| RG/NJ | -- 02-06-2013 @ 6:33 AM |
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A friend of mine bought an original 38 pickup last year. It has hydraulic brakes on it. Looks to be factory instaled. Did the late 38's have hydraulics.
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| supereal | -- 02-06-2013 @ 6:58 AM |
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Even though the Ford hydraulic brakes officially didn't arrive until '39, it is possible that the truck is a late '38. Usually, there is no hard and fast clear demarcation for model changes. We saw the '48 trucks with the 8BA engines well before they arrived in the '49 cars. Ford had a policy of using parts at hand during yearly changes. I once had a Model A coupe with rear quarter panels from two different years.
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| 37RAGTOPMAN | -- 02-25-2013 @ 11:27 AM |
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if you check were the housing for the master cylinder is mounted, you might see a little modification, [ any extra holes in the frame and the hole in the frame made bigger or not quite perfect ,]if you do then the 39 master cylinder housing was installed,as a far as the mounting on the frame front ,both side and the rear can be made to look like factory with hardly any problem, my 3 cents worth 37RAGTOPMAN
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| Stroker | -- 02-25-2013 @ 3:09 PM |
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One easy to check area are the inner fender panels. The front brake lines pass through and that requires a "slot". The 39 panel will have a nice, cleaned stamped inverted "U", with a stiffening rib around it. If this area looks like it was hand-cut, or "torched", that would be a dead giveaway.
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