Ford 1935 - 38 custom & mild custom

Truck retains its amazingly well-preserved, reversed chrome wheels with baby moon hubcaps. FIRESTONE Deluxe Champion wide whitewall tires of the dimension 7.50x14 helped achieve a low profile; we've just installed a fresh set, obtained from COKER Tires.
 
Words and pictures can't begin to describe the quality of workmanship found on this custom. Literally, thousands of hours went into creating this masterpiece. The original sedan body was completely re-worked, including a 2-inch top chop. '40 Ford Deluxe hood and fenders were fitted, an entirely custom-made bed and rear fenders added. Even the--removable--running boards are hand-made from heavy gauge steel.
All the subtle body mods have withstood the test of time admirably. There are no bubbles; there's no rust anywhere. The two-tone Pearl and Byzantine Gold paint--done at Bob Philippi's Lincoln-Mercury shop--still looks fabulous, with just a few negligible signs of age. Plentiful chrome trim is shiny and pit-free. We've had well-known striper "Itchy" freshen the original Tommy the Greek pinstriping.
 
Having unlimited access to late-model parts, Ray Nish installed brand new 1961 Thunderbird gauges, radio, and switches in the Ford's much-modified, chromed dash. Immaculate steering wheel is from a '61 Comet. Everything works, even the AM radio.
Note '57 T-Bird floor shifter and neat pedal layout. Yes, the emergency brake is functional, too!
 
Details, from left to right:

• Lincoln window lift switches.
  
• Thunderbird Gauge Cluster. Odometer shows original mileage of 6,219.5.
  
• Traditional 1-inch rolled pleats, duplicating exterior's gold-and-pearl color scheme.
  

 
Supremely comfortable bucket seats originally served duty in a 1953 Mercedes-Benz 220 Cabriolet.
 
Just like body and engine bay, the interior, fashioned in 1961 at Oakland's Mission Upholstery shop, is completely intact and original, including carpet and headliner. Note the fully finished, chromed window frames. Tinted safety glass was used all around.
 
A half dozen '61 Comet tail lamps. Note working back up lights. Rear step bumper and truck bed liner were fabricated by hand, using diamond-plate steel, then fully chromed.
 
Another very special, period Kustom touch, setting the FoMoCo Freighter apart from the rest: Carson-style, rolled and pleated naugahyde tonneau and tailgate covers.

Small, but important details: chromed jacking equipment, usually stored behind the seats.
Truck was shown locally in 2005, returned with a trophy every time! To call the FoMoCo Freighter a crowd pleaser would be quite an understatement.
Trophies are included with the pickup.
 
The all-steel FoMoCo Freighter certainly is one of the most important period custom cars in existence.
At the 2006 Barrett-Jackson auction, Don Tognotti's sympathetically restored Ford "Avenger," another early Sixties Oakland Roadster Show Star, sold for $216,000.00. You may be able to build another Kustom of this caliber for that kind of money, however, you will never be able to duplicate the pedigree of vehicles like the Avenger or the FoMoCo Freighter. These unique, historically significant automobiles are finally receiving the recognition they deserve, being proudly displayed in their own class at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
In today's realm of ultra-collectible classics, authenticity and provenance are everything, and the Freighter features plenty of both.
 
Rarely, if ever, will the opportunity arise to acquire a genuine, unaltered, pristinely original, early Custom, shown at the Oakland Roadster Show, featured on the cover of Rod & Custom, then properly stored for almost five decades. The fabulous FoMoCo Freighter has an illustrious past and is now ready for a celebrated future in the hands of a caring collector.
We are willing to bet the farm on it: within the next decade, this fantastic truck will be worth a quarter million Dollars!









Addendum:
This show truck sold in November 2006 to a collection in Texas.

lien original:
http://www.californiaclassix.com/archive/40_FoMoCo_c367.html

1936 ford 5 window coupe. Start by saying this car runs down the road good and shows good. I do drive it so there are some chips in the paint so its not perfect but it does show very well. The car was built in the early 90s not long after the owner pass away and it sat untill Sept. of 2012 when I found it. So when I got it I had to rebuild or replace almost everything mechically. Motor was good 350 sbc just put new hoses belts decluttered the motor compartment and added some finned aluminum stuff. Electric fan with thermostat. Runs cool. I had the th350 trans rebuilt, got a new drive line, rear end 10 bolt. New brakes from master cylnder to calipers and wheel cylnders. New steering from column down to new rack. reworked the hole steering linkage. New gas tank and lines. New tires and hubcaps. Has IFS on front and leaf spring on rear

sublime....


juste dommage pour le volant....décidémment  
et les tapis de sol

Oftentimes we can be in awe of a hot rod so well done we aren't sure where to begin or even where to point and say, "There, that's what makes this car so special, so different from the rest."



