dscewill Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 I'm looking for the history of a 1942 Ford Convertible. How many were built? If they were built for the military? Where is a good spot to get this information? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19tom40 Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 There were 2,920 1942 Ford convertibles built and 956 1942 Mercury convertibles built. I seriously doubt that any were built for the military. Military cars were usually closed cars as they were mainly used for transportation of officers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SteveWlf Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 (edited) I picked up a '42 For convert as a HS Jr in spring of '56 for $75 since the kid and thrown a rod in the OEM engine. Since I didn't have the money, my kid sister put it up on the condition it would be her car if I didn't pay her back. I had never rebuilt and engine before and wanted to get it going for summer driving. Found a '39 Ford wreck being parted out and paid about $25 for the engine. Swapped them out and had it running, albeit with the wrong/smaller engine. Don't remember any major problems or fit issues. Come fall, my sister insisted on her money back or the keys to the car. I had my made good money over the summer and wanted a Ford with OVHV and the '57 was just coming out. I talked my parents into letting me get one of the first '57s and let my sister have the '42 convert.. After graduation in Class of 57 I worked all summer and when the Iowa winter made working life miserable for me, I joined the navy. My sister sold the car to one of my brothers and he, being a Gear Head, contacted Ford Mo, Co. since there had always been questions and doubts about the year of this car. Most thought it was a '46 with the wrong grill. FMC came back with the numbers posted by 19tom40 and an offer to purchase it for the MSRP at the time of Original sale. I think that was something less than $2000. Still a lot of money in the '50. However, it had to have the origanal engine, etc.. and I had scrapped that. So Sorry, So Sad for my brother. I think he ended up selling it for a couple hundred.Just goes to show, if you find something origanal, try to restore/rebuild it if you can.Steve Edited March 19, 2013 by SteveWlf (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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