My hot rod story started in 1954, while in the fifth grade, I purchased "Street Rod” a book offered by the Bantam book club.... Then, my older brother and buddies chopped a forty in the driveway, by age eleven I had become a street rod addict.... When offered the opportunity to relocate to San Fernando Valley in 1961, I cooperated when my Mother told me I could buy any car I wanted to pay for.... I bought a full fender 32 Roadster from "Andy Andrews, House of Originals" in the fall of 1962  Check it Out

It was 1961, in Alliance , NE, I was 16 years old, I had been reading Rod & Custom magazine since 1957 (still have my first copy). I wanted a hot rod! I found a 27 coupe in the junk yard, when I asked my dad about buying it, he said why don't you ask George to sell you his deuce coupe? Dad told me many years later that everyone had tried to buy George's coupe and failed so he thought he could drag out my purchase for many months or even a year or so .Surprise! I asked George ...... Read the story here

My love for the automobile grew out of my passion for racing. So, I grew up a “gear head” in Morristown, TN. It is there that I fell in love with old cars. I vividly remember seeing a burgundy 1932 Ford 5 window coupe roaming the streets of Morristown. This was a beautiful car. The bodylines and stance of this uncut coupe were just incredible. There is no doubt that Tommy Whitaker’s coupe left a lasting impression. I promised myself at that young age that I would own a 1932 Ford before I turned 32 years old.
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Back in 1991, working for a security business, I had a customer who was a collector of aircraft and classic cars. He had a showroom at the local airport, where he displayed his collections. I always told him that if he ever wanted to sell a particular 1932 Full Fendered Roadster that he owned, please give me a call. This particular car was an all-steel original that had a complete body-off restoration in 1978. I oohed and aahed over the car for 10 years..... then .....  Read More Here

I guess I should start this off by proclaiming I am a very lucky man!, I was born in a great country, in a great place, at a great time, with a great family and was lucky to find a great woman to give me great kids! Actually I was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California during the heyday of Customs, Hot Rods and Muscle cars cruising Bob’s Big Boy, Van Nuys and Hollywood boulevards... It was the 50’s and early 60’s. There was something about certain cars during those days that just aroused my endorphins to no end !  Read More Here

In 1968 my dad came home with a 1932 Ford pick-up with a flat head and 3 deuces, four speed with a tall shifter. It had a Hamms beer tap for a shifter handle. The truck was baby blue with 3 inch white walls and 2 inch exhaust pipes up the back of the cab. From the years 1968-1972 my father and I did some work on it and changed the drive train to a small block Chevy, 400 turbo and a twelve bolt rear end. We installed black diamond tuff interior, shortened the box and changed the color to a dark blue.My dad sold it in 1973 just before I graduated from high school in 1974. He sold the truck to a friend of the family and he drove it for one year and then tore it apart and never put it back together. It had been sitting ever since. .....  Click here for more

By 1986 the chances of finding a good old Ford in our town's newspaper had begun to decline. Nevertheless, I doggedly continued my ritual of reading the Antiques and Classics section daily and was quite surprised when an ad for a '32 Ford Phaeton appeared one Sunday morning. Heading to the phone I could already feel the peculiar excitement that marks the beginning of a hot pursuit for a new automotive acquisition. The woman who answered my call told me that the car was still available ... Read More

 Normally, a person would not think of West Virginia as being any kind of a mecca for hotrodding. However, I have story that might change a few minds. In 1956, when I first got my driver's license, my family had a farm in Lewisburg, W.Va. On the weekends, my friends and I would scoot around the countryside in my souped-up '47 Jeep, looking for old cars. We found plenty on the farms. One Saturday, we cruised into White Sulpher Springs and low-and-behold, in a Shell station, was a state-of-the-art 1932 Ford 5 Window Coupe that was chopped and channeled, with a 3/4 race flathead. WOW !!! .... Read More

My interest in cars began at an early age. I started reading HotRod Magazines and any other magazines about cars, in junior high school and decided early on that a 32 3-W Ford Coupe would be the hotrod I wanted. I could only dream about one, like a lot of other kids, because I didn’t even have a drivers livense until I was in high school in 1954. I worked after school to raise the money for a car and insurance. My dream finally came true in 1955, when I traded some motor tune up equipment worth about $600 for the car ...... Read More Here...

Two Friends from the Fifties and their Deuces
Rich Sherman and I met back in ’58 at a classic American Grafitti drive-in called Chuck-a-Burger in St. Louis County. He was driving a Chevy powered red five window and even dating a girl who drove a '55 T-Bird just like the movie. I was driving a Nailhead powered ‘41Tudor while trying to save enough money to bring my beater Deuce roadster up to his standards. We were both crazy about '32's back then and became fast friends... read the story of Rich Sherman and Joel Burkhart

‘THE YEAR OF THE DEUCE” MEMORIES AND MY STORY
Four years ago I first walked into a store called Car Books on Broadway in Englewood, Colorado and met the store owner, a man named Neal East. With each visit to his great store, I learned more about him, but I still did not know his background, until I started to see his name in print in the major hot rod magazines, such as Rodder’s Journal, Hot Rod, and Rod and Custom. Mr. East is a quiet, unassuming gentleman .... Read More Here

   We know you won’t be able to pass up looking at this story from Jerry Mlady .... .... I have been looking for a Deuce Cabriolet for several years with no luck, at least in an affordable way. In the beginning of July of 2005, I had asked my friend Mike Devriendt, owner of Pikes Peak Motors (formerly So-Cal Colorado) if he knew of any Deuce Cabriolets for sale and he called me back later saying he knew of one with an interesting story, but he didn't know if it was for sale. I sat on the information for a while ....... Read More

