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

I wonder how it would look on a convert car?

 

art and reality

 

LOL. My beater before it got painted. I really kick myself sometimes, as the body had GREAT original Henry black on it.

 

I guess I was destined to love the 40 ford I must have been 2 or so here. 1952 with my grandparents. I don't remember the 40 convertible but my Dad owned this one when I was very young. I had seen one other picture of before but ran across this one this morning.

 

Now this 39 has some character!

 

Kustoms

 

Wood so fine

 

Happy Fall 2017 to all the followers of this thread, just found this seasonally correct picture

 

Friday oddity, a 1940 tudor used for rural mail delivery in midwest farm country. "Neither sleet nor snow can spare us from our appointed rounds" or some such phrase.

 

] Gonna try posting a pic of mine Ran 135 @ B'ville in '73, 137 @ El Mirage '74 394 Olds powered

 

This is the only car my father ever bought brand new. He picked a good one. Black 40 Deluxe coupe. There is a newspaper clipping telling the story of picking it up in Detroit.

 

................................................................Great story but, how come there were TWO Thanksgivings that year?

 

Some years ago I got invited by a buddy to go to a major restoration shop just north of Boston. They were preparing very high end cars for a show at the Fine Arts Museum in Boston. One car was a pre-war Alpha race car that was being assembled. I looked at a seat frame that had yet to be upholstered and the thin tubing design, in high gloss red, was so striking that I remarked I would have it on a pedestal in my living room as art. That same thought has always come to me about '40 Fords, attractive, sexy and curvaceous design worthy of being appreciated on its own.

 

Remember this movie?

 

............For sure........American Graffiti.

 

Oh yes I do, but I always preferred the '39 deluxe that is only seen for a couple of seconds

 

For the bump

 

I know that garage! Rodger Bell builds cool hot rods!

 

Sunday sedans

 

more sedans

 

4WD Forty woodie

 

Lots of nice '40 woodies on Lynn Pew's blog today from the CA Wavecrest show.

http://www.pewsplace.com/

 

Tuesday trucks

 

Wednesday woodies

 

More

 

Check out Lynn Pew's blog today, lots of fine '40 convertibles!
http://www.pewsplace.com/

 

Thursday trucks

 

Friday flashbacks