Bringing this back up, because it has occurred to me that Ford must have made a lot more of these things than we realize. Frames has 3 from his last post, I have 1, Jeremy has 1, and we probably can all think of numerous examples of cars that still exist and have one. The Ivo t, the Grabouski t, the Pearson coupe, and many of the examples shown thru this thread. So it raises the question, just how many and over how many years were they produced?
To the best of my knowledge, these weren't a one year only production. They were put under every car built with the V8-60 H.P.Engine. the V8-60 was offered in 1937, 38 & 1939,... So if you can find out total production of the 60H.P. cars between 1937-1939,... as well as speculation on the overproduction for replacements and dealers parts departments,... I'm assuming it was a fairly substantial number.. BUT !.... I also assume a number of them were scrapped over the years with the car they were under,... Some turned into trailers (seen that more then once).... But mostly harvested from junkyards by Hot Rodders,... As the word spread quick on how cool these axles were/are. They were used on Sprint cars, Drag cars, laksters... show cars... They were lighter and strong, In 1950 Bill Niekamp won the Oakland Roadster Show sporting one,... and that was only eleven years after they were used on the production line. Another thing to think about,.. As long as Ford was selling replacement parts over the parts counter, they were known to continue producing (or sub contract) parts... So exactly how long did these stay into production?.... Of coarse with the war effort and scrap drives, maybe the tooling was lost during that era... maybe not. Somewhere someone knows the the answers to all of this...
I picked this one up yesterday. Came out of a 1937 sedan. Not sure if it was a V8-60 car as it had a 24 stud in it when my buddy bought it (which I also have) .
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