The Tudor got some love in a new Japanese magazine, Custom Rides Magazine (issue Nr. 1!). Took all the pictures locally in Redondo Beach, Torrance, Palos Verdes. The Editor/friend Makoto Okamura did a fantastic job. Love the layout (6 pages) and glossy paper!
Funny this picture: I fixed the frame of the green Riley special behind the volks 2 month ago after it got into a crash after someone cut him off on surface street.
Montlhéry racetrack, France (opened in 1924): The Argentinian '32 Tudor, as seen in another picture last week
Chopped Fordor Euro Deuce spotted this weekend during the European Street Rod Nats, near Le Mans, France
This is the Fordor I bought in auction in Switzerland a few years ago. It was a V8 with a very early 18-5**X number. It had stood under that tree since 1958. Before that it had run as a stock car at Bern airport. When I dismantled it, the frame had hardly any rust, the drums were still shiny inside. The frame and all the mechanical parts were in good usable condition.
It was dismantled and sold off in parts years ago. There are a few deuces running around with parts from that in it. The Swiss authorities still had it on their microfiche records and I was able to get a replacement ***le for it! Swiss efficiency!
Here are some pictures of 32s in England when hot rodding was in it's infancy. Many '32s were used up on the stock car circuits too. Couple are of '34s too. The '34 US Ford was also built in Europe. Looks like a lot, but three pictures of 5W are the same car. The two pictures of the white 5W are the same car and the 3W pictured is the same car. Coupes were a lot rarer than sedans.
This is a very cool thread, here's some of my photo's taken over the years. The first are of Mike Keys Cdan taken late 70's early 80's: Some mordors taken in the mid 80's I think:
Never seen the "324DOR" Fordor before. Also, the metallic blue Fordor was featured in Street Machine Magazine (UK) back in the '80s