Some one told me today they have a model a Tudor with a door that opens on the back. Did they ever make such a car? Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
There was an article in a magazine I read years ago about putting a delivery door into the back of a regular sedan. I don't think they ever came that way though.
I was just wondering because supposedly it was one of only 400 Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
400 is the number tossed around for 32 sedan deliveries. I'm always leery of "someone told me" stories.
Never heard of a flower car, seems interesting. I was leery about it to, because he had no pics of it and I have yet to see it. That's why I asked you fella's. Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
When I was a kid there was a '29 tudor "flower car" like that in Symirna Delaware at a roadside fruit stand. Saw it every year on the way to Rehobeth beach , bugged my dad to try and buy it; no dice. We thought it looked factory built, std rolldown glass car with a sedan delivery back door.
Someone told me those are the rare sedan deliveries or the even more rare flower cars...Or even rarer custom conversions that came out later. Someone else told me we can believe everything we read on the HAMB.
Yeah and someone told me you have to watch out for the lurkers who just sit around and wait for the opportunity to make smart ass remarks. Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
"Compared to the panel delivery, of which just over 6,000 were produced, only 406 sedan deliveries rolled out of Henrys factories, based on a regular Tudor sedan body but with a rear door and paneled-in rear side windows, at an extra cost of $90 over a stock sedan. A very limited number of flower cars were also built, retaining the rear side glass." http://www.rodandcustommagazine.com...ord_tudor_delivery/viewall.html#ixzz2nsdsmHgb I'd hardly call Rod & Custom magazine the definitive word on Flower Cars, but I have no reason to discount them, either.
I saw one where a guy put a driver door on the back. He said it fit pretty easily. But he also built a plane at his house and flew it.
There used to be a number of them floating around that the guys just bought and used the door kit an not the side panels to have access to the back of the car.
Yes Ford did produce a tudor sedan with a sedan delivery door installed in the rear. They were special order mostly for salesman that could remove the back seat and use for work and install the rear seat for people to ride. I have seen a couple original examples at Model A Restorers Club National Meets.
My son in law did body work on a 1933 sedan delivery for a Fellow in the Kansas City area, i saw it...rear door looked like a factory item. Car is now a hotrod with some Brand of V8 in it.
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