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1947 Deuce Roadster

An old saying states that a “picture is worth a thousand words,” but in this case, a picture turned into a three-year obsession to build a new/old Deuce roadster. Mike Edwards, an Industrial Machinery & Equipment Manufacturing business owner and rodder lives in Tucson, Arizona, and owns a stunning 1939 Ford coupe.

One day he was cruising the internet when he saw a picture on the HAMB of a German car during a holiday in Switzerland. The German car fit the period look (1947), so the project began. Mike says, “The builder of that type of hot rod was probably a returning serviceman living in Southern

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