Woodie reference books

1oldtimer

1oldtimer

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Looking for 49-51 woodie reference books or anything that would give me a clue to what was different then regular cars and what was different over the 3 years. I want to be able to spot stuff at swapmeets or online.


Thanks everyone.
 
I will take a shot at answering your question.
Most of the changes in the Shoebox Ford Woodies occurred in the chassis. Think of the slogan: 50 ways better for 1950. As you know, there were grille, dashboard and trim changes.
The 1949-50-51 Ford Passenger Car Shop Manual (does cover Woodies) would be helpful.
The Green Bible - Ford Chassis Parts and Accessories Catalogue will list part number references.
There is the Loren Sorensen Famous Ford Woodies book, but that covers them all.
The only other suggestion would be that you learn about Ford's part numbering system. Most chassis parts on a 1949 Woodie started with the numbering 8M which is a Mercury sequence number. OM and 1M were sequence numbers for 1950 and 1951.

This is something, others will probably add more.
 
The bookcase fell on me.....................

And the book that Kens 36 mentions has easy to understand information about decoding cowl numbers!
 
There is also some good information in the V-8 Album also from the Early Ford V-8 Club.
 
I have the 1949-1951 Ford Book coming and I'm waiting on the Famous Ford Woodies book also. I have the Green bible on CD also. I just didn't know that there was so many things beyond the obvious that are specific to the Woodies.
 
I applaud you for wanting to learn.
So many today take the easy way and just ask questions without researching for themselves.

I remember the Weekly Reader in grade school. Its motto was "we never guess, we look it up".
 
Learning is easy, remembering it is the hard part.


The green bible only goes to '48, but I found another parts book that goes from '49-'59. I've been getting the pdf versions lately as they're less expensive and take up no space (I have 2 bookcases full of old car parts catalogs, repair manuals and car info).
 
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