Auctioned By Ford DeLuxe Station Wagon 1939: Rare Classic Beauty

Ford DeLuxe Station Wagon 1939. (Doc. RM Sotheby's)

JAKARTA - The well-known auction hall RM Sotheby's will auction off a very rare classic car, Ford DeLuxe Station Wagon 1939. With an elegant design and special raw materials, this car is believed to be the target of automotive collectors.

This car is one of the 6,155 Deluxe Station Wagon produced in 1939 but only a few still survive to date.

In information on the auction house, quoted September 23, it said the car had been restored by Nick Alexander, a well-known Ford "woodie" restoration expert. Alexander collected the best Ford and Mercury woodie collections from the flathead era for more than 15 years. He is looking for the best examples across the United States and preserving original features or returning them to factory conditions.

One of the uniqueness of this car is its construction made of band's-eyemen wood. This type of wood is very rare and is found only in several species of trees, including ash,beech, birich, mahogany, valnut, and sugar bank. This wooden pattern looks like a small spinning spy, and is believed to have occurred due to low pH soil conditions and lack of sugar in trees.

This car is equipped with a 90-enabled V-8 flathead 221-cubic-inch engine paired with three-speed manual transmission. The interior is decorated with dark brown leather and a dashboard that has been restored to its original wood condition.

With a known history, this rare banyan bird's-eye wood panel, and high-quality restoration by a leading expert, Ford DeLuxe Station Wagon 1939, offer many interesting things for automotive collectors.

RM Sotheby's will be auctioning off this classic car on October 10, 2024 at the tickety auction, Pennsylvania and is estimated to be in the range of 120 thousand-140 thousand US troops or equivalent to Rp1.8 billion-Rp2.1 billion.