America's Backroads: Driving an Original 1935 Ford V8 (2 owners, 62,215 miles)
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- To see an interview with the second owner, who has cared for this car for over 50 years and is 97 years of age, check out this video! • America's Backroads: I...
This is a car unlike any you likely have seen. It is not every day one finds a vehicle from 1935 that is mostly original with low miles, and only two owners. Featuring the original body paint, original glass, original leather interior, and some minor maintenance here and there over the years, this vehicle is in pristine condition for its age, and is remarkably driveable too! We plan on doing something crazy with it, stay tuned to the end to find out! P.S. If you liked this video please help by hitting the like button, or leaving a comment, or subbing or any combination what you would like. It will help the channel a lot.
Awesome to see a young bloke like myself into old cars of this era along with an interest in history. Good on ya! 👍😁
Beautiful car! 😍
So good to see young folks involved in this important sector of keeping the American automotive history vibrant. Good work young man!
Nice to see a young person who likes traditional American cars.
Very good. Nice car. I like when they've been kept original, and things have been changed to modernize them in bad ways. The alternator was going far enough but really wasn't necessary. Generators work well, and particularly when an Optima 6V battery is used. You're well-spoken for a young guy. And you didn't fill us up with misinformation. Thanks for doing accurate research and producing a good video.
The former owner replaced the headlights with ones that were as bright as most headlights sold today and found the generator could not keep up, but we still have the original generator with the car.
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Generators really do their best with an Optima 6V battery. All the AGM batteries take a charge from the generator/alternator very quickly. That one of the best things about that type of battery. But I do have a preference for the Optima's.
In my vintage car I had room for two of the Optima 6V batteries because they're narrow. I wired them to retain the 6V and by doing that I then had two-thousand amps in case the generator ever quit at night far away from home.
Really nice video. My dad’s first car. He bought it new. A green 35 coupe. Thanks for letting me see what it would be like to have ridden in it. My dad did many trips to Florida from NJ in it in the 1930s. I am the original owner of a 2003 Grand Marquis that has the potential to be a super surviver like this one. So far, so good. Just need to check back in about 65 years to see if it made it.
Beautiful old Ford,someone should be proud to have that in there garage. Thanks for the video
Their garage.
What a beautiful trip you and your dad are having ! And, being able to share it with your channel makes the recording extra special. A famous car on a fabulous road trip.
We are really excited about the videos we have coming up including The Freedom Trail in Boston that we hope to upload in about a week.
James, congratulations on this 35; two weeks ago I purchased an all original 35 Tudor Sedan. Car came with original sales invoice from October 5,1935, time capsule of documents and only 31,138 miles. I started looking on the tube for any 35 Fords and came across your site. Looking forward to seeing more of the car and glad to see you enjoying the drive. Next year in Franklin TN, June 1-5 will be the Early Ford V-8 Club of America Eastern Meet. I’m in KY and planning on being there for this event. Also check out the Early Ford V-8 museum in Auburn IN, great bunch of folks there and great cars. As you have said we are only the caretakers of them.
We find the people who love these cars are the nicest people we will ever meet. Everywhere we go wonderful people come up to us and it's just like meeting an old friend.
You can tune a piano but,can you tune that 35 lol. Great presentation James. Thought the shifter on that was on the steering column. Please get back with that I might be wrong. Thanks again
This one is all original and has a 3 speed shifter on the floor with a H pattern with reverse to the left and foward.
It’s a great car! Nothing like the sound of a flathead V8! It’s a very desirable body style also. Congratulations and hope you enjoy that car for many years!
Couldn't agree more!
Your a LUCKY kid, hopefully you know how lucky you are.
My first car I had to build and get it running.
Wow … awesome! 🤙🏽 the car is wild. Beautiful ! Sound of the motor 🔥Amazing purchase ✌🏽 look forward to the road trip.
I am working on editing the series now and I am very excited about the way I expect to see them turn out.
Wow 🤩 what a great and fun car. Excellent addition to your growing fleet. It looks fun.
It really is!
What a wonderful car. For the drive segment it would be nice to have a second camera mounted so the driver can be seen controlling the car
Wow!!!!!!!! What a car What a car!!!!!!!🤑🤑🤑🤑
It's just a wonderful car to go for a ride in.
At 8:52 that is not a grab handle. It is there to hang a blanket on. Passengers could retrieve the blanket to place on their laps if it got too cold. Cars of the 1920's and 30's mostly didn't have a heater.
Well done in your presentation. Your command of our English language is clear and impressive.
James: So nice to see another string to your bow. I've owned 71 cars (one for every year I've lived), many of them from the '50s, '60s, and '70s, but none older than me (1949). Enjoy the Henry and the Moggie!
Thank you.
8:00 The car was built at Ford River Rouge plant in Detroit.
I love that huge front grill
Coral Gables 🌴🇺🇸 Watching you grow up this chanel icing ! 👍 🏄
This is a real treasure in original condition. Most have been ruined for mods.
