Features How many real 32 roadsters present?

Thanks for the story on your history with your Deuce Don! It's a very nice roadster, and it's obvious that you are very proud of it(rightly so).

I hope you weren't offended by my post. I couldn't resist after reading your "criteria" for a "gennie", and then seeing a pic of your roadster with the aftermarket parts. Just thought I'd give you a little good natured "ribbing".

Hopefully someday I'll have as much history with my 32 roadster as you do with your's. I think I'm on the right track (40,000 miles and 2 rebuilds in 8 years). I'm proud of it, even if it is only original sheetmetal patched together and an aftermarket frame!

Take care

Tom

 

TOM, Thats a great looking channeled roadster!!---Thanks for the kind words about my thread----I sure didn't expect all the questions & answers to pop out from it!!--But I have tried to answer each one best I could!!----Since moving to Oregon 25 years ago, I don't put on very many miles per year like when living in SO-CAL.----Especially winter time!----Don

 

Here's what I mean,------Merry Christmas Tom!!!!----------Don

 

This is a great thread but some of the posts bring up a point I have always wondered about.

That is; How many real McCoy 40's-50's traditional style hot rods are out there?
No fiberglass, no safety equipment, no disk brakes, or power steering, or A/C. No electronic ignition or any modern engine improvements. Just cars exactly like they were modified back in the early to mid-50's.

And of those that do own the real McCoy, how many are actual daily drivers or at least frequently driven?

I have owned a few restored but not modernized cars from the 50's (no not hot rods but vintage '50s engineering all the same) and I can testify that you have to love these cars to drive them and they make you work for that love! Ha!

 

OH BROTHER!!!, I can see the can opener twisting now on this one!!!!-----Before I bought my 32 roadster (In pieces), I was driving a 31 Model A/V8 Pickup every day to work in the L.A. area, & believe me, something was ALWAYS needing attention!! I think the worst was the RADIATOR---I was a steady customer for egg-keep---This was years BEFORE STOP LEAK PRODUCTS----------Don

 

Tom,
I am not a huge channeled roadster fan, but i love your car. That thing will go down in the history books.

 

I was driving this one on a regular basis until some retard made a left turn from the right hand lane right into me. It was a hot rod in the 40's and 50's but spent the 60's through the 90's in disrepair. I put it back together with drum brakes, a 283 2bbl with point ignition and a bunch of other old stuff. It'll be back in driving shape in a couple of weeks.

 

Good pic, sad pic.


Say . . . is it true that DRD57 stands for Deuce Roadster Don?

 

Don I'm glad to hear your car will be back on the road soon. I'm dying to see some update pics.

My Deuce roadster is all Brookville & other repro parts. I can do whatever I want to/with it without fear of screwing up an original. I love an original car though. Deuce Roadster's is a great, & rare, example of a current hot rod running an original Ford frame & body parts. Not many meet that strict criteria. Some of the best on the HAMB don't even come close.... proving that it doesn't have to be original Ford steel to be cool.

JH

 

Man that picture makes my sole hurt!
And you used the correct term.... "retard".
I can't tell you how many time my old cars have almost bought the farm due to some moron spending too much time looking at my ride and not the road!

 

Here's one of the Real '32 Roadsters my father owned:

Circa 1973​

He bought it from John Easton (of Oakland, CA) in May of 1973 for $1500 ... Easton had purchased the car in December of 1948 from John Brooke Moheen (or Mohun) Jr. for $100!

One of my dad's many un-finished projects, this Roadster was going to be a bit of a "Resto-Rod" (pretty much the polar opposite of the HEMI32 coupe) ... stock looking paint job (green with black fenders), rumble-seat, LeBaron-Bonney leather interior & top, cowl lights, etc., etc. ... but sitting "in the weeds" on a Pepper Snow & Ronnie White ("Snow-White") built full Jaguar suspension chassis ... and powered by a 351ci Cleveland.

In 1991, the "car" (less rolling chassis, engine & transmission) was sold to Mike Russell (of Santa Cruz, CA) who used the body, etc. to build this very nice traditional hi-boy:

Circa 1993​

This roadster is currently in the (Bainbridge Island, WA) garage of Glenn Mounger (of Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance fame) ... and now sports an Auburn dash, Kinmont brakes, and Ardun heads on the flattie.