"Bugs", from SoCal, enjoyed the lines of the original Lincoln Zephyr, but not having one he took a different approach. He felt the Zephyr styling reflected his like of the art-deco era and knew he wanted to incorporate this look and feel into his custom. His '35 Ford custom coupe just might be one of those cars that's special, different from the rest. Well, we called it a "coupe" but the reality is this piece of historic Ford tin began as a '35 humpback sedan and turned into a coupe by Troy Ladd and his staff at Hollywood Hot Rods (HHR) in Burbank, California. To get to this point, a great deal of effort and talent was pressed into service.

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HHR began with the sedan body, chopping it 5 inches, fitting it with a fabricated steel roof insert, all the while retaining the sedan rear window, utilizing suicide sedan doors along with custom sweeping window frames. Look closely at the lower door body line and you'll see that it "flows" into the custom-fabricated rocker panels. The sharp non-symmetrical peak rear fenders are custom, pontoon style, extended 8 inches, and filled with fabricated-full cover fender skirts.




The rear section of the car is extended 6 inches and outfitted with '46 Hudson taillights, integrated into a custom rear rolled pan. More custom work in back includes the fabricated rear bumper using '49 Merc bumper bullets, while resting between the rear fenders is an aluminum decklid made from a Bentley hood skin.

The rear suspension is again a combination of Air Lift, Firestone, and KYB linked to a triangulated four-bar built around a Ford 9-inch with 3.08 gears. More corner items include Wheelsmith Smoothies, measuring 15x6, wrapped with Coker radial wide whites, and dressed with '41 Studebaker caps.

Rappelons quand même que sur cette voiture, Troy Ladd n'a pas touché 1 seul boulon, c'est Christophe, un Français qui bossait chez Troy à cette époque qui s'est tapé toutes le boulot de tôlerie.

6 Ford tudor slantback sedan owned and restyled by Bo Huff of Bo Huff Customs in Dragertown, Utah. The car, named Corene, was completed in 2013.

1938 Ford 2 door Sedan. This car was bought back in 1940 and was owned up till about 3 months ago. Sadly the original owner passed away and his family did not want the car, so I bought the car. This is a true custom from the 50's. The body was chopped not the top. Everything was done with metal, lead, and braze. Some of the custom touches include the headlights, tail lights, wheels ( car came with 16's the owner cut the centers out and re-welded them into 15's), the body was chopped and the fender were brought up on the body instead of cutting them. The trunk was shaved in but is still accessible though back seat. Under the hood is the stock Flat head ford with 3 speed manual transmission. The electrical system is still the stock 6 volt and works great. This is a running and driving car.

http://www.rkmotorscharlotte.com/sales/inventory/active#!/1935-Ford-Coupe/134178

When it comes to old school Fords, the world has plenty of street rods especially late thirties and early forties offerings. But for every Henry Ford original that's gifted a Mustang II front clip and small block Chevy, the initial appeal that drove buyers into showrooms drifts one page further into history. Thankfully, there are still cars like this stunning '35 3-window that remind us just how great these classics were in all their era-correct glory. Powered by a legendary flathead, backed by a rugged 3-speed and dressed in traditional Ford Black, this former Rod & Custom feature epitomizes vintage American elegance. And if you're looking for a near-perfect cruiser that puts a new shine on pre-war ambition, they simply don't get nicer!

Approaching this sleek beauty, it's difficult not to be taken with its killer profile. Josh Mills of Mills & Co., the man who originally envisioned the car, wanted to build a period-perfect 'prototype' of something James Cagney might drive in a well-done Film Noir. To achieve that lofty goal, he needed a solid profile that could benefit from very specific metalwork. Josh's journey began with a trip to the 2005 Charlotte Auto Fair where he found two '35 3-window coupes advertised on a small bulletin board. Initially buying one of the coupes, Josh eventually ended up with both thanks to an anxious seller. Because he wanted to do a chop, Josh sold the first, unaltered car in favor of a botched roof job on the second car. The next three years would be spent sourcing era-correct parts. And, after thoroughly massaging the coupe's Henry Ford steel, he shipped it to Customs and Color in Woodstock, Georgia for some of the best black two-stage on the planet!

