'40 Ford Old Timer Completed 12-28-2018

[David Bogard]

I just needed a fun break so I started on a 40 Ford jalopy. These things are a blast to build and you just can't mess one up since they were generally all "backyard builds" in the first place. I will keep whittling around on this but here is where I am after a couple of hours.

[Marty W]

Good start, David! They are a lot of fun to build, aren't they?! One of my favorite go to subjects.

[Dirtman]

My all time favorite car. On the street or the track! Really looking forward to this one!

Rett

[Bob P.]

Looking good David. It will be interesting to watch what you do with this one.

Bob

[MarkJ]

Another Awesome one in the making.

[john2]

   Good choice, David.  Back yard cars are my style.

[Olderndirt]

You're going to have to really push the envelope to surpass the beautifully weathered blue and white forty you showed us in the past. But, I'm sure you can do it.

  Olderndirt

[BobD]

Also one of my favorite subjects to build.....AAHHH, things were so simple then!

[Marty W]

Yup, I liked that old Ford too OND so this one will probably be pretty similar. This is just a relaxing fun type build (all jalopies are!) so however it comes out, it comes out.

I am trying to remember which one that was? Seems like a lot of people like '40 Fords, including me. It was my dad's first car. Maybe we should start a "Post your '40 Fords section"? I remember there was one on Fred's site.

[Marty W]

Oh yeah, that one. One of my favorite builds of yours!

[TarheelRick]

As much as I love the 40 Ford I have only built one, and that was the first model I ever built back in 1959.  Of course it is lllooonnnggg gone.  I have several in the stash, so there is no real excuse.
Really like where you are going with this build.  Those old circle burners required a real set of manhood to drive.

[Olderndirt]

O.K. We have established that we all have a soft spot for'40 Fords. My next question is coupe, or sedan? When I first started building as a kid, these kits were brand new. Everybody I knew, that built model cars, was building them. Ninety percent of them were building coupes. I just always liked the old hunchbacked sedan better. If fact a few years ago I was at the NNL in Santa Clara and found an old first edition  black plastic sedan kit in the built section of one of the vendors there. I passed it up four times because even though it was in the  original box and had the instructions, and the trading card, with it, it also had about three heavy coats of brush paint slathered all over it. But, I saw another old guy stop, and look it over for the second time, and had to have it.
I don't know why, but I never tire of innovating, and renovating, '40 Fords.

Olderndirt

[bandit2026]

Don't forget that the old flat motors only had 3 pipes as the center ports were together. It has happened, just ask Fred!!

[john2]

   lol  I did not drill holes, but I did glue a 4 port header on one.   

[Olderndirt]

We can all probably blame the confusion on that old  Aurora roadster kit that had four straight pipes sticking out the sides of the engine compartment like Dagwood hair. I built one, and proudly showed it to my uncle, who immediately pointed out the problem.

  Olderndirt