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12-12-2017, 01:39 PM | #1 |
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Stainless steel '36 sedan
A youtube video......interesting.
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12-12-2017, 01:42 PM | #2 |
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Seen this before, too bad they didn’t make the production cars all stainless, we would all have a little less work to do on restorations.
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12-12-2017, 02:26 PM | #3 |
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Saw one of them in person many years ago and it was not polished and I don't think any of the original ones were (just a brushed surface like the Delorean)
A couple of interesting things like the chewed up screw on the windshield crank handle. And possible variable speedometer gear ratio control.
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12-12-2017, 04:01 PM | #4 |
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Re: Stainless steel '36 sedan
There will be one on display at the Early Ford V-8 Foundation Museum in Auburn, Indiana when the new building is completed. A very complete collection of '36 Fords has been donated to the museum.
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12-12-2017, 04:54 PM | #5 |
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These cars had a carbon steel floor pan that did not last any better than the floor pans in the regular production '36 Fords.
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12-12-2017, 04:57 PM | #6 |
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12-12-2017, 05:25 PM | #7 |
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I saw one of the missing (Cleveland) cars over 50 years ago when I worked at a Sunoco station on the far east side of Cleveland. It was really bright, but not polished like that one. It drove by the station a couple of times, then I never saw it again. I asked my dad who was a Ford mechanic, he knew of it but didn't know who owned it. Paul Selfe.
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12-13-2017, 11:37 AM | #8 |
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There's one on display at the Crawford auto-aviation museum in Cleveland. Also a later model thunderbird and a Lincoln, both in stainless. Pretty cool museum.
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12-13-2017, 04:17 PM | #9 |
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I remember back in 1965 or so a friend took me to a woods in Marblehead Ohio to show me 2 old "junk" cars he found. One was a stainless steel Lincoln 40ish & the other a Pierce Arrow. The Pierce had a tree growing between the bumper & the body. A few years later they both vanished & no one knew anything about where they went. !!! mike
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12-13-2017, 06:10 PM | #10 |
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These cars were built by Allegheny Ludlum Specialty Steel producer in Pittsburgh, Pa. They were given to their salesmen to hit the road and show all the virtues of stainless steel. They built these Fords, a few Lincoln's of the fifties and some Thunderbird's of the early sixties. Their is a 36 in the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh.
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12-13-2017, 08:49 PM | #11 |
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It doesn't matter where you live (in United States ) the Crawford Auto-Aviation at the Western Reserve, in Northeast Cleveland (university area) is worth the trip.
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12-14-2017, 09:00 AM | #12 |
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Saw the one in Pittsburgh last week, its on permmant display. A donation from Allg Ludlum.
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12-14-2017, 10:30 AM | #13 |
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This is the very Ford that will return, along with 17 other '36 Fords when the addition under construction is completed!
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12-14-2017, 10:45 AM | #14 |
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I think it was Allegheny that had a hand in making stainless Autocar road tractors for Edgecomb steel distributers in the early '60's.
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12-14-2017, 12:21 PM | #15 |
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The AACA Museum had the Thunderbird on display a few years ago. The lines were not as crisp as mild steel. I guess the SS is harder to stamp out.
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12-14-2017, 01:03 PM | #16 |
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I've seen three of these six stainless steel 36's in the last 10 years. They are pretty amazing cars to see in person and the one that's highly polished will hurt your eyes a bit if you look at it too long in bright lighting.
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