More Ford For ‘41
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- With its wider body, the 1941 Ford finally allowed comfortable three-across seating. But something new arrived under the hood for ’41…Ford’s first inline six cylinder engine since 1906. Watch and explore!
I love your videos for the knowledge you dispense, your absolute candor, and helping to keep the car culture alive!
These videos bring back a lot of memories.
Thank you Steve
Last December I purchased the ‘42 Super DeLuxe fordor that was purchased new by my wife’s great grandfather. His grandson bought it in ‘58 and parked it in ‘70. It’s gonna take a lot to get it back on the road, but it’s cool to own a car that has been in the family for more than 80 years!
You mentioned WWII rationing and old tires and such. My dad talked about how his grandfather used to save old inner tubes and use them to line the insides of tires that wore down enough to develop holes where the tread used to be. I think they used every material available for that as tires just weren’t available. They made stuff work and last.
So very true, I've heard that too.
My maternal grandfather had a tire store from 1915 until he died in 1957. I was born in 1961 so I didn't get a chance to talk to him and ask him about what he did during the World War 2 years.😢
Gasoline was rationed during WWII not to save gas, which we could produce enough of, but to save tires. Tires were made mostly of natural rubber at the time, and a large amount of rubber came from Asia and was in then hands of the Japanese. Brazil and South America could produce enough rubber for the war effort, but only just. Both the Allies and Germany stepped up their research on synthetic rubber during the war.
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Another great video professor Steve you knock it out of the park as always get well soon
Always learn something when I watch this channel. Thanks
The 41’ ford deluxe was the 2011 ford explorer of its day. Revolutionary in the auto world 👍🇺🇸
This dude always takes us on the greatest adventures! This dude is the professor of automobiles! Professor Steve 😁
Yep: Steve is a living, talking & walking encyclopedia of automotive knowledge!
Great video thank you
Thank you Steve for the time you sharing with us.
I'm thinking you could sand blast the frame and use it again. It's still there. Amazing!
yes i got a mig welder that could fix up a car like this . soo handy . my MIG could turn a derelict like this into gold
Maybe you’re best yet? Loved the 40 Dodge as well!
We're all pulling for you Steve. Hope to see you soon
Thanks for the 411.
Great video and history! Love watching and learning more about this old cars! He’s right! If they could talk, imagine the stories they could tell!
Another history lesson Steve, great episode, from your 39 to 41 period, for me the most amazing era of automobilia, to think there's a junkyard car, from the very year of America's day of Infamy, I'm talking of course of Pearl Harbour, how quickly America turned from producing luxury cars to the implements of war. To own a car from 1941 would be a privilege. Apologies for commenting so late, the time shift from USA to UK, still, love watching these videos. Keep em coming Steve.
Some cars had the finger pull in the gas door, some had the quarter panel stamped
Pull my finger and my gas door will open too. 😁
I'll go ahead and show myself out 😏
Mentioning WWII, my paternal grandfather worked at Boeing, in Wichita, KS during the war, building B29s, B47s and B52s.
I still have a hardcover pocket notebook of his, with diagrams and build notes for all three models.
Remember when Biff Tannen's 1946 Ford switched to I believe a 48 and then back to a 46 mid movie LOL
Great review Steve. Speaking of Ford Sixes, one of my uncles bought a new '52 Crestline with a OHV 6 & automatic trans. Nice car, quiet, solid but it just didn't seem as peppy as my dad's '50 or another uncle's '52 with a Flathead V8.
We owned a 41 4 door and took a couple trophies. Fun times peeing out the window on the way home in the rain!
If this car could talk, the stories it could tell us. Very well put Steve.
Thanks Steve 👍
That six replaced the small V8-60 although a four cylinder version of this was available in panel trucks. I had a 50 with a six. I was told it had 9.5:1 compression. I don’t know but it had a healthy growl and contemporary road tests put it outrunning the V8 to 60 mph.
That 41 dont look too bad
I Drag Race a 47 Tudor, my dad has had a bunch of 41 to 48's
WOW !! 🙆♂️
Check ✔ out that frame !!
Massive structure re-enforcements &
It's not completely rotted out
Learned something new , again .
Thanks Steve
Very KOOL Steve
Well rounded car!
Literally!
Huh…transverse leaf spring…
Was the Corvette copied from a '41 Ford Super Delux?
