Thread: Hot Rod List?

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Dose any one know a web site where they will have a list of hot rods so i can see what some look like and what once i will like?

The gallery here at CHR has quite a few photos (before & after) in it of lots of different kinds of cars & trucks, it might be a good place to start...

Did you find anything at the junk yard?

And www.carnut.com Go to the pictures section, it's broken out by years and makes.....................plan on dedicating a lot of time.

actually i had a few in mind i was thinking of a
Roadster like this one, but i dont know what make it is, and if thats what its really called(could you guys tell me i think its a ford)

or a 37 ford coupe like this one
or a 56 Chevy Bel Air Like This

well the one your looking at eather a 33 or 34 ford sedan a roadster is a convert

And as you refine your education, if you wish, you'll learn that red sedan has a '34 style grille, whereas the '33 has a bit of a forward "swoop" to it toward the bottom and a thinner outer band. Their overall body shapes are nearly identical. As for the roadster, you'll learn that a roadster has a single seat (bench style) passenger compartment and no side glass, plus a "free standing" windshield assembly. They often had a rumble seat, which if you don't know, is under what most people think of as a trunk lid. It opens "backward" to reveal the seat. Not particularly useful in any but the best of weather. If it were a body style with a front and back seat, all under one folding top, no side windows and four doors, that would be a phaeton. A convertible, or more appropriate to the time frame, a cabriolet, has the single seat (and again a rumble seat), roll up windows and the windshield is integrated into the cowl (not detachable but for the glass and it's immediate frame being removable). If it has four doors, a front and back seat, integrated windshield and roll up windows, it's a convertible sedan.

Some added trivia is in the names Tudor and Fordor which I think goes back to the Model T Fords. Phonetically, Tudor and Fordor clearly indicate a "Two-door" and a "Four-door", but with some indirect sales humor it would appear that Henry Ford was equating the Ford family name to the family name of the King of England from the House of Tudor. For collectors, the 1939 Ford had the last true rumble seat roadster and I believe fiberglass replicas are available. From 1937 to 1940 there were "Standard" and "Deluxe" models where the Deluxe model of one year would be the standard model of the next year with minor changes in trim. I am weak on '35s and '36s but I don't recall the Standard/Deluxe dichotomy for those years. The '32 was a unique model of course, but the '33-'34 and '35-'36 seem to be quite similar except for grills and trim. The '41 was also a unique model and WWII interrupted production of the '42 in favor of Ford Jeeps. Then '46-'48 were basically all the same as the '42 differing only in the grill, hood ornament and trunk chrome. The '49-'51 shoebox design again remained the same except for trim and grill changes as were the '52-'54. then '55-'57 varied mainly in chrome and on and on. A noteworthy date was the 1939 Ford year which had the first hydraulic brakes. Braking was not much of a problem for Model Ts because they had a three pedal transmission so that one could apply the brakes AND invoke the reverse gear band at the same time, but the Model A Fords through 1938 V8s had poor mechanical brakes with clumsy pull rods to each wheel. I can recall "Standing" on the brakes of a '31 Model A coming down a hill and just barely stopping at a red light at the bottom, those brakes were poor at best but the 1939 brakes greatly improved that situation. There are two beautiful books on these cars: "Henry's Lady" for Model As and "The V8 Affair" for 1932-1941 Fords. I would rather drive a replica than create an expensive museum piece. To each his own.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Originally posted by Bob Parmenter
They often had a rumble seat, which if you don't know, is under what most people think of as a trunk lid. It opens "backward" to reveal the seat. Not particularly useful in any but the best of weather.

I like to call rumble seats "mother-in-law" seats, for obvious reasons...