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I have a model a roadster and the stanchions are cut right off at the bottom of the windshield. IS there an alturnative to finding another body and cutting the stanchions off it and welding them on mine?

 

The stanchions should be bolt on, you sure you have a roadster?

 

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Looks to me like you have a coupe with the roof cut off. I would spend some time looking at roadster bodies, and seeing what you need to make in order to get roadster stanchions to work, or find yourself a coupe roof and put it back together..

 

I yanked this off the web for reference for ya. It may not be hard to make it work..

 

The way the rear is rolled behinde the seats is nice I'm pretty sure it's a roadster

 

Very good' I can find those short mounts but they are stainless or chrome new stuff I need and orig. set

 

could it be a closed car cowl with roadster doors and quarters? I dont know much about the 30-31 roadster but that cowl doesnt look like the stanchions would bolt up from the picture provided.

 

also, the dash has a sort of vent where it meats the cowl brace for closed cars. roadsters dont have this vent. I can see the vent in the picture provided, leaving me to believe atleast the cowl came from a closed car

 

I agree with that it looks like it may have been a closed car convention to the tractor

 

FULL SIZE photos work better. Bob

 

What you have is what is refereed to coupster,,common practice back in the day when most guys wanted a coupe so the top was whacked off. HRP

 

I'd love to throw a mustang motor and trans in it. Anyone ever see one with a 5.0 or 302

 

There's more than one approach to correct this. Buy some roadster stanchions and adapt them plus modify the rest of the cowl. Maybe you could find a roadster cowl top (brookville?) which would save a lot of work. Or, build to suit. Tim. I'll include a pic of what I inherited.

 

I thank you will find out the lower windshield stations from Brookville roadster are made of br*** ,maybe you could do a little fab. work on your cowl to make them work ?

 

if you can send some close up pictures of the doors & quarter panels, inside & outside, we can determine exactly what you have, the cow section is a closed car for certain, of the doors are indeed roadster you can purchase a complete roadster cowl section to mate up with the doors if they are roadster doors, the 1930-31 lower windshield stanchions are only available in steel, the bronze stanchions that we manufacture are only for the 1932 roadster & our 1932 roadster extended cab pick up, if you would like to e mail the pictures you can send them to rick@brookvilleroadster.com
thank you for your time
Rick Johnson
Customer Service
Brookville Roadster

 

You can see the double body line on the door and the door top doesn't curve up slightly on the front so it's a cut down coupe door. The rear body lines look like a coupe too so it's probably originally a sport coupe on the rear clip.

One option that I have seen done for roadster style stancions on a coupster is to round the corners on the top of the cowl and use either 32 roadster posts or 26/27 T roadster posts. I used a 32 windshield post on my real 31 roadster in the picture but you could do the same basic thing.

 

You have a coupester or whats left of a Cabriolet and it'll take some skill to turn it into a bonifide roadster look and a few skilled metal workers on this board have pulled this off.

Myself I don't want to horse around with a windshield so I bought a commercial Roadster cowl with no provisions for a windshield!