Over here we don,t just find old car related stuff like you guys do in the U.S or AUS. Old Adolf took everything in 1940/45. We just buy what someone else imported and did,nt finish or do the Ebay thing.So to my surprise i see this trailer for sale less than a mile from my place. A W.W.2 survivor almost completely made of oak.It has no historical value but it gave me a 32 Ford front and rear axle with brakes.2 16 inch wires and a few fancy little brackets.All the wood will be going into the fireplace this winter and the heavy turn-table is of to the scrapheap. Bye the way the tractor tire on the 16 inch wire wheel is proof that 7.50x16 will fit OK.
If that is a WWII survivor, you ought to use the wood somehow, just to say you did. Maybe as the floor of the car? Just a suggestion, congrats on the find.
Cool find, especially the 16", usually you find 17". Yes the stuff turns out once in a while even here in Europe. I think the gas guzzling engines where not really in demand after the war. Gas was a rare thing in these days, so a lot of big cars where hacked up to build hay wagons and stuff like that. Some times I read the old automobile classifieds from the years after the war and its clear that the big cars where sold for a song and the small Opels, Fiats, Ford Köln, Eifel, Y ect. sold for 4 times the money than the big ones.
great score 34 a pity it wasn't on the deuce chassis. We got old stuff laying around over here, but a lot of stuff is imported! Geoff
When i was a school kid in AUS, the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne were littered with old cars.All gone now except for that one well hidden 1938 Ford Club Coupe in Ringwood that i think has become a legend amongst the older rodders.
Yeah, use that wood. Make a table top out of it and sell it on ebay. Take some pictures of that wagon and then the table or whatever you build. You will not be disappointed. Somebody will swoop that up.
Good find on the parts. It's almost more fun to find them when they're hidden under something weird, isn't it? LOL Yeah, in addition to hot rodding, I'm also a woodworker and it would break my heart to see that oak go. If you're not into wood work and won't use it, I'll bet there is a craftsman somewhere near you that would. Strip it off and put it in your local classifieds and you might even get some cash back to work on your ride. It would be very cool to totally recycle that thing.
Well the two main chassis rails are 5x5 and i might just use them to support the back porch, and there are enough floorboards for a pickup bed. I picked up another set of pre-war wheels and axles from the same farmer and the photo,s will be ready next week. They,re of a long gone U.S. make and real neat.Also 16 inch.
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