Car Feature: Jim Sartori's 10-Second, Aluminum FE Powered 1940 Ford Deluxe CoupeBy Brian Lohnes Posted 09/04/09
If the guys bootleggin' moonshine back in the day got their mitts on Jim Sartori's 1940 Ford, they never would have been caught. Thanks to power from an all-aluminum, 485ci Ford FE motor that made more than 600 horsepower on the dyno, the G-Men would have been a distant memory. This car is flat out amazing in every respect.
It's an all-steel, 55,000-original-mile piece that came from Oklahoma, and the literally flawless black paint covers body modifications that are so slickly completed that you'd never know they were there if we didn't tell you. Plus it runs low-10-second ETs at the strip, and Jim drives, and we mean drives, this car hard at the strip, and often.
Click here to see the photos and we'll take you through the car from tip to stern and give you all the inside info that you're dying to know. You can also watch the video below, and don't forget that you can click the button next to the time counter to watch in full-screen mode.
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Written by cobra
Sep 17 2009
SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET 8)
that's my style.
Written by Morgan Sep 07 2009
Love it. Only wish my fathers 40 looked that good.
Written by FIREBALLMONZA
Sep 06 2009
This is one of those "That Car's" for me. I was never really into that style car until I saw this one. Excellent job by all the guys that touched it.
Written by jscheimreif
Sep 06 2009
nice...now we just need a few cases of shine in the trunk, a dirt road, and Rosco P. Coltrain and we could have a great time.
Written by zombie289
Sep 04 2009
Yep thats the perfect 40 ford alright!
Written by studemax
Sep 04 2009
What a classic hot rod!
Written by milner351
Sep 04 2009
I think he's built the perfect 40 Ford.
is it possible to be in love with a car?
Written by Speedzzter.blogspot
Sep 04 2009
With an exhaust note like that, the "revenuers" would have heard that moonshiner runner a mile a way (not that Buckshot Morris, Red Vogt, Lloyd Seay, or Raymond Parks would have turned up their noses at a LeMans-style FE back in the day ([url=http://www.legendsofnascar.com/Lloyd_Seay.htm]http://www.legendsofnascar.com/Lloyd_Seay.htm[/url]))
This well-turned coupe is a good antidote for too many belly-button "billet-n-crate-SBC" street rods!
Written by Solsticefun
Sep 04 2009
That is one beautiful machine.
This is the absolute pinnacle of badderasserness!