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Supercharged HEMI V8-Swapped 1932 Ford Roadster Can Be Yours for $139,500

Extremely popular with the hot-rodding community, the Deuce was the first Ford to offer an eight-cylinder engine. The open-top model before your eyes, however, said adios to the bone-stock flathead in 1947 for a Mercury V8 engine that helped it reach 120-plus mph (193 kph).
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Purchased for $385 by Jack Kukura of the Gear Grinders car club and owned by him until 2005, the vehicle was modified subsequently modified with a 454 HEMI V8 and a Hampton blower. As expected from the Chrysler powerplant, the transmission is a heavy-duty 727 TorqueFlite three-speeder.

As fate would have it, the roadster spun at 200 mph (322 kph) at the Bonneville Salt Flats, came to a controlled stop, and a shaken Kukura understandably refused to make to return run out of fear for his own life. Retired in 1960, the Deuce reappeared in 1986 at a car show in California. “The roadster has had only two private owners” since the passing of Kukura, and during this era, the steel-bodied Deuce was restored to its former glory.

Currently finished in gray primer over blue vinyl for the Los Angeles Metro bus-sourced bench seat, this blast from the past also displays taillights from a 1939 Ford, 1946 hubcaps, Grinamex glass, as well as Stewart Warner flat-glass gauges. Eight of the original timing tags, custom-built side pipes, and a roll bar fabricated by Gear Grinder Bob Snook also need to be mentioned.

Still wearing the original boxed and braced frame, the '32 is fitted with Donovan Engineering heads, a Weiand manifold, a Vertex black-cap magneto, and Airheart disc brakes from an airplane. Be that as it may, the previous owner describes the Deuce as “thrilling and challenging on the road.” Because it’s an authentic piece of Bonneville Salt Flats racing history, Fantasy Junction is asking $139,500 for this time capsule on behalf of the consignor.

In addition to the car, The sale includes “an impressive binder with period photographs,” an original Gear Grinders S.C.T.A. patch, five trophies, footage from 1958 and 1960, as well as a handwritten specification sheet.

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About the author: Mircea Panait
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After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well.
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