Old Ford pics

[CobraJoe]

That is too cool Gene!

[Gene]

🙂

[djfordmanjack]

my 32 project.

[CobraJoe]

Very nice Gunther! I can't even begin to imagine what it cost to build a '32 overseas???

[djfordmanjack]

Actually this/my project story couldn't be more different, Joe !

It's a friends abandoned project, that I traded a few weeks of work for, no money involved!
which was even his suggestion, so it's a win/win situation for both of us. I have maybe 3-4k of cash in additional parts in it, and the project was approx 75-80% complete (in parts that is. a lot of the minor quality work has to be redone). I can only build this because I have collected many 1930s Ford parts over the last 25 years, leftovers from other restorations and such.
So this is not going to be a fully accurate restoration or high end traditional hot rod. But fwiw, it is a real steel 1932 Ford Cabriolet with all Ford drivetrain and even an early flathead V8 ! 
I learned most of this procedure from our good friend Jay.... he builds the nicest cars from leftover stuff.

[RICH MUISE]

My third car ever was a '32 Cabriolet. Very rare. Never even worked on it. It was close to a driver, but at 16, I had no idea what to do on it. When I got my license, I bought a '58 Fairlane, and then traded a '54 customized Ford convertible (my first car, also never drove because I didn't have a license) for the '32.

[djfordmanjack]

Great stories, Rich !
The 58 was probably the best car of the 3. I guess cabriolets were more common in New England, due to the wet and cold conditions in winter.
Jay told me he only ever restored 33 and 34 cabriolets and coupes, never a roadster. Because that's what he could find locally. Makes sense.

To prove the theory wrong, my cab came from - California - of all places (in the early 1990s)! It is an old 1950s/60s hot rod with plenty of bumps and bruises. at one point the body was channeled at least 8" over the frame. Kinda cool to see the history, but they left a mess to repair...

I think only about 5000 1932 cabriolets were ever built in the US, that's only half the number of roadsters.

[djfordmanjack]

I have to add, Rich, that even by ca 1960 it was already a nearly 30 year old car, and it probably needed some major work to make it roadworthy or even streetlegal. it's still a great memory to have, though !

It was close to a driver, but at 16, I had no idea what to do on it.

[rmk57]

  Early 1960's Okanagan camping in a 1957 Meteor wagon.

 

[Edd505]

1930 A another of my buddies oldies