Replacing The Square Worn Out Tires On The 1939 Ford Coupe 

Makes our family very happy seeing the ol girl ride again. Appreci8 your work and dedication fellas. We will show cousin Bobby the video. NJoy!!!!

Just as you said " A little bit of attitude but retaining the elegance" this is a beautiful coupe!

The tire size and the front drop are perfect! An excellent channel,keep up the great work!👍👍

This is excellent winter content.. Killer adjustment that keeps the ride looking pretty normal Great work guys- now the exhaust please😊

New tires size are perfect, awesome result! Greetings from Brazil!

I’m 81 and I remember drawing those cars when I was in grade school. I should’ve been studying and doing school work but I liked drawing cars from the 30’s and 40’s better 🤪

I love what you guys do with the old cars you all have good taste in everything you do I would like to thank you for giving these cars new life

As a muscle car fan from the 70s I approve of the rake!

Stance is absolutely perfect! Go Iron Trap, keep moving forward!

Love the 39 Coupe. Please post more video about this car. Thanks for the 41 Ford shackle tip!

The stance is perfecto! It really looks good! I just love this '39 and the progress it is seeing! Thanks guys!

Very nice results. I like the simplicity of the grill better than the 40, and the business coupe is a favorite too. Great lines and original paint!

The stance looks great...This little rig is definitely a keeper, at least for a good while....

yup, as you said, it now looks and sits great, one thing I'd do if I were working on it, would be to power wash the underside, and give it a coat of your rust encapsulator paint, to keep all that original sheet metal etc. in good condition for years to come. Thoroughly enjoy watching your vids, keep up the great work in saving all these wonderful old cars, only wished I lived on your side of the pond and could work on my own project 👍

Good choices on tires and schackle adjustments. The brake job will be neat to see too. The exhaust replacement with 1-1/2 or 2 inch and glass packs will really make it a moonshiner 😊 gotta have chrome tips too. Interesting though will be where or what is the cause of the anti freeze leak. Really enjoying this 39 and 38 work you're doing.

with the 'Spruce Goose' wiring up top and PT-109 plumbing underneath ~ I dub this car the Howard Hughes '39 ps - the ride height looks very legit Postwar LA Sepulveda Blvd.- perfect as is

Stance is PERFECT. Those trim rings & caps really set it off...

Looks absolutely fantastic with the staggered tires and rake. And you know Steve you can get a thousand attaboys by rebuilding over a 100 carbs, rewire all the cars like a genius, get stuck engines running that haven’t been started since before the millennium but you back the car out of the garage one time and get mud on the tires and it’s Dammit Steve and welp there goes all your Attaboys .😆

Really nice coupe! Since I was a little guy some 60+ years ago I have always thought the '39/'40 Fords were just right. The '39 is going to turn out great with the improvements you mentioned. Nice car.

Thank you Matt and Steve for the update on the '39 ! It's looking awesome and stance is perfect !

Perfect stance, looks killer!

Looks excellent - cant wait to see it once the paint has been buffed

Very nicely done. Doc Brown's going to be ready for his date in the 1800's.

My concern would be suspension travel when hitting a bump in turns. Easy enough to readjust or radius the fenders if needed.

OMG , I just about fell over laughing when I saw that exhaust. It reminded me of something my Dad would have done. He lived through the Depression and used to fix his cars just like this. The guy who did this probably had a bunch of these fittings laying around in his garage and figured this out. Just like my Dad. Thanks Matt and Steve. Brought back happy times.

Great job...great improvement ❤

Love the stance of this 39. Hat's off it looks OEM++. =)

The tires and front drop look good! Nice!

Great look to the car with the tires and adjustments. Love it.

