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Chevy-Powered 1940 Ford DeLuxe Woodie Goes for Stunning $101,000

So, you thought woodies were a thing of the past? Maybe they are, generally, but for some Americans, they still mean enough to warrant them spending $100,800 on one. Granted, this Ford only looks like a woodie the carmaker used to make back in the day, yet is much more.
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Woodies have been all the craze back in the 1930s and the things lasted well into the 1960s. They were used both as family cars (woodies were, after all, station wagons), but also by the young of the time for trips at the beach and elsewhere.

Presently, woodies are around on the pre-owned market but not extremely appealing to most of the buyers. Yet there is a small group of people who just can’t wait to get their hands on a properly crafted one, and the guy who just landed himself this 1940 Ford DeLuxe clearly belongs to the said group.

The buyer paid the six-digit sum for the woodie on account it looking like a very well handled restoration. When the car was listed on Hemmings earlier this week, we learned that around $140,000 were spent on bringing it back to its tip-top shape, while also gifting it with hardware the carmakers of the time were not even dreaming about such as power disc brakes or air conditioning.

Presenting a body that seems to have just come out the Blue Oval’s ovens, and a six-people interior equally warm and welcoming, the car no longer hides the stock engine under the hood. Its place was taken by a Chevrolet V8 with 355 ci (5.8 liters) of displacement and linked to a 4-speed automatic transmission and a dual exhaust system.

The build is literally new, showing just 600 miles (965 km) on the odometer, so chances are it was not out in public all that much until now. Hopefully, we’ll get to see it in the flesh at some auto show later in 2021.
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About the author: Daniel Patrascu
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Daniel loves writing (or so he claims), and he uses this skill to offer readers a "behind the scenes" look at the automotive industry. He also enjoys talking about space exploration and robots, because in his view the only way forward for humanity is away from this planet, in metal bodies.
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