Features 1940 and 1939 Deluxe Fords.......Lets see em!

Yeah I changed a few things...lol......... and I just could not get thia intruder away from my car

 

Geez! I thought your Bill Hines was off the hook. Now I see this Rat Fink....damn, you're good. Mike

 

Thanks Mike, I have a special thing in my head for next years Billetproof

J.Lockwood

 

Can I make weekly payments on the Rat Fink? That is just too cool. Must weigh a ton...lol Mike

 

He is more awkward than heavy . I may bring him as well to the show if I have enough room..........lol....I can not wait to get down to there next year. Mike check out the link in my signature. I am doing other types of metal art that you or some others down that way may be interested in.

J.Lockwood

 

Well I had to show somebody and my wife doesn't give a shit. Its the frame I've been working on for my 40 Coupe. I'm going to put the 283 and M20 in it in the next week or so. Run the brake lines, fuel lines, exhaust, etc. Then finally go get the body and put it on.

 

some sweet cars...

 

junkmanjr this is the place to show it. Looks very good, post more pics as you move along.

 

That coupe is tasty all right but I'd kill for a pickup like that.

 

Lemme toss in a quick update bein's this thread is up..

Last December.


Finished mock up, ready to take apart.


This December. The body is on the chassis for the last time, the body is in epoxy primer ready for bodywork.


See ya, -Abone.

 

This one was stripped of all her paint by two teenagers 25 years ago and thy put in a barn. Bought at Stafford Ct swap meet 3 years ago. Found the paint scrapers in the trunk....Still working on it.

 

Here is my recently aquired 39 standard project. It is up and rolling now. and my 40 standard driver.

 

Son of a bitch flamedabone I'm jealous I'm not that far along! Stealing my thunder, huh. LOL!

 

I believe you disproved the saying "you cant polish a turd", that one cleaned up good. Great work on bringing that body back from the dead. Will it be makin the trek to Mo this summer?

 

Looks like you have the stance down pat!!

 

My Heap. Some assembly required:


What it looked like right before the previous owner took it apart. In 1958.



I'm starting work on a chassis. How'd you guys set yours up?

 

here's my sister an her husbands 40 opera coupe, they've been working on it for over 20 years now. I figure I'll inherit it an get to finish it. it's beyond meticulous, 67 corvette rear end an motor with a dropped stock front end. it will be a wicked drive

 

My std 1940.

 

As of Dec 12 2009.

Fueled by beer I decided the frame needed a coat of spray bomb black, after I took the brakes off. I am slowly making progress getting things straightened out. Over the last week I de-skinned the deck lid to get at all the rust. In addition I have been trying to get at every dent and ding with hammers and dollys on the other sheetmetal (hood, fenders, etc...)

I have no idea what's going on with the rear window brace (the plate with the holes in it). It doesn't look like any others I have seen. I think it is a home made piece. There are no beads rolled into it and the holes just don't look right, but they are "belled"/Dimple-Died. I want to cut the bad repair out of the lower cowl area and either find a good lower cowl, or just replicate the stuff myself. I am not ready to throw the $750 in the aftermarket panels just yet. There has to be a solid lower cowl out there somewhere.

 

I love 39-40's,the ultimate hot rod to me.Great thread.....Giz'

 

All very nice!! John

 

My baby. A little ratty but fun.

 

I sold this father of the Deluxe 39-40 body style (38 Deluxe) 8 years ago to help pay off my home loan. It was a barn car for 40+ years. The older couple that bought it performed a restoration. Model A now fills its place in my garage.

 

My 40.

 

Nice frame pics... it'll be helpful in my trying to figure out all the brackets I'll have to be fabricating... With those wishbones - why not just leave them the way they came? Does it interfere with the transmission mount?

 

Photo was taken in front of the Historical Ballinger Santa Fe Depot with original red brick road which is now the City Hall for Ballinger Texas. The old 40 still looks pretty good considering it was painted in the early 1970s with acrylic laquer. See photos below of how the car looked last year when I decided to take it out of mothballs and clean it up and get it running and driveable again. It's now been almost one year since I started driving the 40 again. With some modern changes, this past year, it drives better than it ever did in the 1970s. The original 1940 AM Radio still plays.

It cleaned up very good considering it set for 28 years without being washed or started. The 327 CI
Chevy small block engine only had about 60 miles on it when parked. I had a rear coilover suspension installed by someone in in the late 70s. He had the spacing between the coilovers too close together. I was my fault since he just did what I told him to do. When the car went around a corner it leaned over and wouldn't right itself. I had to redo the rear suspension to correct this. The engine sounds great, don't smoke, has very good compression and oil pressure.
I couldn't believe it cleaned up so good and run so good after setting up all those years with no attention. I traded a 1927 T Ford Roadster street rod for this car in 1974. In 1974I prep and painted the body and installed a all out 327 Chevrolet engine. In 1978 I had replaced that engine with a stock 300HP 327 for better drivability just before losing interest in it for a 40 Willys Coupe I raced in Super Gas.



How it looked when pulled out of mothballs and I just started working on it to get it running again:

 

My deluxe coupe.

 

This is my dad's '39 Deluxe from back in the day. 1958 or 1959.

 

Kool Man, love the killer whitewalls.

 

You can buy the transmission plate from Chasis Engineering for a little over a $100 (cant remeber exact amount) but it comes with the bungs to split the bones thats what you see in those frame pics of mine. Its for a Chevy 350Th or a Muncie. The bones have to be heated and bent to line up. I bent mine towards the axle instead of bending them towards the bungs.