1938 Ford Standard Coupe

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Illustration of the 1938 Ford Standard Coupe from the original Sales Brochure.
 
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Fairly recent import into Australia - 1938 Ford Standard Coupe seen at the Australian Early Ford V8 Nationals in 2016.
The fact that this fine example does not have a passenger side rear tail light would mean that it was built as a Right Hand Drive car.
It could have originated in News Zealand or South Africa?
 
When I was a kid in the 70s, I found a 1938 Standard Coupe in a junkyard in Laredo, Texas. In my ignorance I thought that it was a modified 1937 car. I went home and got out the Warshawsky's catalog and began writing down all the items that I was going to buy to get that car going. I had big plans for that car. But I was just a kid, with no real money. So, it probably was crushed.
 
Tony, you probably need to point out to the Fordbarn masses that Warshawsky = J.C. Whitney. The story behind the name would be the subject of another thread....

Ken
 
TonyM said:
When I was a kid in the 70s, I found a 1938 Standard Coupe in a junkyard in Laredo, Texas. In my ignorance I thought that it was a modified 1937 car. I went home and got out the Warshawsky's catalog and began writing down all the items that I was going to buy to get that car going. I had big plans for that car. But I was just a kid, with no real money. So, it probably was crushed.
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You either get the Early Ford bug at a young age or it was ingrained into your DNA at conception. The later would be my diagonisis. I cannot help myself.
 
Kens 36 said:
Tony, you probably need to point out to the Fordbarn masses that Warshawsky = J.C. Whitney. The story behind the name would be the subject of another thread....

Ken
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Well, off topic, but what the hell... As a kid in the '50's, I began my lifelong obsession with cars, and as many others had, I had JC Whitney catalogues coming in about every couple of months for years and years. They were still coming in after I went into the Navy, my mother saving them for me. Not once did I ever buy anything from them, but enjoyed reading the mostly kookie add-on stuff, the good stuff being mostly for Model T and A Fords in those days.
Many years later, a small side trip to the La Salle location on the way to a V8 Club meet brought me up to speed and burst my bubble image of the old JC Whitney. In all those 70 odd years, though, never before now had I ever heard the name Warshawsky associated with JC. Never too old to learn!
 
As I remember, the prices were better in the Warshawsky catalogs than they were in the Whitney edition.
 
Kens 36 said:
Tony, you probably need to point out to the Fordbarn masses that Warshawsky = J.C. Whitney. The story behind the name would be the subject of another thread....

Ken
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I remember those Warshawsky catalogs very well, even though I wasn't much of a kid in the 70's. I may still even have a copy squirreled away some where, maybe in my antique catalog collection. :D
 
I always remember the Ford hubcaps that J C Whitney sold. Instead of Ford on the hubcap it said "Fool" and were made in Argentina. Every once in awhile you see one of those caps at a swap meet.
 
JC Whitney was the one that offered all those funky Cadillac fins for Chevies, shiny gas door scuff plates for what ya got, wanna-be Buick portholes, ‘49 Ford grille spinners, Dagmars for anybody, imitation De Soto bumpers, bobble hipped Hawaiian girls for dashboards, fuzzy dice, Suicide Knobs, Porta Walls, Curb feelers, and of course, they also had Wolf Whistles and Bermuda Bells!
 
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