A few days ago, I rewatched Miracle on 34th Street, the well-loved Christmas standard from 1947. I could talk about how my perspective of the film has changed over the course of the last several decades, but I’d rather talk about the car Kris Kringle’s lawyer drives, a 1940 Ford Standard Coupe. It shows up in one scene, when John Payne (the actor who plays the lawyer) pulls up in front of a house for sale on Long Island with Maureen O’Hara and a young Natalie Wood (who was great as a cynical kid, by the way). Of course, the Coupe is the model that all the hot rodders went ga-ga for, but it was the Tudor Sedan that everyone bought. Ford sold 171,368 examples of this DeLuxe Tudor sedan (and another 150,933 Standards), making them far and away the most popular models of 1940. This DeLuxe was spotted on Marketplace in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, by Barn Finder T.J., and the seller says that for $15,500, you’ll get a rust-free original car.

All 1940 Fords were powered by a flathead V8, the base engine being the tiny V8-60 in its final year of production. Luckily for you, potential buyer, this car has the far more popular 221-cubic-inch version of the flathead we all know and love (in 85-horsepower form). The mismatched radiator hoses tell us that the flatty might not be quite ready for primetime, but the seller says that “she’s a runner” and the “brakes are good.” The brakes, by the way, are hydraulic; Henry Ford hung on to his mechanical brakes years longer than his competitors, but he finally relented in 1939.

Being that the seller doesn’t make a big deal about it, we can question the mileage listing of 45,000 in the Marketplace ad; however, being that the interior looks very original and in surprisingly good condition, there’s certainly a whiff of authenticity about it. After all, cars didn’t regularly make it to 145,000 miles 85 years ago.

The upholstery pattern matches the factory sales brochure, so it’s either been replaced long ago, or it’s as old as the rest of the car. Amazing.

No, it’s not the much more uncommon coupe that everyone has cherished for decades, but this Tudor Sedan is actually a practical bodystyle for a usable collector car, and while cars of the 1940s are suffering from dwindling interest, Fords have the best chance of staying relevant (Model T’s and Model A’s are still surprisingly popular, after all). While the $15,500 price may be a touch high for a not-so-polished Tudor, it’s not laughably so. Maybe you can work out a deal that suits both parties, although it’s a few days late for Kris Kringle to be involved.