HEMI COUPE

Paul & Stacie Arandale’s Deuce...

Twenty-five years ago, Glen Innes concreter, Paul Arandale sold his ’32 Ford roadster and took a break from hot rodding until 2014, when the urge to own another hot rod took hold and a new project began. Paul has also owned a ’28 Tudor in the past, along with some projects that were moved on before they were finished, but the desire to own another Deuce won out and a three-window hiboy coupe was ordered from C&W Components. It was delivered to Pete Townsend at The Hot Rod Shop where it was mounted on a reproduction chassis. We published a Rod Building article on the car while it was in the mock-up stage back in our August 2015 issue.

That chassis was built by Pete and Brad Townsend using boxed American Stamping rails, an A Model front cross member and a custom centre section. One of Pete’s own fabricated under-dash pedal assembly controls the XA Falcon master cylinder and the Gemini brake booster while a dropped and drilled Super Bell I beam axle front end is located by hairpins and an in-house fabricated panhard bar. Added to this setup is an HQ Holden box for steering and XF Ford rotors with VT Commodore calipers for brakes, neatly hidden between finned covers. Rocket wheels measuring 16x4 inches on the front and 16x6 inches on the rear wear Firestone tyres.