{"id":55032,"date":"2012-11-02T15:15:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T19:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=55032"},"modified":"2012-11-02T15:15:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T19:15:12","slug":"ford-introduces-brand-new-40-coupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2012\/11\/ford-introduces-brand-new-40-coupe\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Introduces Brand New \u201940 Coupe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_55033\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55033\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Ford-40-Coupe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55033\" title=\"Ford 40 Coupe\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Ford-40-Coupe-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ford reveals a &#39;40 Coupe steel body ready for resto-rod fans at its SEMA Show stand.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s been said that at some point or another, everything old is new again.\u00a0 And the auto industry has a history of embracing retro designs such as the reborn Chevrolet Camaro and Dodge Challenger models.<\/p>\n<p>Ford even had a retro design studio in operation for a while \u2013 though the maker pulled the plug after the disastrous launch of the last 2-seat Thunderbird.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43247\" style=\"width: 152px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/subscribe\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43247\" title=\"Subscribe 24\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Subscribe-24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Subscribe-24.jpg 152w, https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Subscribe-24-150x91.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voice of the Automotive World!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But now, Ford is digging even deeper into its past, all the way to the favorite of American hot rodders, the \u201940 Ford Coupe.\u00a0 A complete body shell will soon be added to the Ford Restoration Parts catalog, and unlike some replicars, this one will be made out of the real deal, sheet metal rather than fiberglass.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The maker is giving a hint of what you could do \u2013 using plenty of other Ford catalog parts \u2013 at this week\u2019s SEMA Show, the annual gathering of the Specialty Equipment Marketers Association, which is just wrapping up its run at the Las Vegas Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the basic body kit shown here, the maker also had a fully assembled version of the \u201940 coupe done up in dazzling copper metal finish. Appropriately, we\u2019re not talking high-tech here.\u00a0 The heart of the 72-year-old design is a carburetor-fed V-8 crate engine, the 430-horsepower Ford \u201cCoyote.\u201d It\u2019s run through a 4-speed gearbox.<\/p>\n<p>The copper paint gets some tasteful chrome accents and is contrasted by a black \u201cultra-leather\u201d interior.<\/p>\n<p>Put together by Hollywood Hot Rods, in Burbank, California, the Ford Coupe already has 16,000 miles on it, incidentally.<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter Industries, of Concord, North Carolina, is putting together the \u201940 Coupe body for Ford. The complete package goes for $15,450 plus shipping and handling.<\/p>\n<p>What you spend after that is another matter.\u00a0 Hollywood Hot Rods estimates it\u2019s invested $180,000 in its completed resto-rod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automotive stylists have often embraced retro design &#8212; like the old-is-new Ford Thunderbird of a few years back. But the maker is digging even deeper into its past and offering up an all-new version of its &#8217;40 Ford Coupe. Make that a new body shall for retro-rod fans. TheDetroitBureau.com explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55032"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=55032"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=55032"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=55032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}