Vehicle Owner

Member ID: fortyfordsedan

Location: Bozeman, MT

Vehicle Info

1940 Ford Deluxe

Bragging Rights

  • 1/4 Mile0 sec @ -1 mph
  • 0-600sec
  • Top Speed-1mph
  • HP380
  • Weight3300lbs

Major Upgrades

  • turbo
  • nitrous
  • bore increase
  • port and polish
  • supercharger
  • extrude honed
  • stroke increase
  • engine swap

Ratings

    • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.

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Last updated: Aug 18, 2009

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Ben’s Ford Deluxe

  • Currently 3.8705882352941 /5 Stars.
30 guestbook comments

Thanks for checking out my 40 Ford Sedan.  I have been working on the car for over seven years now.  It has taken thousands of dollars and thousands of hours to get the car to this point.

fortyfordsedan's 1940 Ford Deluxe

When I was little my Grandpa had the car and my cousins and I used to Play in it.  After about 7 years it moves under its own power.  My dad and I are hardcore Mopar guys and since we know how to make a dodge fast we dropped in a Dodge 360 Magnum.  The car sits on a Dodge Dakota frame and power gets to the ground through a Chrysler 4 speed and Sure Grip rear end out of and old Plymouth Gran Fury.

fortyfordsedan's 1940 Ford Deluxe fortyfordsedan's 1940 Ford Deluxe

fortyfordsedan's 1940 Ford Deluxe fortyfordsedan's 1940 Ford Deluxe

There are hundreds of custom touches to the car.  When I say custom I do not mean I bought something and installed it, I mean actually custom, as in I made or modified something with a grinder or welder to fit in the car.  There are no kits to do anything we did on the car, we made it.  A lot of people say thier ride is built not bought, yet all they did is buy a bunch of parts to bolt together.  This car really is built, my dad and I made all the transmission mounts, engine mounts, widened the front fenders, built the body mounts, shaved the door handles and at least a hundred other things in out one car garage.  From the chassis to the paint to the interior we did it all.

 

 

 

 

 


There are too many custom touches to really bother listing.  My dad and I have done everything on this car except for change the inset of the wheels, install the V butt windshield, and do the Pin striping on the wheels.  There is only one body pannel on the whole car we did not modify, and that is the roof.

 

 


This is of the car in gray primer before we painted it. It took a about 2 years to do all the custom sheet metal work and get it smooth enough to paint. As you can imagine, a car over 60 years old had a lot of ripples and dents that needed to be worked out.

 

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29mercedes  

Posted by: 29mercedes

11/03/2009 03:23PM

Very nice '40. Great job on all the custom work. 5 stars by me, check mine out sometime.

NSXTurbo03  

Posted by: NSXTurbo03

04/26/2009 04:37AM

Really like what you've done with your Cruiser, gave ya 5 stars, very clean and well maintained!

kscoyote  

Posted by: kscoyote

04/25/2009 11:48PM

5 stars!Nice rod!

0bl0m  

Posted by: 0bl0m

04/23/2009 01:17AM

Cool resto!

19651997  

Posted by: 19651997

04/18/2009 06:20PM

Nice old ford man looks good, clean 5 stars

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Member ID: fortyfordsedan

Location: Bozeman, MT