Hot Rods Let's have our own 84th anniversary event for the 40 ford...

No, not an LS....Right now it has a 410 CI Motown small block Chev, but it had a 331 Chrylser with 4 deuces. Friday I just brought home the 392 short block Chrysler from the machine shop. .030 over Isky cam, so now I can start re-assembly, and figure out a plan to get it back in the car.

 

Great thread here! Dad asked me to post our car here, he said the 39 Ford Deluxe would be allowed! So thanks and here she is.
I also have on ongoing thread if anyone would be interested.........
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/39-custom-ford-conv-survivor-ray-cass-revisited.1019378/
Joy
New Jersey

 

That reminds me: I need to send in my Forties Limited of Orange County membership application. They allow 39 Deluxes and 41 Commercials to join the Fordys. Your convertible is classic!

 

That '39 deluxe convertible should be welcome anywhere you want to show it!
Wish I could figger out what I'm doing wrong to have my subscription to this thread kep dropping out.

 

We had a few great '40's and one sweet '39 at the Md. HAMBers Social get together yesterday.

 

Photo credit: Mr. Mike Tunney

 

Photo credit: Mr. Lyle Willits

 

Here are a few from Pigeon Forge this past weekend. Hopefully the trucks are the right year

 

I don't think anyone is going to quibble over whether they are '40 or '41. Great looking trucks.

 

........Well, except maybe the wheels on the Black one.

 

A friend and I took our 40s on a early morning run to The Hagerman Idaho excellent car show ..

 

From Deuce Days

 

George, that 39 convertible epitomizes the definition of high class!

 

We have one as a project car, since we got it my wife has been mildly on my case about it, "rusty old pile", "it'll never be finished", "if its worth that, sell it", the usual sceptical wife comments. When my wife saw this car in the photo above, she changed her tune a bit.

 

At the Street rod nationals this year, I saw an inordinate amount of 39-40 convertibles, both in the feature areas and in the fields. I suppose they are being reproduced, in both steel and glass, I'll speculate. I favor the 39 rag, because it's top is more attractive to me. Is this a consensus opinion?

 

I agree, personally I like the headlights better as well. There are a lot of them coming out around here too. This one was at the Ocean Park Ford show a couple weeks ago.

 

I love the grill treatment on red convertible. It looks like the grill had been painted, and then the front leading edge polished, or the front, leading edge had been masked of during painting. I have seen this treatment from time to time through the years and it is always becoming!

 

Lou, I was just reading in an old (1976) Special Interest Auto magazine an article about a stock 4o ford sedan delivery. It said in there that ford used 40 deluxe sheet metal on the 40 SD. The 41 SD used 40 STANDARD sheet metal on the front. Do you, or another 40 fanatic, have a picture of a 41 SD with the correct 40 standard sheet metal.I want to see if it is really 40 standard, or 41 pick up front sheet metal. Sedan Deliveries were considered commercial vehicles.

 

I would trade off several things for a 39 'vert!

Anybody have a pic of one that has a full trunk lid conversion, like a 40? Might be a task, but sure would yield a nice car. Seems like there used to be a glass body made.
Gibbon? Wescott?

 

I think the sedan delivery did use car sheetmetal but the panel delivery used truck sheetmetal as far as I know.

 

That is what I suspected, Don! They used 41 pick up trim. Now that I re-think it the mag was right. Ford used 40 standard/PU sheet metal. But they didn't mention the use of 41 PU trim. You can't go wrong any way you go. I know of a guy that use 40 deluxe sheet metal on his 41 SD. 40 standard trim would look great as well.

 

This is the only shot I got of 39guys forty at deuce days. It took me a while to post it because I am embarrassed I took such a crappy shot 0f it.

 

The 39 grills are made from stamped steel. The trim on the front of the grill are stainless strips heldo on by small clips.

This 39 was built by Steve's Auto restorations in Portland I believe the build up can be seen http://www.realsteel.com/projects/1939-ford-convertible/

I don't know about Gibbons but Wescott still offers the 39 bodies. My Wescott 39 was built before 1990 and is still holding up well.

A couple of pics of my 39's 40 style trunk.

 

I went on a long-winded rant about it earlier, that green one from Steves Auto Restoration has the BEST top I have seen on a '39 Convert.

 

If we including 39s One of my favorites is the Doug Rice coupe. I've never took a photo of it, but I did sketch it.

 

That green 'vert is just stunning!
39Vert: Wescott looks like the way to go.
Thanks!

 

I'll take a print!

 

I finally took some photos of the 40 convertible I drug home a few months ago.
I haven't touched it... It's an old hot rod from the 60's maybe? I'm not for sure.
The fenders have been leaded in, it has a drivetrain out of a 57 chevy and early mustang seats.
Not for sure what the plan is yet...
Oh yeah, I found it right here on the H.A.M.B. in the classifieds.

 

Looks like a great place to start. Hope you settle on a plan and get that convertible on the road ASAP!