Thread: 1935 Dodge Brougham

Originally Posted by Sleepy

A fella I work with brought in his "new" vehicle.
It's a beautifully restored 1935 Dodge Brougham, he tells me the colour is original - wow I thought all vehicles were black in the 30's.
Looks like a gansters car! Love the Ram on the radiator.


Please excuse the off-model post. I couldn't resist.

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Thanks for the pictures, I like old cars, I had a 1946 straight 8 Buick that I was restoring years ago it was no were near complete so I could not register it and the Army would not pay the cost of transporting it to Sydney so I had to sell it.
These old cars that had two spare wheels on the running boards were known as six wheelers.

Hodgo

Your thinking of Ford Model T you can have any colour option you want as long as your choosing black

Quite a variety of colours were available in the 1930s, although restrained colours were by far the most common. Black would have been relatively uncommon, with dark blues and greens more common. Not unusual to have the mudguards, chassis etc black and a different colour for the main part of the body. Many of the 1930s cars I remember were colours like dark blue, dark green, maroon, brown.

My memory says that black was much more common after the war, into the late 1940s and early fifties, becoming almost unheard of except for official vehicles and funeral/wedding cars from the late fifties until recently.

John

Lovely car and lucky to survive the hotrodding, Dad is into old Dodges- 1927 Businessmans Roadster, 1928 Fast Four racer, 1928 Senior Six.