Features Coachbuilt early Fords

If I look at the Mathis EMY 4 Roadster (build with Ford parts), I can see a lot of similarities to the Ford with the special body. Especially the doors with the front hinges and the sides of the bonnet.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=2105007&stc=1&d=1388387989

 

Another fortuitous discovery:
http://theoldmotor.com/?attachment_id=71199
http://theoldmotor.com/?attachment_id=71200

(I shall do battle with so-called intellectual property a bit later )

 

Where there's a will there's a way.


Apologies to The Old Motor and all the trouble they'd gone to, but I doubt if they'll have any better success than King Canute did.

 

A rather pleasant low-cut roadster on a T:

 

A '37 cabriolet by "Dutch" Darrin:




http://simanaitissays.com/2014/08/15/dutch-darrins-ford-cabriolet/comment-page-1/#comment-7538

 

This is a good-looking and distinctive car. It's interesting that Darrin accentuated the fashionable speedboat rake by tapering the entire body from the grille to the trunk, with an interruption for the "Darrin Dip". I've seen that done on a few other cars of the '30s, but it's more pronounced on this one than any other that I'm familiar with.

 

Have we had this one?

One of Edsel Ford's projects.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1518975768323381/

 

That was one of Edsel's personal projects, wasn't it? Interesting how much it DOESN'T look like a Model A, other than the radiator shell and the wheels.

 

I love those headlights. Marchal? I still think it could stand a bit of surbaissé if it doesn't involve shoving the radiator forwards. The fenders need to be a little bit taller relative to the headlights and grille.

 

Unknown coachwork on an A:

 

Great thread!
Thanks to all for your research and sharing. I'd love to have several... make that many!
Really neat,
Al

 

The above shot of the Model A was from the Stanford University collection, dated 1933, but no info on the car. Here's another Stanford shot from the late '20s; three variations on the Model T speedster:

I posted a very large image so you can really see the details.

 

How about another boattail Model A, from the September 27 auction in Oklahoma:



Maybe done with a '40 Ford pickup hood?

 

Certainly a post-WWII build; and I'd say much more recent than that judging by the attitude to material and technique. Even an amateur coachbuilder in the early days would have been aware that there are more ways to panel a car, and easier ones, than mass-produced steel pressings. Not a bad effort, though, all in all; though I'd be inclined to revise the profile of the door cut-outs, which look the wrong way around to my eye, and the very FoMoCo cowl.

 

1932 Ford by Pinin Farina:

http://www.fordbarn.com/2013/11/01/1932-ford-by-pinin-farina/

 

That's sexy. I like the back edge of the hood and front of the door at the same angle. Very sharp.

 

This was posted on Facebook today:

Says Bill Powell on the "Motorology" page, "Interesting 26 model T. Best I can figure it was built in Manchester, England about 1934. Has a cool suspension, horizontal coil springs above the axles, like a sixties formula car."

 

Do you have a clear picture of the coil-spring suspension?

 

I know as much as you do.

 

My favourites are the australian 5 passenger roadsters on '34 V8 Deluxe. Also like the similar post- war Anglias.

 

Have you got any pics, Steve?

 

Yes fella, I'll need to dig 'em out.

 

We haven't had the Albatross sports car.



Designed by cartoonist Peter Arno in 1939, it was meant to be manufactured in limited numbers on a Mercury chassis. It never reached production, but the one that was built survives.

 

Posted yesterday:



http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/check-out-this-weird-34-woodie.999564/

 

Just pulled a 1932 Ford Modell B out of a shed in switzerland
Built in Germany, coachbuilt by Drauz Karosseriewerke in Heilbronn, Germany, thanks to the guys over at ford barn.

 

Same car as in post # 53?

 

The coachwork in post #53 is by Drauz:

http://www.coachbuild.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=266&t=1690

Have we had this rather splendid '32, also by Drauz?

 

A cabriolet on an elusive Montier surbaissé Ford Model A chassis, courtesy of Chris Martin in Australia:

More here: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Charles-...=item4b0d44a685:g:dtMAAOSwiDFYP0NL&rmvSB=true

 

A 1933 Ford station wagon by Sørholte of Norway.