Customs Did you ever heard about Edfor?

Edfor was a car built in the mid thirties in Portugal. The car sports a Ford Flathrad V8.


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OK, what's an Edfor?

 

Go to Wikipedia, the story about the man and car, 4 total build, 2 registered 1937/39

 

I was expecting a Henway or ****for comment

 

Nice car.

 

And then you get to high school and your expectations change.

 

I LIKE IT....A LOT!

Ray

 

Might have sold better with more exotic power under that hood. Car looked to be aimed at a more upscale market. With the flathead under the hood, potential deep pocket buyers would have shied away from the mundane performance of a flathead. Hard to justify your new purchase when your next door neighbor's Alfa 4banger will blow your doors off.

 

It’s 1937-39, the sound of an American V8 would have been fantastic and it wouldn’t sound like a wimpy POS 4banger no matter how much hp it had.. Hard to believe he got 4 complete with a war in Europe being eminent.

 

I have had a liking for that car, for a while, really like the bodywork.
Manuel de Oliveira, Portuguese Film Maker and Racing Driver was involved in a couple of versions of this, I like the narrowed 35 Ford grille.
As far as I understand he raced other Ford V8s as well, (can't find the photos)
Most of the stuff I have found is either in German or Portuguese
More photos here of the race car version:
http://info.phg-hh.de/PP_PDF/Portugal_Post/PP32/s_pp32_oliveiraD.html

 

Fantastic looking ride. Never heard of it until just now! Thanx.

 

Good looking. There was a sporty car called a Vega with a flathead too, built about 1952. One was at Hershey car show about 25 years ago.