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It dates back to 2005 when I tried to figure out how these were named: http://imcdb.org/vehicle_15328-Ford-V8-De-Luxe-01A-1940.html
We had lots of them in the database already, entered in several different ways. After going through Ford ads and brouchures from that period I found that this was how Ford named them, almost without exception between 1932-40, after that the designation V-8 dissappeared.
Commercially they were named like that, and in workshop manuals and spareparts catalogues you could also find codes like Model 18,40,48,68 etc. for the chassis + a variety of codes in 2 or 3 digits for the different bodytyles.
This was seven years ago when the site was very young, we had several discussions on similar matters. One related to this was the problem with Mercedes-Benz and BMW designations since they were based on engine displacement. The cars usually look exactly the same even if they have different modelnames like 200 or 230, 520 or 525. The solution to this was the Chassis field where we could enter [W123] etc.
That´s the reason we have this field at all, before long we began to put codes for other cars as well, like the Fords. In some cases codes for bodies ended up here too. This was not the intention of course, and now we would need a field for these codes also. Hopefully this will be added in the coming upgraded version of the site.
There were several other discussions like these, among other things we learned that many cars had completely different names on different markets. That´s why we have flags for origin, and countrycodes for assembly and "made for".
It became a tradition to try and find the correct commercial names for each car, and also to combine this with correct codes and generation markers. It´s not always an easy task, but it´s the ambition.
For me the primary source of information is the manufacturers own published material, both commercial and technical. For most cars it´s not a great problem to find out how they were named and coded, others are more or less hopeless.
For the Fords in question here, V-8 is almost always written as a part of the cars commercial name even when they had no alternative engine. That´s the short answer to why it´s there.
Model 18 and later codes are put in chassisfield, Ford kept the same system until at least 1951, 1HA and 1BA was the codes for sixes and eights respectively. It´s the same type of code and that´s why they ended up in that field.
We had lots of them in the database already, entered in several different ways. After going through Ford ads and brouchures from that period I found that this was how Ford named them, almost without exception between 1932-40, after that the designation V-8 dissappeared.
Commercially they were named like that, and in workshop manuals and spareparts catalogues you could also find codes like Model 18,40,48,68 etc. for the chassis + a variety of codes in 2 or 3 digits for the different bodytyles.
This was seven years ago when the site was very young, we had several discussions on similar matters. One related to this was the problem with Mercedes-Benz and BMW designations since they were based on engine displacement. The cars usually look exactly the same even if they have different modelnames like 200 or 230, 520 or 525. The solution to this was the Chassis field where we could enter [W123] etc.
That´s the reason we have this field at all, before long we began to put codes for other cars as well, like the Fords. In some cases codes for bodies ended up here too. This was not the intention of course, and now we would need a field for these codes also. Hopefully this will be added in the coming upgraded version of the site.
There were several other discussions like these, among other things we learned that many cars had completely different names on different markets. That´s why we have flags for origin, and countrycodes for assembly and "made for".
It became a tradition to try and find the correct commercial names for each car, and also to combine this with correct codes and generation markers. It´s not always an easy task, but it´s the ambition.
For me the primary source of information is the manufacturers own published material, both commercial and technical. For most cars it´s not a great problem to find out how they were named and coded, others are more or less hopeless.
For the Fords in question here, V-8 is almost always written as a part of the cars commercial name even when they had no alternative engine. That´s the short answer to why it´s there.
Model 18 and later codes are put in chassisfield, Ford kept the same system until at least 1951, 1HA and 1BA was the codes for sixes and eights respectively. It´s the same type of code and that´s why they ended up in that field.