Bare Steel 32 RPU Cab at LARS???

[NealinCA]

I went to the LA Roadster Show, but missed this...

http://drd57.hypermart.net/LARoadsters04/R1010262.JPG

http://drd57.hypermart.net/LARoadsters04/R1010263.JPG

I saw these pics on DRD's coverage of the event.

Was this new or was it a gennie cab? Does anybody have any more pics of the cab? Especially the the inside showing the rear cab/B-pillar bracing.

I really wish I had a chance to look at it in person. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

I need to go for more than one day next year.

Neal

[OGNC]

It is the new Brookville 32 RPU cab. There is shots of in in their new catalog. Saw it in person and it is really nice. I think they're getting $8,500 just for the cab! They're proud of 'em, but they're really pretty trick. They use the satandard 32 roadster cowl and doors...

[Ragtop]

Neat! My buddy has an original one - built here in Canada in 32 and shipped to OZ. He had it shipped to California and then back here years ago - It's made the complete trip now. Roadster cowl and doors with a stepside type of box - uses rear fenders like a 4 door deuce if I recall. I think he's gonna use one of his Arduns in it if he ever get to it. Cool!

[NealinCA]

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It is the new Brookville 32 RPU cab. There is shots of in in their new catalog. Saw it in person and it is really nice. I think they're getting $8,500 just for the cab! They're proud of 'em, but they're really pretty trick. They use the satandard 32 roadster cowl and doors...

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No, this is Brookville's version...

http://drd57.hypermart.net/LARoadsters04/R1010186.JPG
http://drd57.hypermart.net/LARoadsters04/R1010256.JPG
I really don't care for the Model A style bed with the 32 car tank sticking out the back.

I went back to Don's site and saw he had captions on the first two pics I posted. He said it was made by Scandinavian Street Rods...I guess the sign on the door might have been a clue http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Any details would be appreciated.

Neal

[slazzen]

is that a gennie one in the back ground ???

[klazurfer]

Neal , I might be out on a limb here , But that Yellow/Black gennie in the background is ( was owned? ) by Erik Hansson who moved from Stroemstad ( Sweden ) to Calif a year back . If I know him right , ( Known him for 27 years ) then that PU body is his work . I am not too impressed by the way he did business over here , But he sure as hell do NICE work when he wants to .Me , Erik & Ronnie Krabberod startet "Scandinavian Street rod" back in `82 , but it is now ( Since long ) all in the hands of Erik .He has all the skills needed to reproduce those bodys , so as said , it would surprise me if it`s not his work.
BTW .. The engine in that NEAT yellow&black "Stockr`" http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[OGNC]

And the sign at the Scandinavian booth said that they used Brookville parts and assembled the bodies themselves. My bad.

[Detonator]

Hey Neal -- I saw the B'ville one, but missed the other, too. The B'ville version looks like a modified roadster. The cowl and windshield posts are really pretty different on a "real" one. Jim Stroupe up in the Santa Rosa area has the real deal, I believe he's here on the HAMB. There were some pix posted of it awhile back (it may have been at Billetproof). That second body at LAR looks more like the real thing, but I wonder if they're repoppoing the windshield posts, etc?

[NealinCA]

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Jim Stroupe up in the Santa Rosa area has the real deal, I believe he's here on the HAMB. There were some pix posted of it awhile back (it may have been at Billetproof).

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I have looked at his truck at Paso and the Rattle Can. I took a bunch of pics at Paso last year and posted them here.

I am curious about the W/S posts also. As far as I know, they use a 30-31 roadster W/S frame.

Neal

[klazurfer]

Well , Erik have assembled A LOT of Brookville Deuce-roadster bodys since he moved to LA ( His $$$inncome, so to speak ), so that sign you saw might have been refeerin`to those ( ? ) The roadster PU body shows signs of lead-work & shrink & hammer/dolly work , so I still belive they are low-# productions offered by Erik .

[klazurfer]

I must have posted my answers in invissible ink .... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[NealinCA]

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I must have posted my answers in invissible ink .... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

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Thanks for the info Klaz http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

It looks like Erik does some nice metal work. I wonder what he get$ for one of those RPU bodies?

Neal

[klazurfer]

I was told that Erik should be home visiting his family in Sweden by now , So I could try to call him if you want ? ( PM me ? )

[wideglide74]

The real deal...

[klazurfer]

And here is Eriks PU ( Pic taken outside his former shop in Stroemstad )

[Harrison]

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It is the new Brookville 32 RPU cab. There is shots of in in their new catalog. Saw it in person and it is really nice. I think they're getting $8,500 just for the cab! They're proud of 'em, but they're really pretty trick. They use the satandard 32 roadster cowl and doors...

