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The Ford Custom is an automobile which was produced by Ford in the United States, Canada and Australia in certain years from 1949 to 1981. Custom and Custom Deluxe (1949-1951) For the 1949 model year, the Custom nameplate was used for the top trim level in Ford's range automobile. [1]


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The 1949 Ford is a line of cars produced by Ford from the 1949 to 1951 model years. The successor to the prewar 1941 Ford, the model line was the first full-size Ford designed after World War II, becoming the first Ford car line released after the deaths of Edsel Ford and Henry Ford. From 1946 to 19


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The 1949 Ford is a line of cars produced by Ford from the 1949 to 1951 model years. The successor to the prewar 1941 Ford, the model line was the first full-size Ford designed after World War II, becoming the first Ford car line released after the deaths of Edsel Ford and Henry Ford.


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Jim Galvin's 1949 Ford Tudor of Ottawa, Illinois. Galvin was an original member of the Illinois Valley Mis-Fires car club. Known as The Orchid Lady, Jim restyled his Ford in the late 1950s and the early 1960s. Gary Overby's 1949 Ford of Tacoma, Washington was sectioned in 1961. Gene Harkins' 1949 Ford Club Coupe.


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Ford flathead V8 engine The Ford flathead V8 (often called simply the Ford flathead, flathead Ford, or flatty when the context is implicit, such as in hot-rodding) is a V8 engine with a flat cylinder head designed by the Ford Motor Company and built by Ford and various licensees.


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The 1949 Ford models were introduced to the public on June 1,1948 and then displayed in New York from June 10-15 at the Waldorf Astoria hotel. The 1949 Fords then made it to dealer showrooms on June 18, 1948, where they went on to huge sales success. The most popular feature on the 1949 Fords was the sleek slab vehicle design widely admired by.


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The 1949 Ford: Henry Ford II Takes The Helm Of The Company Via: Wikimedia Commons The elderly Henry Ford had become a controversial figure with his anti-war and anti-union views, at a time when everything around him was changing fast.


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The 1949 Ford design story is one of the strangest in automotive design history. How it originated has always been as mysterious as the Roswell, New Mexico, flying saucer incident that happened about the same time. Anything about the '49 Ford before it came into Ford styling is really good flying-saucer reading, and leaves a lot to the imagination.


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The first generation of the Ford F-Series (also known as the Ford Bonus-Built trucks) is a series of trucks that was produced by Ford from the 1948 to the 1952 model years. The introduction of the F-Series marked the divergence of Ford car and truck design, developing a chassis intended specifically for truck use.


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1949 Ford After sticking with its previous model for far too long to suit its customers, Ford completely redesigned its namesake car for 1949. Save for its drivetrain, this was an all-new car in every way, with a modern ladder frame now supporting a coil spring suspension in front and longitudinal semi-elliptical springs in back.


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The 1949 Ford was the first car to come after World War II from this renewed American brand, but it also marked an entire lineup that lasted until 1951. In fact, this model beat the ones coming from the other two members of the Big Three.


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The 1949 Ford The iconic 1949 Ford brings award-winning design to the line-up after the end of World War II. Following World War II, Ford Motor Company transitioned itself from a military manufacturing hub back to the consumer vehicle builder it had been previously.


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The is a line of cars produced by Ford from the 1949 to 1951 model years. The successor to the prewar 1941 Ford, the model line was the first full-size Ford designed after World War II, becoming the first Ford car line released after the deaths of Edsel Ford and Henry Ford. From 1946 to 1948, each of the American Big Three concentrated on the restoration of car production, offering updated.


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The 1949 Ford cars influenced model designs for the next few years and beyond. In 2001 Ford unveiled the Ford Forty-Nine, a modern take on the classic car. While well received, sluggish sales of the retro Ford Thunderbird killed hopes of production. The what could have been became the woulda-shoulda-coulda to many car nuts.


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The 1949 Ford was a popular car and was produced in over 1 million units. It was praised for its styling, improved V8 engineering, and good handling. However, it was criticized for its rust.


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By 1949, Ford's engineers had even worked out one of the major inherent problems with the earliest flathead six-cylinders--a troublesome imbalance at about 4,500 RPM--by following camshaft grinder Clay Smith's advice to drill the crankshaft for increased oil flow to the rod bearings and to grind a new camshaft that takes the engine quickly past.