My Father called me on saturday and gave me directions to pick up a 40 Ford that we were able to buy that he last saw in 1963. I quickly got the rollback running and headed up into PA where I went to a car dealer and the guy opens the garage in the back and here sits this pretty rust free 40 with no motor, the car just went to PA a few weeks ago when the owner p***ed away. It sat in a barn 5 miles from my house since 1965. The guys mother who is in her eighties contacted my father and asked if he wanted the car since she knew that her son was friends with my dad since they were young, they agreed on a very fair price, it also came with a 1965 Hi-Po 289 complete pan to carb. The guy bought the car while stationed in CA in the early 60's and put a injected corvette motor in it and a tijuana interior, the car then came home in 63 to Jersey and it ran locally until the guy pulled the vette motor and was going to put the 289 in it, well he never got around to putting it in and the car sat in the same garage since 65. My father was nice enough to let me split the car with him so we are going to clean it up, do the brakes and see what we have laying around for a motor to get it running......we may use the 289 not sure yet though.
That is AWESOME. I'm pretty damned jealous. I love 39 & 40 Fords. One of the best body styles of all time in my eyes. And if it were mine, I'd search high and low for an injected vette motor to return it to it's former glory.
I would put a Chevy back in it and ride ... I love 40 Ford standard coupes ... the only car I love more is a 32 Ford ... Sorry I sold my 40 coupe ... but at least it is still in the HAMB family ...
**** ME RUNNIN!!! i'm afraid to even ask what you paid for it. what a friggin score though. too cool. i'd love to find one that nice and not have to sell my soul to afford it.
I think I spiilled my beer. That's one of my favorite coupes. I'm sure you'll do it up right. Congrats.
I didn't take pics yet but we ran the buffer across the one side and it cleaned up pretty good, the interior cleaned up pretty nice as well. I will put it back up when we get it finished, maybe to get it running quick we may just throw an old 283 we have in it, I would love to put corvette injection back on it but that's out of my price range with other projects going on, I'm thinking an easy running motor since I may use this as my daily driver. When Tim and I picked it up we got it out of there as quick as we could and then pulled over up the rode and checked it out much closer.
No Flake just pretty bright, no rips either, I just need to take it apart and sew a couple of the ****ons back down.
The 283 is a pretty intense motor. It would be my first choice. Are you going to use the traction bars that were in the trunk? I looked up traction master, and they're still making the same product virtually unchanged.
Tim s**** the buick work for Joe and Mark for the rest of your life (for free) in exchange for the 40.
I'd probably have to kill Joe to get my hands on the car, and if I'm going to break the law I might as well just steal my own 40, wouldn't be as nice as this car though, the thing is incredible, you gotta see it.
joe put a 390 in that *****, i got a beauty here at the shop, better yet fly out here and go to the la roadster show and drive this ****er back, pull the mill and throw it in there, its a 315 horse 4bbl motor that will fry any tire, nice car as usual, your dad ****s
Cool find, I must say I´m pretty jealous too!! The 40 Ford coupe is one of my favorites, so finding one in that condition would be like a dream come true!! Congrats!!
Incredible find. I can barely believe how many keep turning up. I'm sure you'll do the car justice. It's pretty hard to screw up a '39/'40, one of the most beautiful cars EVER built. Frank
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