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132 of 170 lots
Lot 132
1946 Ford Super DeLuxe Sportsman Convertible
Estimate:
$250,000 - $300,000
Starting bid:
$140,000
Passed
Live Auction
Pebble Beach Auctions 2023
Description
Chassis: 99A1236365

Salesroom Addendum
Please note that this car will be offered subject to a reserve. The Estimate has been revised to $250,000 - $300,000.

Ford’s Most Elegant and Unusual Woodie
Formerly Part of the Nick Alexander Woodie Collection
Concours Restoration by Alexander Restorations
Early Ford V-8 Club of America Dearborn Award Winner
One of Only 1,209 Examples Built for 1946
Best in Class at the Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance

239 CID L-Head V-8 Engine
Single Holley 2-Barrel Carburetor
100 BHP at 3,600 RPM
3-Speed Manual Gearbox with 2-Speed Columbia Rear End
4-Wheel Hydraulic Drum Brakes
Front Solid-Axle Suspension
Rear Live Axle with Transverse Semi-Elliptical Leaf Spring

The Ford Super DeLuxe Sportsman was conceptualized under Henry Ford II following WWII, after peace had finally been achieved. This top-of-the-line Ford was built to excite customers while other postwar models were being designed. Because of labor strikes and material shortages, only 1,209 examples were built in 1946, compared to the 2,250 examples in 1947.

Nick Alexander is highly regarded in the American car-collecting community for having gathered a comprehensive collection of the best Ford and Mercury woodies available throughout the flathead era. Mr. Alexander purchased this Sportsman in October 2005 and subjected the Ford to an exacting restoration to concours standards, with a body of maple and mahogany wood, by Robert J. Brown & Son of Sedro Woolley, Washington. Upon completion in 2007, the car received the Dearborn Award at the Early Ford V-8 Club of America Meet in Temecula, California.

The current owner of this Super DeLuxe Sportsman purchased it from the Nick Alexander Woodie Auction in 2009. Since that time, it has resided in the owner’s Carmel garage and covered approximately 1,000 miles. It has been shown at The Quail and, competitively, only once, at the Hillsborough Concours, where it won its class. This Sportsman would be welcome at any number of AACA and Early Ford V-8 Club events and would complete any great Ford collection, and – in particular – those collections dedicated to woodies from the flathead era.