Hot Rods The EUROPEAN DEUCE thread

I remember it well! 324 DOR is the same one as post 405

 

Good eye, Dave.
On another note, spotted last weekend during the European Street Rod Nats (near Le Mans, France):

 

From Norway

 

Here's a few more of my photo's:






This is a 4 door converted to delivery, it's the same car but photos taken years apart. The first 2 from the mid 80's the last possibly early 90's.

The next one is probably one of the earliest to be rodded in the UK owned by John Wilkinson in the 70's and featured on the front cover of Custom Car, this was after a full recent rebuild.

 

Here's a photo of John Wilkinson's deuce I found on Facebook (from a posting by David Murcott)

 

The next two photos are the only B400 style euro deuce built in the UK that I am aware of. It's based on a glass replica and was actually manufactured as a B400 by a company called Jethro Automotive. They also did a 2 door sedan as did another company called Jago. Strangely both companies changed the suicide doors to front hinged, maybe to make them look more like the US version.In my opinion they would've been better keeping them as a true replica

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here's a few more random pics of mine, most of which have been seen on here before:

 

a few more:

 

It may have already been covered, but curious why some cars had the faired in style front fenders and some did not.
Would it be due to the stated/titled model year, such as 32 or 33/34?

 

The "faired in" fenders are, indeed, typical of '33-34 European sedans. Ford also slightly changed the body and the windshield in particular. (Check out the red Tudor and the blue Tudor below it, in post 668). Those '33-34 European sedans were only produced in the UK as far as I know, i.e., they don't seem to have been produced by other European Ford factories.

 

Thanks for posting all those pictures, Dave. Some interesting stuff I've never seen before, including the red version of the delivery.

 

thanks, here's a few more:

 

Love that one, too, Dave ↑
And here is a picture sent by Tony Thacker, which he took this week in the UK:

 

Me too! It was the stand out rod at the Supernats, nice to see something different from the norm.
That is very nice! I'm looking forward to seeing it finished, do you have any more details on it?

 

Not much info, besides the fact that the car is at Buckland Automotive, a shop owned by Adrian Smith

 

That should be a very nice rod when finished then as Buckland builds a damn fine hot rod

 

From Sweden - photo by Per Webb

 

Here's some pix from Wheelsday 2014:

 

I'm generally not a wide white and hubcap kinda guy, but this is one classy looking car.

I gotta give kudos to all you guys for bringing the European segment of the deuce world to our (my) attention, I never even realized the existence of such special cars.

 

Thanks Denny.

That's Gary Kybert's "late model" 1934 "Deuce" ;-)

 

Here's an unusual one, 4 door converted to a 5-window pickup:

 

Thanks Dave. A few lil' changes & this one would be interesting!

 

I managed to recover these photo's from an old PC today, taken at Wheelsday 2007:

 

Love the 1st picture. Makes me wonder how my Tudor would look with a set of early American Racings from the '60s. Yeah, a bit too "late" for the style of my car. Then again, the French flathead V8 is from 1962, so...

 

From Denmark

 

FANTASTIC find in France. Nicolas Espiard found this Euro Deuce (a rare V8 model) just 10 kilometers from home. One owner ’32. Parked in ’42 (!) when the owner passed away and totally forgotten. This gentleman bought the V8 model as he had a horse trailer. His 70-year old nephew decided to tear down the building where it was & found the car. Nicolas plans on cleaning the paint (to keep the patina), refurbish the interior, freshen up the V8. That’s it.

 

Restored Stock Car racer from the UK

 

from the UK

 

From France

 

That's quite a find, especially after sitting all these years untouched. Amazing that nobody ever ventured out to that building to see what was inside until recently.