Technical Calling All Coupesters! Let's See 'Em!

Very nice, Missysdad1!

 

Looks nice many smiles per minute coming.

 

Beautiful car.

 

Mine fits the coupester definition, but it will eventually be a coupvertible. And, yeah, I know that this isn't what you were talking about.

 

Actually, Tony, it kinda is. Coupesterism (my spellcheck sure didn't like THAT one!) broadly defined is the making of an open car from a closed car. And since this is my thread I can define it any way I want. Your coupevertible is welcome here any time.

BTW: Your car is coming along very nicely and looks really good now that it's in paint.

 

Thanks for including me, and thanks for the compliment. The finish isn't final paint, though; it's epoxy primer that turned out rather glossy.

 

if roll up windows are OK... mine was a 5w that came to me with a long gone roof. I don't like wind, so I did windows. I quit working on it 2 years ago for some reason(during a lacquer paintjob)

 

How did you convert the 5w coupe doors into cabriolet doors?

 

Wow! That's a lot of work! Do you have some construction photos?

 

Look at the last pic to study the driver door inner structure...look at the front lower corner; you will see a curve. That is a rear inner door (from the opposite side), of a 1931 Dodge 8 four door sedan. The rear sedan doors have a curve cut out for the back fender.

Then I cut up outer door skin pieces from above the Dodge sedan door window, and pieces below the Dodge window, turned some upside down, to make all the door tops work out.

It even has Dodge door hinges and latches. I did not have Ford stuff, because someone had ruined my doors by trying to make suicide doors. It was a mess

 

#dirtydutchmen

My 29 race only

 

I love it! When I was a lad the roundy-round "bombers" used the same chain anti-sway bar as you've got on your car! How cool is that!

 

been awhile since i have been on here.getting ready to start some more work done on mine coupster glad i found this page.i think mine started out as cabriolet .it has a one piece cowl briggs or murray an the doors have been narrowed to . it was an old hot rod from the late 60s then pulled out of a barn inthe 90s someone tried to make a rat rod out of it .now i have it an kind of stuck which way to go with it

IMG 20130309 180902 by mark197508 posted Mar 9, 2013 at 5:22 PM

 

That car looks great. Glad the right guy found it to rescue it.

 

its been awhile since i have worked on it . but i have been gettin a itch to get back at it

 

Ours is a different sort of Coupster being that the front 2/3 of the car is 27 touring roadster while the back end is from a 27 Coupe

 

Frank, you should go back and finish that thing, its really a great looking car. Trying to remember what happened here, something went sideways with paint or something??

 

30 Coupester with shortened posts using 32 stanchions and a chopped roadster windshield. I've rebuilt it twice in the last 3 years and drive the crap out of it on any day its not pouring down rain which in California lately is every damn day

 

Slick, looks good. I'm using '31 stanchions on my T.

 

question please : are you guys actually cutting coupes or are you using roadsters ? thanks

 

In most cases they started as Sport Coupes, Fords Model A 3 window.

 

Coupe-ster: Roadsters made from coupes (and, as has been pointed out already, from Sport Coupes).

 

thank you . rare cars tho

 

Rare perhaps to a restorer but in stock body configiration you could probably sell 10 five window coupes and 100 Roadsters to every sport coupe when done. We are hotrodders afterall Strip them down to go fast with the added benefit of the wind in your hair.

 

im no purist , a hot rodder . I have a coupe . drive it daily year round . like my fenders , but we are all different . when I was younger I cut a lot of cars ......... carry on

 

It's cool your in a climate to drive year round. I'm still cutting cars but cuts with purpose.

 

when I got my first "A" I lived in the high dessert , 0* - -20 & snow . grooved my own snow tires . its amazing what a stock "A" can do . to old now . ................

 

The latest paint on mine, always a work in progress. It'll be getting a freshly rebuilt 8BA and late toploader early next year, most likely. It's such a hodgepodge of multiple cars, to make the panels perfect would take a decade, so I let it be imperfect and tell the stories about how I got all the parts (one including driving with my very pregnant wife to Indiana to get the back half and doors on Thanksgiving!) .

 

Anybody got more coupester progress photos? Or how 'bout some new cars altogether?

Let's hear it from the coupester crowd! Yay!

 

You have to remember most of the sport coupes or coupes being cut into " roadsters" were not much but a cowl and quarter pannels

, I know back in the fifties someone might have sawed the roof off a 5w to make a roadster, but I doubt they would do it today

My coupester was missing every bit of roof pieces and door tops and rest of car was rusted badly , it would have been a parts car , and not worth much cause the parts were BEAT...

f&j's beautiful coupeiolet was even worse shape than my car , just cause it is nice now doesn't mean it was in the beginning