1932 Ford

Al and Dave Tarkanyi's 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe. Al and Dave were members of the Downriver Modified car club of Michigan.

Joe B. Sheppard's 1932 Ford Roadster of Tampa, Florida. Sheppard's journey into the world of racing began in Tampa, where his family operated Sheppard Import Motors on Howard Avenue. The business, which specialized in import cars, provided a nurturing ground for his burgeoning interest in automobiles. Joe's racing career was sparked by a pivotal road trip in the roadster which he undertook with a high school classmate in 1947. This trip, which stretched from Tampa to California and back, included memorable stops in Southern California, San Francisco, and the Bonneville Salt Flats. Known for its Ardun conversion and two-speed Zephyr rear, this vehicle not only fueled his passion for racing but also marked the beginning of his journey as the "Tampa Hot Shoe."

Bill Jerry's 1932 Ford Roadster of Jay, Maine. The build started as a 5-Window Coupe in 1949. In 1951, he replaced the coupe body with a roadster body. By early 1952, it underwent a substantial aesthetic update, receiving a fresh coat of paint at a local Chrysler dealership. Peter Bennett of Portland, Maine owned the old hot rod in 2024, by then, it had seen many roads, drag strips, and shows.

Alfred A. Berton's 1932 Ford Roadster

Allan Fielding's 1932 Ford 5-Window Coupe of of Burriville, Rhode Island. Allan traded the car for a 1951 Oldsmobile around 1955. The coupe had already been hot rodded when Allan got it, and it ran a channeled 1932 Ford chassis. Allan and his friends George Summers and Ronnie Bouchard installed a 1934 Ford chassis and a Hemi in the car before they got it back on the strip.

Sonny Kahal's 1932 Ford Tudor Sedan. Sonny showed the car at the Detroit Autorama in the mid-1950s. Back then, it featured a chopped top, a 1951 Oldsmobile engine, and bobbed fenders.

Allen R. Mathews' 1932 Ford Roadster

Art Lehner's 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe of South Gate, California. Art ran Art Chrome Body Shop in South Gate, and most of the work on the car was performed there. The build was started in 1961, and completed sometime around 1961-1962. Known as "The Blue Indigo," it is believed that Art built the car from the remains of Walt Banker's 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe.

Bernie Stein's 1932 Ford Victoria Phaeton

Bert Mouron's 1932 Ford Roadster of San Marino, California. Bert bought and rebuilt Mac Schutt's 1932 Ford Roadster around 1951. Bert's version took two years to build, and the build was completed in 1953.

Bill Davis' 1932 Ford Roadster as it appeared in 1950. Bill was a member of the Glendale Stokers, and raced his roadster at the dry lakes.

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Bill Faris' 1932 Ford Roadster

Bill Kelly's 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe of Warminster, Pennsylvania. The first version of the coupe was built in 1948.

Bill Peterson's 1932 Ford Roadster of Portland, Oregon. The roadster was built by Bill and Dee Wescot in 1955. Once completed, the roadster won the 1956 Portland Roadster Show, becoming the first Sweepstakes Winner of the show.

Bill Wieser's 1932 Ford Roadster

Bob Hart's 1932 Ford Roadster was restyled in Nassau, New York between 1938 and 1939.

Bob Holcomb's 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe

Bob McGee's 1932 Ford Roadster

Bosse Ericsson's 1932 Ford Roadster of Norrtälje in Stockholm, Sweden. Built in 1959, Bosse's Ford was one of the first hot rods in Sweden to run a Chevrolet V8 engine.

Wayne Knudsen's 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe of Toledo, Ohio. The chopped and channeled coupe is believed to have been built by Knudsen in the mid-late 1950s. It was later acquired by Warren Bookman, the organizer of the Toledo Auto Rama. Under Bookman's ownership, the car was prominently showcased at the Auto Rama, drawing significant attention and acclaim from attendees and automobile enthusiasts.

The Boudakian Bros' 1932 Ford four-door sedan. Willie Kendig of Yettem, California bought the sedan from the Boudakian Brothers somewhere around 1960.

Jon Grinager's 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe of Farmington, Michigan. Grinager acquired the Coupe in 1956 during his sophomore year at Farmington High School. What began as a school shop project soon became a local hot rod masterpiece. Years later, the car lay dormant for three decades after a 1980s restoration attempt that ended in heartbreak. However, its legacy was rejuvenated by Jon's nephews, Tanner and Logan Kucharek, who had it restored and showcased at the 2022 Detroit Autorama, where it clinched three awards. Amidst its revival, whispers emerged of its alleged ties to the Alexander Brothers, an iconic Detroit customizing duo. The quest for this connection remains alive, seeking evidence to validate these legendary claims.

Tommy Henderson's 1932 Ford Tudor Sedan of Caledon, Ontario, Canada. Henderson, a member of the Roadmates Car Club, bought the car in original condition in 1960. He spent the next 18 years working on it before selling it in 1978. The car was known as The Green Machine.

Brian Frederick's 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe of Rockville, Connecticut. Brian is a founding member of the Ty-Rods of Rockville car club.

Bruce Olson's 1932 Ford 5-Window Coupe of Beach, North Dakota. The first version of Bruce's coupe was completed in 1955. In 1962 Bruce and his family moved to Fremont, California, bringing the coupe along. Bruce kept on to the car until he passed away in 1990, continuously upgrading the look of the car a little.

Carl Bailey's 1932 Ford Tudor

Charles Crowther's 1932 Ford Roadster, of Maryland.

Chas and Everett McFarland's 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe

Chet Herbert's 1932 Ford 4-door Sedan

Chuck Price's 1932 Ford Roadster

Clarence Catallo's 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe of Dearborn, Michigan. Known as "Silver Sapphire," Clarence's coupe was originally restyled by the Alexander Brothers in 1959.

Clarence Catallo's 1932 Ford Coupe - The Silver Sapphire/Little Deuce Coupe

Clifford Ambrose's 1932 Ford 5-Window Coupe of Santa Clara, California. Cliff was a member of the San Jose Igniters.

Conrad W. Jacobs' 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe of Baltimore, Maryland. Built around 1956-1958, the car was known and shown as "The Klondyke Koupe".

Council Harrell's 1932 Ford Roadster

Danny Schwartz' 1932 Ford 5-Window coupe, of Campbell, California, as it appeared in 1959.

Dave Stuckey's Lil' Coffin

Dick Blaine and Ron Fredlund's 1932 Ford Roadster

Dick Dean's 1932 Ford Sedan

Dick Noble's 1932 Ford Roadster of Burbank, California. Dick bought the car as a coupe in 1938. He wanted a roadster and ended up trading the coupe body for a roadster body. A padded top with side curtains was added in 1941 along with a shiny black paint job. Dick was a mticulous builder, and the roadster ended up as one of Burbank's finest.

Dick Page's 1932 Ford Roadster of Tacoma, Washington.

Doane Spencer's 1932 Ford Roadster

Don Broyles' 1932 Ford roadster of Dayton, Ohio. The car was originally built in 1951. In 1956 Don installed a 1956 Chevrolet Corvette 283 engine in the roadster.

Don C. Breithaupt's 1932 Ford B Altered Championship 5-Window Coupe of Grand Prairie, Texas as it appeared in 1959.

Don McBride's 1932 Ford Sedan

Don Williams' 1932 Ford 5-Window Coupe - The Collegiate

Doug Hartelt's 1932 Ford Roadster

Doyle Gammell's 1932 Ford

Ed Cousins' 1932 Ford Pickup

Eugene Wentworth's 1932 Ford Roadster

Frank Coon's 1932 Ford Roadster

Fran Bannister's 1932 Ford Roadster. Completed in 1949, Fran's roadster is one of the first hot rods of New England.

Fred Hunzinger's 1932 Ford Five-Window Coupe

G. C. Woodard, Jr's 1932 Ford Roadster, of Fort Worth, Texas.

Gary Guthrie's 1932 Ford 5-Window Coupe

Gary Priebe's 1932 Ford Roadster of Monterey Park, California. Gary's roadster was completed in 1962. In 2016 Gary still owned the old hot rod.

Gary Wright's 1932 Ford Roadster of Australia.

Gene Lade's 1932 Ford Coupe

Geno Ames' 1932 Ford Roadster

George Cerny's 1932 Ford Tudor

George Collins' 1932 Ford 5-window Coupe

George Sein's 1932 Ford 5 Window Coupe - The Flamer

Glenn Tronc's 1932 Ford Tourer of Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia.

Gordy Kordowsky's 1932 Ford 5-Window Coupe of White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Gordy bought the coupe from South St. Paul in the 1950s, and it already had a chopped top when he got it.

Gunnar Johansson's 1932 Ford 5-Window Coupe of Sweden. This is Gunnar's coupe as it appeared in 1965

The first version of Göran Silfors' 1932 Ford roadster of Sweden as it appeared in 1965. Gøran's roadster was named "Early Bird"

Hank Negley's 1932 Ford Roadster

Harold "Flathead" Dzierinski's 1932 Ford Roadster

Howard Hansel's 1932 Ford 5-Window Coupe

Howard Leever & Fred Esser's 1932 Ford

Ian Cusey's 1932 Ford Roadster of Bell Gardens, California. Ian was a member of the LA Roadsters car club, and he bought the car from Don Streiff.

