Tom gave her a name, which she shares with his fighter-inspired '31 coupe: Back Seat Betty ... The narrowed '58 Ford 9-inch houses an Auburn limited-slip differential with 3.73:1 gears equipped ...

Jim Payne of El Cajon, California, has such a '31 Ford coupe ... headliner and rumble seat were done in matching colors and material, again by Saul. Jim rebuilt the highboy coupe back in 2007 ...

Essentially, a rumble seat was a seat mounted in the trunk of a two-door coupe. The back of the seat was attached to the trunk lid, which opened from the top, not the bottom, and folded back ...

A clever feature of Ford coupes was the rumble seat option. Riele explained, “Ford coupes from the Model A through the 1936 models were made so the rear compartment could either be a trunk or ...