Hot Rods Let's have our own 85th anniversary event for the 40 ford...

The only pic I took at the 2025 MidAm Street Rod Nats. Yeah...nothing like taking a "car selfie".

 

@bchrismer Looking at that car never gets old!

 

I call car selfies “Shameless self promotion” I do more than my share!

 

I posted this first pic (from Australian Motor Sports magazine) a month ago. The second pic here I had seen before but there was nothing at all to identify it, until I saw the AMS pic. Second pic shows the car competing at Ballarat air field races in January 1947; Ballarat is 70 miles west of Melbourne. (Both from State Library of Victoria; second pic by George Thomas)

 

Gawd I love this coupe! When I was a teen in the early 1970's, a neighbor had a '40 Deluxe that looked so much like Marks I thought it might be the same car...(I grew up in Minnesota)

 

40 Ford owners are usually kinda shady.

 

So THAT explains it!

 

A 1940 Standard? It appears to be a two door 'Sloper' - Victorian (Oz) police car; Victorian Police Museum Collection

 

A t my clubs annual Watermelon Run today

 

'Land development in South Australia' - State Library of South Australia (not sure about the cars with the 39 style grille ...)

 

On back: "my second staff car. Bendigo, 1944" - The Brook and Anderson Fortuna Collection: Sydney Anderson (Bendigo is north of Melbourne)