Brewster was one of the many custom body companies that were very popular with the wealthy automobile clientele for companies like Packard, Peerless, Pierce Arrow, and many others during the early years of auto industry.  However, as mass produced automobiles began to offer many of the benefit’s offered by the custom body builders, most of these specialized company’s began to disappear.  The 1929 market collapse also contributed, as the rich began to avoid the custom built market.

Some time in the early “thirties”, Brewster’s president, John Inskip, in a desperate attempt to survive, has worked out a deal to purchase 135 Ford V8 roadster chassis and designed a Brewster body for them.  From 1934 to 1936 Brewster built Town Cars, Limousines, and Convertible sedans and coupes.  The majority of the production were Town Cars.  They were built on an extended length Ford chassis and all featured the exclusive heart shaped grille, cow catcher-style front bumpers, and flared front fenders seen in my graphic.

The venture meet with little success and Brewster was out of business by June of 1936.  These automobiles are very rare today with very few having survived.

Postscript:  The only other company to build on the Ford-based chassis was Cunningham, who supposedly built around 36 units during roughly the same time frame.  However, the Cunningham units had the regular Ford-based front end instead of the custom work found on the Brewster’s.

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