CLASSICS CHATTER AUCTION UPDATES: 1938 Ford Model 81W Cab Over Engine Platform Truck - DEN Hartogh Ford Museum Haarlemmerstraat 36, 2181 HC Hillegom The Netherlands Saturday 23rd June 2018

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DEN Hartogh Ford Museum

Haarlemmerstraat 36,

2181 HC Hillegom

The Netherlands

Saturday 23rd June 2018

1938 Ford Model 81W Cab Over Engine Platform Truck

Chassis no. BB81-4535217

In working to maximize the mutability of any given model, one solution to making the working bed of a truck longer was to move the driver forward. With the trusty, 85bhp V-8 in the way through, the workaround Ford devised was to put the operator and passenger on top of the engine. The resulting layout, called Cabover Engine (or COE) would prove to be a useful bit of packaging that is still in use in most trucks today. In 1938, while you didn't get a bigger engine, you did get all the heavy-duty bits from the 1½-ton trucks, plus three wheelbase options: 101 inches (2565mm), 134 inches (3404mm) and 157 inches (3988mm).

This example is the middle, 134-inch, wheelbase version, the Model 81W fitted with the Type 950 Platform body. It is handsomely finished in bright red over black fenders with a black painted grill and bumpers. The platform has been redone with newer, nicely finished timber that shows well.

Coming to the Netherlands in February of 1955, its Kenteken-Bewiks details its early history. The Modern Dutch Registration indicates that it joined the Hartogh Collection in 2014.

These trucks, while common in their day, are rarely seen today. Most were worked until the wheels fell off, and the few survivors were often snapped up by ambitious hotrodders who admired the truck's stout front end and handsome good looks. The opportunity to acquire this example is a certainly not one to be missed.