Thread: They're still out there......

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With the aging of the folks interested in these kinds of cars more are popping up everyday. This is one that a guy in Indiana had in his garage since '54, partly buried behind a pile of boxes. At 78 he thought it probably should move on to someone else. Some pretty nice sheetmetal.

wow!!! That is nice!! Did you get it?

Unfortunately no. It's from one of those friend, of a friend, of a friend email forwards, but I thought it was neat enough to share with the world.

Looks like it just came off the assembly line!

Wow, that car is solid. You're right, more and more of these are starting to come out of hiding............maybe the economy or the aging factor as you mentioned.

Remember when we could pick these up at $ 25 to $ 100? Buying a bunch of those would have been a better retirement plan than any stock I can think of.

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

.....Remember when we could pick these up at $ 25 to $ 100? Buying a bunch of those would have been a better retirement plan than any stock I can think of.

Don

Don't remember that........but then I'm not as old as you are!!

I had a booth at the '73 L.A. Roadster swap on Father's Day, back when it was at the Great Western Exhibit Center. Three stalls down from mine was a guy selling a very nice, bright red, '32 5 window, done to a pretty high standard for the day. I thought he was nuts asking the price he was, but within a few hours I watched a guy peel off 55 $100 dollar bills..............SOLD!!!!! Today they're going for somewhere $45-55K, still, the house I'd bought the year earlier for $22.5K probably couldn't be bought today, even in the depressed SoCal market, for 10 times that, so things haven't changed all that much I guess.

Same here. In about 1971 or so I talked to Harry Luzader who had a mint 32 Ford D/Altered car that he was selling to build an Opel (I think) drag car. He wanted $ 6,000 sans engine and transmission, and I thought that price as stupid high. That 32 has recently been named one of the 75 most influential Deuces of all time, and is probably worth a LOT! But in 1971 $ 6,000 to me was like $ 50,000 would be today.

Don

Don just for price perspectives, a 1969 Mustang new in 1969 went for 1,995.00 My mom bought one then, and said for about 1000.00 more you could get one of those Shelby Mustangs! Look at the difference in value today. Your right 7k then was outrageous! Nice Car Bob I glad to see they are still available.

So, did the guy have any good cars or just the coupe?????

Boy i would love to have one that nice! that is a hell of a score for somebody.

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Same here. In about 1971 or so I talked to Harry Luzader who had a mint 32 Ford D/Altered car that he was selling to build an Opel (I think) drag car. He wanted $ 6,000 sans engine and transmission, and I thought that price as stupid high. That 32 has recently been named one of the 75 most influential Deuces of all time, and is probably worth a LOT! But in 1971 $ 6,000 to me was like $ 50,000 would be today.

Don

Yeah, where's that Way Back machine when you really need it.

Steve, there's probably one over in Santa Rosa or there abouts right now, just need to keep a sharp eye out. This one was discovered by the buyer's son-in-law when he was doing some power line repair and spotted a bit of the fender behind some boxes in a garage.

Somebody get Davey his meds................

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Yeah, where's that Way Back machine when you really need it.

Steve, there's probably one over in Santa Rosa or there abouts right now, just need to keep a sharp eye out. This one was discovered by the buyer's son-in-law when he was doing some power line repair and spotted a bit of the fender behind some boxes in a garage.

Somebody get Davey his meds................

I'm kind of looking for an Econoline pickup or similar..... Something really kewl, ya know??? Maybe I'll put a 350/350 in it, paint it black!!!!!

Back in 1959, one of my older sisters was dating a guy named Jerry Lee who regularly drag raced his '58 Pontiac convertible. He decided he wanted something else to play with so he brought home (he kept it and worked on it at our house) a full-fendered '32 Ford five-window coupe. It had a '48 Merc flathead with finned aluminum heads, headers, and a log manifold with four 97's. It had a perfect body, white interior, whitewall piecrust slicks and was all done in gray primer. My dad told Jerry he was crazy for giving $800 for it!

He flogged that car very successfully in E/Gas for two summers at Bunker Hill dragstrip in Kokomo, IN. When he got drafted in the fall of 1961, he sold the coupe to some other "crazy" guy for... yep, $800. I have often wondered what ever became of that car. I wish I had pictures. Ah, the good old days...

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

I'm kind of looking for an Econoline pickup or similar..... Something really kewl, ya know??? Maybe I'll put a 350/350 in it, paint it black!!!!!:

C'mon, fess up...........what you really want is a Datsun B210 Honey Bee!!!

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

C'mon, fess up...........what you really want is a Datsun B210 Honey Bee!!!

Ok, so I'm busted...black with flames though!!!! and twin fart cans, too!