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1932 Ford Rat Rod 3-Window Coupe
Photographed at the World Of Wheels Car Show in Atlanta, Georgia, February 17, 2006.

1932 Ford 5-Window Coupe Rat Rod
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The 1932 Ford made automotive history once again on March 31, 1932 when Henry Ford announced the new Ford V-8. This certainly was not the first car to be powered by a V-8 engine, but it was the first time that such a motor was available in a low-price, mass-produced automobile.

The 221 cubic-inch-displacement V-8 was developed in the strictest secrecy by a small workforce operating under Henry Ford's personal supervision.

The engine was rushed into production - some say too rushed - and was eagerly purchased by car buyers. However, many of the engines experienced piston and bearing failures, overheating, and block cracking. These problems were soon solved and the flat-head V-8 would become the engine for Ford automobiles for the next 21 years.

There were, of course, numerous design changes in the new 32 Ford including:

Front and rear fenders fully crowned
Radiator shell was slightly veed and had vertical bars
The Ford V-8 logo was positioned in the center of the curved headlight tie-bar
The hubcaps also carried the new V-8 badge
The dash had all the instruments and controls within an oval metal plate placed in the center of a mahogany colored (early) or walnut (late) grained panel
An anti-theft device was incorporated into the key and ignition switch that was mounted on a bracket attached to the steering column

During the model year Ford incorporated several changes into the design of the new Model 18. The most obvious was increasing the number of vent louvers in the hood from 20 to 25 to improve the engine cooling.

Apparently sensitive that most of its competitors had longer wheelbases, Ford measured the distance from the center position of the front spring to the center of the rear spring and advertised a wheelbase of 112 inches when it was actually only 106 inches.

The new 32 Ford had single transverse leaf springs front and rear. By locating the rear springs behind the differential and using 18-inch wheels, the new Ford had a lower height giving it a racier appearance.

Almost 300,000 V-8 Fords were sold in its first year of production.

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