 

HAMBer @fremont32 has owned his Real '32 Roadster since the 1960's ... It was black all throughout the 60's, 70's, & 80's ... and rebuilt in the 90's to its current red configuration:

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It's hard to comprehend and almost passes belief!

 

If you really want to blow your mind, pick up a copy of amy rod magazine from the 70's and read the car sales ads in the back. It seems car prices have multiplied by a factor of 5 or more in just 30 years!

 

I love this picture. That's kind of how mine looked when I dragged it home. I paid a bit more than that though.

 

what color is that green one? I like it. Thnaks

 

This is the "missing" roadster we got back on the road last summer now belonging to Matt (whiskeyrunner).

 

-------Me too, in 1962 I had to pay 500.00 for mine in pieces!!--------Don

 

Glad to see this old thread is still hanging around and I just couldn't help but chime in again to reply to Supercharged Scottsman and Duece Daddy Don's comments about real cars from the fifties still running around.


1959 in progress shot

I'd posted earlier about my Nailhead powered roadster that I built in 1959 and put back on the road in 1997. I'd been through restoring Mustangs with my son in the 80's so when I turned to the barn find in my own barn in 1995, I thought why not restore it instead of modernizing it like a good builder should. Plus it was a lot cheaper to reuse what remained of the original setup, and who better to know the original setup then the guy who built it originally.


The Barn find in my own Barn

So I'm still running a '55 Nailhead with a Spaulding ignition, '48 sideshift, wishbone front end and Columbia two speed rear and the original checked black lacquer on the body. I call it my high end rat rod because believe me those old cars were pretty funky and primitve and I'm reminded of it every time I drive this one.


Half way there again in 1998

I guess now that I'm older ( I didnt' say old) some of the charm of wondering if you're actually going to get where you are going in an old beater, even if it's a '32 roadster, has gone away. It was my daily driver for eight years, 1957 to 1964, and now is just an occasional I want to be 25 years old again cruise night and local show driver.

 

The new car is 1940 Ford Gull Gray with some green added to it.

I am glad that you like it , I am not sure that I like it yet. I am used to red or black cars so this color will take some getting used to. Hope to have it at the ROUND UP in April.

Bruce

 

thanks. I don't usually go for the later model style but that car just tickles me for some reason...... very cool.

 

Da Flash up here in Portland, OR I have an original '32 roadster that came from San Diago many moons ago. I bought it after bugging a friend in Auburn,CA for seven years to sell it to me. I have had two other real roadsters and one glass one. You can't seem to stay away from the old crates.
Dale www.dalemoreau.com

 

Got 3 in the building right now. One went to Winnemuka, so that makes 4. What are we up to now?
-Mike

 

DEUCE DADDY DON I HAVE A 32 ROADSTER RESTORED. I AM FROM SOUTH JERSEY. MY WEB SITE IS http://members.tripod.com/~jerseygaspumps/ MY BLOG SITE IS http://www.samsfordgarage.blogspot.com/

 

Sam (south jersey ardun) ... Nice roadster ... when you gonna "FIX IT" (i.e., throw away those fenders, running boards, etc. ... and put an Ardun motor in it) ???

Just kidding with ya ... Welcome to the H.A.M.B.!!!

 

I love mine. Rust and all!
Steve Glucoft
Amocat Speed Emporium

 

1932 Plymouth Sports Roadster. Hopefully this was not meant to be a "Ford Only" topic. If so, "I'm not worthy"....

 

Hey Billy its about time.
I tried to help your dad put it together for years.
Something about looking for Kinmont brakes.
He always told me that it would be yours.
You probably know that the striping/graphoics
were done by Audel in high school.

It would be an honor and tribute to Bill Senior for me to sit in it and hear it run.
Peace and love, Russ.

 

I just got one finished and have two more gennie bodies! I love them all like children! Pics are under my profile!

 

hey do i count as a henry.....oh wait...i don't care....i love her for who she is even if she's got new floors and doors! in a few weeks she'll be sittin' on gennie chassis with hopped up 4 banger in true 1939 lakes racing style! i just bought her a couple days ago and i'm already in love....she my first!
anyone got original doors for sale though?



truck cab will have to go on the shelf for now!



No modern driveline here and it's drive ever chance i get....mech brakes, mallory y11a with points, evans dual downdraft with stromberg 81's leakin' like crazy...she runs good though....i don't know how...well yes i do...constant attention!