34 Brewster

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Dave Mellor NJ

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Whatever this is, it's one beautiful car
 

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Brewster and Company was a high end coach builder that dated back into the early 19th century. When automobiles came on the scene, they build bodies on quite a few different chassis types including the Rolls Royce America, Ltd, Lincoln model K, and even some Ford passenger car chassis. The body was worth a lot more than the chassis in some cases. They loved that heart shaped grill in the later years before they folded.
 
1934 Brewster In California

I was with my friend Jim in
California when we “ rediscovered “
a 1934 Brewster that had been lost
for more than 20 years.

Image from my video:


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Check out my video ….

@ https://youtu.be/MpGHn1Q5piI?feature=shared


Jim
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Story was they switched to doing some Fords during the depression because the Rolls Royce coachwork jobs had dried up.
 
I thought the subject car was a Brewster due to the fenders but after seeing the posted cars from Truly Vintage it must be something else. can anybody ID it ?
 
Dave Mellor NJ said:
I thought the subject car was a Brewster due to the fenders but after seeing the posted cars from Truly Vintage it must be something else. can anybody ID it ?
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Dave.

The subject car does not appear to be
a Brewster but I thank the OP for posting
because it jogged my memory about
the car that was rediscovered when I
was helping my friend Jim document
what was in his friend’s garages a few
years ago ….


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I ended up spending two full days
onsite and a lot of hours researching
the history of Brewster and of this
particular example and
the documented ownership history.

At the time it was purchased by the
current owner 20 plus years ago it
was professionally acknowledged
to be the finest known surviving
example in the closest to original
condition known to exist.

Jim
Transporting To Travel
Traveling To Share
Stories From The Road
 

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Sorry that this is not Ford Model A related, but here is another view of that same, very customized, car from the side:
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Brad in Maryland





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Brewster & Company built just 8 Convertible Coupes (Roadsters) between 1934 and 1937. Only 4 of them are known to exist. 2 of the 4 will most likely never see daylight again. This car has no real resemblance to the Brewster! This Original Factory photo will show the differences!


More Brewster information can be seen at https://brewstercars.com/DonsNeatStuff/
 

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Brad in Germany said:
Sorry that this is not Ford Model A related, but here is another view of that same, very customized, car from the side:
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Brad in Maryland
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The Woods lights actually make that car. Brewsters always had out-of-proportion lights IMO. I have worked on two Brewsters, and both were constructed on modified 1933/34 Ford chassis'.
 
AI wasn't any help - Based on the image, the car appears to be a 1933 or 1934 Auburn Boattail Speedster.
I like the kid standing guard with his BB gun.

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Brent, that would be Woodlites to you................


I have a couple pair, but no they dont look good on a Model A.


Need at least a Packard to mount them to.
 
I just went through Rotowrench #9 chronicles article. Some of those cars are just off the top wonderful, beautiful, stunning.

So the question is, where are they, who owns them, what happened to those cars?
 
A family friend it the early "50's was the chauffer for Charles Edison, son of Thomas Alva and governor of New Jersey at the time. While he mostly drove a Cadillac limo, he occasionally would park Edison's beautiful mid-thirties Ford Brewster town car outside his home while at lunch break. It looked much like the photos of the sedans shown above but it had a sliding roof over the driver that could make it fully open or closed for bad weather. I believe the car has been restored and is still at the Edison home in West Orange, NJ.
 
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