Suicide door coupe

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Model T Ford Forum: Forum 2012: Suicide door coupe
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Kerry van Ekeren (Australia) on Friday, July 27, 2012 - 05:07 am:

Something a little different, suicide doors, listed on the model T Register of Great Britain, LH drive, origins anybody?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Hap Tucker on Friday, July 27, 2012 - 08:56 am:

Kerry,

If you can post a link that might be helpful. If the roof is mostly flat (I cannot really tell on the right hand photo but as long as it doesn't have a padded rounded corner roof), then I believe it would be a typical style 1919-1922 coupe. Note since it is on the Great Britain site, it could also have been produced there. They introduced the coupe in 1920 but very few were sold until starting in 1921 (ref page 229 "The English Model T Ford") And the English Fords were LHD from around Oct 1919 to around Jan 1923 (Ref page135 & 140 "The English Model T Ford"). "IF" it was an English Ford and "IF" the fenders never had the typical English fender light it would have been a 1920 to very early 1921. Or it could also have been a USA produced model or Canadian produced model that was imported -- in which case the lack of side lamps indicate a starter model so 1919 - 1922. The strips on the deck lid were probably added by the owner to allow items to be carried there.

From the photo I cannot tell if the wheels are demountable or not. The closed cars from 1919 on should have had demountable wheels. Also from the photo I cannot tell the shape of the door handle.

V/r,

Hap l9l5 cut off


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Richard Eagle Ida Fls on Friday, July 27, 2012 - 12:38 pm:

Outside of the added visor and wood strips on the trunk lid I would say it looks like a standard coupe 1922 or earlier.

(Unless it had belonged to a Doctor :-) )
Rich


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Kerry van Ekeren (Australia) on Friday, July 27, 2012 - 10:40 pm:

Thanks Hap, The Model T Ford of Great Britain, run an open site on Face Book, as you can tell, we have very few coupes at our end of the world and with a search I did find some more reference to this type of coupe, the 5 millionth T being one of them. Still learning!


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