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This special body designed by Edsel Ford quite markedly resembles the contemporary British sport car Bentley. This would have been the 'poor man's sports car' if the American public could have bought it. This double-cowl body has a torpedo-like body, the top edges carefully roll inward to form the double cockpits and the "bustle" rear round out the car in the best of 1930 sports car styling. Memorandums from Ford Company files disclose that an extensive research was made to make use of as much of the Model A as possible. Parts like bumpers, fender and running board brackets were modified to fit and blend with the special design. In addition to these many Model A parts, the car's design also made use of Duesenberg patterned doors and ornamental hardware, fancy Parisian headlamps and cross-bar, Newport-styled slanted windshield, double cowls - front/back, rear windshield, custom door handles, shortened running boards, and other smaller parts available during the period. Some time after Edsel Ford registered his special car with the Michigan Motor Vehicle Division in 1930, the car disappeared. Unfortunately, the car seems to be lost forever. However, somewhere, sometime, someone decided to replicate this one-of-a-kind car. While many of the compentents on this car may have been on Edsel's original, this particular vehicle is believed to be a replica of the original car. In 2003 the Ford Motor Company displayed it at the 100 Years of Ford exhibit in the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
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