Thread: 52 Ford 239 Flathead factory motor and tranny value...

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I have the title from when my grandpa bought it in 1971 and it says 53,xxx. I know 100% my grandpa never drove it. Highly unlikely the guy before my grandpa put 153K on it back then. Anything is possible but I would say highly unlikely.

It's probably correct at 56,000, cars back then just didn't get driven as much as we do today. My 47 Ford had only 50,000 on it, and lots of the cars I had back then had similar mileage. I think it is only in later years that we began driving our cars as much as we do and as far as we do. Back then we usually lived in small towns and didn't commute as many miles daily for work and errands like today.

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

It's probably correct at 56,000, cars back then just didn't get driven as much as we do today. My 47 Ford had only 50,000 on it, and lots of the cars I had back then had similar mileage. I think it is only in later years that we began driving our cars as much as we do and as far as we do. Back then we usually lived in small towns and didn't commute as many miles daily for work and errands like today.

Don

Thats what I thought, 56k seems low but if it was 156K that would be crazy crazy high.

Common enough for flathead trucks to have 150K miles on them around here. The plus side is, they had a new engine at 100K so the one in there now is pretty good. I have a granary full of them! One has only a few thou on it, the rear end blew and the truck got junked just after the new engine went in.