My buddy has run into a bit of a money crunch.. He needs to sell off a few cars.. He plans on selling his 1939 Dodge business coupe.. He is not sure what to ask for it..and I am not sure what to offer for it.. Any input would be appreciated or serious offers for him can be sent to me via PM.. It is a runner, was converted to 12 volt at some time.. all interior is there, floors are great.. one small spot of rust right behind the p*** door.. I have personally seen this car and it is in great shape... Can't find that anything on the body that has been replaced or repaired..It needs tires.. He even has set of NOS gl*** lenses in the boxes for it.. Bumpers are on it..It is a project or drive it as is. It was owned by Warner Bros. Studio and was in quite a few Bogart movies and it was in Night Shift with Goldie Hawn...and more that I don't remember right now.. Please help me out on this.. I don't even know what to tell him this car is worth.. I can email more pics to anyone that is interested in it...EVILT
Since I have a 1937 Dodge and a line on a 1938, I'l throw $110 at this '39. This is a HAMB auction isn't it?
check out nadaguides.com and search the section on cl***ic cars or go to manheimgold.com hope this helps, by the way I'll go $250
Since I already have a Dodge House to work on things I will go $275 plus tax licence and ***le transfer fees. Gumpa
If Bogart actually drove this car in one of the films, the celebrity connection has the potential to double the book value on the car. If it just happened to be in the movies, that adds some premuim to it but not as much of one. The history has to be do***ented, though. Absoloute mint book on this is $18,000, actual value for the condition it's in (around #3 if you can show it as-is) around $7000. There's 4 versions of coupe for 39 in two model series, but the prices are fairly close to each other. Was it mine, I'd see if I could find it in the films, have someone print me up a big poster of it with Bogey, and send it through a Barrett Jackson auction. Maybe some guys would bid it up to enough money to buy 10 more nice ones - who knows.
He said he would sell it for 9kOBO.. when I talked to him a bit ago.. He has a list of all the movies from W.B. that it was in... It has paperwork and everything.. It is not an auction....Maybe now that I have a price the mods can move it to the Clasifieds.. Thanks, EVILT
Was it in "The Big Sleep"? I think he drove a 39 dodge in it, it had a swing down panel under the dash that held two pistols. It was that car that got me into 39 Dodges. One other thing, I think the same dodge was used in the Touchstone movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", it was driven by Eddie Valiant, the lead character. That car was pale blue-gray. Looked exactly like the car Bogart drove in Big Sleep, always wondered if it was the same one.
Oh hell yeah, her and Grace Kelly are my all time favorites. Love that movie, and the book both. Always liked and respected Bogart, one hell of a actor, and he nabbed one of the most beautiful women ever on film.
AHHH!!! I WANT IT!! I've been in love with that very car for at least 20 years... I wish I could make a serious offer on it, i'd love so much to own that one. Amazing.
It was a plymouth in High sierra.... They had one Plymouth and one Dodge.. Same year.. In a couple movies you can see the hood emblems change as they switch cars.. My buddy got both the cars from the auto prop master at Warner Bros....Sold the plymouth already.. It was in perfect shape....From what I am told it went to a Bogey fan in Southern California.... EVILT
Not only that but they ****ed that car up pretty good at the end of the movie, probably not unfixable, but the top was cut clean off it.
Plymouth? Pretty hard to tell those cars apart from the sides and back! I've always hoped that the ******* car in roger rabbit was a junker and not a good one. Kind of like how they used bondo buggies for the fire scenes in "Christine". EvilT, do you know if that car still has the swing down plate for the pistols under the dash? Wondered if they left it in the car after Big Sleep.
Hello Jason, MickeyC here from New Orleans. How are you? Man how I want to be back in the central coast area! Hope you and your family are well. I just saw a 1940 4 door Dodge sedan at a cruise night Saturday that was nicely restored with wwII gas ration stickers on it and decent paint and nice chrome and pot metal. The owner is asking 12,000 for the car and has had little buyer interest? 9k sounds very reasonable to me, but I am no expert, not even close! I will be talking to you concerning a 40 ford coupe I recently bought. There are some brake questions and things of that nature I will need some advice on. Hello Rochelle. (spelling?)
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