AutoHunter Spotlight: 1936 Ford Deluxe Roadster -David P. Castro @Classic Cars.com

AutoHunter Spotlight: 1936 Ford Deluxe Roadster -David P. Castro @Classic Cars.com

Featured on AutoHunter, the online auction platform driven by ClassicCars.com, is this 1936 Ford Deluxe Roadster. The maroon lacquer with red pinstriping exterior was reportedly repainted several years ago. It features a 4-piece hood, chrome bumpers, a chrome grille, dual headlights with body-color buckets, and a tilting windshield. It rides on black steel wheels with V8-logo center caps, trim…

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1937 Ford Deluxe Roadster

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1930 Ford Model A Deluxe Roadster

Mascotte de Ford V-8 DeLuxe Roadster 1936. - source Roland Richter.

1930 Ford Model A Roadster Pickup

This beautiful 1930 Ford Model A Roadster Pickup hotrod was put together by Bryan McCann with some help from his father Scott, proprietor of Deluxe Speed Shop in Denver, Colorado, USA. It is an amazing piece of work, with virtually every piece either modified or completely hand-made. It’s a great testament to Bryan’s mechanical and metal-working skills – particularly as he was only seventeen when he started the project! The standard was so high that the pair decided to keep it unpainted.

Now here is the amazing part; that was five years ago! Since then, the car has been driven thousands of miles to car events all over the United States. In fact we discovered it in June at the huge LA Roadster Show in Pomona California. We were admiring its superb bare-metal sheen and had to find out more. Imagine our delight when Scott told us that it had stayed rust-free all this time by treating it with GIBBS BRAND two or three times a year. He went on to say that they have used Gibbs on all their projects for many years. Don’t take our word for it – If you are lucky enough to see them – ask them for yourself!

'32 Ford deluxe roadster, '62 283, 3 speed

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1936 Ford 68 Deluxe Roadster

Headcanons pt. 4 (Alberta & Thorfinn)

The list keeps expanding!

*Alberta*

She can crochet. Once made a blanket for her sister when they were kids. Can also crochet little stuffed animals. More into making scarves, quilts, and even socks. Carries small crocheting needles with her everywhere along with a small skein of yarn.

Can play the saxophone. She was taught by her dad since he also played the sax.

Adores any kind of dog. Always fed the strays on the streets. Said she never had any favorites, but there were the ones that stood out.

Adores listening to the piano. Reminds her of her mother who used to play piano. Uses the Alexa to play soft piano music when she thinks that she's alone.

While not romantically interested, she does actually enjoy spending time with Pete. Sees him more as a younger brother or cousin.

Taught herself to drive. She may or may not have accidentally stolen a car. In her defense, it looked liked her friend's car. It was a sleek black Ford Model A Deluxe Roadster. After a few tries (and almost crashing into poles) she eventually got the hang of it and was driving pretty well.

*Thorfinn*

Often uses his light powers to scare the other ghosts. He finds it funny while most of the others don't. However, after a few decades, it does get funnier each time.

Queer in some way. Most likely had a fling with Sasappis before any of the other ghosts died. Still has a crush on him.

His furs and any other cloth he has is still electrically charged due to the lighting strike. Passing through him will induce a slight electric shock to both him and the person who walked through him. Other ghosts that touch him will also get a small shock.

Wednesdays are now dubbed "Ant Day" for him and Nigel. Once a week, they come together and give information on what's going on in their respective ant colonies- the basement and the shack colonies.

Carved his name in his axe. It was an axe that he had all of his life and he was not going to lose it. The blade (since his death) has now rusted over due to it not being fully cleaned. There's a notch in the top of the blade from it being so incredibly rusted, it just kind of broke off.

This man has a lot of grief and trauma that has yet to be surfaced. He keeps a lot of it in because he doesn't want to seem vulnerable. Most likely has a fear of abandonment. He mostly turns that fear and insecurity into quick rage due to wanting to keep up this façade of "the scary and old" ghost. Once truly known, he is one of the most gentlest ghosts there is.

Man I really went for it on that last one, hm? Anyways, this is always a pleasure to do!

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1920’s cars saw many technical advances that improved the functions of the automobile. Many of the automobile innovations that we assume of as being modern were in fact introduced in the 1920’s. For example, front wheel drive, four wheel drive, electric powered cars, and even hybrid fuel/electric cars. Personally I think the cars in the 1920s/30s were the best design and truly iconic. I love the old vintage feel it has and how they weren’t flashy with different colours but mostly black. The best cars of the 1920s were, 1920 Rolls Royce Phantom Limousine, 1929 Ford Model A Deluxe Roadster, 1928 Falcon Knight Roadster, 1926 Packard Twin 6 Roadster and more.

