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1946 Ford Cabover COE Custom Hot Rod Project 1 of a KInd. 80% complete. Amazing!

Make: Ford
Model: Cabover Pickup
Type: Standard Cab Pickup
Year: 1946
Mileage: 100000
VIN: SD8822F
Color: Blue
Engine: Chevy 454 Big Block
Cylinders: 8
Fuel: Gasoline
Transmission: Automatic
Drive type: RWD
Interior color: Gray
Drive side: Left-hand drive
Vehicle Title: Clean
Item location: Roseville, California, United States
Extras
Air Conditioning, Power Windows

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Description of 1946 Ford Cabover Pickup

I am selling my 1946 Ford Cabover Pickup Hot Rod project so that I can concentrate on my remaining 3 street rods.
It is licensed and registered (non-op) in California.
I have spent the last 6 years tearing it down to nuts and bolts. Fabricating a Alston Chassis Works custom chassis and then reassembling it with the utmost care. It has a professionally rebuilt Chevy 454, 4L80e auto trans, Ford 9" posi Traction Lock differential, Wilwood brakes, New 1950 Chevy bed that was custom fitted to the chassis, customized front and rear fenders. Nothing but the best materials. Engine runs and is broken in. Trans was professionally rebuilt. Same with the narrowed differential. New wheels and tires. I have driven it in the driveway, but it needs to be sorted out before driving. New side window glass and rear glass. Need to make the 1-piece windshield (I can get it done locally for extra cost if you want). Power window lifts are ready to be installed. Much much more.
The cab is primed and ready for final paint (some of the photos show some blue on the cab. That has since been sanded to metal and primed). The paint (base & clearcoat) needed to complete the cab and other parts is included with the sale.
Look at the last 3 photos. This is what it looked like when I bought it. It was a really bad mechanical condition, so I began an "over the top" restoration. I just don't know when I will go back to work so I need to sell it.
Interior need to be completed. I have seats with pivot stands.
Sold as-is, no warranty or returns.
Here's a list of what has been done:
1 Rebuilt 72 Chevy 454. approx 450 hp 450 lb ft torque. Fired up and broken in. Runs well.
2 Block hugger headers coated
3 Polished finned aluminum valve covers
4 Polished Performer intake manifold
5 New power steering pump and pulley
6 New Holley 4160 750 cfm carb
7 New MSD HEI distributor
8 Ford 9" Traction Loc 3.50 reconditioned rear end with axles, narrowed, straighten and install new Strange ends. 46" Flange OD to OD. 50" hub OD to OD.
9 Alson Chassisworks frame kit with all new custom front & rear suspension components. Frame was powdercoated "hammered" silver.
10 Torq Thrust II 15x7 - front wheels
11 31.5 x 18 Pro Trac tires on 15"x14" American Racing Torq Thrust II's. Chevy bolt pattern.
12 Brakes: Front calipers are Wilwood Dynalite four piston black. Alson custom aluminum front hubs: Rear 78 Ford Galaxie brake rotors & Wilwood calipers
13 Fabricated exhaust with 17"glasspack mufflers
14 Rear shocks are Heidt's All American Coilover shocks with 350# springs
15 Custom Fabricated Driveshaft
16 Front fenders: 1 was NOS COE and the other was custom fabricated. Both have custom fabricated 39 Ford Deluxe headlight assemblies
17 Rebuilt 4L80E auto trans & rebuilt stock torque converter. Work performed by Roseville Performance Transmissions on 7-26-19. Installed but not yet tested.
18 ATC-3 Trans controller for 4L80 auto trans
19 Reproduction 1951 Chevy Bed. Custom fitted for this chassis. Polished aluminum diamond bed floor. Bed liner on sides. Bed is painted.
20 New Mopar Master Cylinder & prop valve
21 New Bilstein-Carrera front coilovers with 500# springs
22 Pinion Mounted Parking Brakekit by TSM (The Streetrod Mfg Co)
23 New Lokar Transmission cable kit
24 Lokar floor mounted shifter
25 New Chrome tilt column and hardware
26 New torque converter
27 Dakota Digitel dash guage set
28 New RPC 20 crcuit wire harness
29 Power Window regulator kit



Etc. etc. etc.