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The 1932 Ford V8 or Model 18 has significant engineering advances over the previous Model A and the first mass market V8 to thank for its desirability in early hot rod circles. 80 years later, the ’32 Ford is still the ultimate hot rod—growing only more popular with each passing year. More »
This thing is awesome. The 1932 Fords are iconic automobiles, and its nice to see one that can remind us of why it became iconic in the first place. You would be totally insane to want to hot rod this thing – that’s what fiberglass bodies are for. This one is really unique and interesting just the way it is.
ranwhenparked
The cool thing about seeing one of these is watching the crowds walk right past the big dollar hot rods and make a bee line straight for the nicely restored originals. They just attract way more interest.
ranwhenparked
You can’t possibly be serious. Hot rodders are like 19th century architects – slavishly duplicating the same exact forms over and over again but just arranging them in a slightly different way. It looks great the first 1,000 times you see it, but after that, it just gets really old. Every single ’32 Ford hot rod is just a cookie cutter copy of the last one, and for the life of me, I just can’t tell the difference between the one that cost $30,000 and the one that cost $350,000, except that the owner of the latter usually has a more expensive Hawaiian shirt and designer jorts.
Original, unmolested, examples are way, way more interesting than seeing just another carbon copy hot rod – because, oddly enough, the unpersonalized ones have become more unique. You can probably count on two hands the number of ’32 Fords that have survived without being hot rodded.
ranwhenparked
The first guy to even think about painting this car bright red or making it a rat or even storing a Chevy engine within 20ft of it is going to get such a gigantic, concrete filled, steel toed boot in the nuts.
If you want Granpa’s cookie cutter show rod, go pick one up at Walmart. This one is too nice.
monkeyracing
It was built from pieces at the factory, wasn’t it? Sometimes, just to recreate factory screw ups, you have to take things apart.
monkeyracing
I like those old skinny almost bicycle tires.
No really though, it’s a nice car.
dogisbadob
Like I said, there are museums for that. Cars are machines meant to be enjoyed for what they do, not for what they look like or represent. The way a car performs defines its value to me with very few bonus points given for appearance/uniqueness.
And don’t worry, I wouldn’t dare put a generic 350 in it with an auto trans. I would go with a big Ford small block, 6-speed, and replace that antiquated suspension with custom double a-arms and IRS. Rollcage, racing buckets, lexan, CF or fiberglass panels, etc would be in its future as well.
Side Euler
Um, all the 409 Impala’s are Low Riders now.
SS427
I like the lines of the ’33 more, too. That front end is the sexy.
leicester
I bet that that brand new finish, restoration-typical incredible attention to detail, and recent paint job all make this car look significantly cleaner, sharper, and slicker than one in 1932.
Reckard
Yes, hard to find stock. They made one of the most popular rod bodies in automotive history.
seth1066
Well done, little brother.
spectra
Amen brother! There are scores of basket-case cars to hack up and modify, this one is the diamond in the rough.
texan01
While it’s great to see an unmolested ’32, I’d rather have a ’33 which has nicer lines and more power. Like the ’32, good luck finding an un-rodded ’33, though.
tonyola
Oh i had dialup connection a few years ago just like anyone else
Rx_37
And my friends can’t figure out why I’m drawn to the oddball, unloved marques like Studebaker, Desoto and English Fords. You can’t build those things new from the ground up by ordering out of a catalog.
Avanti II, notwithstanding…
DannyBN
Wait I thought it was a rule that all these had to be chopped, raped, and made into hot rods?
Sean_McGuirk
A much as I love a nice hot-rodded ’32 (a top 5 favorite) it’s really nice to see some that have escaped unscathed.
472CID
They build those whole cars to this day in either steel or aluminum, you can basically order a new body for them. I heard there are very few real bodies left and most have had something replaced. If this is an all original body and most of the mechanicals, its very rare indeed.
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If you think that’s bad, you should have experienced how slow their internet connections were.
DannyBN
Without a doubt!
rainsfather
I am almost 31 years old, and have been a passionate car enthusiast for 22 of those years. And today is the first time I’ve really seen a bone stock ’32 Ford roadster. This car is so beautiful.
Yurikaze
I’d take any flathead v8 over a modern v8 imediately
skrooloose
I’m verklempt.
BullittFan_Fords4Life
It’s amazing how useless that V8 probably is compared to modern day high-tech V8′s like the Ferraris putting out 570 bhp. It’s such a big difference and yet it’s still the same basic construction.
Rx_37
You can’t possibly be serious.
If you want a generic, Chevy 350-to-T350, bright paint Deuce, go buy a kit. There’s dozens of companies out there for you to bolt a Mustang II front suspension to. But don’t you dare chop this poor old soul up.
The 32 Ford, which is considered such an icon, has almost never been experienced in original form. It’s the SRT4, the WRX of a bygone generation. To find one like this, as original as possible (with, admittedly, a much nicer paint job) simply doesn’t happen. To hack up a generally unmolested example like this would be like getting a 409 Impala and having the motor bored out for a drag car.
We’re limited with how many matching-chassis originals we have out there, let’s try and keep them.
Nikola Tesla
Not my thing, but if you dig on early automobiles, this certainly should have your attention.
C³ – Cool Cadillac Cat
You’ll never find an original 32 Ford; the point is that this guy probably used as much NOS as possible, and built it to be a period-correct restoration.
Nikola Tesla
It really is refreshing to see an original ’32 Ford.
$kaycog
Slight drop, some “pipes” and some vintage speed parts and I would call it done. If I owned this car I couldnt leave it alone, thats for sure.
TheShadowFromHell
Wait a minute. I just read the listing:
“It underwent a frame off, nut and bolt restoration by its former owner a few years ago. It has the look and feel of how this iconic American automobile rolled out of the factory.”
I don’t think a frame-off restoration qualifies as “original.”
DannyBN
I’m going out on a limb here, but I daresay that the Flathead motors of Ford are some of the finest out there. We have the four-pot in the family’s Model B Truckster (of the same year), and let me tell you, nothing sounds quite as nice. It just purrs, wherever it goes.
Nikola Tesla
There are new body kits available for that.
Someone really needs to get this thing and modify it. If it’s 100% original nostalgia you’re looking for there are always museums and pictures.
Side Euler
I go to at least a dozen car shows each summer, and it truly is rare to see a stock ’32 Ford like this. Problem is, most of the rods are fiberglass-bodied replicars (at least in my experience) so I’m guessing the ratio of real ’32′s to fakes is about even.
p.s. Nice Price
DannyBN