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1940 Ford wooden front floorboards. Machined copies as original with all details. $55 plus 48 state shipping via USPS.

Need nice clean original Ford inside windsheild left and right garnish for CONVERTIBLE or WAGON, not coupe/sedan. Send email and/or phone #. Thanks RPM

Looking for new 1940 headlight switch and new 1940 Deluxe light knob and a 38-40 Hi Beam Jewell. Thanks-RPM

Welcome! Great car, enjoy! RPM

John--I had not seen your latest with the Sportsman pics. Thanks for taking and posting all of these, it's much appreciated. Also, was glad to meet you and many other great people at Springfield. My wife enjoyed the meet also. RPM

Just because one's reading comprehension skills are very poor is no excuse to be RUDE and CRUDE. A new member (fasi) CLEARLY stated in his FIRST sentence what he was doing. Go back and read the first sentence. OK --Do it again and again if needed. Where does he say there will NOT be...

Randy in CA------------x2

Pictures really help. Thanks. I noticed the 90 degree vacuum pipe bends on the valve. Mine are straight out with no bend (John Connelly item) I had spoken earlier with the mechanic who installed the Columbia in Mr Orosco's 40. He said the disengagement rod gave him fits while trying to...

Anyone dealt with exhaust pipe and header clearance on the clutch pedal to valve disengagement linkage rod in 40 with 2 speed? Will Fentons work?

Vic--I've seen several of his cars both Arizona, and when he stopped in Iowa, and then at Back to the 50's in St Paul. He drives everywhere (said he was off to ChiTown after St Paul). He has used 4 cyl Toyota power for some of them. Everything is scaled down so perfectly that they look much...

Yes for me

Just got our rooms, looking forward to a great week! RPM

The 40-47 PU ones have an entirely different defroster louver. The 39 style that you need has a single and quite large defroster "louver" whereas the 40-47 PU is a longer 'slit' style. To convert the PU (or 40 sedan, same thing) you have to chop for height, change the corner radius's and...

Let's say you want to see some 1940 Ford stuff. Type '1940 Ford -toyota' and you will get rid of 10,000 items that "fit" your 40, but.....there will be 1500 real Henry parts left.... unless you want steering wheel covers, fuzzy dice, sheepskin seat covers, etc. Leave a space before the...

Widths were same after they were installed and vehicle weight spread (or flattened out) the leaf assembly. The stack (#of leafs) varied depending on weight and capacity of model of course. The height of the leaf stack created different U-bolt lengths and different thickness for the tie bars...