Thread: Stainless Fords

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Saw a short article today that said Ford built 6 Stainless sedans in 36. Anybody ever seen one?

I have never seen one in person but have read several articles about them. Apparently two other models were made, a 1960 Thunderbird and a 1967 Lincoln. 4 of the original 1936 models are still in existence.
Check out this article:
http://www.alleghenyludlum.com/pages...inlesscars.asp

I saw a 32 on ebay once, said there was 2 made.

One sits in the lobby of Reynolds Corp (yes the same folks who gave you Reynolds wrap).............Not sure where the second one ended up after the Ebay auction.


Bill S>

i tried to google it and nothing came up , might take some seriuos diggin to find a pic i quess.. yall got me curious as hell..

There are pictures on the web site I mentioned in my previous post.

I've never seen one in person either, but have read about them too. As I remember it was some collaboration between Ford and some steel company, maybe US Steel or Reynolds as was mentioned earlier. I think it was done for some worlds fair to show off the qualities of stainless steel. I think Pittsburgh figured into the story somewhere.

As I remember, the cars were not 100 percent stainless, stuff like frames and running gear were regular steel and when they restored some of them they needed a lot of work on the undercarriages but the bodies were still nice, obviously.

Don

Oh, I guess I should have read the link, it's all spelled out there.

I knew someone would post that link. Being a cybermoron I didn't know how. Posted because I thought others might like to know about this.
Thanks guys.

Originally Posted by RestoRod

There are pictures on the web site I mentioned in my previous post.

Thanks for the link! What a great story on all the stainless cars.... Sure would love to get hold of one of those stainless T-Birds!!!!!!

I saw one of the 36 Fords at the Minnesota State Fair in the late 50s, it was pretty cool.

Originally Posted by RestoRod

There are pictures on the web site I mentioned in my previous post.

i couldnt get the link to work yesterday as im on the river and sat signals work when they want to , i seen the car this morning , thats a killer car..
thanks for the link..

Glad to help. Those are awesome cars. No mention of what happened to the two missing 36's (I would presume accidents??) Does anyone know for sure?

61Bone: to post a link, just right click on the web address, then left click on "copy" and "paste" in the body of the message. There, I've probably given you my entire computereze knowledge.

I remember reading a feature article about these cars with lots of pictures in Rod and Custom back in the 1960s but I do not know the exact reference.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

I think there are two in a car museum in Cleveland ohio,I was there about 10 years ago and one 36 and the lincoln was in it. Jeff