{"id":2822,"date":"2008-12-11T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitfoster.com\/carport\/2008\/12\/meeting-standards\/"},"modified":"2010-12-30T12:00:57","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T17:00:57","slug":"meeting-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kitfoster.com\/carport\/2008\/12\/meeting-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1935<\/a><\/p>\n

A few months ago, I said I remember “Mommycar<\/a>,” my mother’s 1935 Ford, as a Standard model. I’m beginning to doubt my recollections, as Standards came with one taillight and the only photo I can find clearly shows two<\/a>. Of course, some items standard on the Deluxe model, like the second taillight and second horn, could be ordered as options or fitted by a dealer. We don’t have a frontal view, so we can’t tell if the car had the chrome grille and windshield moulding of the Deluxe or painted style of the Standard.<\/p>\n

Ford’s model distinctions in the mid-1930s were subtle. In 1934<\/a>, the Deluxe customer<\/a> got a better interior, additional brightwork, a second horn and taillight, cowl lamps and body color fenders. The differences were similar in 1935, bright<\/a> versus black<\/a> and two taillights<\/a> in place of one<\/a>. This held true<\/a> in 1936 as well<\/a>, but the horns were now hidden behind round fender grilles<\/a>, obscuring an identity clue. Standard cars were available only in closed body styles.<\/p>\n

For 1937, too, painted<\/a> versus bright<\/a> grilles and windshield mouldings were the only tell-tales from the front, though the new small V8-60 engine was available in the Standard model. The following year, however, Ford made it plain what Deluxe customers got for their money – an attractive new nose with heart-shaped grille<\/a>. Buyers of the Standard received a warmed-over 1937 nose<\/a>, though the effect, if old, was not unattractive. In turn, the 1939 Standard Ford<\/a> was based on the ’38 Deluxe, while the new Deluxe<\/a> had entirely new front sheet metal.<\/p>\n

Sealed beam headlights were the new feature for 1940, and both series had them. The Deluxe<\/a> accented them with bold chrome rims and a new grille, while the Standard was given to body color trim and a variation on the ’39 Deluxe grille<\/a>. This was the final year for the V8-60.<\/p>\n

For 1941, new bodies and chassis put an end to separate sheet metal for the series, of which there were now three. What had been Deluxe was now Super Deluxe<\/a>, with appropriate brightwork, while Standard became Deluxe<\/a>, with painted side grilles and windshield mouldings. A six-cylinder engine supplanted the small V8, and there was an economy Special series offered in three body styles in one color choice (Harbor Gray) and the six-cylinder engine. A similar lineup was offered for the abbreviated 1942<\/a> model year.<\/p>\n

After the war, there were two series, of varying names, until 1952 when upscale models were put into a new Crestline<\/a> series. Never again, however, did Ford offer different different sheet metal for different series until the compact Falcon<\/a> of 1960.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few months ago, I said I remember “Mommycar,” my mother’s 1935 Ford, as a Standard model. I’m beginning to doubt my recollections, as Standards came with one taillight and the only photo I can find clearly shows two. Of course, some items standard on the Deluxe model, like the second taillight and second horn,….<\/span>
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