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1934 Ford Highboy Five-Window Coupe

After you catch your breath, odds are Bill Sather’s, of Texas, ’34 Ford highboy five-window coupe is going to look more and more familiar. And it should. Working with Troy Gudgel of BBT Fabrications in Mahomet, Illinois, it was freelancer supreme Gerry Burger who wrote six previous tech stories on the build for Modern Rodding. While we won’t go over all of the modifications, as there are many, check out the links and print stories listed on page 21.

Let’s go over this four-year project to see where we are today. If you remember the earliest of the build stories this coupe was

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