Great job once again Steve and Shane
Hi Steve great video on this 41 Ford. That title looks a little familiar 🤔 😁. We had a little mix up with titles yesterday. Some of us 1st responders caught that yesterday. 😆 That is a surprise to see still out there in the Junkyard. I would have imagined someone long ago would have snagged that up. As you mentioned a good body to hotrod or maybe an outlaws track car. Well I drove all day yesterday and made Ohio. I'm here for 3 nights at Dark Star Jubilee X here in Thornville. Hi Mr. Horting 👋🏼 I hope this makes more sense now know their was a title mix up in yesterday's Junkyard Crawl video. It may have been corrected by the time you saw the video. Hi 🖐🏼 Mr. Google that's pretty cool story about working as a DJ during college. This helps my point about your much needed TH-cam ch. You must have an excellent speaking voice. Thanks to all who have commented on my comments here on the Crawl. Love y'all! Thank a veteran this weekend and don't forget the ones that didn't come home. Have a blessed and memorable weekend everyone.🤙🏼 Namaste 🙏🏼
Always wish you could drop the body on a Fox body frame. Then restore them. But then again I am a dreamer. Don't think about the cost. Always have a tube type frame made.
Every time I see a 41-48 Ford, I picture a convertible crashing into a manure truck 😆😆😆
Phil Silvers drove a Ford convertible of the same vintage in "It's a Mad, Mad...Mad World".
my Dad had the Studebaker and the ford
When I was an apprentice ,one of the older guys was telling me about the Ford 6's in various vehicles during the war and how much extra work they caused ,whereas the ford V8' and Chevy sixes were easy to repair and get back into service quickly.
Why would a Ford 6 banger be more difficult to work on, are you talking Flathead or OHV
I've always heard that the Ford flathead 6 was quite a good engine and very reliable.
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That car will make a nice Toyota someday.
Funny how they lost the gas filler door for one model year, with the new 1949. 1950 did away with the exposed cap and the door was back.
I’m pretty sure Ford didn’t put full floating axles/hubs on the passenger cars, that those are tapered shafts as on Chrysler products (up until the early 1960s), American Motors and Studebaker. And those old Fords had a 5-on-5.5 lug pattern on passenger cars until ‘49 when they went to 5-on-4.5. Half ton trucks carried on with the larger pattern on half ton pickups until, well, when?
Great video, again, I learned so much as always. I never knew about the flathead V6. That's cool (and not surprising) that the '41 Ford had one year only styling. I hope someone restores it because of it's rarity and installs a modern Ford V6.
I read that Ford produced their first OHV V6 in 1965 in Cologne Germany.
Damn the rust here in New England is gruesome. 😖I can imagine if that car was in the southwest what it would look like.
The model is like the mad mad mad world convertible of Phil silver's..
Another informative trip into the past. Those shocks were actually hydraulic, not friction.
It's an amazing time capsule. How things have changed (sometimes for the better, sometimes not...) in the auto world. I remember working at a dealership washing new cars and detailing customer cars when I was in college, and I look at the interiors now vs then, and it's like night and day. I can't imagine someone who was comfortable with a '41 seeing a car from even the '70s. I now understand the expression "get off my lawn!" :)
I've become the fuddy-duddy. :P
🇺🇸👍 You are a man of great automotive knowledge. I enjoy your sharing of this knowledge 👍
No friction shocks at this time sorry. These are Houdaille hydraulic shocks but similar in appearance.
Thank you for the video I love these old old Fords
That Stude!!!!!😍
6:34 Katie is tracking something 😊
you did'nt mention that transverse leaf spring in the rear..............that seems pretty unusual............wb
That's crazy how the first exhaust tube ran up and around the intake tube in the picture. Definitely not ideal for power. But probably great for winter driving
No creo,el seis lo tenia escrito en una moldura de la guantera: Ford six .🎥 👐
Enjoyed!!! 👍👍
Great work guys. Keep ‘em coming
LB/ft - It even said that as you read and you STILL read it backwards.
Dear Steve! There was two series of 226. In this '41 Ford was the G series (85hp) in '49 there was H series (90hp). The most obviouse difference was location of distributor, much lesser know is camshaft journals dimensions. You don't want to know how I learned this :)
🍀🍀👑wonderful video Steve, and thank you, marvelous trip down memory lane.
I need to correct you on the shocks; they are hydraulic not friction. Ford used lever action hydraulic as far back as the first Model A in 1928.
Good Morning Gents, Be Safe this weekend everyone! 🇺🇸
Now that is cool. Keep them coming Steve. 😊
cute old car
Mr. B. Here ! Morning to all !☕️☕️🍩🍩 Steve that vehicle looks a lot the Volvo , I do not remember the year ! Forget how beautiful Mass mornings can be . This vehicle is very interesting ! Steve if can some day you should show what car guys have kept on the road . Friday nights Kimball’s Lancaster, MA
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Cant wait to see whats ailing it. Talk about cliff hanger lol😂
My dad left behind a 41 2dr super deluxe V8 when he died. What's disappointing is its not wanted by most people! Oh well
Sounds like you don't want it either.
@David Pawson I want it but have to sell it for his estate 😫 😢
I did my 1981 Bonneville 5.7 San Francisco to Plattsburgh New York Rrrrroad Trip... 4650 miles @ 28mpg... 2 breakdowns... both swiftly solved...