Jack Bonholtzer's 1932 Ford 5-Window Coupe

Jack Carroll's 1932 Ford 5-Window Coupe

Jack Schleich's 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe of Oceanside, New York was first built in 1957. This is how it appeared in 1958.

Jacques Bechard's 1932 Ford Roadster of Montreal, Canada. The build was started in 1958. This photo shows the car as it appeared circa 1961.

Jerry Sprague's 1932 Ford Roadster

Jim Broadhead's 1932 Ford Coupe

Jim Khougaz' 1932 Ford Roadster

Jim Papworth's 1932 Ford Roadster of Culver City, California. Jim was a member of the Culver City Screwdrivers, and the roadster, that he bought in 1947, was his first car.

Jimmy Summers' 1932 Ford Roadster was built by Jimmy Summers of Hollywood, California in 1941.

Joanna Quesnel's 1932 Ford roadster of Culver City, California. Joanna was married to Chuck Quesnel. Chuck was a member of the Culver City Screwdrivers. Joanna was also a part of the club, but she was not considered a member as she was a girl.

Joe Carlomagno's 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe

Joe & Gus Gasper's 1932 Ford Roadster

Joe Colley's 1932 Ford Roadster

Joe Nitti's 1932 Ford Roadster

Joe Smith's 1932 Ford 5-Window Coupe

John A. Good's 1932 Ford Woody Wagon

John Anderson's 1932 Ford Roadster of Australia.

John Caldwell's 1932 Ford Four-Door Sedan of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Being an early member of the Road Knights of Sydney car club, Caldwell bought the 32 late in 1964. Shortly after buying it, he gave it a Metalflake pain job. One of the first Metalflake paint jobs in the area.

John Kingston's 1932 Ford Pickup, of Kansas City.

John Patrick's 1932 Ford 5-Window Coupe

Johnny Bierfeldt's 1932 Ford Roadster, of Norwalk, California was a Long Beach Qualifiers car. It was painted by Bart Root and upholstered by Don Hudson.

Johnny Otis' 1932 Ford Sedan

Jorge Zaragoza's 1932 Ford Roadster

Keith Cornells' 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe

Keith Landrigan's 1932 Ford Roadster

Keith Treece's 1932 Ford Roadster

Klas and Fredrik Wallin's 1932 Ford Tudor Sedan of Falköping, Sweden. The car came to Sweden from Colorado. When Klas and Fredrik bought it in 2013, they were told that the car was first built in 1957.

Larry Shinoda's 1932 Ford 3 Window Coupe - The Chopstick Special

The first version of Lars Erik Ljungkvist's 1932 Ford Roadster, of Huddinge in Stockholm, Sweden, was completed in 1963. At the time there were about 30 hot rods in Sweden.

Orin Meyer's 1932 Ford 5-Window Coupe of Plymouth, Massachusetts. Orin first saw the car in 1957, when it was owned by Norman Fortini of Plymouth, Massachusetts. He purchased it from Duncan Weaver around 1960, and this photo shows the coupe as it appeared in 1963.

The second version of Lars Erik Ljungkvist's 1932 Ford Roadster, of Huddinge in Stockholm, Sweden, was completed in 1964. This version was painted Marigold Metalflake..

Laverne A. Stetzer's 1932 Ford 5-Window coupe of York, Pennsylvania. The car, known as the York Coupe was built by Glen "Rudy" Rudisill and his father at G.E. Rudisill & Sons in 1957.

Les Johnson's 1932 Ford 5-Window Coupe, was built by Huffman's Body Shop, in Modesto, California.

Lew Thompson's 1932 Ford Roadster of Modesto, California. Lew's roadster was originally hot rodded in the Los Angeles area in the 1940s. In 1948 Gene Winfield reworked the car at Winfield Custom Shop for current owner Joe Cardoza. Joe sold the car to Modesto Century Toppers member Lew Thompson. Circa 1960 Joe sold the roadster to fellow Modesto Century Toppers member Peter Hischier, who gave it a Candy Apple Red paint job. Circa 1963 Peter had Gene Winfield rework the car and give it a black paint job. This incarnation did also feature a fully chromed undercarriage.

Lew Wolff's 1932 Ford Roadster was built by Downriver Modified member Lew Wolff in the mid to late 1950s.

Lew Wolff's 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe was built and raced by Downriver Modified member Lew Wolff in the mid 1960s.

