1938 Ford Roadster Pick Up

Ryan

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I?ve always heard tales about Argentina and rare Ford stuff. A few years ago, there were all kinds of rumors floating around about a warehouse that was discovered housing crates o...
 
I love that thing! I remember seeing it on the HAMB. I would drive the hell out of it!!
 
years ago there was a man named kaplan he advisted in hemmings for years selling cars from south america have not seen his adds any more he had a lot of rare cars
 
well it looks like a aussie ute to me they made them from i think 1934 till 54 yes i remember the kaplan bros,,we have a guy here in new zealand that has been importing from argintena for about 30 years all these cars were rhd so suitable for nz roads
 
Every UTE i've seen, the box and the cab are connected and look like one long rear panel
so with the box and cab separated, some of you say, this is still a Ute ???










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Not an Aussie Ute. The last year they were done was 1938,as a ''Standard', which is better looking than a Deluxe to me. Knowing Ford Aust., they probably did a few Deluxe types as well, but all low volumes. Also, as someone said, the Aussie types were a continuous panel from the door to the tailgate.
 
As tudortomnz stated 1938 was the last year for Roadster Utes in Australia. They were exactly that, Roadsters with side curtains not roll up Cabriolet style door windows as this one has, which makes this one unique. Coupe Utes were built for many years after 1938 of course.
 
Ryan said : "Dig deeper and the clues start to point to Argentina. The battery and most of the electrical components are Argentinian (is that a word?)"

Actually it would be "ARGENTINE" . Good guess though.
 
Its made up out of a open car and pickup bed,. The gap between the bed and cab is two wide the chrome doesn't follow around ,its right hand alright ,Argentina could be factory
 
Asphalt Outlaw Hero said:
Argentine vehicles were lefthand drive, like the US.

They also have all of the tooling for 64 ? Falcons.
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According to "Argentine" factory documents, that's not the case. While they did put many left hand drive cars on the road, many others were right hand. As to why? I dunno... It's whacky!
 
Definately a dummie on 38 Fords but since when did a Ford roadster have door windows ? Mebbe itza 1938 Cabriup :D . The guy in Buenos Aires was - is Mario V. Kaplan MD . Look at a hemmings from the 70's - 80's & you will probably see his ads .Stuff got junky towards the end . A guy in MN bought 4 from him in the mid 80's & they were real rough .
 
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