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.

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.

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 J. Robinson

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...

They are still running at Bunker Hill. Maybe it's still there.

Tom

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

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.

You have a talent for understatement