I found this 41 ford coupe today , need an opinion on what was reasonable to pay with out going over board, no front axle , no floors , no dash , body is solid as a rock
Whatever s**** brings is a good place to start. It'll take somebody with real skill and for***ude to build that car, rusty as it is, so chances are you'll be the only bidder other than the s****pers. Good luck!
i dont know about alabama prices but where im from the rust belt, the car doesnt look that bad. that being said the 41 isnt a real easy sell up here either. if you feel generous and really want one go with your gut on the offer, i wouldnt go more than a grand.
I'd pay a hand full of dried corn kernals, 3 d cell batteries and a prayer rug. If the steering wheel and horn ring are intact and in pristene condition I'd throw in 3 human ears (two lefts and a right) from my personal collection. These ears were taken while serving as a tour guide with an infantry company in Viet Nam during the sixties and have been kept in a hermetically sealed bag of argon since. In all honesty if you feel p***ionate for that car then do what you must. Far as a dollar value goes it may be worth more as body and other parts then the whole, hard to say from a picture. I'd look at it that way personally and would offer perhaps two hundred max or move on.
With all the parts that look to be missing and as rough as it is I wouldn't go much over s**** price. Does it have a good ***le?
Sit down and figure what it is going to realistically cost to get it into the condition you want. Price cars for sale in that condition. My guess is that you would be a lot better off saving your money and starting with a better car. Don't pay too little thinking you are getting a good deal because the final cost is what is important. Charlie Stephens
No floors and body is as solid as a rock don't go together. $500 would be more then I would pay, unless I needed a coupe to build. Looks like all the good parts are taken already.
Buying a car 1 piece at a time, can get very expensive. Don't look at what's in the photo, but figure out what isn't in the photo. That's where the expense comes in. S**** price. Stu
I "take back" my original $500 price. Instead, I suggest you not buy it. If it was a 32 Ford or another rare car, it would be different.
The only problem here is it's someone else's parts donor. So you have to round up all the parts they cut out of it - not the end of the world but it means you need to track down a four door body shell someplace with a good floor. But it is a coupe, and coupes are good. Why some idiot cut up a coupe, who knows, a lot of folks too dumb to know the sedan floor is the same thing I guess. I know I had a guy email me the other day on an eBay listing who had no clue all 37-38 Chevy cars use the same frame. But let me tell you, if a guy needed that deck lid, that would be $1000 all by itself all day long - you might have to wire brush the rust back and prime it to get that, but you'd get it. A lot of people still have their head stuck in 1978. The rest of it, it's a Ford and a moderately popular model, so it wouldn't be hard to build. And with no floor you could clone a vintage stock car pretty easy. It's probably worth the $1000 even if you just sold the deck, doors and fenders off it and s****ped the rest and got another $200 that way, you'd still make some money.
That would make a nice chopped and channeled custom take a hundred or 5 with you and save it. When you channel, the floor has to be modified anyway.
A little inspiration to help you make up your mind... http://www.carnut.com/photo/list/ford/ford41.html
If it's re if he is reasonable I'm gonna get it, I can always put it somewhere till my a model is done
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