Thread: Barnfind followed us home!!!!!!!

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Ford2custom.......no idea what it is worth, I have seen prices all over the place. With your Ebay experience just put it on with a reserve you can live with and see where it goes. I know what you mean about the bidding wars, sometimes we sell something or see something that goes way over what a new one would be. Dan sold something one time and it went over what he felt he could take in good conscience, so he told the guy to only send the lower amount.........bet that guys jaw dropped.

Denny, yep, it does have overdrive. I'm trying to convince Dan that these were good transmissions and to get an adapter plate and use it and the rear end behind the Chevy, but he isn't believing me at this point. I had a couple of cars with this tranny and it was really pretty tough and that overdrive made it nice on the highway.

Jack, you are right about us never wanting fordors back in the day, but suddenly they are a little cooler. I hope he keeps it simple and just cleans it up a little and makes it dependable, and he could do it for the $ 3K you mention. But I have known Dan waaaaaaaaaaay too long, and can see the wheels turning already.

Thanks all for the nice words. It's funny what 6 hours of scrubbing last night did for this old heap. It still needs a lot, but at least it is starting to look like it has promise. I've been researching parts like weatherstripping and suspension repair parts on line, and you can get a bunch of parts for these.

Now I have to move stuff around to make some room for it. One reason we cleaned it inside and out was to make sure no critters were living inside it before we moved it into the shop!!

Don

man great find, i love those 49's. They kind of look like airplanes to me.

A couple months back there was an artical in old school rodz or rod and kulture that made a 4door 50 or 51 into a 2door, by getting 2 additonal doors, to strecth the original doors then moved the door latch pillar and part of the window back(dont know what that peice is called..."B" pillar maybe???)


i could try to find it if you are interested??

Thanks, I think he saw the article because he was showing me "how easy" it would be to move the door jam back and weld a filler piece into the front door to make it longer. I'm trying to keep him on the simple cleanup and drive route with this car, otherwise we are going to have another permanent resident taking up space in the shop. We already have way too many cars that are in that category, he needs one that he can actually drive some day.

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Thanks, I think he saw the article because he was showing me "how easy" it would be to move the door jam back and weld a filler piece into the front door to make it longer. I'm trying to keep him on the simple cleanup and drive route with this car, otherwise we are going to have another permanent resident taking up space in the shop. We already have way too many cars that are in that category, he needs one that he can actually drive some day.

Don

I did the stretched door thing on a '49 four door a few years back. Just used a spare pair of front doors off a junked 4 door, added about 8" to the fronts and slid the post back a matching amount. Not too tough of a job. The owner did the big Lincoln flattie, complete with Zephyr trans. The guy just turned 70 last fall and as soon as the daytime temp is in the 60's he'll be out and cruizin' again this year.... He left the rest of the exterior stock, other then a set of Lakes pipes and painted it Candy Apple Red!!!! Gorgeous car, he drives it all over in the summer!!!!!