Hot Rods Model A body on ‘32 chassis WITH FENDERS- Help!

It must have been upgraded right before Dad bought it because i looked at one of the tires on the slot wheels and it has “1971”. Not sure if that is date of manufacture, but if it is they were either on the car when he bought it or he changed the tires soon after buying it.



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I am really not as up on this stuff totally but I think that complete dash panel including the complete panel is Auburn or?. I remember Hamber @Flop working on a Deuce with a dash with opening a
On both sides like that...you may have been told this already. I will see if I can find that.

 

Rims are a bolt on the other stuff could be much older as I said.

One of the quickest dramatic changes to spiff up an old car is throw a set of Shiny rims and modern 1970s bias plys and it's not 1962 any more.

 

Moriarty-you nailed the Cragar steering wheel...



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Anyone recognize this steering box?



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You have a 46-48 axle 40 brakes and an f-100 steering box

 

Your Dash...honestly the ole backside really unveils a hell of a lot of historic clues that's for sure



Random Pierce Arrow dashes around 1932/34

 

This thing is about traditional as one could ask for. It was the real deal back in its day. Thank you for posting the additional photos. It is appreciated.

Just keep them coming.

 

So it looks like the entire dash panel is from the Pierce-Arrow to me.


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I am wondering about the big gauge holes adjacent to the glove box or whatever they were. As they are not on the stock dashes I posted and they do look possibly stock.

 

The car may have three distinct “periods”. Late ‘40s highboy SoCal rod. Late ‘50s/early ‘60s rebuild with V8 and fenders? Then a late ‘60s refresh with new some new parts, tires, custom trailer? I’m trying to understand which parts are from which era. When you say this car is traditional, which era would typically use these brakes, this steering box, and the suspension parts?


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My guess is the car was orig built 1947 approx or that’s when it became nice when they worried about insulation with the newspaper , I would guess it was updated slightly until the early , mid 60s when that crashed 57 Chevy was exploited for its running gear , then minor stuff again steering wheel , wheel and tire changes and that’s when your dad bought it

All that stuff was common used into the 70s then disc brakes 4 bar , Pete Jakes ect started producing parts

 

This was the Dash out of the 32 3 Window Hotrod Flop was working on. It was actually a Packard Dash.

Below is a link to @Flop's post who by the way is a master of Metalsmithing and also is pretty up on vintage Hotrod and is in fact in the thread below trying to connect Hotrod dots with the car the above dash was in.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...-hotrod-show-car.1105290/page-2#post-12550580

 

Nice read


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This could a have been an A-V8 Roadster from early Hotrod days in the 40s but it would have been likely a Flathead Ford with standard trans...was there a hood that you can remember

 

No never saw a hood or top


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I talked about leaning the Windshield posts back and not being an A Roadster expert have noted that some of these posts are hinged and adjustable down at the low end of the post...but I also recall seeing the posts heated and bent back...maybe I'm getting the chopping and leaning mixed up...

 

I would keep your Dads car as original as possible. Rebuild frame ,brakes,front end. Was anyone able to track down info on the agency he bought it from in amarillo. And thank you for your Dads service..

 

Thank you. I’ve asked one Hamber from the TX panhandle to ask around, and the shop manager from Rexrods here in S. TX says he knows several older hot rod builders in the Amarillo area that he will ask.
Would the local Amarillo DMV office give out previous owner info?


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Taillights are staying on the fenders on my car! I just really like that retro look


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I think the large holes adjacent were added way back and were nicely cut in giving one an impression they were stock.

Keep an eye for names or info hand scribed, penciled or painted on...any pinstriping left anywhere sometimes they signed their work.

 

Both are retro and either or is period but we know what it was when your Dad purchased it and your decisiveness in sticking with things is admirable.

Finding and knowing history does not mean a return is nessesary...its a choice but not exercising that and sticking with its 60's flavor is completely justified.

 

I think I still have a pair of these but the lenses are gone. If you want them I could send them to you. I hope you don't think I'm telling you what to do, either way you go is correct. If I was redoing my dads car I'm sure I would keep it looking pretty much the way he had it.

 

Would it be period correct to chop the windshield slightly, angle it back and little, and leave the top of the glass frameless?


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I think I’m good Jim but thanks.


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The F100 steering box became available in 1953. It probably took a few years before that box was in common use in hot rods. I think that most, if not all, of the drivetrain and chassis modifications were made after '57 and probably done in the early '60s.

 

I think frameless upper glass existed in the Hallock style windshields but I don't think it was a common thing with the stock windshield.

Again whatever you change these are unboltable reversals should you change your mind to return back. And I would keep the original windshield intact and mod another. You rely on better historically minded opinions than mine on changes and history. I really like that Gold Roadster but a stock windshield as yours is carrys itself historically and visually well too.

 

Riff I think this is a set of your wheels with period rubber looking pretty spiffy...



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