Before he was old enough to get his driver's license, Mike Kerwin was interested in cars. Before he ever picked up a wrench, he was picking up car magazines, hiking around car shows, and searching swap meets. In the years since, he's built a bunch of cars, but says he'd always wanted a Deuce. The chance to make that happen arose when he found this Tudor sedan on eBay and drove from Tucson, Arizona, to Dallas with his girlfriend, Amber, to pick it up. It was just the bare body, the floor was gone, and the remaining steel needed serious attention. It looked like it had been resting on it's left side in a riverbed, he remembers, but it had all the window moldings, the windshield, dash, door latches, window regulators, etc. And I was going to build a chopped, fenderless car, so I didn't care. That initial ambition was followed by three years when the Tudor body sat untouched while Mike built a shop and remodeled his house. When it came time to build the car, I hit it hard. I like the traditional hot rod look. I had a particular style in mind for this car and I worked very hard to stick to it. I love the lines of chopped sedans, and I spent a lot of time thinking about the chop. I wanted it to look good, but not chop too much. I'm 6-foot-3 and needed to fit in the car. I saw a '32 sedan at the LA Roadster Show a few years ago that the Kennedy Brothers had built. I sat in itit fit and it looked right. I didn't have a tape measure with me so I used a sunscreen tube to measure ...
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