The 1935 Ford body style “that never was,” this remarkable two-door DeLuxe Phaeton was built by the Haines Body Shop for noted collector Bill Sutton over a period of many years and using no fewer than five donor Fords in its creation.

The frame and hood were extended seven inches and the front wheels, grille, and front fenders moved ahead by an equal distance, while the length of the frame, torque tube, driveshaft, and body were all correspondingly shortened by seven inches in the area of the rear floor, preserving the original 112-in.

wheelbase.

Only original Ford chassis components were used in the modifications.

The body was restyled with the handsome lines of a Ford phaeton, only in two-door configuration, by grafting the tops of all four doors of a factory phaeton body onto the lower half of a Tudor shell.

The handsome interior features a band of oak trim around the tops of the doors and the rear seat, while a chrome windshield rises from the curved cowl to flow gracefully in...