Love the right height great looking car wish. I had it in my garage. Keep up the good work

Love the look! Those two cars pair well together. Thanks for the awesome content and inspiration! 🤘🤘🤘

I'm liking the new tires and the way you got her dropped. A good wash & buff and she'll look down right saa-weeet! Woo-Hoo! Nice job guys, Nice Job!❤ ✌️😃👍

Yep, just took me back to when I was a kid and fell in love with 37-42 fords. That was the look!✊

Hi guy i setting here in southeast missouri with a -1 temp by the wood fire with coffee in hand and watching my favorite guys work on Dr Browns moonshine car👍🏻

I really love the body style on this car , nice lines , & very solid . I got a good enough look at it with all 4 original style tires on it , so seeing the actual change to what you went to was POW ! The ass-end totally changed up perfectly , with tire up in the fender , & a Fatter look . The front was same as before , & the car was level . Just changing the shackles , & Bam ! Front end dropped just enough to match the back-end's tire tuck into the fender , & still have full turn radius . That car sets like a drag car , without anything else . New brake system , & fuel line , exhaust . I take it from what Steve said , there is a cross-over pipe up by the engine , typically ? Find & fix that coolant leak , hopefully it's something like an old rubber hose leaking . The previous owner did like to "patch" things . That banjo rear looks like it's leaking good too . Otherwise , it's turned out to be one of the best cars I've seen you get to work with . Just some little things , with the usual refresher parts . Nothing drastic , & I really don't want to jinx ya guys , so I'll shut-up there . Very nice car , sets perfectly now with new shoes , IMHO .

The tire sizes look great Matt. That 39 looks awesome!

Love the stance on the coupe! All the used car's I've bought that's the first thing I've done to them was the breaks on all 4 corners got redone. My Pop's and older brother are mechanic. My late Pop's would tell me you have to be able to stop before you can go! So I always took that model to save me a whole lotta money and courts in the long run. As far as tires I always put new shoes on my vehicles because I drive my vehicles everyday. I have bought used tires knowing I was going to change them out after body work and mechanical work was done.

Looks great! The threaded water pipe exhaust is a trip. Looking forward to more on this ride.

Truly a gem, tasteful improvements are well done. Thanks for not modifying the body!

Love the 39 but I am CRAZY about that ATLANTIC gas sign on the wall! Right call on the tire sizes! PERFECT rake!

Love those tear-drop taillights too… I had to zoom the image to make sure they hadn’t been mutilated with that Kustom Kliche^ , the dreaded blue dots! Turns out you have great taste & I’m now a subscriber.

Pure-ism is all in the eye of the beholder and your pure changes are hot rodding Sweeeeeeet!!❤❤

Matt, the slight rake is perfect, you nailed it!! The dee-luxe accessory Merc trim rings look really nice with the hub caps. That flattie sounds right even with that weirdly cobbled exhaust. Can't wait to see what you do with all that, and brake work, fuel line...what a supercool Winter project!

Stance is great. That's one sweet coupe. Man, you picked a good word to describe the old dudes work... Kooky. 🤣

Dad bought a '51 Ford coupe at auction. Dual exhausts and blue dot tail lights. I was about six and thought that car was great. When the exhaust rusted out, he went to a stock system, which broke my heart. When a tail light broke, he couldn't get blue dots for replacements. The 39 looks just about perfect. Upgrade the dual exhaust, but keep it! Having grown up with black and white TV and photography, another grey car does nothing at all for me... Black, white, and grey were all you could see back then. Give me color! Dad worked for a supplier of industrial rubber and plastics. I worked there part time when I was old enough. They sold shredded asbestos by the scoop from an open barrel on the store floor. Would love to see the health histories of all the people who worked there in their later years. Dad died with no lung cancer, but not sure about anyone else.

Love it! Did very similar on my ‘41 Plymouth coupe Shine Runner. I went with 6.00-16s up front and 6.50-16 truck tires in the back for the rubber rake. Made custom drop blocks for the rear and used dropped uprights for the front. With some original ‘41 Plymouth hubcaps and ‘40 Dodge trim rings to finish it off. It would look right at home parked next to that ‘39 ford, or on a back dirt road in the Appalachian mountains!

