Shouldn't that '36 be in the customs thread, not the hot rod thread? I saw pics of it in the Ford Barn classifieds. Pretty rad. Was it already sold?
Make is B as in model B ford roadster, and the equiptment is 2port....cause he was using a riley 2 port
Yeah....I never read the captions before I posted it....I guess I just have to go dig up the fifties thread.
It should he owned the former Bob McGee roadster which he owned for 40 odd years was a founding member of the LA roadsters and has a cool aussie '32 Phaeton
So was changing to hydraulic brakes common to model A's then, if so what was the common way of doing that and did they go 36 wires etc?
If you look through a lot of the old pictures, I think you'll be surprised how many guys were still running Mech brakes... I know I have been. The more I look now, the more I see haven't made the switch... As for how to change over, I think the easiest and most common way would have been to get a junked 39+ ford and grab the brakes and rolling stock all at the same time. Probably, the rear end too.
Most 40's hot rods were stripped, stock cars with modified engines. If you want it to be truly original to the forties, make it as stock as possible and rip off everything you don't need, i.e. running boards, hoods, fenders, and headlights. Then, build the baddest flathead whatever since everything was flathead (unless its Chevy or Buick) and stuff it into your "lightened" stock body. The secret behind it is to make it "stock-without" since the forties was the decade that birthed the hot rod as a national (and international) passion. Don't forget to give Veda Orr the credit she is due in saving the hot rod. Without her news letters to the people she met with Karl in Muroc before they were the troops that were sent everywhere from the Pacific Islands to the Deserts of Africa and all the way to Berlin, there would have been no craze that made the fifties the fifties or the inspiration to make the show cars and gassers of the early sixties. It was those very news letters that she sent to her friends in the fox holes that converted so many other troops to the beauty that is the hot rod. Congratulations Veda and may you rest in peace.
I agree, but then again wasnt that anything pre 50's? there was 30's style hot rods too that i would say follow those guidelines...the differnce, (i belive) was that there was more testing and tuning in the 40's and more drastic advances in engineering....... then thanks to these hot rod pioneers like riley and navarro, etc...made the 40's way more interesting (at least to me) so, it wasnt just stipped down cars, but lowered and chopped and re inforced here and there cars... to go even faster than they did in the 30s.... either way, its all bad ass! and sure love this thread. cant wait for more pictures!
30's was more stripped down stock car's i.e how mine is going to be and the 40's as you say was when you saw the majority of the modfications i.e new dropped axles ect when the big aftermarket parts boom really kicked off
Anyone know when Navarro's intakes were available for the 39-41 flatties? I want to build a 40's style (postwar) hotrod, what years would those put me at? I already scored a model a frame, '41 ford complete front axle and drivetrain and engine, 28-29 grille and WWII oxygen tank for the project. Also:::: I heard somewhere that 7.00x16 tires werent available until later, maybe late 40's? anyone know if thats true?
Below is a repost from Zach Suhr that I saved for reference.............................. in january 1941 throttle... thickstun intake edelbrock heads/intake jack henry intake eddie meyer heads/intake winfield cams/carbs january 1948 hot rod navarro heads/intake smithy mufflers carson tops sharp heads/intake brackets, pedals weber cams wayne parts for chevy's isky cams weiand heads and intakes evans heads and intakes mercury tool carb stacks schultz intake smith cams howard cams kong ignitions kurten magnetos potvin ignitions george riley (mostly 4 banger) january 49 (added to 48) grant motor parts stelling gear box clark lowering blocks pat warren quick changes cyclone quickchange's intakes, heads dog clutches bell auto parts sold stroker cranks "dago" axles duvall windsheilds belond exhaust engle cam A J swanson shocks A J gets gears filcolator offenhauser heads/intakes shoc-shell helmets burns intakes (4banger) newhouse water injector so-cal speed shop jecket emblems
The Jalopy Journal
