1934 Australian Ford Body Styles

[38 coupe]

1930s Ford of Australia body construction practices were probably done both for legislative and for cost reasons. Large stamping dies are expensive to make, and some percentage of vehicle production had to be locally made. With the smaller production numbers it made sense to use a lot of wood structure in the locally made bodies. Also, there are frequently not as many compound curves as there are in the mass produced USA vehicles, particularly when comparing commercial vehicles.