1971 my brother purchased one it was beautiful Oldsmobile rocket 88 three deuces on top of that and a b&m behind it and glasspack muffler , it was awesome. He went to veatnam came back mom sold it.

Right On!

Love this car,one of my favorite early Fords. It has more character than the 40.

Great survivor from 1939. Looking forward to more work on this ole coupe.

That's starter coolant! It's like blinker fluid. Have to change it every 60 years! Love your videos! LOL

Can't wait to see ol' Doc Brown shine....

I love the mandrel bends under asb tile.

Stunning Condition like my 31 Roadster!

Oh man that last shot was gold

The finest coupe in the 39 series, it's the perfect size for it. Matt.

Great looking car. It's sitting just right.

The 37 lights definitely look better than the originals . The original paint on this car is just amazing a real survivor. Great show looking forward to seeing what happens with the Lincoln convertible.

You all make these old cars whole again. They look great.

Looks 100% better with the different sized tyres front & back good job guys. Looking forward to the next video 📹. Tim.

About time Steve's gets to drive a non rusted iron trap car...looking good👍

Stance looks spot on for it! Be a great cruiser around town.

Now that’s a car. Great job Matt

Looks great. I had similar chrome rings on my 46 Dodge.

Somethings wrong, Steve is driving a car and not Matt!

The new tires and rake look killer!

Looks great! I hope you are also going to replace the duel exhaust!

Matt - what can I say about the stance of the car other than AWESOME!!!! The exhaust will make a great piece of wall art in the shop because I’ve never seen anything like that before.

Damn that car is sooooo good! Love the Stance!

The exhaust pipe is a piece of galvanized upper tube from a chain link fence. A GULF tire from the 1950's on the rear of the FORD. FWIW any tire without a DOT code is pre 1970.

moonshiners almost always ran truck tires in the back.. with an extra spring or two.. so when the car was loaded with hooch it wouldn't squat and be a dead give away they were on a run

The new stance is awesome. Just right. In time, check off items on to do list: brakes/lines, muffler sections/brackets, brake fluid leaks.

You guys did a great job.keep up the good work .looking forward to more.

Man, I have never seen pipe fittings used for exhaust…lol, that’s incredible!!

Have you ever thought about insuring Steve? So he can take one of those cars home and cruise his family around and his friends some weekand we can't. He's one guy that I would so trust

Definitely need to look into those lowered shackles for my 39 Coupe.

39 looks cool !

It sits just right! 👍

The ride height and stance looks great. Odd thing about the exhaust system, because back in the day just about any good auto parts store had dual exhaust system kits for reasonable prices. For stock exhaust manifolds or steel headers too.

Stance looks great. The 39 - 40 Ford coupes are just beautiful.

Love it, my 41 had a new spring in the front that gave it a gasser look.

Great stance,what a nice example of an original Ford coupe

Doc Brown's car for sure. That's wild. Wow. 😏 Really like the new rubber. Great look.

looks rad, loving all the content lately!

Definitely have to do something with that exhaust

Perfect stance.

She’s looking good Matt!!!

love it, like you said perfect stance

Looking sweet, great stance,old school!

I'm more of a purist, but not really angry at what you have done to the 39. It does look cool with the slightly raked stance. Although I would still leave it at the stock stance, it looks better than the tail dragger look of the 38. Still, this cool car is getting welcome needed treatment from guys who know what they are doing. You're doing a good job. I notice the taillight on the passenger side is a blue dot light. This was a popular hot rodder treatment in the 1950s and 60s. It wasn't legal everywhere, and now I see it's making something of a comeback. Looking forward to the next video.

Great Stuff guys .Regards,Matt.

It Looks Awesome Matt.

Lord I love that 39. Aside from basic maintenance (and exhaust and wonky wiring replacement) I wouldn't change a thing.

PERFECT

Very subtle and cool as heck!

Looks perfect

Underneath looks fairly solid.

You did a great job to looks nice!!

Looks much better

You nailed the stance! Nice job.