1931 proved the final year of Ford’s Model A production, although inventory sales continued through April of the following year.

With a great variety of civilian and commercial body styles available for the model, Ford relied on supplemental coachbuilders to fill out contracts of specific body styles.

Detroit’s own Murray Body Corporation the Briggs Manufacturing Company were both responsible for bodying “blind” window and three-window (both terms referring to the side windows of each design) Tudor and Fordor Sedans, like the example offered here.

Thankfully, there are some minor but telltale signs to distinguish a Briggs body from a Murray body, and both remain equally desirable within the vast Model A marketplace.

This Murray-bodied 1931 DeLuxe Fordor Sedan is a desirable “slant-windshield,” three-window example which benefits from a previous restoration.

It is one of just 4,967 Fordor Sedan examples completed by Ford for the model year, though not all received this particular w...