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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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Cool Cars: 1928-1938 Ford

Posted June 04, 2010 12:01 AM by dstrohl

In all my years of studying hot rods, I can't say that I've once seen somebody combine the nose from a '38 Ford DeLuxe with a fenderless roadster body, as done with this rod. Elephant seal looks aside, that is the kind of junkyard parts-mixing you'd see in an early hot rod. We'd love to know more about who built this and when. From the seller's description:

"The front end is a 1938 Ford standard track nose with hand formed metal sides. The hood back to the stretched 1928 Ford cowl into a Dodge touring car tub finished with a 1925 Ford Model T rear with a hand formed roll pan and side with Bonneville louvers. Under the hood is a Chevy 350ci V8 with 202 double hump heads original Edelbrock intake with 3 Rochester 2G's Mallory dual point aluminum Corvette valve covers aluminum radiator and spent fuel comes out hand built Lake style headers. The power goes to the ground via a TH350 automatic transmission into a quick change rear end.

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06/04/2010 7:58 PM

Maybe it's just me, but the T tail does not go with the rest of the body. Otherwise, kind of an "Indy" look, not bad.

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06/05/2010 12:19 AM

46 years of owning fenderless early Ford roadster hot rods; but innovative as the styling of that one is I cannot warm up to a single feature except maybe the way the 28 A cowl was blended into the 25 Dodge tub. The height of the nose pretty well turns me off as do the "artillery" wheels and the weird headlights that no self respecting hot rodder would have been seen dead with in the 1950's.

Personally I think if that general grill styling was used in a lower track style nose in front of a 27 Ford or maybe 34 Ford roadster body it would look OK. It would also look pretty good on a channelled fenderless 37 Ford roadster body (well, a fiberglass replica; only around ten were actually built in steel by Ford).

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06/05/2010 2:09 AM

Yeah, but other than that? How do you like it

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06/05/2010 2:48 AM

Not a good ride for cats in places where it rains.

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06/05/2010 9:20 AM

The 1936 Ford Osborn I think was a pretty neat looking car.

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06/07/2010 4:49 PM

Loaded diaper.

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