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

Description: Magazine is in excellent condition or better. 50 pages 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 3 ----------- 2 ----------- SSVERS Petits ODORLESS 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. ----------- 3 ----------- ena ramento ockton Volume 2 FORD LIFE -Contents for May-June 1972- Number 3 1932 Open-Air-Salon 6 Portland Swap Meet 49 The Ingenious Model T Owner 13 ******* 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 People 44 41 Classified Ads 50 Next Issue Saga of a Lincoln Salesman... 1946 Ford "Bubble Top" The D.T.&I., Mr. Ford's Railroad ----------- 4 ----------- 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- 26 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 ----------- 5 ----------- 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!" 35 ----------- 6 ----------- 40 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 special composition. PISTONS 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.

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