40 P/U Hood vs. 40 Std. Car

[JonC]

I am looking for a hood for my 40 pickup. I guessed that Ford would not have made three different hoods in 40 for the cars and light truck 1/2 ton. I recently asked a well respected member his opinion and he agreed that two hoods were offered, the deluxe and std./P/U or at least that is what I took him to say.

I placed an ad and had someone contact me and tell me I was ill informed and the hood for the P/U is a special. I can't believe that, but how can I verify it. Is it documented anywhere like the 40 book. I am inclined to believe tooling for hoods were expensive, so why would Ford build new tooling for a hood when the vehicles are so close looking from the front. Jon

 

[oldrelics]

The pickup hood is way different. Car hoods will not work.

 

[Mart]

Pickups are taller, the hood is deeper to compensate.

Mart.

 

[RPM]

Cars have stainless trim strips down the sides, pickups do not. Trucks have a raised bead or feature bead instead. Take a good look at any pictures on the net, you will see what I am explaining. Furthermore, trucks are about a half inch taller in the nose (and cowl area) explaining why the nose ornament is truck only, not car. The 40 STD (car) hood stamping is basically a carryover from 1939 DLX car production. Therefore, Ford stamped only two new hoods in 40, one for cars (the Deluxe) and one for half tons. For your truck you need a 40 or 41 half ton hood. The 41 has more and larger trim holes (for the wider deco trim) but can be retro-ed to 40 trim. Nothing else will bolt up with out cutting and welding (unless you are building a custom such as car nose on truck). Hope this helps. RPM

 

[JonC]

Thanks for the replies, now to find a 40/41 P/U Hood

 

[Roger/Sacramento]

I have a '41 that I trimmed out as a '40....not a big project but some filling of trim mounting holes necessary. The hood locking item is different depending on what the pickup had for a motor ( 4,6 or V8). Mine was originally a 6 and caused me some confusion because of how different the lock mounting brackets were compared to a V8 that I looked at. I took it all out and went with a cable lock. It was a lot of work but, I like it better.

 

[JonC]

Beautiful truck, I can only hope mine gets together let alone look as good as yours. now for the Gasp part, you mean not only do I need to be concerned with the year and P/U hood I have to know what motor was in it?????? Ughhhhh.

 

[landshark]

Look for a 40 pickup hood will make the whole front end fitting experience easier watch out for 6 clyinder hoods

 

[landshark]

Where in central ny i am around saratoga

 

[JonC]

Gilbertsville is 20 miles southwest of Oneonta about an hour and a half from you.

 

[stovebolt]

The most obvious difference is where the sides of the hood meets the cowl. The passenger car cowl and the pickup cowl is totally different.

 

[Charlie ny]

Jon,
Alice and I attend the Canfield Ohio swap meet 2x a year. For the last two
years a fellow who sets up near us has brought a nice '41 truck hood. I don't
know his name but he sold me the nose piece off the hood.
Spring Canfield is May 3 4 & 5 let me know and I'll look for him and hook you
guys up if you are interested. It's worth a shot. The nose trim holes in a '41 hood
are pretty big but for sure it can be retroed to a '40.
Charlie ny
cas5845@yahoo.com

 

[JonC]

Charlie, I sent you an E-mail Thanks

 

[JonC]

Speaking of hoods, does anyone know if the under hood bracing is being reproduced, a couple of folks have contacted me with hoods but no bracing....

 

[landshark]

as far as i know not being reproduced. i just bought a t brace for a 40. i put a ad in the wanted section and got a couple hits. have had good luck finding parts on this site

 

[JonC]

Thanks I have put in an add.