1932 Ford Fordor sedan - Four To Go

For the most part Barbero has made low platforms his shop's platform issue. His take on the way things should look is slanted-literally, as in heavily to the front and unforgivingly low. He built that chassis his customary way, with a low-profile round-tube center crossmember that tucks the drivetrain and exhaust high within the chassis and far away from the pavement. He pushed a Model A-style front crossmember 3 inches ahead of the stock to lengthen the wheelbase. It's a trick that counters the relative heft of a sedan's hind quarters, a region that can get pretty ponderous without the fenders to balance it. Kenny Gilmour ensured that balance by clipping the body's top 3-1/2 inches at the windshield and 3 inches at the rear. Based on illustrator Jeff Allison's drawings, Pyramid's Steve Skuhra frenched a pair of '37 Ford taillights into the rear quarters.

After sorting the rest of the chassis, the Pyramid crew shipped the car to the yonder side of the Cascades-Spokane to be specific-where Don and his wife, Nancy, live. From there he shuttled the car to various shops, among them Rod Builders, where Bob Bissonette drilled and sleeved the framehorns and relocated the fuel filler neck to the tank center per Jeff Allison's instruction. Korey Huenink tuned up the door edges, closed the large gap between the front and rear doors, and shot the car in a custom-mix PPG Concept series urethane.

Don still keeps fast company; he produced the Spokane Auto Boat Speed Show for 46 years and currently campaigns an A/Nostalgia Dragster. So how could a guy predisposed to speed find it in himself to build a four sedan, a car historically cast as a way station for donor parts? "Nancy and I just wanted to be able to take our grandkids with us," he reflects.

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Don and Nancy Wilbur
Spokane, Washington
1932 Ford Fordor sedan