[Bruce Lancaster]

I think currently it would be nearly impossible to build a '32 from parts or from a very incomplete car without repro stuff in just one lifetime...if you remove money as the obstacle, you still have time as an unbeatable problem. Just going to Hershey with a backpack full of hundred-dollar bills will no longer do the job...there just aren't enough bits floating around anymore. Most of the supply has been assembled onto cars or is being hoarded for a planned car...pickings are getting slim. If I started trying to gather what is needed now, I think my grandchildren would have to do the actual assembly.
The golden age was perhaps the early 1970's, when car fleamarkets started proliferating and both streetrodding and V-8 restoring were getting into high gear...I could find ANYTHING for a '32 in the next few swapmeets, but, alas, I was a starving student and could buy only an occasional goody.
I got into '32's in the early '60's...I was about 14. In those days, there were VERY few car swapmeets, restorers were not into '32's, and traditional rodding had been buried by go-karts, muscle cars, and super-stockers. Finding anything was difficult, but since I couldn't afford anything...
Since those 1970 days, many thousands of '32's have been built, sopping up most of the parts surplus. The best parts sources remaining are streetrodders taking a different direction and stripping a restored car...