Hey thanks for a great thread with comments from the "Pros"! I just put a down payment on a '29 roadster 'glass body from Bebops and was feeling a little guilty about opting out of the Brookville steel body. My choice was for the same reasons given above, the thought of all that bare steel gave me worries about "new" rust even while I built the car and wondering how to treat/paint all the undersurfaces. If the 'glass body is roughly the same in resale value as steel I can take some comfort in the "no rust" angle. I have worked with original Model A parts and usually rust is everwhere so for no other reason than lack of rust I prefer the 'glass and if it is roughly the same value as steel that is great in my view. There is of course a sort of nostalgia value attached to original steel, even with rust, but if it's repro anyway I would probably get rust during my slow building time and end up paying a lot to a bodyman to properly prime all the under surfaces. One of my neighbors is working on what looks like a perfectly restored '29 Tudor with Balsam green over black fenders and it looks fantastic, but yesterday I found him stopped along the road stalled due to sucking rust into the fuel line from a rusty gas tank (on the inside) so let me say the terrible four letter word about preferring fiberglass, "RUST"! I am glad to learn from you professionals that the value of rustless fiberglass is still very good, thanks for your experienced answers. As far as preferring the smaller '29 body that is partly based on the fact that apparently every part for a '32 seems to be about 1.5 times more expensive than for the '29 and the fact that I just like the "cute little '29 body".

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder