The 1947 Ford Super Deluxe Eight Convertible featured in this article is a beautiful restoration and a valuable collector car. Not many of these Ford Super Deluxe Convertibles in this mint condition remain.
The year 1947 was a difficult one for the Ford Motor Company whereas it’s founder, Henry Ford, passed away in April of that year at eighty three years of age. Son Edsel Ford, who was directly responsible for the Ford innovations during the tough 1930’s, had died suddenly just four years earlier in 1943 of stomach cancer.
The elder Ford’s grandson, Henry Ford II, would take over the reins after Edsel Ford’s death. Ford Motor Company at this time was transitioning through a new wave of management and would even hire a vice-president formerly from Bendix in 1946. Outside hiring at Ford up to that point was fairly rare and someone from outside the auto industry was even rarer.
After the war, Ford Motors Henry Ford II was given a challenge of revitalizing the company and to stem the flow of money losses.
The 1947 Fords
The 1947 model year from Ford was a time when all eyes were focused on when the new post war designs would come to fruition. Ford was the first American automaker to restart civilian car production in 1945. Even so, the company built tweaked 1941 designs through the 1948 model year. Production for the new 1949 design would begin in June of 1948.
Although the 1947 Ford’s still carried much of the prewar design, this Super Deluxe Eight Convertible is a head turner. The car has a lot of sporty appeal. The Super Deluxe Series was the top of the line during the 1947 model year.
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