1934 Australian Ford Body Styles

[deuce lover]

A couple pics from The 1934 Australian Motorist.That panel to me has nice proportions.I wonder if any examples left?

 

[mercman from oz]

1934 Ford Coupe Utility

 

[mercman from oz]

1933 Ford Panel Van

 

[mercman from oz]

Australian 1933 Ford Panel Van

 

[hop up]

Cool thank you

 

[Graeme / New Zealand]

A couple pics from The 1934 Australian Motorist.That panel to me has nice proportions.I wonder if any examples left?

The Aussie built coupe cars also had that high roof line. Think they were wood framed.

GB

 

[mercman from oz]

Many Australian old Ford V8's are full of wood.
However, starting with the 1935 models, the close cars were all steel.
However, the open cars, utes and panel vans kept using lots of wood.
As an example, look at this 1938 Ford Standard Panel Van.

 

[mercman from oz]

Looking inside an Australian 1934 Ford Sedan during restoration.
Notice the wooden floor and wooden lined doors.

 

[38 coupe]

1930s Ford of Australia body construction practices were probably done both for legislative and for cost reasons. Large stamping dies are expensive to make, and some percentage of vehicle production had to be locally made. With the smaller production numbers it made sense to use a lot of wood structure in the locally made bodies. Also, there are frequently not as many compound curves as there are in the mass produced USA vehicles, particularly when comparing commercial vehicles.