Go Back   The Ford Barn > General Discussion > Early V8 (1932-53)

Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements)

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 07-31-2014, 02:42 AM   #1
oz40
Senior Member
 
oz40's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Paradise - Australia
Posts: 306
Default Double Trouble - Sloper

Trouble always comes in pairs
So here's the story....on 'Double Trouble'.

HURRAH !!!! at long last, things have come together that my friend, Wayne and I have finally managed our schedules that we have been able to get a decent start on our 1939 and 1940 Ford Sloper projects.

With living overseas, working, both building houses and raising family, we both agreed,..to bite the bullet, and said we better get started, stop procrastinating any longer as we would surely die around our projects and never realise our dreams in driving and enjoying our Aussie 1939 and 1940 Ford Slopers.

Wayne and I have had our Slopers for a while now.
Unfortunately both the cars had somewhat hard lives until we got them and both the old girls sat around waiting for our belated attention. Though we didn't totally ignore them we did however continue to get parts, purchase new panels and manage to put together bucks for the rear lower areas.

Anyway, as you can seen by the early pictures they seem quite reasonable but once you get down to identifying the problem areas both the cars had near the same rust and damage issues.

Seeing that we had the same issues we agreed to jump into the projects and do them both at once, at the same location,, this way saving on time, energy, and speeding up the projects without double handling etc.
Our area is a little squeezed but the 39 and 40 are only a couple of feet apart and we easily jump from one to the other either doing the repairs or for on-going reference.

Follow along with Wayne and I during our build(s) and hope you like our Sloper resurrections.
Attached Images
File Type: jpg 40sloper.jpg (3.2 KB, 2707 views)
File Type: jpg DCP_1555_0001.jpg (74.3 KB, 497 views)
File Type: jpg 1994.jpg (82.1 KB, 321 views)

Last edited by oz40; 08-03-2014 at 01:22 AM. Reason: change picture
oz40 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-31-2014, 03:03 AM   #2
Pete from OZ
Member
 
Pete from OZ's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Sydney - Australia
Posts: 87
Default Re: Double Trouble - Sloper

Go for it Fellas, Will be following your progress.

Good Luck with it all.

Pete from OZ
Pete from OZ is offline   Reply With Quote
Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements)
Old 07-31-2014, 03:32 AM   #3
Manuel
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: ACT Australia
Posts: 506
Default Re: Double Trouble - Sloper

Havent seen a Sloper for a while!!

Manuel in Oz
Manuel is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-31-2014, 04:45 AM   #4
oz40
Senior Member
 
oz40's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Paradise - Australia
Posts: 306
Default Re: Double Trouble - Sloper

Quote:
Originally Posted by Manuel View Post
Havent seen a Sloper for a while!!

Manuel in Oz
From memory, there might be (2) Ford slopers around that neck of the woods
oz40 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-31-2014, 08:07 PM   #5
oz40
Senior Member
 
oz40's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Paradise - Australia
Posts: 306
Default Re: Double Trouble - Sloper

Wayne has go a couple of these hiding in the shed..
They wanted to know, when can they start???
Attached Images
File Type: jpg My Pictures0014.jpg (102.9 KB, 205 views)
oz40 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-31-2014, 09:46 PM   #6
Lawson Cox
Senior Member
 
Lawson Cox's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Above the gnat line in Georgia
Posts: 7,009
Default Re: Double Trouble - Sloper

Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements)
Looks like the Roaming Gnome(s) have come to lend a hand. lol
__________________
Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer to the end, the faster it goes.

It is better to be seen, than viewed.

"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm".
Lawson Cox is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-01-2014, 08:37 PM   #7
paul2748
Senior Member
 
paul2748's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Midland Park, NJ
Posts: 3,965
Default Re: Double Trouble - Sloper

Sloper - that's a new one for me!!!!
paul2748 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-01-2014, 09:02 PM   #8
koates
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Melbourne Australia.
Posts: 2,076
Default Re: Double Trouble - Sloper

Hi there, "SLOPER" a bit like a USA tudor sedan but has a lower rear roof line, ie more slope. Hence the name "SLOPER" which was not an official Ford name and only built by Ford Australia in Geelong, Victoria (state) in 1939 & 1940. Regards, Kevin.
koates is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-01-2014, 11:57 PM   #9
oz40
Senior Member
 
oz40's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Paradise - Australia
Posts: 306
Default Re: Double Trouble - Sloper

Hi,
Yeah, our beloved Sloper. Not many years ago, nobody wanted to know about one or even owning one.
I was one of them also,
How things have changed, now everyone wants one becuase of its rarity.
But I tell you nothing will let me part with this old girl!!!!!!!!!!!!
oz40 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-02-2014, 02:37 AM   #10
oz40
Senior Member
 
oz40's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Paradise - Australia
Posts: 306
Default Re: Double Trouble - Sloper

This is what we aspire too.
Attached Images
File Type: jpg DSC_0504.JPG (46.7 KB, 292 views)
File Type: jpg index.jpg (11.3 KB, 262 views)
File Type: jpg DSC01553_zps885f2ed0.jpg (94.8 KB, 269 views)
oz40 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-02-2014, 02:40 AM   #11
Graeme / New Zealand
Senior Member
 
Graeme / New Zealand's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Lower Hutt , New Zealand
Posts: 2,125
Default Re: Double Trouble - Sloper

It's the coupe you have when you don't have a coupe.

