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Cool little cars. I wonder if enough of them survived for the survivors to be affordable enough to use some as the basis for some little hot rods. Some of those little roadster bodies were hot looking.
It's interesting the '35 and '37 style bodies had top inserts. U.S. Fords saw their last top inserts in 1934. I wonder how wide those European wheels are. Great front runners for a hot rod. I once bought a Ford prefect with wide five wheels on it....16X3s.
During our trip to Australia, we came across a Ute Version in a tip. It was way cool, but no way to remove it.
Here 's some Ausies that someone sent me a while back, they are like 3/4 scale Fords and came that way. I do wish I could land one just for grins.
Here is a 1934 Ford Model Y that I owned for 6 years. It was originally built by John Pappert in Ontario, Canada and was the 1st Ridler winner from outside the U.S.
This has been in the Cars for Sale section for awhile now. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...d-truck-panel-ww2-original-rare-find.1078636/
This is a Matford, pretty much a full size Euro Ford. Well maybe 7/8th. Certainly bigger than what the OP describes.
Been fond of the "little" Fords since I first found out about them. Being a British Sports Car fan as well as old Fords one would fit right in my stable.
Gibbon has his Model Y coupe and sedan molds for sale. Someone was making him bumpers (that also work on Mullins trailers) and I think Rootlieb had hoods and SAC frames. Don't know about hood badge, w/s frame or grille rods. Window cranks were Datsun 510 so something else would need to be found. Might be a deal for a 'glass company if molds still good.
Those ones Beaner are all UK cars going by license plates and shitty weather. Sunny down here and not those constant dreary overcast skies. You see the occassional Y-model Ford every now and again but can say that they weren't that common down here to my knowledge. However we had a few English cars and think that NZ had more than us.
This was our Portuguese Ford dealership. Opened to the public on January the 11th, 1932 (from restosdecoleccao.blogspot.pt):
Ya know I never really looked that close, it was one of the members from Australia that sent them and I just figured that they were from down that way. Its funny when I first saw them I thought that it was like something that Smokey Yunic would do to a chevy.
Less is more and this couldn't be a truer statement with these beauties.I'll probably never see one,but a guy can dream.
There is three of these in Denmark that I know of that been hot rodded. Two I’ve seen live, the other one (1934) was for sale for a while. They are affordable, but they are also not considered “real”, so not many people do anything with them but keep ‘em original.
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