this is what i heard about Brookville Roadster

i've learned from two very reliable sources that Brookville Roadster is working on a `32 ford 3 window coupe body. it will be an exact copy of Henry's and have all the original style inner stucture,floor,hinges,working cowl vent,dash,etc..(.unlike Hot Rods and Horsepowers's,i'm not impressed by their's). it will be unchopped . price around $20,000 and they will start taken orders soon. they are also working on steel garnish moldings for it

if you would have told me 10 years ago that there would be two companies making steel 3 window bodies i would have said you're crazy

 

I'm suprised nobody else has started making garnish moldings yet,seeing the prices they go for.

 

my frind also heard it from the horses mouth!! he went to pic up a 28-9 roadster body from them and is friends with the owner, he even got to see the 32 3-win body they are scanning to make the dies out of! i think he even said they were going to offer all the parts indavidually so if you need a part for your genny itll be available! sound like a really reasonalbe price for a mint 3-win body!

 

i cant wait until the repop fordors wohohooo

or well, about time to make a steel 5w aswell i hope.. never really liked the 3w's

 

All Info is correct as stated by ***us. Since I live about 4 miles from the place and am good friends with Kenny & Ray, I have seen the car they are going to use. It is currently being digitially scanned and CMM'd in Detroit.

S****s..........

 

THis is good news for the people that will be able to afford them. I have seen the Dearborn Deuce Bodys up close and they are real bad. I have worked on many brookville bodys, Model A's and 32's and they are the closest you can get to a new ford body.

 

Do you guys know if they are going to sell a 'flat pack' like they do with the '32 roadster ?

 

I wonder when the completion date will be...I know they won't release it until its right....HRHP didn't even come close with theirs. Those bodys need another 20,000 in body prep before painting.

 

Great!!!!!!!!Now all that "****" thats too rough for the excessive compulsive set will be cheaper for us.

 

I'm with pschodaemon. I prefer the 5 window coupe. I have a Brookville 30-31 roadster body and can verify that it is high quality. I read somewhere that one fooled the AACA judges.
Don

 

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No, all that "****" will all of a sudden be "worth" almost as much as the price of the Brookville body...

 

same here: I have a 31 roadster and the body is really nice!
I guess you have to take into consideration that the 3w is the most desirable (rare?) body style out there. I hope that will put an end to people paying $2k for a set of window moldings.
It is funny to think that a lot of people will hack up a brand new body when they receive it to chop a couple of inches out of the roof.

 

My gl*** is always half full. I'll be able to afford a new Brookville Deuce five window someday.

I can't wait.

JH

 

20K a piece and you guys are excited about a re-pop?
Unless it was made in the year 1932 it is a reproduction no matter what it's made of.A $7000 gl*** body is a hell of a lot cheaper and just as fake.

 

I'd rather buy the new one for 20 grand than an old rusty original one for 10 grand that needs every patch panel available and a 1 inch thick coat of putty to make it straight.

I'll start saving my pennies now. Maybe I can afford one by the time I retire!

 

So I take it they're going to just be "Brookville Body" or something now? Can't very well be "Roadster" if they produce a closed body.

 

So that will drive the price way down, since they will flood the market with fakes ...right? I didn't think so.

 

I am here to tell you that the prices for real **** is a joke right now. Anything will help. I was at Indian Mike's last night and he wanted to sell me this pile of **** for 6 grand!
This car cannot be saved. That's what 6 grand looks like right now.
Paul

 

the door skins are just welded to the ****ing body and there isnt 1 square inch on this thing without a dent on it. The roof is twisted and ****ed five different ways. He will get 6 grand for it.

 

Yes he will...
And once you can buy 2 brand new doors for it, it will be much easyer ( OK... less hard ) to save.

 

I feel SO deprived .....my Brookville 31 isnt a "REAL" modelA.....sedan dad....gettin a little bit elitist aren't ya???

 

A lot of Model A's have been saved because Brookville will sell the parts separate, and they are good parts...
If they will do that for the '32 3W as well, it will save some Deuces as well.
I tried to talk to one of the guys form Dearborn Deuce about that last year at the Scotsdale Goodguys show, and he was a total jack***...
He said nobody would be able to put his stuff together right, and that would screw up his good name.
Maybe what he was trying to tell me was, his stuff dont fit worth a ****?

 

Wish I could afford the stuff.....new that is....I'd buy STEEL in a flash!

Going by the logic that these new bodies are just replicas (which I'll agree technically they are), then how many patch panels does it take to make an original body non-original???

Sounds like semantics to me!

 

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Funny thing about it is Sedan Dad's new car is 'gl*** if I'm not mistaken.

I'd give $20K for new steel '32 coupe but recently p***ed on a 'gl*** roadster body at $1000. I don't care what your car is made of but mine will be steel. New or old doesn't matter, just gotta be steel - for me.

JH

 

Yes my new ride is gl*** and I'm O.K. with that and if it was a brookville steel I wouldn't pretend that it was more than it is,a reproduction.It's just the facts.Just because a body is a steel reproduction ,it's still a reproduction.
32's were built in 1932 by Henry Ford not Brookville.
I don't have a problem with repo's let's just be honest about it and not make it out to be more than it is.
Sedan(gl***)Dad

 

I just wish they'd re-pop '29 touring bodies...
Sam!

 

I have a gl*** roadster and a steel mor-door,,,,,,,and if I had the cash I think I'd go for a Brookville 3-window,,,,,,,

I don't have the gotta be " Original Henry " mentality

I do have the desire to have a unchopped original lookin' 3-window........my 2 cents....... HRP

 

Ford didn't make the 3 window bodies anyway. He sub let it to a coach builder the same as he did the fordor sedans.

I think it only matters to restorers and "Mine'$ inherently better than your's because..." mentality $treet Rodder$.
All a "real hot rodder" is going to care about is how does it handle, and how fast and quick is it.

 

i see that there a lot lot of different reactions to brookville coming out witha 3 window body. i myself like original bodies, i'm working on an original `32 3-window now ....but it would have been easier and cheaper to go with with brookville ..and you know it will be right