History How many made Ford 32

I has 32 5W coupe.
I read on model name 18 and Ford made ca 430.000 cars ( V8 & 4 cyl )
But is the 3W included in the 18 model ?
And was they only made in Detroit or many factorys in USA or maybe even in other part of the world ?
-Would be fun to know.

Found this.
http://gaukmotors.co.uk/car-make/ford/model-b-model-18-model-40-1932-1934

 

I always thought it was 56,000 x 5 window coupes.
This chart shows just over 49,000.
Been posted on here a few times.
The interesting news is that my standard fordor is rarer than a 5 window…….
Now how can I tell if it was originally a 4 cyl or V8 - model B or model 18 ?

 

If your number starts with a B, it was a 4 cylinder, if it starts with an 18, it was a V8, 3w's included

 

Sports coupe and 5W.
Same body ?

Was there made 5W coupe in Europe, South America, Australia or is those cars included ?

 

5W not made in Australia. Sports coupe only. (plus fordor, phaeton, roadster and roadster ute.)

 

So they made coupes outside USA ?
But if so, this cars is they included in the total numbers ?
As I heard no coupes was made outside USA, only chassis was sold ex, UK or Denmark.
If 5W was only made in USA, what factory made them, Briggs, Murray or ( Ford ) ?

What factory did build the 3W as I heard Ford did not made them.

 

I assumed that Canada made coupes, as all New Zealand cars (supposedly) came from Canada back then. We had coupes, roadsters etc.
It was to do with import duty being less or non existent as Canada was part of British Empire and USA was not ?

Sport coupe and 5 window is different.
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My 32 Henry cabriolet serial # was F18xxxx. I had to consult the HAMB as I had owned 7-8 early Fords over a 60 year period and had never seen the letter F as the first character of the vin. Come to find out F stood for right hand drive. Although it had been converted to a left hand drive hot rod years earlier,it still had the original right hand drive dash. Left side where the steering went thru was smooth—no holes to tie the steering to the dash——right side of dash had the two holes punched where the original rhd steering column bolted up to it. Car now resides in NewZealand.

 

If just talk on the 5W coupes.
( not ’sport coupes’ )
If its correct it was made total 49.246 ( V8 & 4 cyl )
This 5W bodys was made in USA and maybe Canada ?
Chart above say factory at ; Briggs/Murray/Ford, but what was facory name in Canada that made the 5W ?

I found this ;
Windsor East, Ontario, Canada made 32 Fords but nothings is said about 5W coupes, only roadster, sport coupes etc.
http://www.oldcarscanada.com/2011/02/1932-ford.html?m=1

Another question I has.
Was all 5W sold as rumble or not, if not - did it call ’business coupe’ ?

 

This site write that 51.804 of the std 5W coupes was made total, so numbers vary.
( I guess ruff it was made 50K of them )

-If someone can show the 5W coupes was made in Canada, please let me know.

 

This 32 5W is told was bild in Canada ( Toronto ) but did they mean by factory or the owner of the car ?
Anyway, Ford had a factory in Toronto in 32.
I can’t find anything more straight on facts on the web about the 5W production from Canada.
Someone might lnow here ?

https://mystarcollectorcar.com/july...da-first-gen-hemi-powered-classic-street-rod/

 

The 1932 ford book by David G. Rehor. Standard coupe Canada -18.- 881 - B - 924 TOTAL 1,805 . You can buy the 1932 ford books from the Early Ford V8 Club .

 

Thank's,
So the Canada factory builded 1.805 5W coupes, but is those car included in the numbers show ( around 50.000 )

 

Hank. 53, 891 TOTAL.

 

Great, Thank's.
( good to know the history )

 

I’ll just saw this movie on the 32 Ford.
If I got it right Ford themself did not make the bodys ( no model ) as it came in from other factorys but it shows Ford builded chassis and mechanical parts.
They talk about many Ford factorys over USA ( how many I don’t know )
As I’m most into the 5W coupe I wonder how many of the connected factorys to Ford builded the 5W ?
Would be great to know.

Movie told the most builded body style was the tudor sedan.

 

No I do not believe so. The Sport Coup should not have a steel roof.

I think that there were 3 plants in the US. I am probably wrong about that, but I think there were 3 in the US. Ford manufactured all over the world. There were minor differences from one country to the next but they would all have been 32 fords if they were built in 32.

 

I don’t know the complete number of 5Ws built worldwide but I do know I have a Canadian built model B 5W in my shop right now!

 

From The Henry Ford archives:
Ford Motor Company started building domestic assembly plants outside of Michigan in 1911, with the first assembly opening in Kansas City in 1912. The company continued to expand their domestic assembly operations, opening assembly operations across the country, until the Great Depression hit. In 1932/1933 the company was forced to shut down all but seven of their 31 assembly plants outside Detroit, only nine of the closed plants reopened when the economy improved. No new assembly plants were built from 1932-1947 and then at least one new assembly was added each decade until the latest assembly was added in 1987. There are currently eight domestic assembly plants still in operation.

There is a complete listing here : https://askus.thehenryford.org/faq/140528

 

In Holland i have two model V8-18 1932 Fords, One assembled in France and one came from Denmark so was
probably built in Europe too. Both DON'T have a 18 number in the chassisnumber and only
have a serialnumber with 6 digits. And yes they both have a factory stamped number.
I don't think the numbers in most books include cars built outside North America.

 

My 5W ( body ) is as the history was told a old Texas race car.
Where it was made I cant say.
On Europe.
From what I heard the chassis came from Ford but in UK and Dennark they builded own bodys and it was no 5W made overhere.
No one in rest of the world exept Canada made them.

-So it was allot of Ford factorys in US, but Ford in reality did not themself made bodys ( it was external factorys ) as I get it ( correct or ? )

But is story told all of them in USA made the 5W ?
Or was the 5W only made in some of them ?
In the movie I saw Ford shut down many in mid of 32.

 

Buy this book. It will answer everything.
The Early Ford V8 Club has a website and you can buy it there.

 

Not to hijack this thread, but I've always wondered why '32 was an only-year styling... They abandoned their multi-year production precedent (with annual updates) and jumped into '33 with a new design, which only ran for two years. Subsequent years were a gradual change of design. It would be interesting to know what drove the change for '33.

 

I can get the books but did try before oversea get them but its hard, and they get expensive.
I’m not inte deep history, just like to know the roots of my coupe. Therefore I’m asking here.

I don’t know the idea of a one year only body but look how cars developed to ex 1936.
From the A-Ford it was huge step. And one saw the 36 style allready late 32 ( 3W ) or even more at 33.

 

Competition no doubt !
After all wasn’t the ‘32 body style just a ‘facelift’ model A with a V8 added ?
Maybe that’s why it only lasted 9 months……..
The ‘32 3 window was supposedly already part of the leanings toward the styling of the future ‘33 model, or so I have read.

 

$695 on Amazon ! - Probably around $1000 of our dollars here, plus shipping.
Includes vol 1 & 2.

 

Funny that wikipedia displays a Euro Tudor as a example.

 

If you went to the EFV8 Club site you'd see it it $USD 64.00
https://shop.efv8.org/collections/ford-books

 

Any fan of the 32 really NEEDS those books.