1972 May-June Ford Life Magazine 1936 V8 3-Window Coupe Robert Boyer For Sale

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THE VERSATILE MODEL T

In use as a motorized platform, a Model T Ford serves a

line crew as they repair a trolley cable on a remarkably

empty Windsor, Ontario, boulevard in 1922. Canadian

hydroelectric power and trolley fares were obviously more

available and cheaper than gasoline and automobiles or

Courtesy of Archives.

Ford Motor Company of Canada

this same street would have been glutted with motor ve-

hicles. A close scrutiny of the trestled framework the men

are standing on discloses a rope and pulley method of

telescoping\" the affair to various heights. Strapping the

headlamp brackets to the axle prevents high-altitude sway.

FORD LIFE magazine 1972 is published from offices in Stockton, California 95201. Yearly subscription price is $6.50 in U.S. funds,

in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Foreign subscriptions $9. Second-class postage is paid at Stockton, Calif. and at additional mailing

offices. This issue is Volume 2, Number 3 for May/June, 1972.

FORD LIFE for May-June 1972

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CLEANERS

PENS COLE

Petits

ODORLESS CLEANERS

1931 MODEL A DELUXE

DROP-FLOOR DELIVERIES

A rare sight indeed! 1931 drop-floor Deluxe Deliveries are

scarce enough today but to see eight in a row makes the

old heart flutter. Of course, this scene was taken June 23,

1931, when Petris Cleaners lined the attractive commercial

rigs up behind the manager\'s Tudor, ready to join a Ford

Parade through downtown Long Beach. Off the assembly

line at $560 FOB Detroit the \"drop-floor\" was so named

because the floor actually dropped behind the axle to hub

cap level and the panel below the door hinged downward

for \"walk in\" ease of loading. No rear bumper was avail-

able on these units and that is the prime reason for their

early departure from the streets as they damaged easily.

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FORD LIFE

-Contents for May-June 1972-

Number 3

1932 Open-Air-Salon

6

Portland Swap Meet

49

The Ingenious Model T Owner

13

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A Bushel in Every Car!

14

A Fordson Story

25

Recent Ford News

10

On Location With Grey

27

Letters to the Editor

12

Vintage Fords in TV Commercial

31

Grease Pit Poet

12

Born Collector

33

Ford Collectibles

26

The 1936 Ford 3-Window Coupe

Long Beach Revisited

36

Ford Ads

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Next Issue

Saga of a Lincoln Salesman... 1946 Ford \"Bubble Top\"

The D.T.&I., Mr. Ford\'s Railroad

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FORD EMPLOYE BADGES are a study in them-

selves, the collection of which takes up the past time

of some Ford employes and enthusiasts alike. This

fabulous collection belongs to Ken Schwartz, Assistant

Curator of Transportation Collections at the Henry Ford

Museum. The badges were accumulated over the years

at the Ford Dearborn Personnel and Paymaster\'s office

where several sets were kept. Mr. Schwartz will con-

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Photo by Carl Malotska, Henry Ford Museum

tinue adding to his collection and plans to eventually

deposit it with the Ford Archives at the Museum. He

reports that his interest in this facet of Fordabilia was

kindled when he found Henry Ford II\'s war-time

Rouge Plant identification badge at a garage sale last

summer. That find was reported in the Ford Collectible

section of Volume One Number Seven, Ford Life.

FORD LIFE for March-April 1972

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IN THE EARLY DAYS of Mori Nelson\'s

automobilia collection, a local Santa Rosa

photographer took the photo shown at the

left. Those were the days when the new back-

yard shop seemed to have no end of space

and everything could be accounted for. A

recent tour of the shop disclosed the typical

problem of the collector. Now all of the

rafters are full of sidelights, horns and what-

not completely obscuring his license plate

collection. The two Model T\'s have long

since departed and the floor is stacked \"up

to your armpits\" in more things, eliminating

all possibilities of getting a comparison shot

for this article. Meanwhile, his Fords are

stashed here and there and he\'s busily en-

gaged (above) with caching things in the

attic above his home. Bemoans Mori, \"I\'ve

just got to find a place with a big barn on it!\"

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1936 Ford V-8 Specifications

ENGINE 8-cylinder, 90 degree V-type, L-head.

Bore, 3.062 inches; stroke, 3.75 inches. Piston dis-

placement, 221 cubic inches. Taxable horsepower, 30.

Brake horsepower, 85 at 3800 r.p.m. Compression

ratio, 6.3 to 1. Directed-flow crankcase ventilation.

Engine mounted in rubber with suspension at three

points.

CYLINDERS Both cylinder banks and crankcase

cast as a single unit. Full-length water-jacketing of

cylinder walls and crankcase. Cylinders have pol-

ished mirror finish. High compression aluminum

cylinder heads.

CRANKSHAFT Special Ford cast alloy steel. Fully

counterbalanced with 6 integral counterweights.

Hollow crankpins. Weight 56.5 pounds. Three main

bearings with total bearing surface area of 36.5

square inches.

CONNECTING RODS Heat-treated steel forgings.

Accurately weighed. Mounted side by side, in pairs,

on floating connecting rod bearings of Light weight cast alloy. Accurately

weighed. Fitted with two compression rings and

one oil control ring. Floating piston pin, positioned

in rod.

CAMSHAFT Wear-resisting cast alloy iron. Three

babbitt, steel-backed bearings. Camshaft gear, silent

bakelized material.

VALVES Heat and corrosion-resisting intake and

exhaust valves of chrome nickel alloy steel. Tungsten

steel exhaust valve seat inserts. Enlarged area type

valve stem ends. Light weight, hollow cast, one-

piece valve lifters.

ENGINE LUBRICATION Full pressure type. Oil

forced through cast-in and drilled oil lines to all

main and camshaft bearings and timing gears with

direct pressure lubrication to connecting rod bear-

ings through drilled holes in crankshaft. Pressure

gauge on instrument panel of de luxe cars. Crank-

case capacity, 5 quarts.

COOLING Two centrifugal pumps. Four-blade

15.5-inch diameter fan. Water capacity, 5.5 gallons.

FUEL SYSTEM Dual down-draft carburetor with

air cleaner and silencer. Cast aluminum duplex in-

take manifold. Mechanical fuel pump. Fourteen-

gallon tank at rear. Electric fuel gauge on instru-

ment panel.

DISTRIBUTOR Direct-driven, single unit with

ignition coil in waterproof housing. Automatic spark

governor with vacuum control.

IGNITION LOCK Ignition and steering type.