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Originally Posted by Bruce Lancaster
I would start looking at material on the '39-40 World's fair, where Ford had a major pavilion, as a possible origin...donating the thing to a major engineering university would seem to be a sensible thing for Ford to have done when the fair closed and the 1941 models came out.
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I don't know if the Ford chassis was exhibited at the 1939-'40 NYWF, but Sorensen's "The Ford Shows" does have a picture of a 1940 Mercury Fordor with both cutaway chassis and body. The photo does not show much, the car is too far away, so I didn't scan and post it.