Thread: 1941 Ford truck 4 Wheel Drive possibilities

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Originally Posted by 452 Hemi

Here is a picture of a 4x4 1940 Ford Pickup in Norway that have four wheel drive IFS from a Chevy S10 pickup.

In countries outside the USA there are often very good reasons for doing the full chassis swap, with no significant modifications, in order to obtain the mandatory government certification of road worthiness. New Zealand, for example, has stringent requirements for chassis engineering, basically saying that an OEM design is pre-certified, providing it is not modified; but any change in geometry must demonstrate proper engineering to stringent standards. Thus for jb's RV school bus conversion the best way through the certification maze was to drop the body on a Chevy dually truck chassis. We also saw a nicely done early thirties Hudson (I believe it was Hudson, Tony's car) that's full fendered, sitting on a Toyota chassis. I'm not saying that a chassis swap cannot be done in a way that the finished product "looks right, functions right" (this '40 and the examples posted by Tech above are examples of the "right look"), but I am saying that once done the vehicle is now a hybrid, classic body sitting on modern chassis, and for most of the USA market the value of such a hybrid will be significantly lower than a body & chassis that's been updated with a modern running gear. That's my opinion, it's not likely to change, and others are free to form their own opinions which differ.

This norwegian 40 Ford Pickup is not a chassis transplant, but have the S10 IFS grafted to the original fram
In Norway the identity (title) of a car is linked to the frame. Because of that it is very difficult to use a “modern” frame (chassis) under an old car.
Even the original frame rails can not be modified beyond boxing and new Xmembers.

That is a very nice truck, and you'd never know it is a 4x4.

This is the same truck «in action» during an “ice race” in Norway.
“Ice racing” with rods and other old cars have become popular here in Norway over the last couple of years.
Several cars have been built with 4x4 systems similar to this truck.
Most cars use studded “rally” tires same as on the rally race cars as shown on this Model A

Now that Cooooooooool!

I imagine heaters get real important there.