It can be a daring factor to say we’ve found the coolest Ford on the net, but for us it really is really hard to see what is actually a lot more exciting than a 1930 Ford Design A sedan that was converted into one thing far more akin to an SUV tractor when it was only 3 a long time aged. At least, which is what we have been in a position to determine from the relatively blurry photograph of a typewritten letter of provenance from a person of this vehicle’s earlier house owners.
For starters, any Ford Model A sedan in somewhat primary issue is just a neat factor to obtain. This distinct car was at first acquired by an older few with no young children, who at some point bought it to Pontiac car seller, T. J. Penney in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, who in transform sold it in 1939 to Allen Cooper for the massive sum of $100. Cooper utilized the Ford sedan on his rural mail route for a few a long time until he converted it into what you see right here.
In addition to cutting the sedan entire body up and setting up a plywood cargo space with plywood cargo doorways, the 1941 conversion also dealt with Cooper’s requires in traversing the unimproved Wisconsin rural back again roads on his mail route. A pair of modified Ford truck wheels have been fitted with tractor tires, and supplemental springs on the rear delivered clearance in between the tires and the remarkably personalized rear fenders. The front seems like it is really been lifted for floor clearance by flipping the front beam axle upside down. The initial four-cylinder engine would stand minor chance giving sufficient oomph to spin individuals monster tractor tires, so from what we can glean from the letter of provenance, the torque tube connecting the rear axle to the drivetrain was lower out so a granny-geared 4-speed with a (by modern criteria) conventional driveshaft could be mounted. The granny initially equipment allowed the very little Ford to make it by means of deep mud and tough terrain with no stalling the little 200-cube, 40-horsepower engine.
From the hand-designed picket body to the authentic pics of this outdated workhorse rescuing stranded vehicles in the 1940s and 1950s, we actually truly feel this is 1 of the coolest—if not the coolest—Fords we’ve found on the net. Do you concur?