Lonnie Gaskin's 1932 Ford 4-door Sedan

Leon Kendrick's 1932 Ford 5-Window Coupe of Houston, Texas. Featuring stacked dual headlights and a panel paint job, the "Wild Deuce" iteration of the coupe started appearing in magazine in 1963.

Lou Schafer's 1932 Ford 5 Window Coupe

Lynn Wineland's 1932 Ford Roadster

Lynn Yakel's 1932 Ford 5 Window Coupe

Mac Schutt's 1932 Ford Roadster, of Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. The build took two years, and it was completed in 1949.

Marv Shetler's 1932 Ford Tudor Sedan of Scott Mills, Oregon. Marv bought the Ford in Kansas in 1962, while he was in college. At the end of the school year in 1963 he drove the car back to Oregon.

Max Magness' 1932 Ford Cabriolet of Grandfalls, Texas. The build was started in 1959 and completed in 1960.

Mervyn Toynton's 1932 Ford 5-Window Coupe

Mikael Blomberg's 1932 Ford Roadster of Motala, Sweden. Blomberg bought the roadster from Indian Mike of La Cañada Flintridge, California, early in 2019. Advertised for sale as an authentic drag car from the late 1950s or the early 1960s, Mike believed the roadster probably ran in the A/Roadster class back in the days. Blomberg got the car back on the road and drove it to the Santa Barbara DRAGS before he shipped it home to Sweden.

Mike Brown's 1932 Ford 5 Window Coupe, of Dallas, Texas.

Nelson Morris' 1932 Ford Roadster

Pat Leighton's 1932 Ford

Paul C. Bourgue Jr's 1932 Ford Pickup, of Saugus, Massachusetts.

Paul F. Johnson's 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe

Paul F. Johnson's 1932 Ford Roadster

Per Røed's 1932 Ford Cabriolet as it appeared in 1958. Per's cabriolet is considered one of the first hot rods of Norway.

Peter Billing's 1932 Ford Cabriolet was built in Lidingö, Sweden in 1958.

Phil Cool's 1932 Ford Roadster of Cloverdale, California. Phil's roadster won the 1978 America's Most Beautiful Roadster Award at the Grand National Roadster Show, and it has ben voted as one of the "100 Most Influential Hot Rods of All Time."

Phil Kaelin's 1932 Ford 5-Window Coupe

Ralph Neal's 1932 Ford Roadster, of Ashtabula, Ohio.

Ram-Rods' 1932 Ford Roadster

Ray Farhner's 1932 Ford Pickup - The Eclipse

Richard Lazo's 1932 Ford Roadster

Robert Lane's 1932 Ford Roadster of Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia.

Rod Foote's 1932 Ford roadster of Australia.

Roger Nettle's 1932 Ford 5-Window Coupe

Roland Larsson's 1932 Ford Roadster

Ron Schmit's 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe

Scott Buhler's 1932 Ford Tudor

Sid Kayman's 1932 Ford Roadster of St. Louis, Missouri. Sid bought the car in 1944 or 1945, and it had already been channeled and hot-rodded when he bought it.

Stan Dietz' 1932 Ford Pickup

Steve Memishian’s 1932 Ford 5 Window Coupe

Steve Memishian’s 1932 Ford Roadster

Stuart Hilborn's 1932 Ford Roadster

Sven Sandberg's 1932 Ford 5-Window coupe of Stockholm, Sweden. Sven started the build, known as the Glowing Coupe, in 1961. The first version was shown in 1965, featuring a paint job by Bo Sandberg of Yankee Customs.

Ted Sitterley's 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe of Tucson, Arizona. Ted paid $50 for the coupe in 1955. It featured gray primer, Indian blanket upholstery, and a 304-inch flathead engine that Ted and his brother built with help from Little Wolf Machine Shop.

Tommy Johns' 1932 Ford Roadster

Tony LaMasa's 1932 Ford Roadster

Veda Orr's 1932 Ford Roadster

Vic Edelbrock's 1932 Ford

Wally O'Brien's 1932 Ford Roadster

Willie Kendig's 1932 Ford Roadster of Yettem, California was built after Willie came out of the service in 1948.

Matt Hurley's 1932 Ford Roadster of Colfax, North Carolina. Built by Hot Rod Garage in Oklahoma, the build was completed in 2020.

Gabe Naccarato's 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe of Aravada, Colorado. The chopped and channeled coupe is believed to be a well-known hot rod in New Mexico during the 1950s. From that late 1960s until 2023 it resided on a single property in New Mexico. It was sold to a young man in South Texas before Gabe purchased it in 2023.

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