1932 THREE-WINDOW COUPE #43C

1932 THREE-WINDOW COUPE #43C

On loan courtesy of Larry Carter:
The summer of 1961 was unusually hot in Globe, Arizona, but even that couldn't stifle his excitement. Larry had dragged the old Martin Brothers coupe home with a tractor. His parents just stood there shaking their heads when he came up the driveway. “Don’t stop until it’s behind the garage and out of sight,” his mother said, as his father puffed away on his pipe.
She had gone through the hands of several would-be hot-rodders until the brothers stuffed a Nailhead Buick under her hood, hooking up a five-speed transmission and V8 quick-change. It didn’t take long to strip off the dented fenders, running boards and everything else that wasn’t necessary. Her well-worn black paint with the red flames and Number 43 on her doors had seen better days, but the more he stripped off—and the lower he adjusted the torsion bar suspension to drop her—the better and faster she looked.
Once Larry got the Buick running with his father’s help, it wasn’t hard to imagine the coupe hunting trouble on a Saturday night. All she needed now was a little silver paint where the chrome should be and a seat cover if he could talk Mom into sewing up one.