School chums mom had a 29 Tudor, tan body, black fenders. Shop teacher had 34 sedan, tan, black fenders, neighbors across the street had 36 light gray, and yes, black fenders . 6-7 grade teachers husband drove 31 Victoria , yup, all black.
Hello neighbor, such an amazing beautiful car!
That is 1935 Ford Convertible Sedan. My father restored V-8 Fords in the 1960's when I was a kid and he had one just like that only painted black. You don't see many of those.
You should take a road trip up to the Iola Car Show this summer.
Let me know if you need a place to stay.
This was my Grandfather's car; the one he kept. It was later inherited by an uncle. In fact, I still garnish a small scar from childhood when I was climbing on the spare and fell. Amazing memories were awoken watching this video (I've shared this with my uncle, now 83).
@mlm1088, this exact car, or one like it? Glad you enjoyed the video!
@@americasbackroadswithcharl7688 Only exact from the perspective of being a 35 in that color (though I seem to remember a black top). His was lost in a house fire some years ago. When my uncle reflects on that, the loss of the house is always secondary to the loss of the car. I'm looking for pictures - if I find any I'll share them with you.
From what I have been able to find out it this model was often in the same color in the brochures. This top is not original, but seems to go well with the color scheme and dates to at least the 1960's.
@@americasbackroadswithcharl7688 It doesn't surprise me, regarding the color. When I shared your video with my uncle, he replied in pages of memories. Among his memories, he spoke of once crushing a fender (many years back). After a search, he found a replacement "in the same color".
He mentioned that his did not have the loose wiring at the dash, but said it was instead "mounted in a sleeve", but couldn't say whether that was original. He also mentioned your top, saying your rear window is different from his (his must have been replaced also). He ended saying that he got a kick out of hearing the motor sounds again (he was pretty jazzed). Can I ask how you found this car? I'd love to find one for him.
@@mlm1088 It was for sale on Bring A Trailer.
WOW, what a great car to get and to come all the way to Massachusetts to get it, to enjoy Massachusetts' coastline, including all of Cape Cod. I'm sure you'll also enjoy some of the Rhode Island and Connecticut coastlines on the way back southward. I'm sure lots of people will take a keen interest in that car along the way. Perhaps somehow you can arrange for a date and time for a "meetup" with some of your YT fans from both of your channels before you leave the New England area? I, for one, would love to meet you in person and see that marvelous vehicle.
It seems everytime we get gas there is a small crowd around and that is fine because everyone is so nice.
Thanks for this video. I’m currently working on a 1935 Ford Convertible Sedan. It was taken apart in 1970, and never put back together. Oddly, the car is also from Mass. The convertible top is still somewhat of a mystery. Wish you could show me the top going up and down. Best of luck with your new ride.
What a discovery. A beautiful and original v8. The engine sounds really good. No strange rattle and so on. I am really happy for you. Isn’t driving a little bit of a learning curve. If I am not mistaken you have to put the gear in ‘free’ mode every time you switch gears. Isn’t that by this car? But in any case it is a miracle that the car is in this perfect condition. The previous owners did a great job. Looking forward to the video’s of the tour you are going to do. Thank you for sharing and driving. (Although I think your dad drove)
It is not necessary to double clutch on the upshift, but it is on the downshift. You place the transmission in neutral and let out the clutch while adding a little gas to get the planetary gears moving at about the same speed as the lower gear is turning.
Yesss, that’s indeed the word I couldn’t find. Double clutch. So only downshift. Handy. Still something to get used to. I had a car that needed it both way. Was used to it, so no problem there but it’s nowadays easier. I watch your video another time. Gorgeous car. Hope you are having a lot of fun with it.
That is a long drive, during which you might hit some rain, so put some RainX on the windshield (vacuum wipers generally do not work that great) , and have some towels handy too, because those old convertible tops like to leak around the doors and windscreen even in a light rain. Have a great time!
Have a great
Thanks for the tips!
Of course we want to hear the horns!
Congratulations on the '35! All the best with it and I think she's in good hands. Have fun in New England!
The towns in New England are nice and close together. I think you could spend a lifetime just traveling from one to another and always have something new to see.
Amazing surviver! Love the hood ornament, I miss hood ornaments . . . I was going to comment that now you need to learn how to drive a standard with straight gears (no syncromesh) but then remembered that you mentioned the Morgan having straight gears. Don't get in a big rush to change the generator back if you are going to be driving this regularly and any distance . . . What is it's sweet spot for speed on the hwy? (and did I spot an ahooga horn under the hood?)
Yes, the ahooga horn was undoubtedly a little add on over time. They say that they had a top speed of 71 mph, but we would never try that in our beloved old Ford. The gearing is very low and although it could be geared higher it seems very happy running around 50 mph at present. We purchased this car for the backroads and nice friendly drives in the afternoon just relaxing at 35 - 45 mph.
@@americasbackroadswithcharl7688 50mph is still faster than walking :) I've a 1949 Fargo one ton, and that thing is geared low, it will do a mile a minute if I push it hard but it feels like the end of the world for sure. Cruises nicely at 45, still faster than walking ;)
I think for traveling the back roads it is more fun to have a vehicle that likes to travel at 45 mph, as it just seems like a lot more fun to travel at that speed anyways.
