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

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Well, we really don't have barns as such in Florida, but this car was in storage for a bunch of years. My Son Don was looking at Craigslist yesterday and ran across a '49 Ford Fordor that was only about 10 miles from home. He knew Dan was looking for a flathead engine to build for the '30 sedan he is going to do once his roadster pickup is done, so long story short, we now have a new obstacle in our shop.

The original plan was to jerk out the flathead and transmission plus a few Ebayable parts and haul the rest to the scrapyard, but once we hosed off years of dirt we realized the body is actually very solid and rustfree. The entire body has a uniform coating of surface rust, and for the most part the floors are solid..........only the front has some areas to repair, but that wouldn't be too bad either. The more we looked at it the more we realized it has never been altered in any way and is pretty complete. It also has quite a few options including overdrive, heater/defroster, clock, trim rings, etc. It even has an oil filter (believe it or not, in 1949 the oil filter was an OPTION!

So, it looks like the flathead will get pulled and stored, and Dan is talking about a crate 350 Chevy, airbags, wide whites, skirts, a toothy grille, Vintage Air Conditioning, and a suede paint job. I didn't want him to get a project to distract him from getting his rpu done, but we are just going to clean out the shop and push this one into a corner until that happens. At first I thought Dan and Don were nuts thinking the car should be saved, but after climbing under it and seeing how it washed up, I have to admit it is too good to scrap. The doors all close solidly and the drip rails are mint. Only holes in the body are at the splash aprons on the front fenders, rocker panels, and minor holes in the rear quarters. You can buy patch panels for all of those. Frame and underside is pretty clean because the car was undercoated at one time.

The car came from Louisiana originally, and was last inspected there in 1966. There was even a 1957 Louisiana plate in the trunk. Just what we needed, another project!!!!!!!

Don