| carcrazy | -- 04-22-2023 @ 12:36 PM |
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Here are the production numbers for the first eleven years of the Ford Flathead V-8's courtesy of The Hemmings Book of Prewar Fords: 1932 -- 287,285 1933 -- 334,969 1934 -- 563,921 1935 -- 942,439 1936 -- 791,812 1937-- 848,608 1938 -- 410,048 1939 -- 532,152 1940-- 599,175 1941-- 600,814 1942-- 43,407 While other external circumstances caused some of the differences over the years, the overall desirability of the various models speak for themselves. This message was edited by carcrazy on 4-22-23 @ 12:39 PM
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| 3w2 | -- 04-23-2023 @ 7:12 AM |
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What absolute rubbish! For starters, why would you quote a non-Ford source for Ford information? But far more important, what do the years listed represent, calendar years or model years? Not one of the model years implied by your comments correspond completely within a given calendar year. As a worldwide producer of vehicles during the years lists, a model year vehicle's production could be strung out over as many as three calendar years. At best, what is shown might be calendar year production, which if that is the case, then in each instance that would include the production of at least two different model year's vehicle as there were not a single instance where a Ford model year started on January 1st and ended on December 31st.
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| kubes40 | -- 04-23-2023 @ 7:54 AM |
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What exactly does this mean?: "While other external circumstances caused some of the differences over the years, the overall desirability of the various models speak for themselves." Mike "Kube" Kubarth
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| 1942deluxe | -- 04-23-2023 @ 6:21 PM |
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That has to be for the calendar year in 1942. The model year production numbers I've seen are around 160,000. 1932 was a low production year but remains one of the most desired cars Ford ever built. The reverse would be 1957 in my opinion. Ford is credited with outselling Chevrolet yet subjectively a 57 Chevy brings more money and has a much higher survival rate at least in this part of the world. Rare doesn't always mean valuable but popular when new doesn't guarantee it will be collectible down the road either.
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| 42wagon | -- 04-24-2023 @ 4:19 PM |
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Well guys liars figure and figures lie. Just to add to the confusion The V8 Album published by the Early Ford V8 Club gives the production numbers for each model for each year. If you add up all the model numbers for 1942 you get 177,371. This would seem to be a more reasonable number than that published by Hemings. 42 Wagon
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