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No, this is Brookville's version...

http://drd57.hypermart.net/LARoadsters04/R1010186.JPG
http://drd57.hypermart.net/LARoadsters04/R1010256.JPG
I really don't care for the Model A style bed with the 32 car tank sticking out the back.

I went back to Don's site and saw he had captions on the first two pics I posted. He said it was made by Scandinavian Street Rods...I guess the sign on the door might have been a clue http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Any details would be appreciated.

Neal

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For me this body looks WAY too much like a Thom Taylor rendering for a gold chainer. The "A" bed and '32 tank just aren't working together either. I like the chunky beltline and cab back on the first one pictured. It looks more like a truck and less like a car.

JH

[Hyfire]

KEEP IN MIND... that Brookville is bringing out a '32 bed to go with it.

I could be wrong, but I would dare say that this one is just to have something on the rear. When I called Brookville they said the '32 bed will be finished and priced soon...

[alchemy]

Hey Klaz and Nealin, I'm interested in knowing about these cabs too. I have an original but need some more parts. Any contact info would be appreciated.


- alchemy

[Bruce Lancaster]

For the record, NOTHING on these things is even remotely similar to roadster, Ute, or closed cab parts...
And a probably annoyingly useless lead: Years ago when I subscribed to Hemmings, there was a perpetual tiny ad in the back someplace from a guy who made aluminum cast replicas of the WS posts, which are of course unique and unfindable. Surely someone somewhere still has the molds.

[alchemy]

I think the subrails and the front edge of the cowl are the same as a closed cab. And the middle of the back panel is too.

Originals were probably assembled much like the Swedish guy does, pretty much one at a time. They were a fairly "special-order" thing. Kind of like 32 sedan deliveries.


- alchemy

[tommy]

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An all steel gennie.

[lurker mick]

The new Brookville RPU looks suspiciously like my RPU that was built 10 years ago, but built out of an alternative body material, I like to call early carbon fiber.

Gibbon body with a Chris Boggess hand made steel bed and gennie gas tank at the back way before Brookville did it.

[lurker mick]

Here's a shot of the bed.

[lurker mick]

I think the tank looks better on mine than brookvilles does, although theirs should look better with a 32 style bed.

[thirtytwo]

i talked with a pickup cowl and made the rest i can measure jims windshield if you want neal... its at the shop right now... i do know the stanchions are super wierd and has a piece of wood wrapped in tin on the bottom maybe mike could come out and get some pics for you

[Boones]

I seen Brookvilles 32 roadster PU a few days ago while touring their place. I have a pic or two of it on my site..(Link below). look under car shows and then for the Cruise to Columbus folder.. Really nice, would like to have one...

[50Fraud]

Mick, that truck is great looking. It's the first Deuce RPU I've ever seen (gennies included) that I thought could stand up to the rest of the '32 body styles.

[DRD57]

Hey Micky, what are those red things over the tires?

They look kinda like f-f-f-f-f-fenders!

hahahahahaha

[lurker mick]

Thanks Tony, I appreciate that.

Don, Go Ahead make fun, get it out of your system before speedweek! You know all those years that I said "Fenders and Tops Suck" I was just kiddin! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[klazurfer]

OK , Here`s the News : As I thought , that Body was/is made by Erik Hansson. Could not get hold of Erik , so I called my friend Mike Fors ( who was at LARS ) , and he could confirm it . The body is a copy of the original Ford unit , But the doors have Steel insides rather than the Stock wood pieces . Forgot to ask about the windshield posts ... KLAZ
Alchemy .. PMd you about Eriks` email address . http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[NealinCA]

Klaz - Thanks for following up. I hope to see some of Erik's work in person sometime.

Neal

[roadstar]

It sure does resemble the original. I have wanted to do one for some time. The Brookville one is not even close but it would make a very nice looking truck. The stock version is very comercial looking.

The windshield area will be interesting to see if those parts are right. The filler below the w/s frame is a very tough part to find if you are doing a real 32 RPU and the w/s post are just as hard to find. The w/s frame itself is round like a model A not flat like a 32 roadster.

Here is a spy shot of a original that a GOOD friend has locate for me and I hope to make a hotrod out of it someday. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[NealinCA]

One more thing...

Is there supposed to be a wood tack strip around the back of the body for the top to attach?

If so, does anyone know what kind of wood Ford used, oak possibly? I sounding like a restorer now http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Like shown in red?...