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Posted By Discussion Topic: To rumble, or not to rumble in "39" -- page: 1 2 3     thunder road 02-01-2017 @ 7:36 PM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 212 Joined: Dec 2016 Alan, sometimes by beating a dead horse a lot of learning can come from it . Who knew that 37and 39 cabriolets share virtually the same body. or that, that trunk Handel is to release the rumble lid. Or where did they put that spare. Their is a 1937 ford small top convertible in the new March 2017 issue of hemmings on page 337 priced at $41,500 or best offer. Dose this mean that I could put a 1939 front clip on this car? Dose the cowl, firewall lower cowl accept the 39 sheet metal without any modification? I am a purist at heart , but if the parts just bolt on, and you keep all the original stuff and the car can easily go back then I am ok with it. Dom Domenic ford38v8 02-01-2017 @ 3:12 PM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 2883 Joined: Oct 2009 Dom, You're beating a dead horse. The open car models available from Ford are listed in the first response to your question. Alan thunder road 02-01-2017 @ 4:03 AM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 212 Joined: Dec 2016 On page 130 of the " ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF FORD BY GEORGE H. DAMMANN " bottom of page year 1938. the camera angle makes it difficult to tell if this is the deluxe convertible coupe with rumble seat or the deluxe convertible club coupe, shown above in the artist rendering .Ford archives have the picture identified as the rumble seat version , but close inspection would seam to indicate that it could be the club model. The rumble seat version sold for $770 . When they say rumble seat version it leads you to believe that a trunk version was made? Dom Domenic juergen 01-31-2017 @ 3:22 PM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 275 Joined: Jan 2010 It is not steel, but Wescott makes this body style and you won't offend a purist by modifying a work of art. trjford8 01-31-2017 @ 4:25 AM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 4356 Joined: Oct 2009 The spare tire stood upright and was mounted to a bracket behind the front seat. thunder road 01-31-2017 @ 3:43 AM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 212 Joined: Dec 2016 About seven years ago I had a personal lengthy conversation with Bob Drake at the fall Hershey meet where he explained to me his dream of recreating the 40 ford coupe. He had one of the competed cars their on display in bare metal and the car was spot on. Every spot weld was where it was suppose to be. Every seam including the roof ended where it was suppose to, as ford had originally made it, and the metal gauge was as thick or thicker. We talked about how this help to keep original cars alive if someone needed a quarter panel or running board they sold the pieces separately. They did not reproduce the hood, and only the front fenders had an extra seam in them. After two years or so he sold the right and dies to Dennis Carpenter who still produces them today. I think between the two of them they could come up with the missing pieces to create this roadster with a full trunk, like the coupe. This would be a great alternative to going out to buy a new car. Lastly where did they keep the spare tire in the original 1939 convertible coupe? Dom Domenic 3w2 01-30-2017 @ 5:43 PM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 877 Joined: Oct 2009 Not to throw a monkey wrench into this, but given that '37 and '39 cabriolets (yes, I know that the '39 did not use that name) share virtually the same body and several known obviously original '37 cabriolets exist with trunks, how certain can we be that the same cannot be said for a few of the '39 version. Those trunks were not merely rumble compartments without the cushions and a forward hinged lid, but rather a real trunk lid, quarter panels, and lower and upper back panels like the coupes. (Mike, Roy owned one of them briefly.) ford38v8 01-30-2017 @ 4:58 PM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 2883 Joined: Oct 2009 Dom, Ford's marketing department had to consider offerings from it's new Mercury division as well as from Ford, in order to prevent direct competition with each other. It's easy to play Monday morning quarterback and say what they should have done, but they had the numbers, and took actions based on their observations of the market at that time. The handle below the license plate was indeed a release mechanism for all models. A trunk latch is easy to imagine in that location, but for the rumble latch, it was connected by cable and pulleys, around the side of the body, up and around to the top of the ruble lid latch. If you look at Kube's picture from yesterday morning, you'll see the latch itself. Alan TomO 01-30-2017 @ 7:26 AM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 7385 Joined: Oct 2009 The handle in the photo is for opening the rumble seat. Tom thunder road 01-30-2017 @ 3:53 AM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 212 Joined: Dec 2016 The car that I wished ford would have built in' 1939' and '1940' is basically the coupe body with the small convertible top of 1939. This car would have used the same trunk lid, and would have had the same full size trunk as the coupe. It's only now that I realized that they never did this in 1939. This would not have been hard for them to do since they already had the coupe body to work with. Lastly can someone tell me what that trunk handle looking thing with the license plate light in it dose since it appears this dose not open and is not a trunk, in the picture . Domenic Domenic This message was edited by thunder road on 1-30-17 @ 3:58 AM

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