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Rare 1937 Ford car

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Roy Suomi

03-13-2007 18:34:06




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I'm looking for some information on a 1937 Ford coupe for a friend of mine...He just purchased this automobile and was delivered today..A 2 door coupe body with the trunk lid missing and a 33" wide pick-up bed in it's place..This was supposed to be an option only for '37..I've been scouring the net for hours and found nuttin' Does anyone know of these or have information about these ???




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Aaron Ford

03-15-2007 11:30:42




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 Re: Rare 1937 Ford car in reply to Roy Suomi, 03-13-2007 18:34:06  
Ford Carlisle is on the first weekend in June (3-5). Bring it and show it in it's current condition. Rust mice and all and someone will know what it is.

There were only a handful of Retactables built with a supercharger, and one showed up a few years ago. Kicker was that someone was there that had been on the team to install the supercharger at Ford in 1957.

Everything Ford is welcome. You can show anything from a trailer queen to a barn find to a Saturday Night Special. We will be bringing the old man's 55 T-bird Hot Rod. Gonna make some purists wince with this one. Still trying to get him to take it to South Mountain Dragway and see what it will post in the eighth. He thinks we will get ejected for lack of a roll bar. We'll see.

Aaron

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the Unforgiven

03-14-2007 06:16:56




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 Re: Rare 1937 Ford car in reply to Roy Suomi, 03-13-2007 18:34:06  
I have pictures of one from FMC in a V-8 info book, looks just like an A box shoved in the back of a '37 coupe. I would agree that the chances of finding an original are quite small but not impossible.



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Duner Wi

03-14-2007 06:15:16




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 Re: Rare 1937 Ford car in reply to Roy Suomi, 03-13-2007 18:34:06  
Does it have any #s to help identfy such as Model 74 or 78 ? Three digit body type # such as 720 for club coupe? I don't know where to look for such numbers.



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cj3b_jeep

03-14-2007 05:49:19




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 Re: Rare 1937 Ford car in reply to Roy Suomi, 03-13-2007 18:34:06  
These were either made by individuals or as "kits" from 3rd party companies. I've seen them made on all sorts of cars. A few might have been OEM, but not likely. They are pretty neat things to have.



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Walt Davies

03-13-2007 23:10:13




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 Re: Rare 1937 Ford car in reply to Roy Suomi, 03-13-2007 18:34:06  
My first car was a 1937 Plymouth 2 door coupe with a wooden box in the trunk. My brother inlaw had one also but his had the trunk lid so we exchanged them. I payed $20 for that car and put $20 in brakes on it. Lasted one whole summer before it just rolled over and died. There were lots of these around a poor mans pickup I guess.
Walt



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noncompos

03-13-2007 22:39:29




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 Re: Rare 1937 Ford car in reply to Roy Suomi, 03-13-2007 18:34:06  
There were several sliding-box coupes built in the mid and late 30's. Terraplane had one they called a "utility coupe"; the trunk lid picked up and a steel box slid out. The only pic I've got shows the lid at horizontal level, limiting hauling space; the text doesn't say whether the lid went higher.
Dodge or Plymouth built a "business coupe" which had a stretched trunk area for travelling salesman's stock; I saw one in NM that had the trunk lid off and a steel box which the owner swore was factory installed, that he'd just removed the trunk lid because he didn't worry about rain in NM. If the Ford has the back of the cab area factory sealed, it's probably a special model; if the back area isn't sealed off, it's probably one of the sliding-box types modified.

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ken in texas

03-13-2007 19:20:21




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 Re: Rare 1937 Ford car in reply to Roy Suomi, 03-13-2007 18:34:06  
II recall cars with pickup beds in the back in the 1940's being used by state highways supervisers as transportation when out checking highway conditions and work being done.The ones I remember were chevy coupes,probably special ordered.



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jmixigo

03-13-2007 18:51:28




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 Re: Rare 1937 Ford car in reply to Roy Suomi, 03-13-2007 18:34:06  
I believe that you will find this to be a "ute". These were marketed in Australia. As far as I have been able to determine they were never offered in North America. Someone (Howard Hughes? not sure) imported a few hundred of these from down under to California back in the late 1930's to try and remarket them. This was not a sucessful venture. One will "popup" every now an then. Some of the street rod boys still import one every now an then. Ford of Australia still makes these.

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Roy Suomi

03-13-2007 18:57:47




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 Re: Rare 1937 Ford car in reply to jmixigo, 03-13-2007 18:51:28  
Nope , Not a UTE..This car is left hand drive and was made here...



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2x4

03-13-2007 19:51:00




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 Re: Rare 1937 Ford car in reply to Roy Suomi, 03-13-2007 18:57:47  
mail delivery cars are left hand drive



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sammy the RED

03-13-2007 21:33:12




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 Re: Rare 1937 Ford car in reply to 2x4, 03-13-2007 19:51:00  
Mail delivery cars are RIGHT hand drive.



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