  We have owned our Deuce sedan for over 25 years now and have had several good times with it and our family and friends on day trips and car show cruises, even vacation trips to the NSRA Nationals in Louisville, Ky for the first event there. Our two children grew up in the Deuce and it is definitely one of the family..
I planned on rebuilding our Deuce over a 10 year period but we were having too much fun wilth it do dismantle it and have it apart for what I figured would be about a two year project. .....See what Ken Lyman is doing with his Deuce

   Our friend Charlie Parinello is another guy who has held on to his “baby” for a lot of years .... In 1969, I decided I wanted to build a street rod. Luckily I found a very nice 1932 2-door sedan body only four miles from my home. At the time, I decided a resto-rod was the choice, so I proceeded to clean and restore the sheet metal the best I could. I fabricated a hood using the pieces from three different hoods. I welded and cleaned a firewall which I purchased at a swap meet. ... Click here for more...

   This is a story written by one of our favorite hot rod writers, Roger Jetter.  It has a very unusual twist, it’s the story of the life of a 32 Ford... with the car telling the story .... it’s fairly long so we’re printing it here and also putting a link to a Word document so that you can download and print it if you like ... we think you’ll really enjoy it .... and the good news is that this is an excerpt story from Roger’s new book which will be coming out in January....  Click Here for  ‘In My Life”

 Ken Appleby of Boise came by the office to tell us about his Deuce.... I finished my Deuce roadster in late winter of 2007, with the idea of going to as many of the cool ’32 Birthday happenings as I could! Man, did I ever have fun!!!!!  I showed the car for the first time at the “Oldies Drags” at Firebird, and was floored to receive the “New Crew Pick”.I  This past August I put my yellow steelies w/wide whites on and took the roadster to Bonneville for “Speed Week” and for some “sunrise shots”. Read More Here

  “The Kid and the Deuce” .... with a title like that, you just have to read on..... 
        Sunday August 25, 2002 8:30AM

        The phone rings Hello is Jason there”?
        This is Harry with GoodGuy’s
         Just a minute I’ll get him”.
         The kid picks up the phone Hello”
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       Born in 1946 in southern New Jersey, near Philadelphia. I caught the bug at age 9 when I laid eyes on a new 55 Chevy. Soon I was buying Hot Rod magazine at the local supermarket, absorbing every issue, salivating over the featured rods and customs. By 1957 I was enthralled with any form of auto racing and was delighted to discover the radio broadcast of the Indy 500. (I have subsequently attended 29 Indy 500’s). In the summer of 1959 just prior to my 13th birthday my friend Billy, and I, without consulting with our folks (sometimes it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission), pooled our resources    Read more here 

      Back when we were teens it was a Saturday ritual to hit the bone yards for parts for our cars, or cruise looking for something to “Rod Up”. Well one day while cruising with friends I spotted the Deuce coupe on a side road. After banging on many triple decker doors I found the owner who had been using it to go to school. He said he had sold it the day before to a racer. I asked who bought it and how much, he said “Hop Harrington for $200”. I was rather boisterous in replying that Hop was a circle track racer and he was going to cut it up into a jalopy and wreck it. The owner was unfazed and I offered $210 cash and haul it away right now
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   It was May 1960, springtime, and nearly graduation time for a seventeen year old kid with the usual things on his mind. One of those things was getting out of school, another was the the cars, always the cars. By this time it had been almost five years since I first saw the "little pages," and read the article, "How to build a roadster for a dollar a pound." Since then cars have all but consumed my every day existence, even in the class room where I was supposed to give a book report on historical events. I only heard the 'book report' part, and stood up and gave one on a little known book about a '48 MG.   Click here for the rest of the stroy

   When the 75 th anniversary came near , I thought it would be a good year to own a 32 Ford , so I traded my car for a 32 Ford that was for sale on Hot Rod Hot Line. I pretty much made the deal looking at pictures. I was not to concerned because the car was built by Scotty Trautman / Alloways Hot Rod Shop. I was not disappointed the quality and the look of the car was outstanding. Even better then I expected ........

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   Victoria- Class of Thirty Two  ( partly a true story and partly a yarn ... you decide where fact turns to fiction)
   In the fall of 1931 Henry Ford was preparing to end the successful run of the Model A. Under extreme technical difficulties and very late in the model year, he introduced the V-8 to lighter pockets than had been available before.
   The last engine of the Ford Tri-Motor airplane roared to life as Burt Richardson "tied" himself in, at the same time acting like he wasn't scared. He had been to Detroit previously for the Model A roll out in '28, but they took buses that trip. It was a short flight from Buffalo, but the butterflies were enjoying the flight more than he was. This better be one great car Henry has to show us he muttered under his breath... Check out this story from Dale Moreau...

 I hadn't owned a hot rod since my 1929 ‘A’ sedan back in 1964, when I was sixteen and airbrushing T-shirts for George Barris at Rod & Custom shows. Now my “Retro Visions” art is sold at places such as the NHRA and Petersen Museums (and advertised on Hot Rod Hotline), so last March I decided it was about time for me to own another rod!
On March 30th I had a booth at the GoodGuys show in Del Mar, California, where there were lot’s of rods for sale (time constraints prevented my building one). I spotted a '32 Ford 3-window coupe on Saturday for $38,000. It was nice, but lacking a few things I desired. ... Read the rest of the story here