There really isn't much you can do to make a 30s-era Ford more attractive. The car's streamlined styling was a home-run when originally introduced; and today, it's a stunning example of some of the strongest elements of the highly regarded Art Deco movement. That said; Mills & Co. knew exactly how to take this 3-window from bankable B-lister to astonishing A-lister. At the front of the car, a custom chrome grille, which hangs a filled top and custom bull nose above a peaked base, rides between relocated, '36 Ford headlights and a chrome '38 Ford bumper. At the sides of that bumper, sculpted fenders rake past custom-trimmed air extractors and a smooth, folding hood. Behind those fenders, original, re-vulcanized running boards parallel old school bear claws and simple chrome handles. Opposite those boards, a small stainless wiper accents a '36 5-window insert channel, which balances a 2.5-inch chop in front of a 3-inch chop. And opposite that wiper, a '35 Ford trunk hangs above modified '40 Ford skirts, frenched '39 Ford tail lights and a second '38 Ford bumper that's fitted with a '41 Ford grille guard.

As the company's final Henry Ford-fueled innovation, the Ford V8 remains a durable, torque-rich powerplant that, thanks to solid engineering, has established an unmatched reputation in the classic and custom car community. And, in keeping with hot rod tradition, this stellar Ford coupe is powered by a 284 cubic inch 59L flathead. Born in 1946, and machined and balanced by legend Putt Smith, the throaty mill growls with the help of a roster of vintage parts that includes an NOS Johnson valvetrain, NOS 81A rods and a Don Zig-prepped Harman & Collins Magneto. Fuel and air enter through a polished Edelbrock intake and, aided by a Mercury crank, a Winfield SU-1A cam and NOS Johnson lifters, exit through polished Fenton headers. Aesthetically, the block, which perches elegant air cleaners and dual 94 carburetors above aluminum Edelbrock heads, has been painted a traditionally dark hue. Cool details like a chrome generator, a chrome fan and reproduction Ford hoses add enough shine to win the show. And overall, this custom's super smooth engine bay is a charming and 100% functional step back into a much simpler, and some would say better, period of American automotive history.

Speaking of simpler times, take one look under this reliable Ford chop-top and you'll see just how much the automotive world has changed. But that's exactly the way it's supposed to be as Mills wanted this coupe to feel like a true, period-perfect hot rod. Clean and solid floors, replaced during restoration, are finished in a predictable layer of black. A heavy duty frame, C-notched in the rear to achieve the car's lustworthy stance, is finished to match. A '40 Ford 3-speed makes good use of a lightened '34 Ford flywheel, a '46 Ford clutch and 19/25 tooth Lincoln gears. Power flows to a '46 Columbia axle that, thanks to '40 Columbia controls, spins either 4.11 strip scorchers or 2.94 boulevard busters. In front of that drivetrain, a '40 Ford suspension hangs a 3.5-inch Mor-Drop axle behind '41 Ford shackles, a '40 Ford steering box and '39 Houdaille shocks. Behind that drivetrain, a second pair of Houdaille shocks combines with a de-arched '37 Ford spring to maintain the car's killer ride height. Stops come courtesy of '39 Ford brakes that, naturally, are piped to a '39 Ford master cylinder. There's an aluminized, true-dual exhaust system, which barks through Mellow Tone glasspack mufflers. And it all rides on clean, '36 Ford wheels which spin fresh 6.00-16 Firestone Deluxe Champion whitewalls around a fusion of '36 Zephyr trim rings and '37 Ford center caps.

Pop this coupe's doors and you'll find an attractive Naugahyde interior that was installed by Burt Litton of Burt Litton Street Rods. At ground level, black carpet weaves a thick cover between a chrome HaDees heater, '39 Ford foot pedals and "V8" branded sill plates. At the front of that carpet, a body-matched dash, which marries the bottom section of a '40 Ford with the top section of a '35 Ford, allows use of the car's stock windshield roll-out mechanism. Seating is provided by a '36 flip-up bench, which has been lowered over a modern JVC CD player. Above that seat, a custom headliner centers a small dome lamp behind an oval rearview mirror. In front of the driver, a '41 Mercury steering wheel laps a chrome shifter, a '40 Ford column and a modified '40 Ford harness. At the sides of the passengers, custom door panels hang '49 Chevy armrests and '36 Plymouth handles behind a '40 Ford emergency brake. And behind the cockpit, a super clean trunk grants access to a modified fuel filler.

Stylish and alluring, this striking custom is a bellwether of pre-war creativity. Virtually every piece of this blue chip blue oval fulfills a vision that's equal parts purpose and class. You really can't ask for a more authentic blend of old school style and era-correct driving characteristics. And you certainly can't build anything this nice for the time or money it takes to drive out of our RK Motors Charlotte showroom. Step up to something different - this Ford 3-window is ready to show AND go!