ID this roadster.... WHAT IS IT?

[Tuck]

found this for sale as a model A... what is it?

[Tuck]

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[55olds88]

Damn Tuck its a whatcha call it !!!
the rear 1/4's look kinda A like, wonder if someone tossed a late 30's cowl/windscreen frame in to the poor thing....doors kinda look wrong too.

[Bass]

Looks like a '30 Model A Sport Coupe with the tops of the doors and a-pillars lopped off and a later model windshield frame molded on.

[Tuck]

I see welding around the window frame? Its for sale in wisconSIN for just under a grand... just curious what the hell??? b/c the cowl totally threw me off, and the dash etc etc maybe it was a old custom/hot rod in the works...

[sodbuster]

Tuck, I was just looking at that and thought it looked kinda cool if it was channeled. I found it in the same spot as you.

Chris Nelson
Kansas

[zonkola]

Bass nailed it. The firewall, fender wells, and general shape mark it as a '30/'31 A. The filled doors mean it used to be a sport coupe (or maybe cabriolet?). Also note where the back of the cockpit is in relation to the rear wheel well. A true roadster cockpit ends right in front of the wheel well, but the sport coupes keep on going another 6 inches back...

[Fat ASS Whitewalls]

I like it!Buy it and build it! Dean

[Bass]

Some other identifying marks: The rear inner fenderwell has the three connected lines as opposed to the three "dashes" that are roadster only. The beltline body reveal does not wrap around the quarters as it would on a coupe or roadster, therefore it must be a sport coupe. The firewall does not have the extra indentation that would be present if it was a mid-year to late '31, so it's either a '30 or early '31.

I think that's an OK price if it's pretty solid. I'd cut the funky windshield frame off and use chopped and laid-back roadster stanchions and a chopped A windshield frame. You might be able to use that top frame...it's actually pretty cool looking.

[30roadster]

It looks like a giant wad of body filler on the cowl to me... it's a 1930 roadster...and it gets cold in cheeseland so they figured they needed a top http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[tokyo]

i think that it is a....um....ahh.....yeah what bass said... your schemeing somthing huh.

[redpunk]

Hey Man, do you have a picture of the dash on that thing??

[Kevin Lee]

I'm agreeing with Bass on everything - including choppin' the windshield off. Or at least rake it back or sink it down or something so it doesn't look so goofy.

The guy who owns it probably had a Haro Sport but wanted the "Master" so bad he just bought the Master decal set and put it on. Totally obvious to everyone it was a sport - single top tube for all to see and not the super agro double top tube that was oh so much better for frame surfing in your OP JAMS. But at least he was convinced he had a Master that summer.

[C9]

I think the Sport Coupe bit is right, but I'm wondering about the extreme angle change between door front and cowl.

Do you think the front of the cockpit was widened to accept the windshield posts?
Something doesn't look quite right.

I think the builder was on - if not the right track, an interesting one.

Looks to me if you brought the dash/cowl rear back to standard 30-31 width getting rid of that extreme angle change, narrowed the windshield and chopped it you would have a good looking and very different car.

At the risk of boring you guys to death with pics of my 31, here's one anyway.
Note the very smooth and slight angle to the transition area from door to cowl.
This is a Brookville body albeit in stock form except for the firewall indent for a V8.

[Smokin Joe]

30 Sport Coupe, but the windshield and door window frames are custom touches from something else newer. The sport coupe had rectangular door windows. I saw one done kinda like this once before. That one had a later rounded windshield and rounded backs to the door windows like you see on this one. Came out looking like a Model A mated to a 40's Ford coupe with the top padded. Sounds wierd but it actually looked pretty good. Lotta custom work. More than your average "Carson Top". No pics, but I remember I liked it.

[SamIyam]

30/31 Sport Coupe.

I think it would make a bitchen' hot rod... I saw it on e-bay and kinda wished I lived closer to it...
Sam.