Ever wonder why there aren't more original Chevy's than Fords from the early '30s? Besides the popularity of the Ford flathead V8, there was much more WOOD in the structure of the Chevys and that wood rotted away faster than Fords could rust away! I recall a rough '35 Chevy coupe our family had and the interior was ripped up to the point that it was clear there was a LOT of wood on the inside of the body. Maybe the '37 Chevy was the first Chevy model to have mostly metal for the body structure? I think there are a few fiberglass Chevy bodies available but not nearly as many as for Fords perhaps simply because the Chevy bodies are so rare as to not be available even for molds! Having been born in 1937, perhaps I can say that to me almost every 1937 model of whatever make looked strange, with the Chrysler Airflow the worst. Still the designers got out of their collective mistake somehow and the '40 Chevy and '41 Ford looked much better. Maybe there was some problem working out metal stamping molds to go from wood-supported structures to rounded metal structures and the transition year of 1937 represents a year of a considerable learning curve on how to stamp smooth metal bodies. Anyway you can probably find a fiberglass Chevy body if you look hard enough but it would be much easier to find a Ford body in metal or fiberglass.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder