Henry Ford built and displayed this 1940 Ford Cutaway Chassis to show the wonder of working parts and the new-to-1940 features, such as a manual shift on the column. The cutaway areas show interior details of the all-chromed V8 engine, brakes, transmission, differential and more. It was built for the Ford Pavilion display at the 1939 New York World's Fair, and was shown subsequently at state fairs and dealer showrooms across the U.S. In later years it was used in driver's education departments as an educational aid. It is stamped #1 and sold at Barrett Jackson in 2016 for $88 grand. HRP
Not a ‘40 or a cutaway but this perfectly restored 1932 chassis is equally as cool. A wealthy benefactor bought it at a Barrett-Jackson auction for a healthy sum and then donated it to the Early Ford V8 Museum. The first photo shows it being unloaded from the transporter.
Danny, you've run out of material and are running reruns; https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/1940-ford-frame.1007162/
And I even checked to see if I had posed this previously and all I found was where I added the photo's to my album.. go figure. HRP
Every time I see that cutaway chassis I kick myself for not trying to buy it out of the horse barn it was stored in at Iowa State University in the 1980's. I walked by it weekly for years....but I was broke college kid with nowhere to put it. Oh well....
No I don't. It was owned by the Industrial Education and Technology department which was the degree you would get to become a shop teacher. There was also a 6 cylinder cutaway engine on a stand. The old professor who I did once ask about buying the chassis said it had been there for a long time and hadn't been used in years. It was in the back side of a building that had little stalls that were for some kind of animals, although it was all concrete and not dirt like a true barn. It was dusty, but remarkably well maintained. The chrome parts would probably have cleaned up fairly well and the paint was still respectable. I do remember it having at least a couple of the tires replaced with motorcycle tires since I'm sure the old ones had rotted away. If I recall correctly the color was actually a darker maroon than it is now. But that could have just been because of discoloration or dust. I don't remember it having bumpers on it, but it might have. It was there in 1991 when I graduated, but a few years later it showed up as a display piece at a swap meet/car show in the neighboring town (Boone)....so obviously it got pulled out. The building on campus has since been torn down and a new one put in it's place.
Are you sure this is the same one from ISU? Surely there was more than one. I can also vouch for the ISU chassis, as I saw it in the barn too.
often found in Auto shops in schools. Ford did use them at large demonstrations such as state fairs etc. Just a guess here but when the cutaways seemed to old to be reliant for education they were sold, given away, placed in storage or junked. I have a post war Houdaille shock cutaway
You could be thinking about the one I am talking about. The stalls were in the back of the same building where the electronics and hydraulics Labs were located. The old professer I talked to when I inquired about it was actually the electronics teacher who had been there for decades.
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