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

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Performance Parts

Interior

Exterior Styling

Car Audio & Video

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    • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.

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Ben’s Ford Deluxe

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fortyfordsedan's 1940 Ford Deluxe

 

This is the front of the car after we painted it.

 

fortyfordsedan's 1940 Ford Deluxe

 

Since we moulded the headlight trim rings into the fenders and the screws to adjust the headlights were on the front of the headlight bezel, I had to fabricate a way to adjust the headlights from the back of the bezel.

 

fortyfordsedan's 1940 Ford Deluxe

 

The best picture I can get of the rear suspension. We fabbed the sway bar mount and shock mounts in this car.

 

fortyfordsedan's 1940 Ford Deluxe

 

A battery box I made for the car. I got a bending break and figured it would be a fun project to try it out on.  It seemed like I would be able to save a few bucks by doing my own remote mount battery kit, but in hindsight, I would have been better off spending the money to get a kit.  The price turned out about the same once I got everything I needed, and It took a lot more time to figure out the best way to mount everything.

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I put Dynamat in the interior of the car for noise and heat insulation.

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The Dash, what it started out as and what it has become. It was a lot of fun smoothing it out and readying it for The Classic Instruments Hot Rod Series Gauges. I have a Speedometer and quad Gauge.

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I couldn't find a set of Alternator or power steering brackets that would work in my car so I built a set to work out of some brackets that didn't work.

 

fortyfordsedan's 1940 Ford Deluxe


My electric wiper motor. The original was a vacuum set and I figured since I'm running a bit of cam I should buy an electric wiper motor that is a direct replacement.

 

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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