I'm one of those people who never has any luck, but yesterday I was at a salvage yard getting some parts for a customer vehicle and I get to talking to another customer. We start talking about hot rods and I mention that I'm looking for a body for my Model A project. He tells me about his brother's neighbor who has some sort of early Ford body behind his house. Says he'shad it a long time and never done anything with it. I get directions and go over to the guy's house. He says that he'd probably sell it but its not a Model A, its a 32 roadster.We go into the back yard and underneath a tarp and about 5 chevy P/U hoods is a roadster body. Both doors are on it and the windshield stanchions are there. No deck lid but both back fenders are on it. Someone's removed the firewall but he says the guy he bought it from has that piece. He'll call him. I ask him what he wants for it. He says he'd like to get the $200 he paid for it back. I'm picking it up today!!!!!Moral of the story: Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then.
So how did you explain peeing your pants when he told you the price? Better get it before he calls the guy about the firewall and firewall guy tells him the TRUE value of a 32 roast'er!!!! GREAT catch bud! Bill
[ QUOTE ] I'm having a REAL hard time with this one. [/ QUOTE ] i've heard some incredible stories of rocky mountian tin being found dirt cheap in colorado...
Pics,we gotta see pics.I wouldn't have left it there.I woulda phoned someone with a truck to come over and get it! You gotta get some pics up for sure today.I hope you got the registration at that price!LOL.....Shiny
Roadstar, Have you got a crystal ball? Mine is showing the same image as yours I'm sure. Just last week I went and looked at a '32 roadster for $175 (much cheaper than this one) and the only thing wrong with it was someone had keyed the whole side. Told the guy "not interested", but would reconsider if he had it repainted and replaced the Ardun with a SBC. Frank
I am with 60s Style, I like stories with a happy ending. Kool find. I wish you well on the build. Did any one mention, we like pictures. Jim
[ QUOTE ] I'm having a REAL hard time with this one. [/ QUOTE ] no one, I mean no one leaves a 200 dollar 32 roadster behind to get the next day. I could be in the deepest part of the fucking Smokey Mountains and I would sleep in that fucking car before I left it behind. Although I will say I have heard stranger things..... but not many. I'm having a hard time with this one myself.
Get it today, no yesterday. Take Monday off, take the whole week off. When is the party, you,ll have to celebrate
Well....roadstar and I both know of a similar instance that just happened to a good friend of ours,...found a Deuce 3-winder body and doors in an abandoned garage in some nasty 'hood in Detroit,... First thing I said when I heard about it was "BULLSHIT!!",...but, it was true. I'll talk to him and see if we can't get some photo's... right Rudy?
Well Pancho...... I hope it is true.... Mr. Moore, we do not know you and so you have to understand that when you find one of the Holy Grails of Hot Rodding for 2 hundred dollars.......there will be a little scepticism. A decklid will cost you 3 times the purchase price of the body.....and firewalls are out there..... Good Luck with your FIND . But you will have to show some pictures to gain credibility.
I believe it...I have run across stuff like that in Ft. Garland and in the San Luis Valley there in southern Colorado........but the local folk have to know you....luckily I had friends with relatives there....
Well guys, I'm pretty new to Fords so if I bring this SOB home and its an "A" instead of a 32 will I be shunned? I'm just going off what the seller is telling me so when I get it home this afternoon I'll post pics and then as the bard said" The truth will out". I don't think I can go wrong on any open top 20's or 30's body for this price, period. Do you?
Yes it is true. Randy and I do know a person in the Detroit area that FOUND a 32 3 window in an abanded house in a ghetto area of the city. So I told myself I would never be skeptical again when I hear stories like these. Butt is is obvious here I'm not the only one with some doubt. So lets see some pics and yeah, whens the fricken party
I bought (what I thought was) a 34 three window for super cheap once and I told all my friends about it. Turned out it was a 33. Boy, I sure felt stupid. If it doesnt have a top and is a Ford, you did just fine.
uhh, you're a little late for april fools... If your lying we hate you, if you're telling the truth, we hate you MORE!!!
I think I'm going to puke and then fling myself off a cliff or something. That has to be one of th ebest stories I have ever heard
My oldlady cried when we walked around the corner and saw my $100 49 mercury. The dude didn't care what it was... or what it was worth... he just wanted it gone. It happens... believe me it happens....
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