1932 5 Window "barn find" update

The 32 originally belonged to Bill Kane Sr. What we know about the car is pieced together form friends and family stories, receipts, news paper clippings and  a great deal of documentation that came with the car. Bill purchased the car as a 4 cyl B model and worked on the car from 1958-1961. He never had the car road worthy, but did make very good headway for a kid who was barely out of high school. The car was sealed away in a garage when the door began to fall apart. It was unearthed in November of 2014. We brought it home on Decmeber 5th of 2014 and have been carefully preserving and documenting this piece of local hot rod history. We have done local car shows to allow people to see the car in it's original state before we began any work to it. We will be sharing what we learn about the car as time permits.

Bill purchased the finest speed equipment of the time with every intention of combining show and go to make this a one of a kind car for the Richmond, VA area. He was a member of the Virginia Creepers that prided themselves on citizenship on the streets and setting records on the track.

The crown jewel of the build was a Cragar blown full race 1955 Mercury Y-Block.

The heads were polished and ported. The "back" side of the heads were even polished to aid in oil flow back to the oil pan. The light carbon in the combustion chamber backs up suspicions that the engine was fired at one point and ran briefly with a tri deuce set up.

 view of the extensive work done to the heads.

Light carbon dusting on top of the pistons. Engine turns freely and shows no signs of wear or failure. A full rebuild is in order to verify specs, but the initial mock up was pretty satisfying.

Mock up of blower. The original belts that came with the Cragar kit are here, but not on the blower yet. We even have the original catalog where a young Bill circled the picture, wrote down notes from the tech line and got quoted a price with shipping charges.

The original installation kit for the Cragar Blower was included in the parts that came with the car.

Three Stellings and Hellings air cleaners still in the brown paper bags from the parts store. The three 97 Stromberg set up receipts were there, but the Intake and Carbs are long gone in favor of the Cragar blower.

Vertex Magneto with built sheet were never installed.

There is an unbelievable amount of receipts and documentation from local and national sources came with this car. We will attempt the keep the pics coming when relevant. There is a tremendous amount of information that would be pretty boring to just drop all at once. Stay tuned.