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Cunningham Town Car w 36 Ford chassis $35k


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This is a bit unusual.  

 

https://hartford.craigslist.org/cto/d/broad-brook-rare-1936-ford-cunningham/7768988664.html

 

Looks pretty good either for an early V8 guy who has everything already or? "Application consideration" for CCCA I would guess.  No different though than the Ford based Brewsters I believe are Full Classics.

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Contact information and photos for the record:

Contact: Calls preferred (860) six-2-7-five-8-0-6. 
Copy and paste in your email: 21218f48fe133991a051916bf13e262b@sale.craigslist.org

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To me it needs the right buyer though. 

 

Not saying it's overpriced as I don't know but I do know you can get an open 35 - 36 Ford in nice condition for around his ask.

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I'd be interested to know who these were originally marketed to. Seems like you'd need to be connected with Ford to want one hen they were new. 

 

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21 hours ago, Leif in Calif said:

I'd be interested to know who these were originally marketed to. Seems like you'd need to be connected with Ford to want one hen they were new. 

 

By the mid-1930's, there was still a small but diminishing market for the chauffeur-driven, carriage-trade formal town cars.  In the tenor of the times, it was unseemly to flaunt one's wealth so a high-quality. coach-built town car on a plebian chassis was perceived as more socially acceptable.  Brewster, Cunningham and Derham were trying to develop a niche that would allow them to continue in the coachbuilding, but it was mostly over with.

 

Sorry, I forgot Rollston/Rollson was also participating in this dying niche.

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