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RPM · 07-16-2014, 06:47 AM

I purchased a one owner 85 horse 1940 sedan a few years back which did not have a front sway (stabilizer) bar. It was a dry Western car which had been shedded since 1962. It had the perch pins for the non-s-bar. This car was so original that it still had the assembly line brown tissue paper on the lower steering column mast (to keep from scratching column paint during body drop?). An earlier build, but amazing in it's unmolested details. The front sway bar on a 1940 has always indicated to me that the chassis was produced as a Deluxe V8. Perhaps that is not correct?

07-16-2014, 06:47 AM	#7
RPM Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 410	Re: 1940 Ford Suspension Question I purchased a one owner 85 horse 1940 sedan a few years back which did not have a front sway (stabilizer) bar. It was a dry Western car which had been shedded since 1962. It had the perch pins for the non-s-bar. This car was so original that it still had the assembly line brown tissue paper on the lower steering column mast (to keep from scratching column paint during body drop?). An earlier build, but amazing in it's unmolested details. The front sway bar on a 1940 has always indicated to me that the chassis was produced as a Deluxe V8. Perhaps that is not correct?