This is one reason I hate it here in Australia

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/1928-Ford-A-...QQihZ001QQcategoryZ101894QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Something like this back home in Kansas would be given away if you haul it away.
Charley

 

yeah, but its in Aussie dollars; isnt that like 280 Canadian?

 

dont worry bout kansas! im sure theres places here in a australia thatll give you a tudor like that for free. lets just see if that sells and have a giggle shall we.

 

Well if you're worried about the condition of that one there was one for sale on the ozrodders.com site for A$7000 but it's gone now.

 

pretty rough for $2500 american

 

Look, one day to go and no bids. Its only worth what someone will pay.

 

wow - yeah, I've seen better bodies holding back creek banks here.

 

The same thing is starting on this side of the Pacific too. Some of the **** that was in the swap area at last years NSRA Nats at Louisville was waaaay overpriced.
Admittedly a 32 three window coupe body is a premium item but the one at Louisville with a rivetted on patch on the driver's door and said door not matching the roof line too well where it was chopped was "reduced" in price from $27,000 to only $24,000 (I am trying to remember the exact numbers but that is about where they were). Some of the other more mundane stuff was also way out of line for what it was.

Roo

 

That's greed for you!

 

"There's no place like home, there's no place like home......."

Don't worry, we cringe when we see the prices you guys can snavvel up some cars for - even a 2 door post that you'd give up for parts, we'd die for.

At least the weather is nice here!

 

Now see I would have thought it would have been all the deadly wildlife you have there. That would be what I saw when I opened the post.

 

Looks like an A vicky in the background of that one pic.....

 

I gues if someone's desperate enough they'll buy it, but there's no bids on it yet, so we'll see what happens. There's not a lot of closed cars of any make from that era, I read somewhere most people preferred open cars like phaetons at the time. (Must have been our great weather)

Cheers, Glen.

 

Well said Steve, I bought a 54 chevy panel truck from Boise Idaho in feb 1999 for $800U.S. by the time I collected it from the docks in Melbourne ,Australia it owed me $5200Aus and this didn't take in the cost of flying to America, hotels, hire cars, food etc..

There are 2 A Vicky's in that yard.
The yard belongs to a mate..

 

Damn, i was doing the stand off on that body, and bid in the last second.

Are'nt 'RAT RODS' cool anymore.................what am I going to do now? Help!

 

Looks like it's been through one of them nice Kansas twisters.

 

Had a guy on here asking about buying all the Model A's he could find to send back to Australia but haven't heard back - I have 2 A's (pu and sport coupe, both with the tops cut off) and a T touring that he wanted to throw into a container with as many others as he could find and fit in with them (to keep the shipping cheaper per car). Would probably be a good deal if you had a few guys there to split up the costs.

Steve

 

My brother-in-law picked up a nicer one here in Kansas for less than a grand.

 

A few years back we had an Aussie living here for a year. He worked feverishly for a year to collect a bunch of cast off cars here.... nothing really nice in the bunch. When his year was up, he packed a container, shipped it and home he went, to be everybody's next best hero and friend. Not sure why I told that story, but it seemed to fit. Good news is that he told me he was buying my deuce 5w to take home...... I still have it.

 

There was a bloke in Sydney in the 80's shipping containers of stuff out of the US. He went around the s**** yards and abandoned wreckers and bought up mountains of stuff. he'd buy tudor, coupe, and pickup bodies and break them apart at the seams so he could 'flat pack' them into containers.

I went to his sheds once and the stuff he had was amazing. Old Hemis attached to generators, vintage T racing cars, mountains of T, A, Deuce and 33-4 bodies, ch***is and other bits and pieces. He reckoned he could pick stuff up out of the bush along the sides of the roads back then. He was picking up vintage speed equipment in s**** yards!

Went broke when the Aussie $ hit 49c US.

Anyway, I'll be happy to use gl*** if I have to, my welding skills are **** anyway!

Cheers, Glen.

 

tinman, was he an exchange teacher? I know a fellow that was over in Canada some years ago who bought back a container load.
Michael

 

As I mentioned on another thread, an original 32 phaeton with headlights and bar missing went for $7.5k in Sydney a couple of weeks ago, deceased estate. It was rough, but basically all there.