I was at a friend of mines place a few months back picking up a 34 sedan body I had purchased from him and noticed he had a 30 roadster body with the cowl removed in a strange way and someone had put some heavy duty brackets on the front of it that seemed to brace up the inner structure leaving the doors where they would open and shut without the cowl attached. Seemed crazy as to why anyone would do this to such a nice roadster body. Anyhow we shook hands and struck a deal on it and I would just plan another 5 hour trip down his way later on as I did not have room on my trailer to take it home that day, Fast forward a couple of months and my friend called me and said he was coming up my way and would bring the body to me. After we loaded it from his trailer to mine and I payed him he says, "Oh yeah by the way the guy I got this body from said it was used in an old black and white movie called Paper Moon" So after I got it home and stared to research the film, and the locations where it was made was the same area where the body came from everything started to make since to me as to why the cowl was removed and why those support brackets were added. This was a Movie Prop Filming car. There are some colorized pictures from the film and the paint and interior that is left in this body are a perfect match to the one in the film. Anyhow I am going to build the body on a original 32 ch***is I have but I think I am going to leave the paint and patina that it has and name it "The Paper Moon Roadster" It is really clean and has very little rust in it.
No replicated - or real - old-time movie cameras in place of the cowl? That would turn heads. Not much different than looking past/around a 6-71/dual 4's/large-drag-scoop. Marcus...
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