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    1932 Ford Five-Window

    Aug 30, 2021 6 minutes
    BY KEN GROSS
    PHOTOGRAPHY BY
    JOHN JACKSON

    How does a guy who restores Italian exotics end up with a 1932 Ford?

    “My dad was an autobody man for a shop in Queens (New York),” Chuck Wray says. “We didn’t have much money. So I read used hot rod magazines that I got from the guys in the shop and I fell in love with the hot rods I saw in the little books, like Rod & Custom and Rodding and Restyling. I liked that late-’50s/early-’60s look.

    “I became a restorer,” Chuck continues, “mostly working on Italian exotics. Back in 1995, you [Ken Gross] wrote an article in about a chopped-and-channeled 1932 five-window highboy coupe that was built by Donn Lowe in Oregon. When I saw that car I was just blown away. I wanted to build the car I thought they should have used in . I never liked Milner’s coupe. So, when I saw Donn Lowe’s car, I felt that was

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