Thread: New ebay purchase (Im an addict!)

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Damn....I didnt even want these, but I got caught up in the bidding!(both 41 Fords) Now I gotta figure how to get them onto my flat bed trailer. They have a frame under them, but NO suspension.....Anyone got any ideas??!!!

Welcome to the club..........you are now an official "Car-a-holic." There IS no known cure, but that girlfriend you have mentioned might temporarily put a little damper on the illness.

Cool find Man!!!!! Love the '41-'48's, and you have a coupe and a sedan to play with. If you can get a front end loader or something like that you can lift it up and on, or in a real pinch jack them up high and keep moving the trailer back under them.

We would remove boats from their trailers by blocking up the rear of the boat, then continually be putting more concrete blocks under it as we pulled the trailer forward from under it. You would be doing the reverse.......as you back up the trailer and finally get some of the body onto it, keep removing blocks until most of the body is on it, then shove or winch it forward. A $ 20 Harbor Freight come a long will do wonders. Some ramps made out of strong wood would also work, allowing you to winch it up and on.

Have fun!!!!

Don

Or, you could try this guys method, but put the boards under the front and back up like h***.


Don

I was thinkin of using boards....but not like the guy in your picture! Im thinkin of doing the cinder block routine, but using some PT round fence posts to kinda roll the body onto the trailer. Should be interesting. The old guy who owns them has no equipment and is too old to help, so Ill be having fun all by myself!!!

BTW Don, my new GF LOVES the old rods....Shes the one who got me refired up on the T coupe! I took her to the Nationals in Ky in August and she went crazy! She insists that the coupe MUST be on the road by next years NATS at the latest....Maybe Ill build the sedan for her!

I believe raising it up to get the trailer started under it. Then pieces of pipe under the frame and a come a long. slow but steady.

Yeah, thats pretty much how i plan on doing it. But instead of pipe, Im gonna use round fence posts. I got a bunch of em lying around the farm here. Gonna be slow going, but WTH, what else have I got to do...

When I was a kid I filled our little 3 acre farmette up with old cars. Every so often my Mom would make me get rid of a few, and there was this junkman I would call. He was a black man, and would come with his wife and about 5 kids. His truck was a big old stake bed with no back on it, and his "technique" for getting the cars into the bed was a little unorthodox.

You have to picture this: He would position his truck between the junk car and a big old tree (we had tons of trees on the property) He would jack the front of the junker way up in the air and hook a chain to the front of it, which he would pass over the bed and through a hole in the front of the bed. He then tied the end of the chain to a tree. Now the junk car was firmly chained to the tree, with the truck in between. He would rev up the truck and run backwards at full speed, and the tethered car would catapult onto the bed of the truck, at which time his wife and kids would run up and shove it the rest of the way in.

Every time I had him coming my buddies would all show up to watch this spectacle, as it was the funniest, most amazing thing we had ever seen.


Don

Hey, if it worked for him great!! But Im not taken these to the junk yard, and I want to try and not do anymore damage to them then time has already done, if you know what I mean.

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

When I was a kid I filled our little 3 acre farmette up with old cars....... Don

Wonder if any of them old cars are still there.....

Maybe you could take some prisoner's on a "field trip", kinda like cleaning the side of the roads only more heavy lifting.

Ron

As long as the frame is lower than the running boards or rockers your home free. Take a piece of 3/4 plywood and make a couple holes on on end. Jack the front of the car up high enough to reach the low part of the frame with the trailer. Slip the plywood under the car with the front over the end of the trailer and secure to the frame. Lower the car onto the end of the trailer and winch on using the ply as a skid. Attach the winch to the frame not the ply. Won't tear up your trailer bed and slides easily over humps and bumps. Just an afterrthought. Throw a blanket over the cable while winching. It will keep the cable from whipping if it should break.

Oh, by the way, just reverse the procedure to get it off.

useing the fence post is the way to go . using a cement block as a fulcrum and a fence post as a lever to raise up the front of the car and block it up. may take a few times and maybe one side then the other.then get the plywood back under the car as close to the middle as u can. then put the fence post on top of the plywood and let the car down on that and start winching. have the next fence post ready for the front of the car to land on as u winch forward .now u willbe really rolling along and can then start the car up your rampto the trailer. wish i could be there to help.
I had a '41 back in the late 60's. I twas a coupe with a '53 merc bronz block,aluminum wiend heads,wolverine 3/4 cam and of course 3 - 2 barrel prog carb set up with a 411 rear. only problem ,stock tranny .it was still a lot of fun blowing off modern v/8's. Blow off a registry cop one night LOL. but i digress . Have fun with the 41's and post progress.