This 1936 Ford Tudor presents really well overall – in some photos it appears to have had a restoration at some point, and in others you can really tell the age. The seller isn’t sure – take a look at the listing photos and make a comment below with your guess! You can find it for sale here on craigslist in Chilliwack, which is outside of Vancouver, BC. The list price is $19,985, assuming in Canadian dollars. It’s actually being sold by a dealership, and you can see about 10 more classic cars for sale in the background of the photos. Could be a fun place to check out!
Ford made a huge variety of body styles in 1936. You could get a cabriolet, club cabriolet, convertible sedan, five-window coupe, five-window deluxe coupe, three-window deluxe coupe, deluxe Fordor, deluxe Phaeton, deluxe roadster, deluxe sedan, deluxe Tudor, Fordor sedan, touring Fordor sedan, two- and four-door sedans with trunk, station wagon, Tudor sedan and touring Tudor sedan. Wow, that was a mouthful!
The Tudor (two-door) sedan was the most popular, with 159,825 examples reportedly made. This one’s paint looks to be in excellent shape. It’s glossy without any major noticeable issues (well, in some photos there are some questionable areas but in others photos the issues are gone, so perhaps it’s just glares or reflections). No rust is visible on the body, but there is some inside the trunk. All the chrome and trim looks shiny as undamaged, and even the tires look to have lots of tread left, although no word on how old they are.
The interior soft surfaces look great, except for the stretching on the driver seat. This style does not appear to be original, and based on the wear it may have been installed a while ago. The headliner is not 100% adhered either. The dashboard area is really what starts to give the age of the car away. The paint chips and wear and tear on the dash, heater, shifter, and pedals lead me to believe that this car has had “updates” but was never actually “restored.” Be careful of the DIY wiring hanging out underneath the dash. Fortunately, these cars don’t have a lot of complicated electronics, so it shouldn’t be hard to fix any issues if needed.
The engine is Ford’s 221-cubic-inch flat-head V-8 with a 6.3-to-1 compression ratio generating around 85 horsepower. A three-speed manual transmission powers to the wheels. Look closely under the spark plugs, where you can see there is a stamping that says “Made in Canada.” The engine is dirty, but not as much as you might expect for being almost 90 years old. The seller says it has only 58,700 miles (not kilometers) and runs and drives well. If it were my car, I’d probably replace the interior with era-appropriate fabrics and leave everything else as is. What would you do?
You forgot Sedan Delivery and Sedan Delivery Deluxe
Yes, this one should be left alone! The first plastic model I ever built was a ’36 Ford. The kit (Monogram, if I remember correctly) came with extra parts to allow building the various body styles, and I liked it so much that I bought two more identical kits so I could build three body styles.
Id spend as little as possible to make a safe driver and ….Drive.
Wow Chilliwack is my hometown. Best thing I ever did was move away from there. That’s Chilliwack Mountain in the background. I should make a run out to this dealer one day and see what else they have, judging from the background shots it could be interesting. Plus I could slum it in some of the sleazy bars I came up in.
I was in Chilliwack a few years back. There was a CNG Pump factory there and I was there to train on operating and maintaining the pump stations. I thought it was a nice town, and the roundabout didn’t faze me one bit!
Funny, the pumps failing are part of what caused the flooding.
Gotta love a lot called Ugly Trucks!
Hey, I’m Canadian made!
I wonder if this is anywhere near sumas prairie, where the extreme flooding was happening. It’s so bad over there, the main mode of transportation was boats a few weeks ago. I can’t imagine that 😬. Prayer out to the poor folks out there.
It is a couple miles east of Sumas Prairie.
Interior is definitely not original (if a period-looking material). Leather and facsimiles thereof were for open cars and trucks, closed cars always had cloth upholstery prewar.
Would prefer the cloth interior. This brown vinyl looks like it was taken from a 1970’s dinette chair.
I think these had mechanical brakes – probably needs changed to hydraulics.
Mechanical brakes are fine if hey’re well-adjusted with riveted webbed brake-shoe linings.
Would insurance be higher with Mechanical brakes ???
If that $19995 is Canadian the US equivalent would be $15714.77 – sounds much better price wise.
I did my Canadian army basic training there in 1977 at CFB Chilliwack. I really liked the area a lot and spent quite a bit of time doing exercises in the mountains. In fact it’s on my bucket list to go back to the area one day!
I clicked thinking this might be a Timmis Motors creation. He made fiberglass copies for some time and they were excellent cars. Anyone on this site ever own one? The one I’ve seen was beautiful.
thos are cheater heads they have higher compression and are aluminium, they were factory, not sure if all Canadian built cars had the or not, but they are factory.
How hard is it to buy a car in say Canada and bring it to the U.S.?