George Poteet’s 1932 Ford Tudor Sedan

 

This 1932 Ford Tudor Sedan owned by George Poteet, the well-known hot rodder from Memphis Tennessee  was a featured part of the Ford exhibit at the 2017 SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) show in Las Vegas.

 

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The real-steel car was built by Alan Johnson of Gadsen Alabama and is a multiple award winning car, as it was one of the “Great Eight” finalists for the Ridler Award at the Detroit Autorama, was named the Goodguys Street Rod of the Year and won the Ford award for outstanding achievement of design at the SEMA show.

 

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Johnson’s Hot Rod Shop chopped the top 3-inches in front and 2-inches in the rear and leaned the A-pillars back eight degrees. At the rear the crew raised the rear wheel openings three inches, and re-arched them and rotated them forward to outline the rear wheels which are Coker Tire Firestone dirt track tires around Real Rodders magnesium Indy wheels. The completed body was covered in a glistening custom black mix PPG paint.

  

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The powerplant is a 339-cubic inch Ford Y-Block V-8 engine with FAST WFI electronic fuel injection built by Keith and Jeff Dorton with Johnson’s custom machined valve covers and beehive oil filter. The engine’s 400 horsepower is fed through a Tremec TKO 600 five-speed manual transmission to the Winters Performance V-8 quick change rear end.  The interior floorboards were assembled from more than 275 pieces of laser-cut high-density aircraft-quality plywood with leather wrapped 1932 Ford seats.