1935 cars had Syncromesh with helical gears.
@@americasbackroadswithcharl7688 71 MPH? The 32 maybe, but the 35 had a top speed of over 80.
Do you have to double clutch a 35 Ford?
I doubt, that the radio works, but if it hasn't been butchered, it may not be too difficult to repair. First, ask the previous owner about it's status. It's possible, that when he switched to the alternator, that also switched to 12 volts, possibly even changing from a positive chassis ground to a negative one, so to protect the 6 volt radio, he disconnected it. If this is the case, the use of a resistor with adequate resistance and wattage capacity to drop the voltage from 12 volts to 6 volts and switching the polarity, if need be (I don't know whether a '35 Ford with a factory radio was negative or positive ground?). If it's disconnected from power, don't hook it up and try it, without knowing the status of the voltage or polarity, or you may burn out the filiments in the vacuum tubes (valves) or otherwise damage the radio. Also, the previous owner may know, what's wrong with it and just hasn't gotten around to fixing it. If he doesn't have any clues to give you, check and make shure, that it's getting power (6 volts with correct polarity depending on chassis ground situation). If that checks out, the next thing to try is to change out the capacitors. Usually in electronics that old, the capacitors are bad. Capacitors of that era, even if unused, go bad. You can substitute modern capacitors for them. Some of the vacuum tubes, aka, valves, may or may not be good, but normally, replacing them without replacing the capacitors first not only, won't do any good, but risks damaging the replacement tubes.
Once the capacitors are replaced, if it still doesn't work, you can replace the tubes, which you should be able to source on the Internet. There are probably still many NOS, new old stock, tubes on Ebay, for instance.
This is a shotgun approach of course, and a decent old school electronics bench tech would troubleshoot or repair it in a more elegant fashion, but I'm just throwing it out there.
No big deal, but I think, that you may have mispoken and meant to say "B-24 Bomber" rather than "B-42".
Good luck on the road, and I look forward to following your travels! ...Hope you have AAA. If you have it, you won't need it, but if you don't have it, you'll need. ...Funny how that works?
Sparky,
Thanks for the great advise! I have found out and it will be uploaded soon that the radio works perfect and the whole system is still 6 volts. We were playing with the radio while driving down in Quincy, MA and once the tubes warmed up it played wonderfully. In the near future it will be uploaded and I think you will love it. We just hope the copyright people will not go after us for playing some early 60's music.
@@americasbackroadswithcharl7688 Great to hear (no pun intended). It occurred to me, that it might just need a minute to "warm up". I remember waiting on radios and record players to warm up, when I was 5 years old or so, and it seemed to take forever, but as is often said, as one gets older, time begins to clip along pretty fast, so it doesn't seem like very long nowadays, if I turn on vintage electronics. On so many vintage cars, the radio is either ignored as too big of a hassle to fix or is replaced by a modern solid state one with a vintage facade, so my assumption that it was inoperable was incorrect.
I have a 1940 Ford 9N, which I still use on my farm. It has the straight 4 cylinder version of the flathead V8. Many assume, that it must be the same 4 cylinder as in the Model A Ford, but it's actually based on the flathead V8. I upgraded to an alternator as well. The generators and their electromechanical voltage regulators can be finicky and end up being an annoyance. So much so, that many antique car shows don't gig owners much, if at all, if they've switched to an alternator. There is at least one manufacturer, that makes alternators, which Look like vintage generators. Not to fool show judges, but to blend in with the vintage look of the rest of the engine and engine compartment. Even so, it's good, that you keep the original generator around, even if not installed, especially since the car is amazingly original.
I'm foggy about it now, but I think, that I remember, that one of the reasons for the change from a positive chassis ground on many if not most vehicles, had something to do with radios becoming a routine accessory in cars by the late 1950's? Some RF reason maybe involving the antenna ground plane? I don't know. The first decade or two of car radios, in the the 1920's & thirties, car manufacturers struggled on antenna configurations and placement and how to get them to have consistent enough reception, even aside from the spark noise interference or else car radios might have been more popular earlier, that they were. It is indeed a rare and great thing, that your '35 Ford has a radio and amazing that it works!
The change to alternators was more about providing more efficient and countinuous power for electrical accessories in general. They first become common in police cars which had energy hogging two way radios, if I recall?
Taking it out to P. Town just in time to meet a hurricane?
As it turned out they were still in a lock down mode, so we skipped them completely.
Ford was an amazing car manufacturer but a lot of people forget that he was a brilliant publisher too.
That is not a grab handle, that is a robe or blanket cord.
You did not post the interview the previous owner ???
I did, but had to place it as a separate video uploaded that very same day. This other video was a different format and so here is a link for you to watch. th-cam.com/video/UfVJef8vvgU/w-d-xo.html
26:33 mafia convoy
She will be 90 next year.
Ford Phaeton.
KIA😂🤣
Original ford is black! This is fake!
In the earlier years of Ford that was true, but in the 30's you could get some colors. I have an original brochure that has this model in this color.
garth brooks wants his mic back LMAO