History 1932 Ford Deluxe 3W Coupe, Murray Body # informal registry,how many are still around?

I just stumbled across this post. The 3w restoration I have been documenting for the past 2 years didn't have a body tag, but the VIN was still on the frame rail. Took some real forensic work, but it was still there.

 

Here is mine. My father owns two more. So count us in for three three windows.

 

I know of one locally that has been in a garage for at least 30 years and maybe a lot longer.Owner goes off the deep end if you ask if it's for sale.Have no idea what the body # is but you can add it to the count. Bob

 

I have owned 3 deuce 3w bodies and my dad has owned 2. Bare metal coupe body is my current project and keeper. No tags on any of them.

 

Gary has owned this 3W for a long, long time, bought it when the prices were in the hundreds. It's never been apart, rumble seat car, August serial # and the body tag is B520B-4988.

 

Here's mine...found on Kraigs List of all places. I've been told it came out of the mid west and was a channeled car when it came east so no tags. Re-done in the mid seventies.

 

Belongs to a buddy, was a channeled car so I dont think there is a tag.

 

I have had my channeled rumble lid 3win since 1972 no tag.Will post pic when I figure out how(computer novice...)Figured it out…

 

MickeyC here, I have a body, but no tags or floors.

 

Body Number is 11746

 

Another one, B520A, trunk car, body # 7993.

 

Traded this one to Dave Mehelich in Washington. No tags.



Here is mine. No floors, no body tag. It was a rumble lid car though. Going back with a trunk.

 

Try to look past the wheels they are just rollers.

 

i know of at least 10 in england

 

my body tag #8612 on all steel 3w

 

I have one. The floors are perfect, and so is the body tag.

 

I have had this one since 1969. Body was channeled over original frame. No floor, no body number. Rumble lid.

 

number 11746

 

Happy 80th birthday to the Deuce!


Thanks to all who contributed to this post here and on the other boards. To date, we've identified 25 Deuce 3Ws with body tags, several more with missing tags. Here is the list of the body #s identified from Fordbarn, the H.A.M.B., and DeucesLimited.com:



239
267
352
441
483
694
1636
1701
3103
4749
4988
5429
5576
5652
5956
7538
7622
7993
8214
8612
8830
9424
10293
11746
12660

 

I thought I would jump in as well......I think i see #8214 This car was found in a building and it has been sitting there for 45 years.....

Scott

 

That thing (body,hood, grille and frame only) was just on feebay and got bid to 42k, reserve not met.

 

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Kool info, Tilbury is just outside Windsor ON (across the river from Detroit), and I have never guess they made anything there back in the 30's.

 

Hows that???This one i found in Autrain mich[upper peninsula]25 years ago. It was a graduation gift in clare to a girl in 1932 .went from there up to the upper.Its All steel And all original steel. Wished now i hadn't customized it. Did it all at a younger age. I wouldn't sell it .

 

I'll contribute.
My coupe wears tag # B520A 5429.
D.

 

Where is the 3-window tag at? I never thought about mine 25 years later.I'd check it out.

 

It's under the right front edge of the seat, on the forwardmost steel cross rail that the back edge of the wooden floorboard rests on. It's riveted to the top of the cross rail. "Deuce Roadster" posted a picture on post # 27 on page 2 of this thread that shows where it's located, so check that out.

 

Just added this one from ebay, #5628:



Thanks to all who contributed to this and other posts we've identified 33 Deuce 3Ws with body tags, and a good number more with missing tags. Here is the list of the body #s identified from Fordbarn, the H.A.M.B., and DeucesLimited.com:

239
250
267
352
441
483
694
1636
1701
2095
2643
3103
4749
4945
4988
5429
5576
5628
5652
5956
7538
7622
7993
8214
8295
8612
8830
9020
9424
9744
10293
11746
12660

 

Count me in. No body tag though

 

Here's mine. Someday I'm going to blow it apart and ditch the restorod look and make it a traditional Hot Rod again. I'll look for the body tag when I gut the 70's GM red velour interior. Ugh! I would like to find some history on it too. It was originally bought in 1973 somewhere in LA by Kenny Walsh who brought it back to Ft. Dodge, IA and built it as a Hot Rod. I have pics of when it was sitting in front of a house in LA where he bought it. Kenny said it had roll bar mounts in it and may have been drag raced. The pics are still up in SD and I'll post them when I get them down here. The next owner, Dallas ????? changed it to the restorod look and put a lot of miles on it. It then passed through two more owners with me buying it from Don Bratt from Grand Rapids, MI in 1998.

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