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

Just got home from a 1965 mile road trip in our '40, handled the mountains with no problems. This photo is from Blue Valley in North Carolina.

 

^^^^^^Beautiful!!!!........and the '40 is pretty darn nice as well^^^^^^

 

Went to my favorite pizza joint, as usual, took the 40.

 

taking Miss Linda our for bagel brunch this morning, great day here in seacoast NH. I agree Moriarity, drive 'em if you got 'em! And Miss Linda has a handicapped placard which gets us the wide parking spots with cross hatched unloading buffer. One small benefit of the "golden" years.

 

I saw this nice 4 Door in Dayton WA. today.

 

saw this one in emmette yesterday.

 

Father's Day brunch at Four Peaks Brewery with my sweetie Corliss and the grandsons!

 

Here are a couple of more Forties I saw in Dayton WA last weekend.


This sedan just screams OLD SCHOOL!

Nice cover over the back seat.


This 40 was brought to the show by a young fellow that said his Grandfather had built it back in the 50's . His Grandfather promised to give the car to him as a wedding present. His Grandfather passed on before the wedding but had made sure his Grandson would get the car.

The paint is an old lacquer but is in good condition. He has the hood but he left it home for now because the mounting system is pretty awkward. Apparently it would spin around hinged from the front and lay at an angle in front of the car while still attached. It is kind of hard to describe.He plans to put it back on as soon as he figures out a plan.



Looks like about a 4 inch section and about a 6 inch channel.

 

Thanks for the kind words. I did the chop on the '40 at HHR.
@i.rant

 

and sometimes you have to make a run for some milk and ice cream!

 

Gotta love a 40 with traditional flames!!

 

Nice job, Gramps! I'd like to see it again when he figures out the hood.

 

Me too !

 

Drove the 40 to lunch today. Hot 95 deree day, sure glad to have that Vintage Air blowin 36 degrees.

 

This showed up on a social media group with same title as this thread today.

 

Looks like "40 Day" in Anaheim last Sunday.

 

here's a couple--my old current cpe and a std we did a while back--should have kept that one too.

 

Hey 39 Guy. Help me understand how this works. A 4 inch section "raises" the fenders (visually) but the car also has a 6 inch channel. What I don't understand is how the bottom of the fenders is level with the body after the running boards are omitted. Are the fenders sectioned as well? WTF? ("What's The Fabrication"). Thanks, Lucas

 

Note that 39 Guy said "looks like". I think his estimates are high, and possibly redundant. Compare that coupe with my convertible:

My car is channeled 2.5", with the fenders raised a like amount (required "sectioning" in the rear quarters and hood only). I chose to keep the running boards on mine, so 2.5" was trimmed off the bottom of the body. If we had taken off the running boards, the car's proportions would have been very much like the above coupe. The coupe appears to be channeled a little more than mine -- maybe 4" -- but the only sectioning necessary would have been to raise the rear wheel houses, the same as mine.

 

Heck I don't know how he did it...... I was just going off what I saw when he opened the door. It looked like about 6 inches between the floor and the bottom of the door and did not consider that he may have raised the fenders. . 50 Fraud obviously knows more on this subject than I do. If I ever see the car again I will take the time to measure it and report back here if I think I can shed any light on how it was done.

Channeling and sectioning is well beyond my skill set so maybe I should really not speculate (guess) on such matters in the future. Sorry for any confusion on the matter.

 

My favorite 40 color.

 

Man that side view looks good. '39 beltline trim?

 

Like that purple...

 

This is my favorite angle of your car, man.

Now that's swoopy!

 

I went back and looked at my original higher resolution pictures of the car to check. It is hard to tell but I think it is 40 trim.