{"id":34824,"date":"2017-01-10T08:06:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T16:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=34824"},"modified":"2017-01-10T08:06:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T16:06:45","slug":"repair-or-replace-1932-ford-coupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/repair-or-replace-1932-ford-coupe\/","title":{"rendered":"Repair or Replace: 1932 Ford Coupe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p><div id=\"gallery-34824-1-slideshow\" class=\"jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black\" data-trans=\"fade\" data-autostart=\"1\" data-gallery=\"[{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/01\\\/IMG_3172.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;34825&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Repair or Replace: 1932 Ford Coupe&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Repair or Replace: 1932 Ford Coupe&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Click Here to Begin Slideshow\\n\\nIn 1932, Ford introduced an all-new car to the American public. It was priced well within reach of potential buyers and the modest incomes of consumers of that era ($400-500 per car). This was a bustling, industrious, blue-collar era in American history where we bought what we built and vice versa. Americans purchased American proudly before anything else, and that showed when peering at the driveways of United States citizens. Oh, how times have changed, haven\\u0026#8217;t they?\\n\\nNo vehicle has remained parked in our driveways quite as long as the \\u201832 Ford coupe has. Looking back over eight decades to its origins reveals that most new Ford owners decided to keep their vehicles beautifully original. Others chopped the top on their three-window coupes, while yet more made hot rod out of their roadsters.\\n\\nIn all actuality, Ford may have manufactured the first easily modifiable car for the masses. Its popularity for customization reasons is hard to ignore. Over 80 years later, hot rod fans are still pulling these cars out of creeks all over the Mid-west, hoping by some miracle the body might hold together long enough for them to work on it!&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/01\\\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-09-at-1.07.31-PM.png&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;34826&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Ford V8 Outsells 4 Cylinder&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Repair or Replace: 1932 Ford Coupe&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Ford introducing its V8 into affordable, mass produced cars came in handy for those needing to outrun police while bootlegging moonshine back in the prohibition days. The new motor also ran well at the racetrack on Saturday night, helping win its fair share of trophies for my grandfather. Ford offered their new 1932 production car in a variety of different models to suit just about any buyer. Time would show us that the Model 18 would later prove its staying power as the centuries passed, becoming an iconic part of American Automotive manufacturing. Whether racing at the salt flats of Bonneville or sitting in a museum for onlookers to behold, the 1932 Ford has been on hundreds or magazine covers, and no one seems to be sick of it yet!&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/01\\\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-09-at-1.09.16-PM.png&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;34827&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;1932: Fun Facts from the Past&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Repair or Replace: 1932 Ford Coupe&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;F.Y.I. A gallon of gasoline cost you 10 cents in 1932.\\n\\nLiving in 1932: The average yearly income was just over $1600 dollars.\\n\\nIn the Movies 1932: \\u201cFreaks\\u201d starring Wallace Ford and Leila Hyams was one of the most popular movies of the year.\\n\\nBillboard Charts 1932: \\u201cNight \\u0026#038; Day\\u201d by Fred Astaire and Leo Reisman stood at the top of the Billboard Charts for 18 weeks back in 1932.\\n\\nFact: Unemployment in America in 1932 was an astounding 25%.\\n\\n1932 College Football Champ: Michigan Wolverines \\n\\nMiss America 1932: Dorothy Hann&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/01\\\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-09-at-1.10.27-PM.png&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;34828&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Repair or Replace&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Repair or Replace: 1932 Ford Coupe&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;1932 Ford\\nOnline Pricing: $30-100K+\\n Quick Look Paint:\\n\\u2756\\tFenders x2-\\n\\u2756\\tDoors x2-\\n\\u2756\\tRockers x2-\\n\\u2756\\tHood-\\n\\u2756\\tGrill-\\n\\u2756\\tDecklid-\\n\\u2756\\tRear Body Panel-\\n\\u2756\\tInterior to match-\\n\\u2756\\tAdd for jams on all parts-\\n\\u2756\\tUndercoating-\\n\\u2756\\tMisc-$$$$-\\n\\u2756\\tMaterials-\\n        =_________________________________________\\n                 (Paint) Labor and Materials- $4k + (Media Blast)- $1K \\n\\nQuick Look Body:\\n\\u2756\\tBody (Glass, Trim, Interior, Exterior,)- $4k+\\n\\u2756\\tRepair existing damage after media blasting.\\n\\u2756\\t100 hrs repair at $100 a billable hr. (including prime and block).\\n        =___________________________________________\\n                  (Body)-Labor and materials- $14k\\n                  \\nQuick Look Total:   (Body, Paint, Parts, Material, Etc.) =\\n$30K (\\u201832 Ford) + $19K repair (Body \\u0026#038; Paint) = $49K total.\\n\\nThe possibilities are endless\\u2026\\u2026 Build it!&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}]\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>In 1932, Ford introduced an all-new car to the American public.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":34825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3697,3470,4879],"tags":[962,4538,43,4892,41,4144,4888],"class_list":["post-34824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-galleries","category-news","category-slideshow","tag-build-it-or-buy-it","tag-chase-clute","tag-ford","tag-galleries","tag-news","tag-repair-or-replace","tag-slideshow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_3172.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-93G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34829,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34824\/revisions\/34829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}