What’s Under Your Hood?
Sometimes these hood latch plates are missing or badly damaged and we are often asked about them at swap meets and car shows. We hope the following is helpful. The early ’39 is the easiest to spot as it has the rod system that rotates. The matching upper grille brace has a large tower on each end that these rods wrap around. The early ’39 also uses a different safety catch release. The late ’39, like the ’40s, uses a large cast hook in the middle of the hood brace that rotates into it’s matching upper grille brace. The ’40 Standard and Pickup are different from the ’40 Deluxe because the hood shapes are different. The ’41 Pickup and Sedan Delivery brace is a can of worms as Ford offered the V-8 as well as a brand new 6 cylinder engine plus the 4 cylinder tractor engine was also available. You’re on your own with this one. These are not available at this time, but ya just never know.....we might make them.
1939 Early 91A-16774-A
1940 Standard 1940 Pickup 1941 Sedan Delivery
(First 720 Unit) 01A-16774-A
1939 Late 91A-16774-B
1940 Deluxe 01A-16774-B
1941 Pickup 11C-16774-B
Late-Year Style
Early-Year Style
1939 Deluxe Hood Safety Catches Not yet available
• Hood Linkage
page 72
Both were made of cast steel. A typical example of how Ford made mid-year changes to certain parts. Some changes were made for safety improvement reasons, others were made to cut production costs.
• Hood Latch Spring page 72 • Hood Safety Catches page 73
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