

I have everything to convert my roadster over ... with real Henry Ford pieces ... but the trunk lid is RED and I would have to repaint the lid and I do not believe I could get the paint to match the 15 year old BLACK on the rest of the roadster. AND ... the paint is too good on the roadster for a new paint job.

 

^^^well lets talk about that decklid. I could use it!

seriously.

 

BROOKVILLE will sell you a nice NEW ONE for less than a old original would cost you

 

Dumb question...
Through reading this thread, I am pretty sure mine is a trunklid car.

Does it matter which version you have, and which lid you have? Meaning, if your car is a rumble seat car, will a trunklid FIT, or viase versa? I would imagine the sheetmetal fits the same. My trunklid doesnt FIT too well in my 5W, but I think it's because the quarters are bend inwards.

 

My wife won't ride and throws a fit if my boys ride anything over 10 miles IN the car much less OUTSIDE the car. Rumble seat would be a total waste for me, besides I need somewhere to put my fuel cell & battery.

 

Way back when in the 80s there was a family that drove long distances in their Model A roadster with the kids in the rumble seat. They built a snap on tonneau/side curtain type deal with plastic windows for the kids to see out of if it rained. It was a little odd looking but the family seemed to be having fun together. I bet the kids didn't grow up to be wusses.

 

Tommy, I believe I have seen that roadster but I don't remember where I saw it,,you don't forget something like that and at the time I thought it was pretty cool,kept the kids dry. HRP

 

I know they came to Cumberland one year and possibly one of the Nats that I attended. It was a pretty elaborate thing. They were not from around here and they got around pretty good.