3 window coupe

[Dave Mellor NJ]

In the current Antique Automobile from AACA

[mercman from oz]

1931 Ford Model A Three Window Coupe

[Bob Bidonde]

Ford made a few prototype Model "A" 3-window coupes. At least one has survived and is privately owned on the West Coast.

[Bob Bidonde]

Ford made a few prototype Model "A" 3-window coupes that did not go into production. At least one of the prototypes has survived and is privately owned on the West Coast.

[Gene F]

Few yes, but they sure are sweet looking. The Fridgidare pickup trucks were too.

[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

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Originally Posted by Dave Mellor NJ

In the current Antique Automobile from AACA

Dave the picture is distorted (-at least on my screen) but that body appears to be a regular 45B body, ...and not one of the Budd-built 3W bodies. Am I mistaken??

[California Travieso]

Are the doors wider on the 3 window coupe?

David Serrano

[Keith True]

I think that picture was put there by accident.The 3 W coupe had no sunvisor.

[mercman from oz]

Prototype Model "A" 3-window coupes - Bob Bidonde

[mercman from oz]

Notice that this Coupe is parked outside Obsolete Ford Parts?

[Oldbluoval]

Note Obsolete’s phone #…those were numbers 70 years ago or more

[Ayers1]

Originally Posted by California Travieso

Are the doors wider on the 3 window coupe?

David Serrano

It almost looks like it came from a Tudor.

[The Master Cylinder]

Originally Posted by mercman from oz

Prototype Model "A" 3-window coupes - Bob Bidonde

Very interesting, it appears one of them is a slant window?

[Dave Mellor NJ]

Originally Posted by BRENT in 10-uh-C

Dave the picture is distorted (-at least on my screen) but that body appears to be a regular 45B body, ...and not one of the Budd-built 3W bodies. Am I mistaken??

As stated this pic was in the AACA magazine you have to get the magazine from somebody to get a good pic. I thought somebody might call the number for curiosity

[Randy in ca]

Originally Posted by mercman from oz

Notice that this Coupe is parked outside Obsolete Ford Parts?

And the hood is open!!

[47topless]

The 3 W looks much better with suicide doors. The hinges are then in a much better place.

[rotorwrench]

The slant windshield is a sign of subcontract manufacture. Ford didn't make the slant windshield bodies. It's either a Briggs prototype or it's a custom. Ford's first three window coupes were the 1928 Business and Sport Coupes in the model A era.

[Gary Karr]

I have heard that the three window Coupe is still in the LA area. I've only seen it once, at the MAFCA National Meet at the Queen Mary back in the early 70's. It's most likely the same one as pictured in front of the Ford Parts Obsolete store.

[Keith True]

There are some details that differentiate the Ford built slant windshield Fordor bodies from the other manufacturers.I think the easiest detail had something to do with the style of the D-nuts.Back about 20 or so years ago when I first got on here a couple of guys told me what to look for,and we determined I had a Ford built body on the one I had.But,on the slant windshield Fordors,no matter who made the body,the body parts were interchangeable.