Diesel?
@@pdennis93 must be for that kind of mileage
@@krazi77 that and I don't believe any gas 350 bonneville was offered in 81. I believe the 301 was the largest gas V8 offered.
No VIN, can't win, but back then, they were more serial numbers than VIN numbers. The 1941 Ford six cylinder cars were considered 1GA models and the serial numbers ran from 000001 through 034800. As stated, the six cylinder had 90 HP and was on a 114" wheelbase. No tag, can't brag, but possibly code M3929 Harbor Gray originally.
Since the topic is '40s era Fords, I have a question, that possibly your knowledge can answer........
There is a debate going on, on a different YT "channel".
The debate is whether or not removable running boards were an option on '41-'48 Ford Business Coupe models.
Do you know?🤷♂️
Yes, I heard Steve lightly touch on running boards in this video.
However I did not hear him say whether they were removable or not.
BTW, I am not part of the debate.
I am simply a curious observer.
@@willhorting5317 Factory literature from back then would be the definitive answer.
@@googleusergp okay 👍.
I wonder if ol' Steve has any of that literature. He has a lot of stuff.😎
@@willhorting5317 Probably can be found online if you want to dig into it. Take what you read on those forums with a grain of salt. Most people there cannot back up those claims.
@@googleusergp 👍
Prelude to the shoebox…
Those were cool cars, thumbs up, always enjoyable
When I think of Deluxe I'm thinking 🥬 Lettuce, Tomato 🤔🍅, and Pickle 🥒🤤!
Old chock full of nuts coffee can, betcha.
Its a shame how the floor and trunk rusted awy like that. But that' structural frame looked to be in ok shape. That would make an interesting rat rod project I'll bet.
9:18 transverse leaf?
Awesome old car. Cool history, brother.
I wonder if they had new ideas and added them to the next model year. Or if they knew all the changes they would make each year as a refresh. Just take some things away from the car so they can be added back a little at a time to get more sales🤔
I'm driving my '62 Impala 409 500hp Tremec 5 speed clone to my 50th anniversary Saturday
Living the dream
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After Ford halted civilian car production in February 1942 any cars made after that time were strictly for the government and all were six cylinder units. If you ever watch the old movie "Twelve O Clock High" with Gregory Peck the staff car he uses you can clearly hear is a six cylinder one.
Most excellent
Bonnie n clod
Around 1968, traded a very used 59 chevy for a 41 Ford Business Coupe. Someone had already installed a Merc V-8. Wish I still had that car.
Sell me the dash and knobs
The chassis still looks strong 💪
One year fender. 1941
The rusted out can in the trunk was probably a can of Turtle Wax , lol
I saw that too. Maxwell House coffee used to come in cans that size. My Dad had a bunch of those cans in his garage full if old nuts an bolts.
@@michaelnazaruk4100 yes and tobacco also came in the same basic size can. But being a car enthusiast, I am sticking with the Turtle was, for the armour coat finish!
6 cylinder??? Like the Olds 350 diesel, who cares lol
I remember getting so excited to get the IMC 48 Ford. Then opening it and thinking someone switched a Palmer kit on me.😂
now caption is correct.
Another way of telling a 6 cylinder car in that series is to look at the heater hose locations on the firewall, the tubes on each side in the recessed area are 6 cylinder, and would be behind the block of the v8 and you wouldn't be able to get the hoses on. The v8 version, the heater hose locations would both be to the right of the resessed area and a couple inches higher. Another way to tell is the radiator and mounts would be farther forward than the v8
It would take a lot of money and love to put it back on the road shame to see it rotting away like that
Looks like it's on the edge of being savable. Is that an early '50s Studebaker in the background @ 6:41?
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The model car reminds me of the movie karate kid........when Mr Myiçú let Daniel use his car for a date
Actually, Mr. Miyagi gave Daniel the car for his 16th birthday.
He took Daniel outside and allowed him to choose a car and he chose the 48 Ford convertible. Mr. Miyagi called it "number 2 present". The first present was the karate uniform.
The 1947 Super DeLuxe convertible featured in The Karate Kid films was given to Ralph Macchio as a gift. To this day, Macchio still owns the car, and is the only known original prop from the films to reprise its appearance in the series Cobra Kai.
To prepare the car for its appearance in Cobra Kai, the car's engine was replaced with a new one, disc brakes were added and the suspension was modified.
@@MauiWauiPineappleExpress I did actually find it on imcdb but apparently it was a different car in that lone scene. It was covered beyond the windshield to hide the fact it was a hardtop.
I guess they did use Ralph's car later.
I noticed the paint under the hood being olive drab, could that car be a military vehicle ?
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Cool old Ford.
there no 1942 cars because of WW2
Did that (plastic) model have a convertible top that was fabric?
Better car then all these lap top 💩.