GB
__________________
"you can't make honey out of dog sh*t"

"You're a long time looking at the lid"
Graeme / New Zealand is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-02-2014, 05:12 AM   #12
JWL
Member Emeritus
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Fitzgerald, Georgia
Posts: 2,204
Default Re: Double Trouble - Sloper

If I only had a "Sloper" to race at Bonneville!!! Cool cars.
JWL is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-02-2014, 08:23 PM   #13
Old Col
Senior Member
 
Old Col's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Croydon ,Victoria,Australia
Posts: 107
Default Re: Double Trouble - Sloper

Quote:
Originally Posted by oz40 View Post
This is what we aspire too.
Hi Oz,that last pic is of my sons '40, shown here on the same day about 20ft. further along the street



....whereabouts are you situated?,regards, Col.
Old Col is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-03-2014, 01:10 AM   #14
oz40
Senior Member
 
oz40's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Paradise - Australia
Posts: 306
Default Re: Double Trouble - Sloper

Hi Col, been watching his thread since getting it, great to see it come along since then.
What can I say, about Ford Slopers, I just love that shape and the body lines.
oz40 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-03-2014, 02:36 AM   #15
oz40
Senior Member
 
oz40's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Paradise - Australia
Posts: 306
Default Re: Double Trouble - Sloper

A few years back just prior to leaving to go overseas for work, in a moment of madness, I sold of my (2) perfect 1940 Deluxe RHD dashes to a friend in Melbourne.
And REGRET it till this very day...
Now that I am back ,I started chasing for some dashes, Boy!!! was I wrong, do you think you can get a Aussie 1940 dash now!!!
Anyway after much begging with the old friends, I managed to get another 2.
One was okay, the other, rusted all along the top and lower corner.

This how I went about doing the repairs on one of the dashes.
For the top edge of the dash I made up a male/female die that copied the small recess that has the screw holes to mount the dash to the inner cowl lip.
Basically I used just some small hand tools and varying thickness of left over scrap metal, welded up the set pieces and then prepared the new insert metal.
Then simply it was using a 20 ton press stand and pressing in the desired form.
Attached Images
File Type: jpg P1010007.jpg (66.0 KB, 138 views)
File Type: jpg P1010016.jpg (73.6 KB, 143 views)
File Type: jpg P1010014.jpg (113.0 KB, 146 views)
File Type: jpg P1010015.jpg (80.5 KB, 131 views)
oz40 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-03-2014, 05:12 AM   #16
Snouts out
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Covedale,oh
Posts: 226
Default Re: Double Trouble - Sloper

Why did they build that body style there & not here? The ute was popular down under,what was the allure of the sloper?
Snouts out is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-03-2014, 05:29 AM   #17
oz40
Senior Member
 
oz40's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Paradise - Australia
Posts: 306
Default Re: Double Trouble - Sloper

Ford Australia though having imported various components via Canada over the previous years were bound by strict government Acts and regulations that sought tp protect the Australian workers and economy.
Out of this some unique Aussie came about because of our culture and needs.
Ford wasn't the first to do the Sloper style here in Oz.
Ford only produced this body style here for 1939 and 40 only.
If memory serves me right this was our version of the coupe and was referred to as Sedan Coupe.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Snouts out View Post
Why did they build that body style there & not here? The ute was popular down under,what was the allure of the sloper?
oz40 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-03-2014, 05:43 AM   #18
robert hayward
Junior Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 20
Default Re: Double Trouble - Sloper

According to Ford Geelong sales book the correct name for Slopers was "Coupe Sedan"
There were only 1763 units made for the 1939 and 1940 style.

There is a body number stamped on the firewall near the kidney shaped metal cover over the wiring loom. For '39 Standard it reads S91C*** and for Deluxe D91C***, the Standard cowl, bonnet and fenders differ to Deluxe style.
In 1939 there were 1160 units, 368 were Standard and 792 were Deluxe.

The 1940 Sloper has a cowl number stamped 01A-70-*** ther were 603 units, 342 were Standard and 261 were Deluxe. Production of 40's ceased in December 1948.

In 1980's I owned a 1940 Deluxe Sloper, cowl number 01A-70-428, made in December 1941
robert hayward is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-03-2014, 06:12 AM   #19
oz40
Senior Member
 
oz40's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Paradise - Australia
Posts: 306
Default Re: Double Trouble - Sloper

Hi Rob
Thanks for the information, greatly appreciated.
Forgot to say both these are Deluxe versions.


Quote:
Originally Posted by robert hayward View Post
According to Ford Geelong sales book the correct name for Slopers was "Coupe Sedan"
There were only 1763 units made for the 1939 and 1940 style.

There is a body number stamped on the firewall near the kidney shaped metal cover over the wiring loom. For '39 Standard it reads S91C*** and for Deluxe D91C***, the Standard cowl, bonnet and fenders differ to Deluxe style.
In 1939 there were 1160 units, 368 were Standard and 792 were Deluxe.

The 1940 Sloper has a cowl number stamped 01A-70-*** ther were 603 units, 342 were Standard and 261 were Deluxe. Production of 40's ceased in December 1948.

In 1980's I owned a 1940 Deluxe Sloper, cowl number 01A-70-428, made in December 1941
oz40 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-03-2014, 08:25 AM   #20
AnthonyG
Senior Member
 
AnthonyG's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Pa.
Posts: 2,161
Default Re: Double Trouble - Sloper

Very cool, never heard of them. They appear to have a roof radius line and rear side window similar to the original style VW beetle, obviously much larger. As JWL said
Quote:
If I only had a "Sloper" to race at Bonneville!!! Cool cars.
The aero-dynamics would do well there!
__________________
Nomad
AnthonyG is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements)


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 10:08 AM.