Hot Rods Let's have our own 85th anniversary event for the 40 ford...

I hope the thread keeps going - thought I just might cry when it ends...
(sold the avatar, long years ago,,,)

 

This car belongs to a HAMBer. Blown cad motor

 

Maybe Moriarty can edit the title to
Let's have our own 76th anniversary event for the 40 ford...

 

Dave Mock. The Street Rodder mag with it on the cover sets in my drawer of favorite magazines.

 

It was in Rod & Kulture too. REALLY nice car. I have forgotten his HAMB name.

 

Davey Deuce I believe.

 

October, 1980

 

^^holy crap, Davey deuce really gets around...

 

More '40s with wire wheels than I've seen in my whole life!

 

I have often thought I would like to put Skylarks on my '39, but CRIPES, I have built whole CARS for what a set of 4 costs!

 

that makes me grin...

 

Barry Lobecks '40 in Hot Rod. I was really knocked out when this issue came out.

 

That's part of the reason I had such a passion for polished American 5 spokes. I went to the trouble of finding a set at different swap meets back in the 80's (because American had stopped making them) and had them polished. But then American introduced the Torque Thrust II's and you can get them polished fairly cheap so suddenly they were everywhere. That's when I decided to go to the Halibrand's.

 

Don't blow his head up too much, Mark.

 

Exactly! I still have the straight spoke's, but I thought a change was in order partly because some of the younger "traditionalist" were not very fond of my 5 spokes because they just assumed they were the newer ones and didn't know the difference between the straight spoke American's of the 60's and the new TT 2's.

Here is one of my old 15x8's doing duty as a table in the garage.

 

Lobeck's old '40 was pretty dang cool, but sits a bit high, by today's standards. ;-)

 

Gene Sonnen's coupe, back when he had polished 5 spokes, is what caused my dream of someday having a set for my coupe. Due to my budget, I didn't go for vintage wheels, but just bought the TTO's with the "as cast" spokes, to keep the uneducated folks from asking about my Cragars.

 

..............I feel what you're saying, and yes by todays standards it probably does sit a little tall. When I grew up in East Tennessee we called that a Moonshine Rake 'cause once you got it loaded it sat nice (and unobtrusively) level.

 

Don't get me wrong...back then, it was one of the '40's that everybody held in high regard. It's just funny to look back at the cars from that era and notice how the preferred stance has changed over time.

 

That was when he was just "Barry Lobeck" not BARRY LOBECK yet. That car really made a big splash at the time.

 

What could be better than an inline 6 Chev. or G.M.C. in a Ford?

Bill Commane's 332 C.I.D. G.M.C. powered 40 from Aug 1958 Hot Rod I
have this one there is a much better photo of the engine in the magazine-







The car still exist and was in one of Pat Ganahl's Lost Hot Rods books

 

^^ZZZZZZZZZZZZ

 

Lobeck's 40 might sit a bit high for todays ideas but it sure works for me!! Was a very similar black coupe in Reedley Ca in 60-61 with a dual quad solid lifter 283 that really had to looks and sounded great!! Sat about the same too but had chrome reverse wheels.

 

bill commane's coupe in the 58 hotrod magizine is listed as a 40. but it looks like a 39 with 40 front sheet metal and 40 rear fenders. really neat car though

 

^^^^ good eye ^^^^^^

 

Purchased my 40 in 1972 for 75 bucks and finally finished the build a year ago after a four year build!

 

thanks i. rant !!!!!!

 

.............................Yes, Good catch.