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Dave Mellor NJ 04-24-2024 11:51 PM

3 window coupe
 

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In the current Antique Automobile from AACA

mercman from oz 04-25-2024 05:57 AM

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https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/attac...p;d=1714042552

1931 Ford Model A Three Window Coupe

Bob Bidonde 04-25-2024 08:09 AM

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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 04-25-2024 08:11 AM

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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 04-25-2024 10:13 AM

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

BRENT in 10-uh-C 04-25-2024 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave Mellor NJ (Post 2306759)
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 04-25-2024 04:23 PM

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Are the doors wider on the 3 window coupe?

David Serrano

Keith True 04-25-2024 04:26 PM

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

mercman from oz 04-25-2024 05:16 PM

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https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/attac...p;d=1714050493

https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/attac...p;d=1714050493

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

mercman from oz 04-25-2024 05:18 PM

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https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/attac...p;d=1714042552

Notice that this Coupe is parked outside Obsolete Ford Parts?

Oldbluoval 04-25-2024 05:27 PM

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

Ayers1 04-25-2024 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by California Travieso (Post 2306896)
Are the doors wider on the 3 window coupe?

David Serrano


It almost looks like it came from a Tudor.

The Master Cylinder 04-25-2024 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by mercman from oz (Post 2306906)

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

Dave Mellor NJ 04-25-2024 11:54 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BRENT in 10-uh-C (Post 2306876)
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 04-26-2024 12:00 AM

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Originally Posted by mercman from oz (Post 2306907)
https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/attac...p;d=1714042552

Notice that this Coupe is parked outside Obsolete Ford Parts?


And the hood is open!!

47topless 04-26-2024 08:20 AM

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

rotorwrench 04-27-2024 10:28 AM

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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 04-27-2024 11:58 AM

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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 04-27-2024 12:00 PM

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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.


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