1946 Club Coupe

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The Hagerty valuation guide lists 2 super deluxe Ford Coupes for 46. One is just a coupe, the other is a "club coupe" What is the difference?
 
The coupe has just the front seat and has doors the length of a 4-door car. The club coupe has a back seat and longer doors like a 2 door.
 
40cpe said:
The coupe has just the front seat and has doors the length of a 4-door car. The club coupe has a back seat and longer doors like a 2 door.
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I thought that Ford called them the Coupe and the Sedan-Coupe.(At least in 1941)
The sedan coupe had the longer doors. The roof was also shaped differently. With it being longer and not as rounded as the short door coupe.
I had a diagram that showed the 2 side by side but when my computer crashed I lost it.
Maybe some one else has a copy of it.
Torchie.
 
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Yep, Ford called the one with the back seat a Coupe Sedan. Had one for the last 35 years or so maybe longer.
 
We (dad and I) have a 1946 "short door" coupe. No back seat, just a package shelf. It has also been known as a "Business Coupe" to us. It is in Super Deluxe trim.
 
1946 Ford factory showroom brochures and the 1946 Ford passenger car sales handbook for salesmen list only the following:
Deluxe & Super Deluxe COUPE (package shelf in back of front seat)
Super Deluxe Sedan Coupe (rear seat)

NO mention of club coupe or business coupe by Ford literature
 
Gary in La. said:
1946 Ford factory showroom brochures and the 1946 Ford passenger car sales handbook for salesmen list only the following:
Deluxe & Super Deluxe COUPE (package shelf in back of front seat)
Super Deluxe Sedan Coupe (rear seat)

NO mention of club coupe or business coupe by Ford literature
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Gary, I think the "business" coupe is just kind of a slang term that for some reason got used over the years. I'm with you, I don't believe Ford ever officially called the coupe a business coupe.
 
The 47-48 Ford literature does refer to the coupe as a business coupe (from "Closing the years of tradition) and the "club coupe" as a Sedan Coupe. 1942 brochure refers to the Coupe as either a deluxe or super deluxe coupe. Maybe by 1947 Ford thought why fight it...
 
For 1937 and 1938, the Club Coupe was a somewhat extended coupe with a back seat (Ford model numbers 78-720 and 81A-720 respectively). They were called Club Coupe in the sales lit; the regular De Luxe Coupe (with no back seat) was the five window variety that we are all familiar with. Correct me if I am mistaken, but I think the name club coupe was used in 1937 and 1938 and then not used again until 1949.
 
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Checked when I got home and the 47 sales brochure lists the coupe as a "business coupe" as does the passenger car data book on page 8.
 
on the 41-48 body style, I have noticed two different roofs on the long door "sedan coupes"...one the drip rail ends right at the bottom of where the roof meets the body, and there is a slight "crease" across the body along the base of where the roof meets the body from side to side. The other, the drip rail extends all the way to the trunk opening and the roof has a softer transition into the body.

Again, these are both on the long door "sedan coupes", not the short door coupes. And I've noticed it in several years. Does anyone know why the difference?
 
I've got a '48 "Sedan Coupe"
according to the 46-48 "End of an Era" Ford book - the only way to get a Sedan Coupe was in Super Deluxe trim ( 1948) so, you'd have a V8 - longer doors - back seat - if you set the coupe and the Sedan Coupe side by side - it's apparent. I don't believe you could get the basic coupe in 48... just the Sedan Coupe ( I'm not in front of my reference material so correct me if I'm wrong)
I have also found that a Sedan Coupe will have far more pretty girls around it and inside it than the regular coupe.
 
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