![]() ![]() Thankfully its been totally reliable (fingers crossed) for almost 10 years. If I had to take the battery out I could do it in less than ½ hour. The most weve ever done at any one time is 17 days out on the road. My good lady doesnt travel particularly light. The trunk is not trimmed and the absence of a battery in there allows for even more capacity. Id prefer to have a cowl vent though but I think I could work around that if I were to redo the car (it could be moved to the side or just lower it and disguise the lower part with a vintage heater or something). The shelf is high up also so the contents are not visible to passers by. ![]() The battery tray also forms part of a luggage shelf thats really handy for the bits and pieces that are useful to have to hand when out of the road. That framework is tied together with cross braces and also picks up the door hinge mounts and the screen mounts. Its sitting on a round tube frame that follows the cowl, fore and aft (at the firewall and the front of the door aperture / under the screen). The bottom of it can only just be seen when sitting in the car from outside the dash covers it. The battery is an Optima and sits upright. The body is glass and sadly doesnt have a cowl vent. ![]() In my roadster the battery is under the dash, high up under the cowl. The question often arises of why build a four door sedan and not a roadster or a coupe? Bruce’s reply? “I got tired of scaring only one person at a time.Heres an alternative thats not been mentioned. The 1932 Lincoln dash is fitted with Stewart-Warner instruments, and is accented beautifully by a 4-spoke leather wrap steering wheel. Inside is a hand-made, full terracotta leather interior that utilize the original seat frames. Delivering the handling up front is a narrowed drop axle with tapered leaf spring and integrated sway bar, and in the rear are coil over shocks and springs with integrated sway bar. It is attached to a Tremec 5-speed manual that leads to a Ford 9” rear end.īringing all this power to a halt are Canepa Design 6-piston AP calipers up front, 4-piston AP calipers rear, and vented discs all around. Lurking up front is a 560hp all-aluminum 427ci Ford small block with Gurney Weslake heads and Weber carbs. Under the hood is where the fun really happens, and being true to the theme it is a Ford powerplant under the 25-louver hood. Some are obvious such as the 4” chopped roofline, and the Halibrand pin drive Indy magnesium wheels others are more subtle such as the elimination of the rain gutters, and the rear quarter window bodyline accent extended to front A-pillar. Utilizing the entire original body, frame, fenders, etc., the sedan includes more than 100 custom modifications. followed the Rolling Bones trips for 10 years, hoping to. The goal of the build was to create an all-original Ford hot rod that was truly fast, handled well, and looked the part. savors Bonneville Salt Flats experience in his 32 Ford 5-Window Coupe. The project began with a 6,244 mile, complete and original ’32 Ford, a rarity in itself. Click here to view high resolution photosĪ lifetime of experience with, and enthusiasm for hotrods led Bruce Canepa to design this amazing ’32 Ford Fordor or “The All-Ford Fordor” and put it in The Canepa Collection – the Personal Favorites of Bruce Canepa. ![]()
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