Thread: 1940 Ford tudor sedan Traditional rod

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What I've got is a 1940 Ford Tudor sedan. There is very little left to do to it. It simply needs exhaust pipes, an alignment, an interior and a few other very minor things touched up. I have been building it to be a no-nonsense bare bones hot rod that would be taken to vintage drags.

Now for the details.... It is mounted on a shortened S-10 chassis. The frontend has been completely rebuilt with new center link, ball joints, tie rods, idler arm, sway bar, brake calipers and rotors. It has a round aluminum fuel tank in the trunk and the battery is mounted back there as well. Steering came out of a 63' econoline. The steering box was converted to a manual box so as not to rob power from the engine. The dash is in nice shape with a few art-deco/Kustom accents. Has autometer speedo, and your standard triple gauges. The grille is a speedway motors sheetmetal grille, which is pretty cool. Has all tinted glass, and new anti-rattle kit installed The body is solid and received all new floorboards. The body was painted to look weather worn. It is actually a new paint job that was applied to make it look old.

Basically the car is just a cool vessel for the drivetrain.

about the motor.... Pretty much everything is new. It started with a bare SBC 350 4-bolt main block. I had it hot tanked, bored and magna-fluxed. It was bored .30 over making it a 355ci. It got 72cc heads to up the compression, the valves are the big 2.02 and 1.6 valves. The heads also have studs and guide plates. It has a matched Lunati valve train with voodoo cam and Crane roller tip rockers. The lower end features a Eagle crank, skat weight match set of I-beam connecting rods, Speedpro flat top pistons with 2 valve relief with floating wrist pins. The air gets there through a Weiand X-Celerator intake and 670cfm Holley street Avenger carb. Exhaust goes by way of Heddman Headers. Cooling by a Polished aluminum water pump and 3 row radiator and stainless hoses with Zirgo 3300CFM cooling fan. All inside hardware is ARP and all outside hardware is stainless steel ARP. Has lots of aluminum accents, and many other features that I will divulge to those who are seriously interested. It's quite the laundry list.

The motor is hooked up to a TH-350 automatic tranny. Tranny has B&M hot rod style shifter, jegs 2700rpm torque converter, finned dual pass aluminum tranny cooler, stainless braided flexible dip stick.

In any event, the wiring is done and the motor runs very well and cools very well. It's fire breathing and loud as hell. It has been going through it's break in period. We are estimating 385Hp out of it.

There is very little left to do and all the hard mechanical type stuff is done. The rest could be finished by a novice hobbiest in a couple weekends.

If you are looking to announce your presence and have a traditional rod like they used to build that's bare bones and built for speed, this is it. If you want power steering, and air conditioning, and tweed interior, etc for a hot rod that drives like a Toyota Camery this is not what you are looking for.

I have too many details to mention about this car, and they would be best put forth in an email or by a phone call.

I can send pictures to serious interested parties.

I have 99% of the reciepts and most of the boxes from the engine parts.

I may be interested in trading for 1928-1948 coupes or 1964-1976 coupes (ie: nova, chevelle, cutlass, lemans, tempest, camaro,Torino, corvette, charger, road runner, etc.), full or partial trade (no fiberglass).Otherwise, at this point I am asking $11500.

Will sell without motor and tranny for $8K