Restored Ford 640
 

Here's some pics of a tractor we just finished up today, its a Ford 640 with the extremely rare Elenco 4wd system. For those that don't know my family owns a collision shop and we also restore vintage Ford tractor, I do all the paint and body work and my dad does all the mechanical work, despite a few disagreements from time to time we make a pretty good team.

Beautiful little Ford. Fabulous restoration job.

beautiful job, never seen a 4wd Ford.

wow, looks great, you guys did a great job, those 4wd systems are very rare, i think i have only seen 1 or 2 in person.

Nice work, Tim!! :beerchug:

I think those are the best looking Ford tractors ever made. The 4WD makes that one extra cool!! :biggrin2:

That's money Tim, excellent work.

Nice looking red belly! I should send Dad's 961 your way for a refresh. It would look sharp all painted up. :beerchug:

Wow that looks awsome, first I've seen the 4x4. Great work, and you get to do it with your father, everybody wins.

Tim:

Great job. I never seen nor knew that there was a 4WD option on those Fords. :bigeyes:

The row crop tractors look really sharp all done up, if you go to arthurstractors.com we might have one all done up on the website but in not 100% sure.

Thanks for the compliments guy, we just had 2 more show up for restoration this morning so it looks like I'm gonna be busy.

Tim, that is AWESOME!!! you guys do a great job.. should bring you my grandpas 8n with the sherman trans in it.....

Most of the tractors we do are 8ns, they seem to be the most popular. Here's a pic of the 8n we have on display in our office.

Everybody seems to want to do the Fords. Maybe they were popular in your area. I think the biggest reason is because there were so many of them made that they are one of the cheapest tractors to restore. Virtually every part is available still.

Very nice work Tim, kudos to you guys and a job well done. :ThumbsUp:

I agree there cheaper to restore than some of the other brands but I don't think thats why people do them, about 95% of the tractors we do were owned by the customer's grandfather or father and have been in the family for several generations. Also we restore tractors from all over the country and we've even done a few that went overseas, its very rare for use to do a tractor for someone in our area.

Very nice work!

Tim

If you still have that in your shop any chance of getting some pics of the 4 wheel drive setup? Looks like it has a drive shaft coming out of the rear on the left side. Like everyone else has said awesome work. :beerchug:

Here's some pics Sam, the gearbox bolts to the side and is driven off a 3" wide chain that goes around the output shaft on the trans. I also took a short video of the 4wd in action and will post a link later after I get it on YouTube.

While we are on the Ford topic, I ran across this on CL.

The standard engine was a flathead 4 cylinder and the straight 6 and v8 were a funk conversion, we did a straight 6 a few years back for my dad and it was really powerful and sounded awesome.

I was thinking someone made a conversion to go to the V8's. Tim, do you remember who it was?

Funk made the conversions to go to the straight 6 and v8

LOL. When you said funk earlier, it wasn't capitalized and I thought you meant funk as in "funky". :HeeHee:

Same here! :biggrin2: Thought you just left the y off.

heres a short video, the sound sucks since i recorded it with my phone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCMhP7nyvkQ

That was cool!! Thanks Tim!:beerchug:

Tim,
Just awesome looking Ford 640! You folks do great restoration work.
I just finished doing a mainly cosmetic restoration on a Allis-Chalmers WD.
Like a lot of your customers this was my Uncles tractor.
I have a nice 53 Jubilee that is a good working tractor too.
Plus working on my dad's Allis WD right now. Amazing how much work goes into these.
Thanks for posting!
Regards,
Chris

Awesome job! That is a great looking tractor! I have never seen or heard of the 4wd version.

That 640 is so purty! I love it!:beerchug:

Thanks for the vid!

Now with all that snow and slop on the ground, let's see that 4wd put to work! :biggrin2: