Forty Ford Not Forgot
Forty Ford Not Forgot
Joe knows I love cars, especially old cars, most especially cars that were on the road from the mid-1930s up through the late-1940s, when I was a boy.
When Joe sees an old car that he knows I would like he snaps and sends me pictures. Saturday mornings, he and a neighbor go out for breakfast, and this past Saturday he spotted a car he didn’t know but said, “My dad will know.”
Any car nut my age will go off nostalgic at a forty Ford with chevron taillights,
especially a forty Ford tudor, especially a forty Ford Standard tudor, arguably one of the most desirable Ford collectibles of all time. Though most collectors prefer coupes, and most collectors may prefer the forty Ford Deluxe coupe, the Standard has more classic styling.
Ford has licensed and authorized the building and sale of brand new forty Ford Deluxe coupe bodies through Ford Restoration Hardware:
especially a forty Ford tudor, especially a forty Ford Standard tudor, arguably one of the most desirable Ford collectibles of all time. Though most collectors prefer coupes, and most collectors may prefer the forty Ford Deluxe coupe, the Standard has more classic styling.
Ford has licensed and authorized the building and sale of brand new forty Ford Deluxe coupe bodies through Ford Restoration Hardware:
Late 1939 or early 1940 our next door neighbors Bill and Mary Guy brought home a brand new forty Ford that they drove all through the decade of the forties, a maroon forty Ford Deluxe tudor.
They had that car through WW2 then had a 1946 Ford up until the day Mr. Guy drove home in a new 1949 Ford Custom fordor. When he insisted the car was his, Mary Guy bought a new 1949 Ford convertible. She died of a heart attack at age 39 not long after that, and Mr. Guy kept the convertible. It became Bill, Jr.’s car when we were in high school and college, and was mine to drive the 1955 or '56 summer he visited his aunt Maggie, uncle Chuck and cousin Pat in St. Paul, Minnesota.
But this is about the forty Ford.
Continuing Ford (and GM) practice of the era, there was a forty Ford Standard
and a forty Ford Deluxe
and the differences were not just in trim. Not to wander too far again, but the Standard/Deluxe offering is best illustrated by the 1935 Chevrolet, which came in a Standard and a Master. The ’35 Chevrolet Standard was the same old-style design as the 1934 Chevrolet,
and a forty Ford Deluxe
and the differences were not just in trim. Not to wander too far again, but the Standard/Deluxe offering is best illustrated by the 1935 Chevrolet, which came in a Standard and a Master. The ’35 Chevrolet Standard was the same old-style design as the 1934 Chevrolet,
having some wooden body parts including roof slats covered with a fabric insert roof that eventually rotted out and leaked, a curse of all cars before the mid-1930s, and a flat one-piece windshield.
The 1935 Chevrolet Master was no simple update but a completely new, longer and streamlined all steel design featuring GM’s “turret top” and front-opening front doors, a new two-piece slanted windshield, low instead of top wipers, as well as underneath design features such as (as I recall but will not verify this early morning) hydraulic brakes that the Standard lacked.
Just so, the 1940 Ford Standard was a continuation of the 1939 Ford:
but with a different headlamp treatment, low instead of high wipers, and chevron taillamps:
The pics Joe sent are my favorite, forty Ford Standard tudor. Though my favorites also include the 1938 Ford styling,
Can't decide.
TW