Ever built a car and a short while after completion—or even when rolling it out of the garage for the first time—decided it's not really what you wanted, so you redo it completely? Mark Freeborn did just that. While there was absolutely nothing wrong with his full-fendered, unchopped 1932 Ford three-window coupe, by his own admission it looked "pretty much like every other full-fendered '32 out there." The workmanship, by Matt Pendergast of MP Coachworks, and chassis by Al Clark at Deuces Northwest, was impeccable, but Mark had something of an epiphany, and "realized that my desire to respect the roots of this car by making it relatively stock bodied were rapidly being overridden by the realization that it wasn't the car I really wanted."
But we're getting way ahead of ourselves, so let's backtrack a little. Mark is a TV and film production designer by occupation, and as such led a pretty nomadic lifestyle for many years, which meant he never had a permanent workspace in which to tackle projects. After getting married and working on a film on Mayne Island, off the British Columbia coast, Mark and his wife, Rose Marie, who incidentally shares his love of "old things," bought a house there and immediately built a studio/shop. Now, getting to the island involves taking a ferry, and pretty soon Mark struck up a conversation with one of the deckhands, a result of always driving "oddball" vehicles. Said deckhand had been offered a '32 coupe and asked what it might be worth.
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The rest is history; Mark became the owner of what once had been a show car. The package consisted of the body, doors, windshield, rumble seat lid, a badly recessed firewall and a stock Ford one, grille shell, a genie frame, and a Ford 8-1/2-inch rearend. It sported the remains of a tangerine 'flake paintjob, with all work in lead. It also had a torched-out floor to channel the body, with the rumble seat lid and cowl vent welded shut and leaded.
This was what Mark delivered to MP Coachworks, who, over the next year, straightened the body, replaced damaged metal, stretched and contoured the Rootlieb hood, built the hood blisters, custom-formed the louvers, replaced the cowl vent and made a louvered decklid. The Deuces Northwest frame was fitted with a drilled and dropped Superbell axle on hairpin radius rods, with finned backing plates covering the Wilwood discs, and a Winters quick-change rearend, also with Wilwood discs. LimeWorks supplied the steering column, repro Crestliner steering wheel, e-brake handle, and column shifter.
The 331ci Chrysler Hemi was also installed during the first build. Says Mark, "Ever since I was almost killed in a 300C, I knew something I would build would have an early Hemi, and as soon as I started this project, I started the search. I found three engines, but only the last was any good. A 331 Industrial engine from a lumber mill emergency generator, it had but 500 hours on it. On a visit to my hometown of Kingston, Ontario, I tracked down Jim and Dan Rini, who I'd seen race in the past. They were Fuel dragster builders, who had crewed for Tommy Ivo on the circuit back in the day, and, now in their seventies were about ready to close up their shop, but they agreed to build my motor." What the Rinis delivered was a 0.030-inch bored Hemi with a more efficient Mopar 340 oil system, and most rotating parts replaced. It has a Vertex magneto, Hotheads intake with a Holley four-barrel (the multi-97 lookalike TPI system on a Weiand Drag Star manifold suffered continual computer problems and remains unused), and a Hotheads adaptor to fit the Mopar 727 trans.
All of which brings us back to where we came in, with Mark's realization that his car wasn't exactly what he wanted. This tied in with longtime friend Laurie Peterson announcing that he was closing his auto repair shop to build hot rods full time as Canada Customs. It also coincided with Mark's workload increasing, bouncing back and forth between Albuquerque, working on Breaking Bad, and Vancouver doing Alcatraz and Bates Motel (yes, you really did recognize the building behind the car in the pictures, it's the Bates Motel set). This meant five people got in line with Peterson before him, though it did mean he had plenty of time to plan the project.
Says Mark, "I began accumulating parts, like the '46 Olds taillights. I'd only ever seen them used on Blackie Gejeian's roadster pickup. Or the headlights, which are a combination of '37 Buick buckets and '36 Ford lenses. They mirror the hood blisters, but it took 12 pie cuts to make the buckets match the headlight rings. I had a '37 truck grille hanging on the wall that the swap meet seller I bought it from griped about because it wasn't stock. Turns out it was sectioned vertically sometime and every bar was brazed and hand filed. As the '32 and '37 grilles are similar widths, Peterson sliced the front of a '32 grille, tweaked the '37 a little, and welded the two together, using the Griffin radiator we'd used in the first build! The headlight brackets were made to match the drilled I-beam, and at first glance, on the bench, I wasn't wild about them, but on the car, plated and polished, they're outstanding."
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