This is where it all began, the concept. Even 10 years ago there was still a plan.

Wayne told us his plan...

“I have built eight 1932 fords over the years, and they are definitely my love. I wanted to keep the lines of the 32, part of the cowl and some of the body reveal. The car needed to be sectioned at an angle, and lengthened, as well as longer doors and hood. Bruce Williams and I began with some drawings and came up with the rendition for the car you see here. The car was completely built from the rendition, without any full scale drawings or measurements for the body. If it looked good, ( and sometimes it didn’t ) we moved ahead. We also went backwards in some areas and had to redo some ideas that were just not right.”

Continue on to view the first of three parts to this series. Check back every week to see more!

Two time Ridler Award Winner, Bill Bourbonais, was called upon to fabricate this one of chassis. Starting with a set of unboxed frame rails, Bill boxed and stretched them 3 inches and built a tubular cross member with custom engine and transmission mounts.

Bill fabricated the upper and lower control arms in a Spar aircraft design.

The suspension features one off rack mounts, hidden adjuster thread sleeves, custom steering arms, spindles and rotors. Wildwood calipers were used with custom pad covers.

The rear suspension is built around a Dana center section with a floating one off design. All of the rear-end components were engineered for this car, including half shafts, hub carriers, wheel adapters, caliper mounts, rear-end adapter, lower control arms and forward trailing arms. The rotors were custom fabricated and chromed and the Wildwood calipers were mounted on the pinion side of the center section.

That Bill is one talented guy!

Now enters the equally talented Maurice Cahill, the body fabricator who is now tasked with turning that picture into reality. Maurice started by fabricating a custom floor and body sills, 6 pieces form the foundation.

Starting with a pair of Swedish rear quarters and fabricating everything else, the quarters were sectioned, wheel wells removed and reveals modified. The new belt line then established the rake of the body.

The B-pillars were cut back and relocated, the doors lengthened 6 inches and the height lowered 3 inches, with a radiused and curved top to flow into the cowl and dash.

A wooden buck was built to locate the firewall.

With the plywood in place, a cowl is now fabricated from 5 pieces of sheet metal with the firewall recessed to make room for the future magneto, remember there is an overall plan for this build.

Out back, the deck lid corners are radiused to match the rest of the body and a custom rolled rear pan houses a license plate light as well as a retractable license plate. The rear LED taillight is smoothed into the body.

The front fenders were lengthened 3 inches, made from seven separate pieces, and have no exposed fasteners. The side profile is essential to the overall look of the car.

The front splash apron was eliminated, and the front fenders were made to flow over the tires. They were also designed to slip over the modified front frame horns all in one piece.

The windshield frame is a severely modified Kugel frame that has been cut, re-welded, sectioned to fit the custom cowl, with front and rear supports made to match the curved tinted glass.

Not an inch was left un-modified.

There are 160 hours spent on this frame alone, now the glass had to be cut to fit the modified frame.

Well here it is, the 32 creation back at home in Wayne’s garage. You have to admit that Bill and Maurice are a couple of insanely talented guys. The body lines flow perfectly and the car matches the original rendering, just like it’s supposed to.

That’s all for now. You can see from these photos the beginnings of what will become the fulfillment of Wayne’s dream to have a car of his appear in the Grand National Roadster Show. Please come back again in a few weeks. We will lay out the second of our 3 part build story of this GNR contender, the details of which are every bit as impressive. See you then.