1931 Ford Model A Coupe Deluxe Balboa Car Show at the Fun Zone A classic coupe in the sunrise. An old car on a new day.

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1935 Ford Deluxe Roadster

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I've been thinking about that Classically Cool Fixer-Upper Car for the sims 3.

And I've been trying to figure out which real life model it's based on. So far, I'm thinking it could've been this one.

The 1929 Ford Model A Deluxe Roadster

Or possibly this one. The 1927 Mercedes Supercharged Type-S

Disclaimer: I understand very little about cars, I was simply curious about what the game developer team used for this.

All the Roads are Open by Annemarie Schwarzenbach

“The British, you see, are the most conservative nation on earth, and they can’t forget that, a hundred years ago, Afghanistan’s wild mountain tribes inflicted several defeats upon the utterly demoralized expeditionary army on its desperate retreat to the Khyber Pass and massacring it so brutally that the incident still ranks as one of the British Empire’s greatest catastrophes. What’s more, between the English-governed northwestern border province and sovereign Afghan territory lies the swath of no man’s land known as the Tribal Territory, where the warlike and passionately democratic Mohmand, Shinwari and Waziri tribesman are subject to no law but their own. And though they also guarantee the safety of the Khyber Road—from sunrise to sunset no shot is to be fired there and all are to travel in safety —in the view of the English authorities no lady may cross the pass unaccompanied by a gentleman. For beyond the Tribal Territory lies Afghanistan, homeland of the same unruly and warlike tribes, or their close kin. What more natural assumption for an Englishman than that this mysterious, wild land is uncivilized and dangerous, at least in the British sense of the word?

And yet we’d travelled there, two women alone, without a houseboy and chauffeur, without even a gentleman. “

  In June of 1939 writer and photojournalist Annemarie Schwarzenbach with ethnologist Ella Maillart embarked on a road trip with an 18 hp Ford DeLuxe roadster to Afghanistan. Both well-traveled it was still an unprecedented endeavor for two Swiss women.

Some of Schwarzenbach’s essays on the adventure would be published in newspapers at the time. But it would not be until 1947, five years after Schwarzenbach’s death due to an accident in 1942, that Maillart would publish in England her own more psychological account of the trip as The Cruel Way. The successful travel memoir however still using a pseudonym for Schwarzenbach, at Schwarzenbach’s domineering mother’s insistence. And it would be even longer that Schwarzenbach’s unpublished surviving work in general would see the light of day. It would take until the 1980s for her to be rediscovered. Among these works All the Roads are Open collects both unpublished and previously published articles of the Afghan journey.  And in 2001 the picturesque and moody German-language movie The Journey to Kafiristan taking some license portraying the trip also released amid other films adding to the image of Schwarzenbach as a European cult figure.

  Both through her many faceted career, gender nonconforming style (inspiration for Claire Waight Keller’s Givenchy 2019 Spring/Summer collection) and love affairs with women— much draws people to learn about Schwarzenbach’s work and short life. A life of thirty-four years also plagued by addiction, mental illness and the stormy times. Schwarzenbach was amazingly privileged as an industrialist heiress but, clashed with her family that was sympathetic to Nazi’s, while also being treated as an embarrassment and black sheep for her associations and less than discreet as well as destructive behaviour. Maillart in part thought she might help to assuage Schwarzenbach ills with the distraction and high provided by their trip.

Circumstances despite all these decades later that are unfortunately probably still hold significance. We too seem to be facing a future of much uncertainty. Fascism, bigotry along with conflicts when it comes to respectability continue. Further the yearning to take off, travel, the names and stories of places acquiring new meaning for a person transcends time. (Bearing in mind a caveat, contrary to some opinions, Schwarzenbach and Maillart were not fully able to navigate round pitfalls of class, culture clash, exoticism or other bias. Also, worth noting is both use the word ‘chador’ at times for women’s dress which by description sounds much more to be the chadari.)

The English edition of All the Roads are Open first published in 2011, offers more of the background and context through both translator Isabel Fargo Cole’s forward and notes along with the afterword by editor Roger Perret I’ve laid out here. Newly out in paperback for 2021, within Schwarzenbach’s writing readers might go along on such journeys of the past and their author’s chimeric endeavor with a philosophical bent concerning existence. 

All the Roads are Open by Annemarie Schwarzenbach is available in English translated by Isabel Fargo Cole, in print from Seagull Books

Watch a trailer for The Journey to Kafiristan here

Also search and view the many photographs Schwarzenbach took online at the Helvetic Archives

Ford Deluxe Roadster 1932. - source Classic Cars & Trucks.