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Here's a 29 coupe for sale .Been sitting for at least 4 yrs at a antique shop in Independence,Mo. Located off 23rd st and N.River. just sitting there
I’m working on a touring project sitting on a ‘30 Whippet frame, and titled as such. Will have some more familiar sheetmetal replacing the missing fordor body, but still a Whippet grille. Powered with a Ford A motor.
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Not odd, actually pretty cool in my eyes. Rockne deuce coupe More Here: https://www.hotrod.com/features/1932-rockne-model-65-balances-style-performance/
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I've pontificated before that Henry Ford's frugalness led to '28 - '32 Fords being the dominate hot rods. Ford was the only major car company to still use transverse leaf spring front suspension throughout the 1930s (and all the way up to 1948). All the other cars had parallel leaves which made two big horns stick out forward of the grille shell. A Ford was easier to lower in the front, and looked even prettier with the fenders removed.
Tom Senter did that piece in RnC, called "Hairflow", about Rodding DeSoto Airflow's, with a artist rendering that MATCHED a Airflow featured in a late '70's era issue of Hot Rod! Blown and flamed! Thanks to the Larry Wood Nash, I've got a major soft spot for resto rods, but any and all Un-Fords are cool, in any style.
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I have one of those Durant Radiator shells, I bought it at the Portland swap-meet years ago, not knowing what it was. I may have to find the "D" that goes with it as well.
Hello, In 1959, I took this short film of an unusual Altered Coupe. It was not a Ford or Chevy, so the next step in selecting the model and year was going to the standard, #3 car manufacturer, Chrysler Corp. The 32 Dodge has rear opening doors. The 32 Plymouth has front opening doors as in the film. The rear windows are narrower than the Model A or 32 Ford 5 window versions. So, the closest identification resorts back to a 1932. Jnaki If you have a 31 or 32 Plymouth fender-less coupe, lets see some side photos to compare in real life photos. The small windows and front opening doors would be the closest to the Altered Coupe photo from 1959 at Lion’s Dragstrip. But, the original altered 5 window coupe did have some unusual never before seen “right hand- steering” via an opening in the right passenger door. So, there are only a few models of front opening door coupes with odd shaped small windows. It was the only one of that particular model of… race car we saw for the years at Lion’s Dragstrip, in those early days… YRMV
Most odd rods really don't look good. Some do come out looking pretty nice though. This one looks good, but could really use a taller rear tire.
Grew up in East Oakland near the Durant factory, which GM took over. My grandfather had a Durant into the early 50's, https://localwiki.org/oakland/Durant_Motors GM also had a plant in Oakland on 73rd ave, which was torn down and moved to Fremont, which NUMMI, and now Tesla.
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