An Iconic 1932 Ford Three-Window Coupe Lives Again - Hot Rod Network
Rodding was born in SoCal, so the story goes, and almost all of rodding’s pioneers and innovators set up shop after World War II in our sunny climes. He sort of built the car in a vacuum, being back in Ohio,” Bill Ganahl says of Breece. The vent windows—nobody put vent windows in a ’32 three-window. He converted the original ’32-style drag-link steering to a cross-steer setup using ’48 Ford steering components. ” Bill Ganahl of South City Rod & Custom was chosen to recreate the Bill Breece coupe, due to his building skills as well as extensive experience restoring historic hot rods. Though the car has a Brookville body, all the other parts are gennie and period correct for a 1955 build. “This was a totally different kind of build than a new hot rod or custom. As a teenager in mid-1950s Ohio, he built an Olds-powered ’32 three-window coupe in his garage that was stunning in its presentation at the time: a colorful, gleaming work of hot rodding art that could hold its own at any car show in the nation. He raced the car locally, and then not so locally, driving it west in 1955 to the inaugural NHRA national drags in Great Bend, Kansas. He won a class trophy at the race’s show, and then kept heading West, until he reached California, won another trophy at the Motorama, and had Von. Source: www.hotrod.com
