I is a leftover from the stagecoach days, when the cheapest ticket was in the back open seats .and of course you were exposed to the rumble of the wheels.
The last year cheverolet had rumble seat was 1938 and the last year ford had a rumble seat was 1939. I would like to know how many were built in a coupe model for 1938
The Americans call them "rumble seats. The British call them "dicky seats". The last British built car with a dickey seat was the Triumph 2000 Roadster made until 1949. Among the last American-built cars with a rumble seat were the 1938 Chevrolet, the 1939 Ford and 1939 Dodge and Plymouth.
A "Dickey Seat" is better known as a "Rumble Seat". In dictionaries from the 1800's, the word "Rumble" was defined as "A seat for servants at the rear of a carriage". This is where the idea and origin of a Dickey/Rumble seat in early cars came from, the rear (and very uncomfortable) seats that were on the back of carriages in the 1800's, designed for your servants.
2 people if it did not come equipped with a rumble seat. 2 more could sit in the rumble seat.
Do you mean a rumble seat? That is a seat that folds out of the rear chassis of a car.
Rumble!
old 30's fords.
optional on coupes until 1938, model A, B, Etc.
There was a round step mounted on the rear fender that you simply stepped on and then into the seat area.
A 4 or 6 passenger open car used to be called a touring car. A two seat inside and one on the trunk outside is a rumble seat.
Tim Shepard
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