{"id":120082,"date":"2024-08-28T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=120082"},"modified":"2024-08-27T23:59:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T04:59:50","slug":"custom-1929-ford-house-car-with-a-dodge-v8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=120082","title":{"rendered":"Custom 1929 Ford House Car with a Dodge V8"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Daily Turismo<\/a> found this custom 1929 Ford House Car built by Howdy Ledbetter for sale on eBay<\/a>. The unique vehicle features 1929 Ford front fenders, rear fender, front windshield, and bumpers. Behind that is a custom body 22 feet long, 96 inches high, and 90 inches wide. Everything is covered in PPG ESSS9000 Black and ESSS Maroon paint. The body sits on a custom chassis with a 4.5-inch drop axle, pan hard bar, QA1 adjustable shocks, and disc brakes in front. In back suspension uses motor home leaf springs with Monroe air shocks, and 11-inch drum brakes. The truck rides on Mercury wheels with Pirelli P400 tires in front and Fab 15×15-inch wheels with Hoosier 29-15-50-LT Radial tires in back. Power is generated by a 360 ci Dodge V8 with a RV camshaft, HEI distributor, and heavy duty water pump. Behind that is a TorqueFlite 727 three-speed automatic transmission.<\/p>\n

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Source: eBay<\/a> via Daily Turismo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daily Turismo found this custom 1929 Ford House Car built by Howdy Ledbetter for sale on eBay. The unique vehicle features 1929 Ford front fenders, rear fender, front windshield, and bumpers. Behind that is a custom body 22 feet long, 96 inches high, and 90 inches wide. Everything is covered in PPG ESSS9000 Black and… Read More »Custom 1929 Ford House Car with a Dodge V8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":120091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-model-a"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2771,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=2771","url_meta":{"origin":120082,"position":0},"title":"1929 Ford Model A with a Ford Cosworth Rally Motor","author":"swaptastic","date":"March 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Readers may know M\u00e4kel\u00e4 Auto Tuning (MAT) from their race team or their high quality rally and race car restorations. 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