This specific car has a very interesting story, as it first was started as an auto-shop class project. The Coachcraft bodywork did cost $1500 in 1940 (a custom body ordered without permission of its young owner's dad... it took a long time to get the work paid). Jimmie Summers finished it later and the complete cost of building it was about $6000 . It took close to ten year to finish it to its current look (according to Honk magazine, Sept 1953). The current front was built after WWII by Frank Kurtis, the first front did have a sectioned '39 Ford hood and grille. On Ebay in 2009 for $350.000.

Coachcraft Roadster - 1940