I'll say 38

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Dave Mellor NJ

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oval grilles are popular nowadays
 

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It's hard to tell '38 or '39. The center stainless trim on the grille would indicate. Also, the location of the windsheild roll out knob would indicate as well. If it is on the top of the dash it's a '39. If it comes straight out of the dash it's a '38. I can't see these details in the photo.
 
It's a 38. Front bumper has the bumper guards and the front hub has the large stainless steel hub cap that screws on. Both features of the 38 and last year for them from the factory. Un likely that anyone would have a 39 of that era and put a 38 bumper on it. Also I am trying to figure out how to put those hubcaps on my 39. It's been done but can't come up with a solution. Not something that would be done in 39. ML
 
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Typically known as the ugliest model.
Well, when one compares it to '33, '34, '35, '36, '37 . . .no doubt!
I bought a '38 half-ton (out of the) barn find in '68. Wisconsin, with the original 'Ford' bald spare! Got it home, great low-mileage 45- 50,000 mi flathead.

Enjoyed it, but upon purchase, whoa! mechanical brakes cables in enclosed wound-steel-wire housings, rusted tight 'stem to stern'.
Remedy: (Vice Grips gripping each cable out of one end, and hammer-tapping the housing on an anvil) the housing and cable rusted as one piece altogether. What a way to spend the day. Saturday.
 
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