How many RIGHT HAND DRIVE 32 Cabriolets exist
 

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Very nice RHD 1932 Ford Cabriolet. To answer your question, Australia never ever offered a 1932 Ford Cabriolet here, so you can put down Nil for Australia. Other Barners can supply figures for other RHD countries.

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I know of at least two here in England and one that was sold from our local dealership that ended up in the US via Dave Waring who shipped it over when he emigrated there .This shot of Daves car was taken ,I believe,in the early sixties with Brian Websters old coupe in the background...now also in the US with its immigrant owner....John.

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The guy I got my woodie off has one. Pretty sure Deuce Addict on here will know how many UK ones survive.

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Thanks Gary.....I've lost track of Keith's addiction !

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Wasn't there a hot rodded channelled one in the 70s? Caddy motor? Custom Car cover car? (AXM springs to mind for the reg.. could easily be wrong)

Mart.

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I would say not many, that is one nice looking '32.

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I would bet the one that was shipped here to the US was converted to left hand drive, that seems to be the "move Du Jour" when RHD cars get here!!!

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That's interesting. If you have an American car here the UK it's an absolute MUST that it should be left hand drive.

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@tiger1000
Back in the early 70's my dad almost bought a 1930 Model A phaeton that was driven from Argentina to here in Florida...the first thing the eventual owner did was tear out all the right hand drive gear and made it left hand...Here it's not a requirement!!!! I think its neat and part of the history of the car.....As fate would have it some 20 years later my dad bought a 1930 Model A phaeton that was a taxi cab in Argentina and its STILL right hand drive. I will admit though it is VERY hot to drive here in Florida sitting right behind (and over) the exhaust!!!! VERY hot on the feet!!!!

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I knew of three RHD '32 cabriolets in Argentina when I was in South America on assignment with Ford, one of which I bought and exported to the States. It too was converted to LHD by its subsequent owner. Of the twenty RHD '32-'37 Fords that I exported from Argentina and Uruguay, only one of the three that I kept is still RHD and the irony in that one instance is that it had been converted to LHD locally sometime after 1948 when those two countries switched to LHD. When I restored it I was bound and determined to return it to its as-built configuration. The relative scarcity of RHD parts made that project challenging, to say the least.

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There is one in Memphis. The owner is a Brit, who immigrated to the US with the car, and works for the local Jaguar dealer. But of course.

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There was a very nicely done restored RHD 1932 V8 cabriolet in Livingston TN last year for sale. It was a very nice and accurate restoration with the correct original RHD exhaust. It has since sold (the price was cheap in my opinion). Not sure where it went.

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I bought a RHD 32 roadster from the U.S. a few years ago....it was originally from South America.I kept it Rhd but was subsequently changed to LHD by the new owner.

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David - I know of ten surviving UK registered rhd cabriolets, one of which is now in the US and one that is Irish registered that remains in Ireland. Of all of them I know too which one I would like in my garage...!!!!

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From New Zealand there was a brown/black one with twin side mounts that was an average restoration that went to Canada last saw advertised in Hemmings maybe 15 plus years ago.
Also there is another one that was restored from a channeled hot rod and on the road now.
Supposedly 6 came to New Zealand.

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Keith....all good things come to he who waits (long enough, that is !)

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Perhaps this innovative conversion could be performed ;-)

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Yes indeed David, looked for RHD engine tins for a 35 for 25+ years!!!! Chased many leads!!! On par with "hen's teeth" and the "needle in the haystack".

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There was a member of the Northern Illinois V-8 club who owned a RHD 32 Phaeton, It was from India I think. He sold it a few years ago

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Graham this is Cabriolet you were probably thinking of it was restored in the South Island with green tinted windows and the owner then sold it to someone in the North Island who sold it to Roy Rowe who had it for some time and then sold it to another owner who on sold it to someone in U.S and one photo shows it for sale in U.S. and the other photo shows it dismantled on a trailer for sale and apparently it is a now a Hotrod in U.S.

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They were popular on UK roads in the day with roll up windows better for our poor climate.

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Photos believed to have been taken in the 50's or early 60's
here's the original owner of my cabriolet, Mr Gwylim Rice-Evans.

Shortly after my acquisition of the cabriolet in the early eighties I managed to contact Mr Rice-Evans. A fascinating character. Not only a Brooklands time keeper but apparently also worked with Barns Wallace on the development of the bouncing bomb.

Rice Evans was not a stickler for originality as the photos portray !

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Maybe Duece Addict or you tiger1000
Can speak about the fender marker lights, it appears from your car tiger & the "old" photo's the marker lights "look" as if the cowl lights (Here in the US) were moved to the fender and turned vertical....is this the case??? And in the later pictures of your car, Tiger, they were changed for more aerodynamic ones??? I assume that was changed and the older ones were "factory" lights??? Or where there different suppliers for such???

Thanks
Robert

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No Robert, they are very different. Have attached a couple of pics to show but UK sidelights are smaller than US cowl lights and have a totally different mounting. They too have flatter lenses that mirror the UK headlamp glass which again is different to the US counterpart (both in the pattern and the moulding which is on the outside on UK versus inside on US as pic below).

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To add to that we also had variants - some with chromed steel bowls and rims, some that were all stainless and a commercial version with black painted steel bowls and either painted rims or polished stainless. Even then there were different lenses too such as the commercial ones in pics below!

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Here's another photo of the U.K. fender lamp used on '32s as well as on the '33-'34 Model 14 (the somewhat updated '32). This one is on the fender of a Model 14. A tear-drop shaped fender lamp was adopted on U.K. models 40 ('33-34) as shown on the second photo.

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Close up pictures of Model 14 sidelights...

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Interesting how German 32's by and large didn't use the fender marker lights but by 35 and moving forward they were more common in Germany. I think the type/style at that point was up to the individual Karrosserie as evidence by the ones on our 35, never seen another pair like these. Sorry for the "clarity" of them!!!