If the LeSabre was weird verging on kind of bad, this 1940 Ford flower car is unique verging on amazing. Built by the Eureka Manufacturing Company of Illinois, this thing is so different because it is not the typical Packard, Cadillac, or “big car” that these things tended to be based off of. The way that these guys integrated the bed off of the back of the coupe body is kind of stunning in our eyes.
Likely built for a smaller, more modest funeral home that had a budget that precluded them from going with a baller model of base car, this one is different additionally because of the tonneau cover that it has. Let’s say that the grieving family did not have the want or the funds to fill the back of the thing with flowers to accompany the casket. Putting the cover on was a simple solution to that. Also for foul weather as well.
The car is in amazing shape from the paint to the Flathead V8 engine that looks like it was rebuilt and painted yesterday. The ask on this car is way north of $100,000 and while the market for people who collect something like this is small, if this thing is as rare as everyone seems to think it is, perhaps the money will be worth it to someone.
The only photo that is missing is one of the driveshaft because that thing has be a multiple piece, multiple carrier bearing situation, right? Sucker is half a mile long.
Amazing and unique.
eBay: Ultra rare and cool 1940 Ford flower car – is this thing one of one ever made?
Amazing!
But the question is whether to keep it bone stock or to put a Coyote Motor, Ride Tech air suspension, bigger brakes and banded steel wheels on it. There’s so much potential – a luxury shop truck is one alternative for an up market customiser.
Here’s what you do:- borrow it or buy it; – have it 3D Scanned to completely; – build a mold for it to do either a fiberglass or carbon/fiberglass copy; – put it on the truck frame of your choice; – use that bed area for a fifth wheel hitch and waalaa – you have the coolest looking tow rig to the race track. But then, you’d have to build a custom trailer to match the coolness of the tow rig………oh but for money and time to do this project.
Put that clown geordie in it, and send it to the funeral road. Can you not stay in your parent’s basement?
Reminds me of the Hudson pickup truck